admin

Today was admin day, admin scheduled for 12.00, so we planned to sleep in, off course this did not work out somehow. Woke up at around 06.00, not sleeping again. Breakfast at 08.30, drive up to the impound was easy. Girls and Thierry still not arrived, we did some t-shirt shopping, nice merchandise by the way. Did admin at 12.00 no problems there, some pictures were taken, with the Man who thinks he is in charge in the middle of the picture.
Checked out some check points today, just to get out of the ciry, it is so busy, drove up the mountain through nice pine forrest up a gravel road to test and TC 1\4, beautiful scenery.
Back at the hotel at 06.00 for a meeting.
Now we are going to bed and tomorrow we have to do tech. at 10.40

tire changes

We did some sight seeing yesterday morning, we went to the centro of Morelia the check out the cathedral and old buildings there. What a great sight that big cathedral in the middle of town, cars, trucks, motorcycles etc. racing by on 4 sides. The cathedral is just there in all its glory, breath taking. We walked down to the aquaduct. Behind the houses court yards are visible, with wonderful fences in front, nice tile work and pillars. The aquaduct goes on for several kilometers and is beautiful restored, looked at another church, inside was full of color, pink, purple, yellow, almost an psychedelic experience.

Went back to the impound area where the girls and thierry were working on their bikes, alley was having problems with her front mouse could not get it on, got help form one of the american girs, she rood ISDE 5 times, so experienced, but could not get it on. Back to Wolfgang, they just found out some mouses were to big to fit the tire. They opened a new production line, and this produced some very big mouse, the Metzler guy said they had to cut out sometimes around 17 cm. No wonder the mouse did not fit. Tory also had the same problem and went back to Wolfgang, he was very helpfull, even when she went back several times.
It cooled down a bit around six yesterday evening, we hope we will keep the warm weather, the riders hope for some rain, the practice track is very dusty.
Today we have to do admin at 12.00 after that we will try to find some checks and maybe walk some tests.

Preparing bikes

Most of the Canadian Team arrived yesterday in Morelia. We had a 2.5 hour delay in Amsterdam and could not catch the connecting flight to Morelia and had to spend the night in Mexico City (costs were for KLM). All riders are in and were working on their bike today. Ali rented a used KTM 300, she new the bike was used, but there was so much wrong with it when Patrick took it apart, they asked KTM for a replacement bike, She got one, a 450 KTM. Hopefully she will manage on this big machine. Karine got some help fron Metzler Wolfgang with changing here rear 19" tire, Wolfgang was able to help her and get the tire on.
The weather is wonderful, lots of sun shine, nice and warm, first thing we did today was buy some sunscreen, a little bit to much sun made our skin nice and red yesterday.
The site of the impound area is very nice, on top of a hill. close to a shopping mall, unfortunately the mall is still being build on so no shopping, we found a nice coffee shop that servers great coffee and good sandwiches. The view from the balcony of the mall is great you can see the whole city. The traffic in the city is nuts, everybody is racing.

ISDE 2010

All different ISDE this year, no Thropy Team, a women team That is great! no support for the coordinators. It is all still feeling a bit strange. We will see what happens in 6 weeks time.