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Bot, that was almost as sweet as the vows my husby read to me that he wrote on our wedding day...

Hey, is that something you to are going to do? You totally should.....

Anywho, LilDaisy...soon enough you'll be done, and much more satisfied with what you have...and even more excited to ride because you put so much time in....:yes:

TB: STAY OUT OF TROUBLE:aargh::yes::biggrin:

Kristin...I thought I was lucky with my honey, you seem to have found you a good one too...lifted truck or stupid car. :laugh:

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I ride for fun. Mainly at the dunes. Awesome. Go out to Dumont alot, unfortunately it is getting to hot to ride out there. It is in Death Valley.:ack2c: So that sucks major booty. We have a trip to planned to go out to Coral Pink Sand dunes in June. Hella siked about that!! :yes:

is it pink sand? now that would be cool. sounds like a great place.

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yes. and no. if you don't break much then not tooo much, when you break a lot, it costs a lot.

with two of us racing, it gets pretty expensive, and now that gas prices are higher...here's a breakdown of what we will spend this weekend, we leave Saturday afternoon, camp Sat night and race Sunday:

*Diesel in the truck to get there: $100 bucks roughly

*Gas in the wheelers to race: $40 bucks....yea, I can't believe it's that much either. Just to ride it costs that much.

*Food/drinks for the weekend: $50 bucks or so

*Gate Admission: $14 bucks ($7 bucks a person, but...this goes up at National events)

*Race Admission: $50 bucks ($25 a piece, this also goes up at Nationals)

So race weekends we spend about $200 bucks....

but....that's not including anything thats broken or just general maintenance. We both just busted our bumpers and got new ones from PRM, we've found they really do last the longest, but spent $235 bucks on two of them....my husband needed new swing arm bearings this week...that's another 50 bucks...and now last night when we were getting things ready we found the swing arm is cracked so we're going to have to buy one of them now.

SO, it does get expensive....but, at the same time, we don't go out and eat, we dont go to the movies, we dont go partying on the weekend. All the money most people spend on that kind of stuff goes towards racing for us. It's what we love :)

Someday maybe you'll see one of our names in the magazinesssss!!! Ohh..and I forgot to mention, sponsors help. Even if they give you just discounts on products, it really helps, you'd be surprised how much 50% off on goggles makes a difference. Anything helps. :)

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