Desert Dingo Racing

Category: Photos

  • Packing for Prairie City

    Packing for Prairie City


    This is what our new tent might look like in a high wind inside a Costco.

    Tonight is packing night as we prepare for this weekend’s racing at Prairie City. Here’s shots of our tubs for electronics, radios, food, racing suits and helmets. Also our Energizer All-In-One Battery, so I don’t drain everyone’s car batteries with the pit radio. Also the pile of stuff for cooking, shelter and a pile of miscellaneous stuff I know I’ll regret if we don’t take it.

    Dixon & Son Tires gave 1107 a full alignment this morning, is on the truck and ready to go. Crusty’s coming by tomorrow to move race fuel from the drum to the 5 gallon jugs. I’ll be dropping off tubs with Dave and Jonah to haul to PC.

     

  • Tornado damage – California style

    Tornado damage – California style


    We got hit with a bit of a windstorm on Tuesday. First thing it did lift up the shade structure and push it against the acacias. Then it lifted the shade structure up and smacked it straight down. Then it picked it up again and moved it about seven feet to the right.

    While all that was going on, a 70-foot tall acacia went down, missing the new deck (paid for by insurance, along with a new master bedroom when a fir tree hit the house Thanksgiving Day 2010) by about 15 feet.

  • Safety third

    Safety third

    1107 circa 1970.

    We’re in such good shape coming into 2012 we have the rare luxury of looking at tweaks to suspension and transmission support way before our first race of the season. Crusty and I (mostly Crusty) reinstalled the race transmission and did some stuff with a tape measure and grease pencil. I pulled the battery box and found a host of rust. Wire brushed it out and painted.

    We’ll do a full team work day probably next Saturday to map out the next two months. Photos from today’s effort.

  • And so 2012 begins

    And so 2012 begins

     

    Dakar is over, it’s two weeks til Daytona, so it’s time to get to work on 1107. Crusty came by today and installed the steering box. He and Bob picked up a second beam and Crusty will set to work on it this week.

    This time last year we were searching for a new place to work on 1107. This year we’re working on freshening the engine, building a second one and collecting spare parts for the Baja 1000 in November 2012. Quite a bit of progress.

     

     

     

  • Two more photos from Prairie City

    Dave ‘n Romy powering through the high banked turn at Prairie City.

    Gah! Video editing takes forever. But one gets to see great stuff. Here are two shots from the third moto of the second day of racing at Prairie City on Halloween weekend.

    This is why you keep the visor closed.