Kenny Carlile

The day after Thanksgiving, I headed out to the Clark County Fairgrounds in Ridgefield, WA with Dave to check out the indoor arenacross track there. We met our friends Jeff and Eric out there and met some new friends as well. The track was quality, but the design was brutal. Giles had ridden the track the week before and he said it was much better, but this week, everyone agreed that it was very technical. Jeff said that he'd never used his clutch that much on a track and I certainly knew what he meant.

On the plus side, I had wanted to ride the track to get an idea of what it was like and to try riding indoors. Also, Giles had some really good tips on cornering that were hard to apply but did improve my riding a lot. Unfortunately, they had so many people riding and so many classes that they ended up shortening the practices to 10 minutes each, which was enough, but we were only able to ride three times in 5 hours!

With a better, more forgiving track design and at a less busy time, Clark County could be a lot of fun. I'll go back, but not right away.

Here's a video I took of Jeff and Eric goofing off. Jeff edited the footage and put it to music.