Head north and real sudden like turn left

Those were the basic directions given to our Motoring Misfits last Sunday morning.  Thier journey, altho not very far, brought them to Michigan's well known east side trail, Pontiac Lake....dun dun dah!!!!  Aside from it being in the mid 30's that morning with frost covering every stationary thing as far as the eyes could see...yes even the porta johns were frozen....the weather called for sun and mild temps for the day.

A-Train was the first to arrive at the scene.  After trying to melt the ice in the porta john, he b-lined it to the registration table where he mingled and was merry.  Later he met up with Dub 9 and got some strategy from 'The 'Hitman' Powers during the warm up spin. The  Diesel arrived shortly after and thought it best to illegally park his truck in an illegal way that was hard to prove it was illegal in the first place.

The Diesel checked over A-Train's bike and they headed to the starting line.  Rider after rider the Elites and Experts went off in the standard time trial format two by two like sea sick animals leaving the Ark.  The A-Train rode a solid, clean, functional, evenly distributed, much needed and later Diesely approved race.  2 laps for a total of 20 miles and he knocked them down at 43:18 and 43:27, enough to land him in 7th place overall in his class.  He was pleasantly pleasant with his finish until Diesel later notified him that he was less than 5 seconds out of 6th place and less than 10 second out from a podium 5th place....DOH!

Maybe if he would have worked on his climbing form a bit during the off season he could have made up that 10 seconds.  Somebody get this man his inhaler!  A trail side standerbyer did quote A-Train saying, "Man I hope I look as good in my pictures as Dub-9 does."  Um, nope.

A-Train was busy missing his lap around when it was almost time for Diesel to do his work.  Diesel is no stranger to racing so prep and warm up was routine for him.  Plus the soon to be Mrs Diesel was all dolled up and on sight to support her man that day.  She knew the importance of this race and was there doing something important, not exactly sure what, but was there looking important for him in time of importantness.

Here we see Diesel making sure his name was spelled correctly on the timing sheet.  "Yeah, there is only one 'I' in Diesel....and you're looking at him."

Next the spy cams, well not really (thanks Andrea T), caught Diesel putting up that #1 finger knowing he had the race all wrapped up (note:  A-Train is waaay more arrogant that Diesel and it ppears has become a bad influence on him)

Diesel did his lap fast enough to put the hurtin' on his class and took home his first solo win flying the MOTOR flag.  We later found out this was the first solo win of his cycling career and he contributed it to a daily dose of Puffins and a mostly black race kit that was slimming which aided his confidence.  (A look at the podium in Diesel's class)

So ended the first race of the points chase known as the USAC Tailwinds Race series.  Next up our Motorers will be traveling to Stony Creek on May 12th to try their legs in an endurace race.  the big question is whether to do the 6 hour solos or 12 hour solos.......stay tuned to find out