Small mishap at Track

So on Saturday we were out at Arizona Motorsport Park running a motorcycle track day and I run registration.  The pit area is quite spread out and the bathrooms are at the far end of the pit, so we use these little pit bikes to run around on.  They are small, knee high 50 cc bikes.  There are about 6 of us that share three of them.  These little bikes have 3 gears and you’re supposed to leave them in neutral when you park them, but not everyone does that.  So whenever I get on one, I always downshift a time or two just to be safe.  Well during lunch when I got on, I had to kickstart the bike and it was having a bit of trouble starting so I gave it a tiny bit of gas, and the next thing I knew it just flew out of my hand! LOL  And the more it flew the more throttle I gave it, as it rolled out of my hands…  luckily for me I let go… as it would have been a real nice concrete face plant for me other wise and I’m sure I would have suffered quite a bit of unwanted damage!  Someone had left the bike in 3rd gear and just shut it off!  So even though I downshifted twice, it was still left in 1st gear!  Lesson learned… downshift till you can’t downshift anymore… then do it one more time for good measure LOL.  Everyone got a laugh out of my little pit bike flying through the air and hitting the fence… there was no damage… but the next day my arms and pecs hurt like hell as did my toe where I must have kicked the trailer trying to hold on to it…  so who wants to come over and give me a rub down?  :)

All in all though it was a fun day.  The weather was gorgeous… I finished reading my book, a magazine and got some emails done after registration closed.  I generally only  have “work” to do the first few hours of the day, but then hang out there with hubby for the rest of it.  Here’s a pic they took of me before “the accident” LOL