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Looks like goggles have advanced to the next level. Anyone that has used goggles in extreme situations (and no, the drivers stand doesn’t count here) knows how valuable a lens tear off can be. All it takes is a spray of oil or a splat of mud to blind you, and that $.99 plastic film saves the day.

Check these out. http://www.redravenracing.com/  I’ve always admired the goggle systems that advance a clear film across the goggle, but this takes the cake.

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These make me want to go play in the mud!

Hey all you Pro-Line blog readers out there! I want to apologize for being M.I.A. in my blog writings the past few months. My life outside of r/c racing has been pretty boring since the beginning of the year, well I don’t consider it boring since I have been able to race a lot this year. I have been trying to back into racing form and contend at the highest level by club racing as much as possible, I have been pleased with my results this year, thanks to a lot of great new product from PL, things like the new VTR truck tires, wheels, foams and the new Caliber buggy tires have been making racing that much easier and fun!

This year at Jammin we thought it would be best to change up the events we would normally attend and hit up some of the races that we haven’t been able to attend in the past years due to scheduling with other events. I went to an awesome race up in Toronto Canada and got to meet many new racers as well as some that I haven’t seen in some time, and I just got back from a weekend race up in central California that was a blast as well.

Hopefully in my next blog I would have done something interesting other than racing to write about. But I wish everyone a great one and good luck at the races.

Finally I got the chance to take a trip to Las Vegas without a certain race involved. So I was able to get out and see what Vegas was all about or at least try to. It was a much needed vacation for sure and something to go and do with my family and fiancée to get away for a while. Is it me or does it just seem to be a little overwhelming with all the lights, people, never ending dinging from the slot machines, clocks nowhere to be found and same for the cocktail waitresses when you need a drink? Oh and another thing that’s funny is trying to walk the strip from hotel to hotel only to realize the some to these hotels are not as close together as they seem, talk about needing the right shoes on to attempt this… lol

The first day upon our arrival we decided to take the rental car and drive out to see the one and only Hoover Dam. Wow! This was an amazing site to see and I didn’t realize that it was so close to Boulder City where that silly little race Silver State is held each year. After this we headed back to Vegas to check into our hotel at the Imperial Palace; it is definitely the hardest hotel to navigate I have ever been to. We quickly began to drink, gamble and just have fun. After the first night and a loss of $500 at the roulette table I figured I better call it a night and get back to my room before I caused more damage.

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Summer is such an amazing time for a wedding…. Mother nature is in full bloom, Birds are singing, flowers are abundant, and Brides are walking down the aisle to say “I Do.”

Of coarse, I am talking about my Pink and black Wedding coming up in August :) It’s almost here!  Three more months and I will be Mrs. Adam Drake. hee hee

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Soo…… Everyone has their normal routine at work right? You get up at the same time, check your messages first then your email and go on with the rest of your pre-lunch time routine but come lunch time you bolt outta dodge like the last train already blew its whistle. Well, not me, I like to sit in my office and listen to the greatest sports talk radio show that has ever graced the radio waves, The Jim Rome show. Like clock work, exactly at 12 p.m. eastern time I go in to complete shutdown mode at work and start streaming the show over the internet with an amazing PB&J sandwich in hand. Well Friday May 8ths show was a pretty special one because it was the annual “SMACK-OFF” where you have to be invited to call in, he promotes clone-on-clone crime, and you have to have an awesome take and not suck! It is 3 hours of solid callers trying to outwit one another with some of the most hilarious “SMACK” you’ll ever hear. This years Smack-Off was definitely one of the better ones I have heard in my last 4 years of listening and you gotta give props to Brad in Corona who dominated the competition. I personally thought that Mike in Indy was the best but after hearing Brads call again I think the right decision was made. So congrats Brad you were heard by over 2 million listeners and are now crowned king of the Jungle for a year, it won you 10 steaks and place in jungle infamy but beat it now weakling because I am working on my game and will be the Bernard Hopkins of the 2010 “Smack-Off”:-)

In other news..

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…but can you say MINDFREAK?   

My Pro-Line Desert Rat body for my Slash was officially in need of replacement. I painted up a new one, but I had a plan to have a bit of fun with the tattered one before I tossed it in the garbage

Basically, I flipped the body around 180 degrees, and cut some new mounting holes. Since the Slash has front and rear bumpers, plus the front and rear wheels are identical…it looks extremely convincing.   

At the local club race, I mounted my ‘Mindfreak’ body for the first heat. Our races start moto style, where we all line up wheel-to-wheel and go on the tone. Well, I carefully rolled up to the start line with the truck looking like it’s going forwards. Remember, in order to have the truck look like it’s going forward, I needed to drive it in reverse.

At the tone, I took off (still driving in reverse), and successfully made it thru three turns. Lucky for me, the Slash doesn’t have too much rip in reverse! In the third turn, I got tangled with another car and spun around…so this is when I took off down the back straight…now driving forwards.  With a truck that looks like it’s going backwards, it was pretty funny. The crazy thing, it was super hard to drive! More than once, I totally turned left when the track went right. The best part, the marshals always put the car going the correct direction. 

Move over Criss Angel, I’m blowing minds here.

This past weekend, the international cycling community descended onto Northern California for an event called the Sea Otter Classic. Yea, it’s a strange name, but it’s a pretty massive event. They have racing for all levels of both road and mountain bikers. There are event for first timer groms all the way up to international World Cup professionals.

One of the vendors that were on site to demo their product was Ducati. You thought I was going to say something like Gatorade.. But no, I’m taking about Italian sex on wheels Ducati. Basically, if you had a motorcycle license, insurance, and riding gear, you could ‘check out’ one of their 1100cc Hypermotard.  How is it possible for something with ‘tard’ in the name to be this cool? 

I borrowed riding gear from anyone I knew that was anywhere near my size and signed up. They sent us out on a 30-minute winding road route. The event was at Laguna Seca Raceway, but unfortunately, we didn’t have access to the track. 

Hopping on a machine with 90 hp, and 76 lb-ft torque that weighs less that 400lb is exciting to say the least. It would likely be more accurate to say it was horrifying. As if the power wasn’t enough, this bike has two massive 300mm front rotors with twin monoblock, 4 piston calipers. I think I could get my eyes to come out of their sockets the brakes were so powerful.

It was a long weekend of working outside, but this 30-minute escape was the highlight for sure. 

“It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend picking one up.”  Ferris Bueller.

Well it’s that time again to try this blogging thingamajig and I have had some pretty interesting personal events take place lately and I’m proud to announce one in particular and that is I asked my girlfriend Kim to marry me this weekend and to prove she’s crazy she said yes!  So now what? I think the biggest events I have had to plan for so far have been things like the ROAR Nats, the Worlds and college in which the A+ I made in Party 101 is still not paying off and neither are the D’s and C’s I made in everything else. Lol!

Anyways I’m in for uncharted territory but I feel confident in knowing that I picked the right person to help manage, argue, bicker, have fun and enjoy it with. That’s another thing I have learned and that is if you can’t fight well together than your in for a long road ahead. Not only is Kim now my fiancée but along with my parents she’s my biggest racing fan and not to mention her father also likes to know how I’m doing as well. Its funny because when I head out for a race no matter if it’s a club race or a weekend away at a regional event the first question from Kim is “Is it going to be on Live RC?” and if not it becomes two races in one, the actual race its self and the race to keep up with the text messages to keep her informed on how I’m doing…lol Read the rest of this entry »

What’s goin on guys welcome to another installment to the wild world of all that is Leon. Going to start off today with a little racing stuff so we can get that out of the way. First off, the super cool neobuggy race is this week so check that out. Next weekend is another Florida State Off-Road Series Nitro races being held at 555 raceway in Bartow, FL and the weekend after that is an RCSignUp.com SUPERCUP electric race being held at the infamous lake park track in Tampa, FL. Lots of great racing going on across the whole spectrum of classes so check it out.

So now back to the real reason why you’re here, ME! For all of you who have been following my posts, you are aware that I have embarked on this journey of enlightenment by learning new skills and encountering new experiences. My latest installment to this ordeal is learning how to make BEER!! That’s right just start calling me Brewmaster Leon.

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