Our Monster Challenge S4R

First off I would like to thank Alerx Ortner for letting me over run his shop for a week. Without his ability to make the crazy stuff I was coming up with we would not have been able to do this.

Second thanks goes to my painter Jeff Harris, he never did a paint job like this before but managed to pull of a perfect job.

And thridly thanks too all the people who made this possible by chipping in and lending a hand.

We didn't end up winning because we didn't have any miles on the bike Apparently the judges were told that the bikes needed to be street ridden. Of course they could not have known the milage of the bike since it has a digital odometer and there was no battery in the bike. The bike does actualy have 100+ miles on it, they just never bothered to check. It's obvious to me that we were never going to be allowed to win. They were giving us a hard time from the second we unloaded the bike. First it was "Jason Etter entered the bike, why is it registered in William Keros's name?" Who cares? So, I filled out the entry form and Bill was the one to go to the DMV to register it and we are trying to pull a fast one The next one was "We can't read the VIN (it was painted over), you may be disqualified". My Ducati sales rep had to go to bat for us and re-assure them that this was indeed that bike. The next one was "This bike is not warranty registered" No where in the rules (are there any?) does it say it needs to be warranty registered. Bill called me at the shop from the show and had me warranty register the bike. At this point I was sure that we were not going to be allowed to win. But, I figured we got through that stuff, the rest is up to the bike. Well imagine my surprise when I get a call from Bill at the show telling me we got third becuse our bike was not street ridden. Nowhere in the rules does it say the bike needs to be street ridden. I know this becuase I beat the hell out of the guy at Ducati for absolutely every bit of judging criteria we would be subjected to. If I had "known" about the street ridden thing I would have had Bill take it to Florida last week when he as there and go put some miles on it, scrub the tires to the edges, scrape up the exhaust, etc. Well it seems that you can change the rules as you see fit in the Monster Challenge.

And to top it all off they asked us if we would still bring the bike down to Daytona to display it in their booth Are you out of your mind? I have an idea................................................Phuck off!

But at the end of the day this is exactly what I expected. What I am mad about is that for some strange reason I though that the "right thing" would happen. Once again I am disappointed by the nature of my fellow humans.

But on a good note we won the 'Peoples Choice' with 75% of the votes. And that is what realy counts as far as I am concerned.