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Ciao!
I am just back from some hours of practise at Gelleråsen my hometrack in Karlskoga. And no! I did not run with my own racebike, actually I made a job for an other team in the endurance championship here in Sweden. It is going to be a race on Saturday and they had some big problems with their handling with the bike so I helped them this morning.
Gelleråsen is a bad place to race on if your suspension is not working properly. I changed everyhing for them so it became a completely different bike to ride, but hopefully to the better for them.

I will race there by my self on Saturday but with which team I dont really know at the moment. It can be on Suzuki, Yamaha or something else. I dont really care, I just need to go out and win. Simple.

Yesterday I were on a enduro mission for some hours. I took a map and went off into the forest and find some path to follow. And then another one, and another again and so on. Finally I popped up some 55 km from home in another town. It was good fun and a really nice day of practise.

Today later on I will probably rebuild my frontfork on the K7 GSXR and see if there will be some progress or not. If not, than it will be parked rest of the season.

BIKE Magazine in Sweden put up some really nice pictures from the Isle of Man today. Mmm, it gave me good feeling to watch the pictures.
Now some weeks after the event it really feels emazing to have done such a project as it was.
I can not even think about what else can bring your adrenalin to rush in your vains like Isle of Man does. It is awful to go “flat out” in sixth gear over crests and let the motorcycle take air under you and land some 30 meters later with some great wobble on your handlebars.

2008 is not that far away now! One thing is for sure. That is the future and yesterday is history. I have to learn from the history and bring it with me into the future and make it as good as possible.

Time to start the endurobike again for an other discovery somewhere……..

Regards / Christer

Hi.
Back again home after almost one week of vacation. Have been on a trip with road motorcycles up north in Sweden and Norway. It was a great time to relax and just let the head off from this years racing season.
The weather was superb and the trip could not have been better in any way.
The rain that has fallen down in southern of Sweden did not reach us and we could go sightseeing everyday.
What will happend in the future? Who knows?
We are still working with the frontfork on the K7 Superbike, but it is still some distans to go to reach the goal, so to say. I have been testing some other bikes on Gelleråsen to compare against my racebike and for sure the problems is in the front.
Hopefully we can arrange something for the three oncoming races on Gelleråsen.
4h endurance race, European Championship and later ProSuperbike.
For the 4h endurance race I can ride with someother team, no problems, but for those following races I need my own bike.
I will see what we can do…….. It would be nice to rejoin the tracks again and go winning again. I am really missing that sweetness 🙂

Regards / Christer

Ciao!
“Don´t talk to strangers, cause they are only there to do you harm, don´t dream of women cause they only bring you down. Don´t let them in your mind!”( Ronnie James DIO )
Today was one day with lots of creativity.
A ride with a BMW M6! Gave a lot of inspiration.
A meeting with two guys about top secret future plans.
Some new events on the list to sell for partners and sponsors.
My mother has bought a new cellularphone and she has learnt to write SMS!!! I am so fuc….ing proud of her. ( Du är bäst mamma ! )
On Sunday we will do some work in the workshop with frontforks and see if we can solve problems and get closer to a rideble bike. Monday some testing on track.
Tomorrow Friday will give an other day at work, Eurosport with MotoGP Qual from Assen. Trying some clothes for PR stuff and designing new logos for my company.
Yesterday I had a e-mail conversation with one of the best persons in the business of brakes! He knows all about that stuff and the company he works for is the leading one in the racing world with riders in GP, WSBK and everywhere else. He gave me so much information of what to do to get those brakes to work properly on my bike. Mmm, I like him very much.
The status of the team is as follows. Terje is still in Slovakia with his family swimming and drinking beer probably. Pier is working with…. everything. He has so much energy that guy. Digging, building, reparing, testing, working, yeah everything really. Matte is working with K6 Fagersjo bike to rebuild it again. Hard work and long evenings. Eilert is washing his Porsche GT3 and his Dodge Challenger Convertible for this weekends exhibition in Karlskoga. And finally Torvald the webmaster is on his way out on the lake Vänern, the biggest lake in Sweden with a boat.
My friend Mats has now only about 50 days more to wait before he will be back on the Isle of Man once again and this time for winning the Manx GP! I am sure he will win the Jr class by great margin and maybe even the Sr class. The Sr allows 750cc, but Mats only has a 600cc, so it might be a little bit harder. But he is determined that man……. and a hell of a good friend!

“Too many slaves in this world, die by torture and pain. Too many people do not see, they are killing themselves, going insane. Too many people do not know bondage is over the human race, they belive that slaves allways lose, and this fear keeps them down” ( Accept “Balls to the wall” 1983 )

Por Favor!
Mucho Grasias, to Casey Stoner Moto GP Ducati! If you are looking for someone who has done their homework well to this season, than it must be Ducati and Casey Stoner. The bike was launched last autumn and they knew what they had to do. And the rider himself. So determined. Not even the great Vale Rossi The Doctor can get him out of balance. In the beginning people said it was because of the ultra fast bike Casey won, but now he has won 5 times in 8 rounds. And at different tracks and conditions. I am almost dropping a tear on my pillow, when I think of the success from both Ducati and from Stoner himself.
Of course this is a total opposite of my own success, or lack of success maybe is a correct word. Nothing is working and I can not blame on God or the Devil or bad luck or shit like that. Because you create your own destiny, and through hard work you get success, not through luck. Ok, sometimes lucky circumstances helps you on your way reaching your goals, but you are the main factor for your own success.
And this year 2007 has been hard. Our bike is not well prepared. The bike arrived lately, we are still in need of parts and some other projects has taken time from the Swedish Championship. You can not expect to go out winning against the quickest riders your country can offer, if you have not done your homework before. And I have not done that well enough. I put to much trust in what people always promise and my stupied brain belived those nice words from their mouths. Now, you can see what the result is. Disaster. One more time, I have been hit by the axe for putting my life into other peoples hands. It does not work, and will never work out for me. If I want something in my life, I can only reach those dreams or goals by hard work and total control. I can not for a single minute relax and think that everything works out by itself. It will not. Just look at the world around you! Is it a dreamworld? Is everything working daily without problems or things you must correct? No, not for me at least. I can not even make a address change when moving without everything getting messy and all my post disapears to who know where?
Sad but true.
Now I need to go back to hard work again for first, earning my money, second, solve all problems with my racebike.
See you soon friends.
Ystävällisesti / Christer

Hi.
First free practise, only three laps. Over and out. Front end problems. Qual 1 & 2, spare bike used, but a lot of problems. Qual 18th. What can I say. Changes to the bike before Sundays warm up. Some minor improvment, but lack of power in engine. Time to quit.

Hej hej.
En riktigt tung helg med massor av problem innan, under och efter. Absolut ingenting ville fungera nu heller trots uppdateringar. Kändes snarare som de var gjorda åt motsatt håll min önskan.
Kvalen är de sämsta någonsin i min karriär trots skadefri kropp och inget annat att skylla på när det gäller prestanda. Det är hojen som är mil från de inställningar som behövs.
Vi får se vad som sker framöver.
Ha det gott i sommarvärmen.
/ Christer

Ciao!
Windy, clouds, rain in the air. Yes, it is normal summer in Sweden. And most of it all it is normal racingweather! Coming weekend holds the Anderstorp ProSuperbike run in the STCC ( SwedishTouringCarChampionship ), and no, I have not had time to test my bikes since last race almost 4 weeks ago. That is not the best of ways to deal with if you are fighting against Swedens fastest racers, but if the bikes are not ready and you aint got no time to test, than that is the case and you have to fact the reality.The team will arrive to Atorp tomorrow and we are all full of hopes for improvement, but at the same time you are a bit concerned about not been able to ride the bikes. We will have one K7, one K6 and of course my own K3 bike with us for the event. Fingers crossed, God bless us all and we will see what we can achieve. My fantastic mechanics are all over the moon again to get in action and I will not let them down again…… I´ve rather crash than make them dissapointed again. But don´t tell them :-)A lot of problems while I was away to the IoM has coursed us problems that just got solved a couple of hours ago. We are running low on tires and some other stuff, but I am getting used to at the moment and it doesn´t bother me a lot.Pier is preparing in Växjö and will arrive tomorrow, Matte will not get many hours of sleep tonight while he must pick up the bikes from DinMC and get some suspension parts from Öhlins. Eilert is painting the fairings at the moment and I am trying to solve some admin problems and logistics. Torvald will be working this weekend by his own and can not join the trip and finally Terje has holiday and is on his way to Croatia.
See you soon.
Best Regards / Christer

Ciao.
Last race of the TT Isle of Man Adventure is to an end. Todays TT Senior race by 6 laps went of this morning and it was not the best of races for me personally.
First lap was quite ok for except the fog on the mountain. The visability was quite ok but it disturbed your mind while the weather was perfect at sealevel.
My second lap was not bad either and when I entered for pitstop there was no worries. Quite shortley after starting the third lap I had a bad feeling. Something made me thinking about tighten my sences and after really feeling for everyting I found out that my righthand foot was begining to slip from the fotpeg! Hmm, not good. I made the third lap with standing on toe and resting the heel against the exhaustpipe with the right foot. But on my fourth lap I could not even do that because it was slipping away from it all the time and at this moment I was losing concentration from the track. Now it suddenly became dangerous riding, not just for the oil leakage but also for not being concentrated of the track any longer.
All the time I had to think about how much oil the bike leaked and if it would catch the rear wheel and suddenly making it loosing grip. It was a real nightmare to just complete the fourth and my last lap before retiring from the race.
At the moment I am glad to retire in a way like this if you need to retire, but of course you don´t want to retire at all.
The adventure is over for now and I will go back to Sweden again on Monday and just let it sunk down to my mind, all the feelings from this almost 17 days adventure.
There are a lot of good nice things I will keep in my heart forever, but there are also some else that I need to really think about before making my mind up for further TT races.
Hope you guys have enjoyed following my reports on the Blog and also shared those moments with me.
Keep on looking into my website in the future just to see wath happends.
Ciao for now / Christer

Hej hej.
Då är den sista tävlingen avklarad och TT veckan är slut. Det har körts mycket bra racing i alla klasser och det har slagits rekord på rekord, så även idag. John McGuiness körde över 130mph idag i TT Senior tävlingen och vann den för övrigt också. Starkt kört.
Mitt eget race idag i TT Senior som för övrigt betyder, (“kör med allt som har två hjul”. Alltså GP hojar, SBK, 600cc, 125cc, vad som helst) ,blev inte som jag hade hoppats. Inledningsvis hade jag bra tempo och det flöt på bra. Dimman över berget var det enda som störde lite och det var en omställning att komma från klart väder och sol till att köra in i molnen och precis ha visualitet för den sträcka som behövdes. Andra varvet gick också skapligt och när det sedan blev dags för depåstopp så drack jag lite vatten som vanligt medan mekanikerna tankade och gjorde rent visiret.
Inte långt in på mitt tredje varv fick jag plötsligt en känsla som gjorde att jag stärkte alla mina sinnen ytterligare och kände efter allt på hojen. Då kände jag att den högra foten började halka av från fotpinnen. Vad som gav mig känslan vet jag inte. Kanske var det att foten omedvetet börjat glida av och gett signal till skallen eller också var det bara en sådan känsla som man kan få ibland.
Jag körde det tredje varvet runt och började det fjärde också, men problemen blev allt värre. Foten halkade av hela tiden nu, samtidigt som det störde mig så mycket att jag började tappa fokus på banan. Detta väckte min skalle ytterligare och jag svor innanför hjälmen. Förtvivlad på mig själv blev jag, för det får aldrig hända att man tappar fokus ens en tiondelssekund. Nu återstod ungefär 3/4 delar av varvet och jag körde så snabbt jag kunde med det oljeläckage som jag hade utan att bli en fara för andra. Man får absolut inte börja köra sakta runt banan och därför var jag tvungen att kämpa på varvet runt i hyfsad hastighet samtidigt som jag försiktigt kände mig för i högerkurvorna så att jag inte plötsligt saknade grepp pga olja. När jag kom in i depån för mitt andra stopp så klev jag bara av hojen. Det var färdig kört. Någonstans ifrån läckte olja och den sprutade längs kåpan och dränkte hela min stövel och skinnställ på högersida. Att fortsätta då hade inte bara kunnat orsaka förödelse för mig utan även för mina övriga deltävlare.
Jobbigt att behöva bryta tävlingen, men om man ändå måste så gör jag det hellre så här än på något annat.
Visst känns det bittert och det är en hel del tankar som far i skallen just nu. Oljan var ingen överraskning. Det har fuktat igenom redan förra tävlingen och jag frågade innan denna tävling om mekanikerna hade löst problemet. Det hade de. Men frågan återstår. Var det nytt läckage eller brist på respekt mot sin förare? Kanske orkade de inte heller fixa detta läckage precis som mina problem med framgaffeln? Jag vet inte och jag vet inte hur bra de är på svenska heller och om de läser min blogg, men jag känner mig inte helt nöjd med teamets agerande…
Det roliga är i allafall att jag fått med mig en plakett och en Bronze Replica som man får då man är mindre än 10% efter vinnaren. Sådant känns bra trots de problem jag haft. Mina personliga mål var jag inte ens i närheten utav detta år i TT, vilket gör mig besviken. Men samtidigt vet jag varför jag inte nådde upp till dem och det har ni redan läst om tidigare. Så ytterligare lärdomar har detta äventyr gett mig. Racingbranschen är sällan så glamorös som den ger sig för att vara!!!
( Från en som ständigt befinner sig i den och som aldrig slutar att söka! )
Nu tänker jag bara njuta i dagarna två innan hemfärd på måndag.
Fortsätt att gå in på bloggen och läsa framöver, för redan nästa vecka är det ProSuperbike som gäller.
Ha det gott och en trevlig helg! / Christer

Bilden tagen av “Silja” strax efter starten, “Flatout 6th gear” Stort TACK Silja!

Hi.
A real touristing day. Went to Laxery Wheels and the mines. Had some nice lunch at a nice restaurant and lately some barbeque with a group of Swedish friends in the paddock. After that it was time for another pricegiving cermony. And guess!!
I got a Bronze Replica reward!!! It was awsome. That is a real nice price for given to riders that last in some percent of the winning time. That was actually a surprise for me, but it made me proud anyway. Not that bad after all??!!! Or??
See you again tomorrow. It will be yet another day in the holiday line.
Cheers / Christer

Hej.
Idag har det turistats lite. Tittat på ett vattenhjul och studerat någon gruvgång. Käkat lite god mat och grillat. Höjdpunkten var dock prisutdelningen från gårdagens Superstock. Min 39.e plats gav mig en Brons Replika Statyett!! Det är en fin pokal som delas ut till förare som är inom en viss procent från vinnartiden.
Ett bevis på att man trots allt kört skapligt snabbt totalt sett under tävlingen. Rätt kul att få med sig en pokal och en plakett hem från ön. Och sedan återstår fortfarande en tävling.
Jag vet dock att det kommer bli fortsatt tufft att förbättra sig, men lovar att försöka fortsätta köra så snabbt det går med de problem som jag bråttas med, samtidigt som jag bibehåller säkerhetstänkandet. Visst vill man prestera det man kan och inte bli hindrad av material, men så är det ofta i motorsport. Bara att svälja stoltheten och veta i sitt hjärta vad man kan och vill och tyvärr inte få möjlighet att visa. Hur som helst så skall jag vila ytterligare en dag imorgon och sedan ladda rejält för fredagens tävling.
Min teamkamrat Craig klarade sig oskadd i sin krasch igår. Han körde för snabbt in i en kurva och började bromsa men klarade den inte och körde rakt in i höbalarna som stod ivägen innan muren kom. Sedan flög han över styret och landade oskadd i trädgården. Ähh, det var inget att snacka om…. Lite för snabbt bara, sådant händer…. Jaha, säger jag bara!
Ni får ha det så bra.
Trevlig kväll / Christer