Just so some of you are aware, Peter McKay has been MIA since Saturday evening. He was a no-show at his own slot car race and then some. His oldest daughter came down from the Bay Area to feed the cats, it appears he has not been home since then. Both cars are in his carport but his bike is not. I'm sure he'll turn up, but you guys in Washington may have a new slot car racer this coming weekend.

Whoah! Hope he's ok.... I'm not sure we're ready for him up here yet, we made need more time to prepare! :)

WHOA! Totally freaked me out at first Yoshi! I thought you were being for real, but if I'm reading your post correctly, you were just warning the guys in Washington that he took a little trip to go race with them, right?

Nice way to announce his travels! LOL!

PD2:thumbsup:

Actually he is still missing, and nobody seems to know where he went. His daughter doesn't want to list him as a missing person because the cats had their volume feeder and water out so that was good for a week. But Saturday morning we were ready to race, Saturday afternoon...poof. We're still looking.

Yeah, but is it like him to leave for a stretch without letting anyone know first where he's going or for how long? Is he missing or AWOL from work? I take it he has no cell (???)

Four days to be missing is a long time. No, Yes, No answers would have me calling the police to report it.

Damn, can't a guy go fishing?

not in the gay world of slot car racing, you know we all watch over each other, some more then others,,,,, (damn joez stop looking whilst I pee)

glad to see you are home safe. even tho i dont know you i was worried too !!:o

I left Saturday afternoon so I could be on the boat at daybreak Sunday. We got back into Monterey Bay Monday afternoon and I spent the rest of that day and yesterday riding down the PCH to Pismo. I left details on my cell voice mail, BUT NOBODY EVEN CALLS MY CELL ANYMORE! (Idiots).

Oh yeah, wish I had a camera when I shipped my fish back home in dry ice. The UPS lady thought I was nuts. Better than hauling them around in saddle bags for two days.

Glad to see you back, Pete :wave:

PETE! Glad you are back! But you know, now that you said something about your fishing trip, you mentioned that when you got stimulated! I think we even totally blanked on that one! That's awesome you got to do some off-shore fishing and even ship back your catch! Congrats! Got any pics of what you caught?

And that ride on the PCH on a bike must have been awesome! I used to do the run from San Jose/Santa Clara down to Santa Cruz and Monterey - freakin awesome! My current company is HQ'ed in San Jose/Santa Clara, but unfortunately I don't ever have enough time to go drive out there on PCH. About the only thing we get to do is drive up to our customer in Rocklin and meet with them.

At any rate, glad you were not even close to MIA. As some may call it, you just stepped out of a walk about to stretch your legs - sea legs that is!

PD2:thumbsup:

I have some pics but they're on film (anyone remember film?) and I have to have them developed. We went out to 26 mile reef and up to the Farallons about 15 miles outside the Golden Gate. I got to pick 15 lbs of my catch, the rest went to the boat crew. I got one decent sized shark, a couple of Red Snappers and a Roughie. They even cleaned them up and iced them down for me. The water was pretty good once we got out of the bay but on Monday morning it was too foggy to make port until later.

I've done the PCH run from Point Reyes to Santa Monica a few times in cars, never on a bike. I had planned to go to Santa Barbara but my friend there was gone for the week so I cut it one day short.

Pete, did you get the package?

Yup. Still frozen it was delivered at work this morning. I'll be grillin' some shark this weekend to be sure.

I have to say that I'm not fond of Jap bikes, but this weekend I traded my FLH for a ten year old Honda Pacific Coast on my trip, a water cooled 800cc V-twin. This thing had some pretty good pick up even with myself and one other aboard, enough room in the bags to hold three days worth of clothes for myself and a high maintenence female, and have some left over for items we picked up along the way. The bodywork, interestingly enough, was produced by Tupperware. Now I don't know if this was a joke label or not but that's what the bike said. I ran at highway speeds in wind without being pushed around. I wish Honda still made these things, I'd like to get one for myself. It was light enough to hold up and I wasn't intimidated by its weight in traffic.

Get a Burgman 650.

Pete, glad you got your fish. Did you get the package that I mailed to you?

I was wondering who was responsible for the FBI coming to my house. It stuck to the metal of the little box that the postal route person had and they asked me what it was. I didn't know so they opened it for me. Then they asked me if it was radio active. After I looked at it I told them no, just magnetic. Then I did something really stupid, I sat them down on a stack of floppies I had with documents from work on them....not real bright. Now I have to rewrite part of them.

But they will be making it into a new class of car very soon. Thanks!!!!

Sorry 'bout that Pete. I should have used another layer of cardboard. If you need any more of the mags let me know. They were really cheap.

Possibly, right now we're deciding on what to do after this series before the CoT's come out. Those are some seriously powerful but tiny magnets that work well in a chassis application. We've almost decided to go with ASA vacuformed bodies using the same chassis we're using now and maybe silicones. We're trying to build some more speed into the series and make it easier with some of the rookies.

My group is like yours. I supply all the cars and they want magnet cars. I got those mags to put under tjets and jl to's. Everyone hated the Tyco cycles so I am going to convert them to trikes. Anything to keep them happy.

If you run a series you should allow make up races. I found that if a person missed one race they wouldn't show at the rest. The "I don't have a chance so why bother" reason is taken away.

Trophies are also a nice touch. Little ones are cheap. I have a traditional trophy awarded to last place. It's the back end of a horse.

Have fun.

I have more than 100 trophys from when I used to go to model car contests, so I tend to recycle those. The problem we're having is we have a mix of experienced drivers (the Hick's brothers, Yoshi, me) and some rookies, and it's always the experienced guys that make the show.

We've tested the LifeLike cars with lexan bodies and silicone tires and they run a full tenth faster than the hard body and hard tire cars. The rookies can run flat out and the pro's try to expalin that this isn't racing. You have to drive a stock LifeLike T-car at Sequoia, even at 12 volts, no wide open there. It's more of just breathing the car into the corner, on clean tires you may get a couple of flat out laps through 3 and 4, the end with the most banking at 10 degrees. Turns 1 and 2 are only 8 degrees, and I know what you're saying; 2 degrees isn't enough to matter but believe me, on dirty tires it is.

If we go with a vacufromed class it will be my CoT car I'm developing. I don't think we'll do silicones, the body should change enough of the dynamics of the car to allow them to be faster but still have to be driven. More testing will be done before we make a rule change.