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MotoAmerica & CMRA #789 Sponsors: Bison Track, Plano Kawasaki Suzuki, Dunlop Tires, Novoworks Color Imaging, The One and Only Burger, Vortex Racing, Cycle Gear, Raceworx

10/14/2026

Last week was 8 weeks since my wreck. Recovery has been coming along more slowly that I or the doc expected. He gave me a steroid Rx to help with the swelling which has helped a bit in the past week.

Aug 8th - wreck
Week 1 - hand surgery
Week 3 - stitches come out
Week 5 - pins removed, PT starts
Week 8 - all x-rays look good, get to stop using the thumb brace.

I still am nowhere near to full flexibility with my right hand. I can't touch any finger to my palm and can barely flex my wrist up and down. Pic of fingers curled was as tight as I could do it when I left the doctors office.

Thanks to all my sponsors who made it possible for me to be on the grid:
Bison
FenceCo LLC
Plano Kawasaki Suzuki Aprilia Moto Guzzi Vespa
Raceworx USA
M4 Exhaust
BITUBO RACE SUSPENSION
Vortex Racing
Sport Rider Coaching
NovoWorks Color Imaging
The One and Only Burgers and Fries-McKinney, Tx
Cycle Gear
HotbodiesRacing.com
South Central Race Center

09/29/2026

So how hard was the impact to my back side that the airbag control module case didn't only break, but at least one component (silver item near the canister) broke off of the board? Rob @ Bison said he has never seen this before. Despite the impact, the leather on the hump is completely intact.

I ended up with broken bones in my wrist/hand and 6 broken ribs. With the impact my body took I believe the Bison gear definitely saved me from more severe injuries.

Bison
FenceCo LLC
Plano Kawasaki Suzuki Aprilia Moto Guzzi Vespa
Raceworx USA
M4 Exhaust
BITUBO RACE SUSPENSION
Vortex Racing
Sport Rider Coaching
NovoWorks Color Imaging
The One and Only Burgers and Fries-McKinney, Tx
Cycle Gear
HotbodiesRacing.com
South Central Race Center

09/15/2026

Two weeks ago had the post-surgery check up and got the first look at the 2 pins and 2 screws in my wrist / hand and got the stitches out. Tomorrow is the next checkup when the pins are hopefully coming out.

08/23/2026

Finally found a good use for throw pillows... elevating an injured appendage.

08/16/2026

Took 3 days to even start showing up and only 4 days to go from a couple dots to this.

Hand surgery tomorrow to start the healing timeline.

$Race weekend didnt quite go as planned. 6 hairline fractures on the ribs and several broken and/or dislocations on the r...$

08/10/2026

Race weekend didnt quite go as planned. 6 hairline fractures on the ribs and several broken and/or dislocations on the right hand. Awaiting another CT on the hand.

Thanks to Bison and Scorpion helmets for keeping me on this side.

07/14/2026

CMRA @ CotA weekend recap

This was definitely the widest range of emotions for a weekend. The weekend began with the bike almost overheating in the first practice session due to a hole in the radiator from my ECR crash, making me think the weekend was over before it really started. Luckily I still had my OEM radiator in my spares bin.

Between that and the end of the weekend, I dropped my PB there by 8 seconds, had four podiums including a win, lost a 1st place two turns from the finish line due to a fuel miscalculation, plain running out of gas during a restarted race when I had been running in 2nd before the red flag, stalled on a start for the first time ever (still finished 5th), and had some great close racing with friends.

While not a win, the vid in this post was one of my best of the weekend. I was a late entry for the race so had to start on the 5th row. I had my best launch of the weekend (which still wasn't that great), entered T1 in 6th, and progressively made my way all the way to 3rd.

Thanks to all my sponsors who made it possible for me to be on the grid:

Bison
FenceCo LLC
Plano Kawasaki Suzuki Aprilia Moto Guzzi Vespa
Raceworx USA
M4 Exhaust
BITUBO RACE SUSPENSION
Vortex Racing
Sport Rider Coaching
NovoWorks Color Imaging
The One and Only Burgers and Fries-McKinney, Tx
Cycle Gear
HotbodiesRacing.com
South Central Race Center

https://youtu.be/6luTh_DcWas

When signing up for the races I missed this one and was a late entr...

07/05/2026

A couple strategic mistakes left me in P4, but dropped my PB by almost another full seconds to a 2:27.5.

07/03/2026

The day ended way better than I ever could have guess based on how it started.

First session bike was overheating and after I got back to the pit I found a hole in the race radiator that I hadn't caught in my post-crash inspection. Luckily I still had my OEM radiator and missed session 2 letting the bike cool down doing the swap.

At the end of the day, after 2 qual sessions I look to be P3 on the grid for the races tomorrow.

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