Yellow Duck Racing

03/22/2022

Gaaahh! I am getting fat, old, and lazy and nothing is getting done on the bikes...

There FB, happy, I did a post!

10/30/2017

I haven't been able to race at all this season due to saving for building a new house. I have been channeling my inner nerd though and taken up Dungeons and Dragons.

On November 11th I will be participating in a 24 hour marathon game to raise money for the Wisconsin Childrens Hospital in Milwaukee, WI. If you feel like donating you can go to https://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donordrive.participant&participantID=286349 and donate any amount. Scroll down towards the bottom to get to the "other amount" area. Anything helps.

I hate asking for donations, but for a childrens hospital I will make an exception.

A fundraising page for Jeff Tarras

08/22/2016

Ok, been a LONG time since I have updated. This season has kind of been a bust. I discovered my front fork was having issues with the dampening rod coming disconnected from the fork cap. Forks by Matt stood by his job and refunded my money.

I ended up going with GP Suspensions. Trackside Suspension & Engineering installed and set them up.

I was finally able to get to a race weekend at ACC August 13th and 14th. First time at ACC. I was disappointed with my performance overall. Saturday I did GTL and Moto 3. The GTL was ok, being a little 320 against SVs and all. The Moto 3 race kinda sucked. I was in third and screwed up going into 7 by up shifting instead of down shifting. I ended up running wide because of this. Anthony Lambert and a 125 were right behind me. This let both of them pass. While I was catching up to Anthony I didn't have enough time before the finish line.

Sunday, like others have said, the track dried up and was nice. During practice I found I was bouncing all over the place. The front seemed to be hitting really hard. I only did 2 laps and came in. TSE helped with suspension set up. My shock was going down well before my forks. After the adjustments the ride was much better. ACC is really bumpy though. I wish I could have done a bit more fine tuning but I only got three more laps in before the checkered.

I only did the 500SS on Saturday. I later found out no one cares if you run the Moto 3 USGPRU with the wider rims. I won't make that mistake next year. 500SS was bad. I ended up last but did get down to 1:17. That was about 2 seconds off the pace though. I was really screwing up all my turns though and not carrying nearly enough speed through the sweeping corners. Unfortunately I never really felt comfortable on the track. Still need to do more suspension setup to feel more comfortable.

I guess I shouldn't be too disappointed, being that I am still working on suspension and geometry setup and it was my first time at ACC. That is the one thing I do miss about the SV. Everything was so well known for geometry setup you just could focus on suspension settings.

Will do another update about BFR soon!

03/03/2016

Picked up the wheels yesterday. They look absolutely beautiful! If you need powder coating done check out http://www.apexcustomcoating.com/ . I can't wait to get tires on and see these on the bike.

02/25/2016

Keep forgetting to update that I forgot to send in my license renewal on time and lost my number!! :/ I am now #441 expert, for both CCS and ASRA

02/25/2016

Just got a pic from Jay at http://www.apexcustomcoating.com/ for the wheels he is doing for me. The front is done and looks beautiful!

12/03/2015

CCS has released the tentative 2016 schedule. Mid West is going to be a fun year. 9 race weekends! Can't wait!

Mid-West Roadracing Championship

Apr 30- May 1 Autobahn CC*
May 21-22 Blackhawk Farms
June 11-12 Brainerd Intl**
July 1-3 Road America
July 23-24 Blackhawk Farms**
Aug 13-14 Autobahn CC
Aug 20-21 Blackhawk Farms
TBA Gingerman
Sep 24-25 Blackhawk Farms*

* - Double points weekend
** - Twin sprint weekend