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January 1st, 2012 | 
Author: Welcome to 2012!
What else is there but to go for a ride? The morning started out basic enough, watching some soccer and drinking coffee…and then I watched the weather app on my laptop tick over 41 degrees.
Open the shade, mostly sunny, a few clouds and no chance of rain.
I fired up the Triumph, it’s three cylinder burgle always bringing a smile.
I loaded some extra winter clothes into my panniers and headed out out toward Eatonville. The day was perfect if just a little chilly as I headed up the outskirts of the mountainside.
The roads were pretty good but a bit damp where covered in shade so I took it at my usual winter-cruise speed.
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Just another post to update you on my adventure with the 2006 Triumph Sprint ST. I’ve had it for four weeks and have approx 1700 miles under my belt as they say.
This isn’t so much a motorcycle as it is a smile induction system.
I have had this bike on some pretty long rides and some short blasts and the only thing I want to do when I get home is to just get back on it 
Here is the route of my last big ride. I didn’t have a ton of work and just couldn’t pass up a sunny warmish day this late in October.
After having done the Taste of Racing at Pacific Raceways in Kent, and finding out they wouldn’t have another until August, I decided that I needed to plan a trip back down to Oregon to see my mother…and if there just happened to be a TOR at PIR that would just be such good luck 
So, finding out that June 25th-26th would have one on each day I made a quick plan and hopped on I-5 south. I’ll skip all those details and just give you my impression of the event at the track.
First Impressions
Ok, so the first thing you run into at PIR that is very different is that the main infield/paddock area is inside the track. That means to get to it you need to cross the track. In other words, you need to wait for them to open the gates and let you across.
The TOR bikes were assembling near a sign that said Registration (but nothing about a Taste of Racing as it did in Kent). No big deal, just sign up, pay your $20.00 and assume that your bike will pass inspection.
After hanging out a while they had the same basic team talk as the first one I did. “We’re here to have fun”, “Pass on the outside”, “Only after the second lap”, etc, etc.
We lined up and waited for the green flag.