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Motorcycle Safety and Awareness
Welcome to Think Bike, the podcast about all things motorcycle and the voice of motorcycle safety and awareness in Alberta. Your host is Liane Langlois.
Liane:Hey, everybody. Welcome to another episode of think bike. Hope you're having a great summer. If it sounds extra noisy behind us on today's episode, there's a great reason for that. We've taped a few shows at the YG motorcycle show at the Expo Center, and today is one of those shows.
Liane:It's been so much fun being on location, plus great to see old friends and make some new ones. And it's also been fantastic to meet listeners of our podcast. So let's get going on this episode. I have got Brad Gavey with me. We had his wife, Bronte, on last year and, thought we would get kind of the man behind that extraordinary woman onto the show to talk about his experiences and things.
Liane:Welcome to the show.
Brad:Thanks for having me on.
Liane:You're very welcome. So let's tell everybody who is Brad and what got you into riding?
Brad:That's that's that's
Liane:a lot of question.
Brad:That's a loaded question. A standard podcast question, a podcast question, I guess. But, yeah, it's a long story. You know? I always you know, my dad bought me a little CT 70.
Brad:Remember those bikes back in the day? Right? I'm sure half the population that rode motorcycles started on one of those things.
Liane:Little Honda fifties.
Brad:Yeah. A little Honda 50. My old man got one from the neighbor for a $100,125 bucks, and I had it up till, like, three years ago. I sold it. So but, yeah, you know what I mean?
Brad:I I always wanted bikes. I remember when I I was a kid, I wanted motorcycles. I got into motorcycles, and we ride dirt bikes when our kids. We go camping and stuff in McLean Creek, which we still do. We don't go out there and ride our dirt bikes out there and go do some Enduro with the wife.
Brad:And we all I just spend my bikes around motorcycles, you know, and then got into cars for a long time, Did a bunch of illegal street racing. And and then I decided I'm like well, it was a couple catalysts, actually. I went I'm gonna I don't usually talk about my age when I'm around my wife because my wife's a little younger than I am, and I don't wanna make her suffer through that or whatever. But, you know, I don't want anybody put on it. Jokes aside, I don't want anybody put a stigma to honor on her stigma stigma?
Liane:Stigma? Stigma? Stigma.
Brad:Sure. We'll go with that. Is that yeah. Stigma. So, anyway, I watched Steve Creevey win at Race City Speedway in 1989.
Brad:Oh. And I remember coming home and going, you know, shit. You know, I would really wanna do this. And I told my parents and my mom's like, well, you get a bike, you move out. So eventually, a couple years later, bought a bike and had to move out.
Brad:And then, you know, just riding on the street like a donkey like everybody else and falling off the thing doing wheelies and stuff. And then met some I met my buddy Mitch Rathje, and they're like he's like, oh, I I'm I do racing at Race City. And I'm like, well, I go and watch racing every year. And that's that's back when the CSPK used to come to Calgary all the time. It's part of the Yeah.
Brad:Part of the thing. And, you know, I went out and helped him, and then I did a race school in '94. And then I did my first race in '96. And, yeah, and then, you know, I kinda stuck at it, and I was teaching schools. And by '97, I was teaching school a year into it, not because I was fast, but
Liane:because grade school?
Brad:Grade school. Yeah. Because I could articulate it. Yeah. And I loved it.
Brad:You know, it was passion, and it was the only thing I did. And then I opened up my own school by 2002, and I was president of the SEMA. And I did a bunch of other stuff.
Liane:Crazy. So you got kinda off the hooliganism on the street and took it to the track?
Brad:Yeah. You know, it's it's hot. It's that's where everybody starts. You know? And, you know, I watch guys in traffic and, you know, I'm just like, man, you know, it's just I've told so many I've seen so much crazy stuff and, you know, I've been a part of it and it's not like I've, you know, like some delicate flower.
Brad:You know, I've been involved in you know, I've crashed in the street a bunch of times and gone out in group rides. And, you know, these guys are going Mach eight everywhere, and we're, you know, we're at, you know, Easter dinner with my sister, and my sister's telling stories back to me. And I'm like, oh, I forgot that. And and my my kid's there too. And he's like, Jesus, dad.
Brad:And I'm like, you know, I'm like, yeah. I remember this time. And so, yeah, I started as a hooligan on the street. You know, I did I went to a few funerals and stuff. And, you know, I'm like, but mainly the main reason I got into racing was like, I'm like, ugh, god.
Brad:I I did I was doing so much street racing. I'm like, this is just not gonna go well. Yeah. And so I got into, you know, got into bikes and it's it's a terrible thing to say. I'm like, if I crash the bike, the only person I'm gonna hurt is myself.
Brad:Right? So that's a terrible thing. But, yeah, lots of lots of hooligan stuff and wheelie it over backwards more than once. And
Liane:Okay. So let's let's get into this let's get into the street stuff first then. Like Yeah. What is the worst thing that you did that was fully your accountability of doing dumb things on the road that you would not recommend to people today?
Brad:Oh, man. There's so many things. So many mistakes. One thing one thing that is beyond the number one thing that I'd never ever ever ever say is running. If you're if you're willing to do the speed and you're willing to do it, you gotta take your lumps.
Brad:Yeah. And and these guys that, you know, these social media idiots, you know, they get out there and they start talking about how they ran and stuff. Like, the moment anyone says that to me, that is that is that is the absolute no. Like, that is an absolute no. So for me, I guess, the you know, did you ask me what I what I hate about it?
Brad:Or
Liane:Well, no. What what have you done that you don't obviously do anymore that you would say don't be like the young version of Brad? Like, you wheelied over backwards.
Brad:I'm still wheelie.
Liane:But are you pretty wheelieing over?
Brad:Lying. I'd be lying if I said I don't wheelie. But I pick your spots. Right? Like, with things I hate, okay, let's it's easier to do with the things that I don't like.
Brad:K. So pick your spots. Yes. Right? Pick your
Liane:spots. Place.
Brad:Time and place all the time. Yeah. The white mud at five in the afternoon was not the place. Yeah. It's not the place for anything.
Brad:You know? It's not. You cruise your buddies. Look around. You rev your mud or do whatever or Deerfoot Trail because I'm from Calgary or whatever.
Brad:Yeah. But it's not the place. Yep. You know? There's no one around.
Brad:No prying eyes and loud pipes. Man, come on. Like, I'm a bike guy, and guys buy me in traffic. I'm like, bro, why is your bike so loud? You're just attracting attention to yourself and not the good kind.
Liane:Yeah.
Brad:And that is that is I I know some people A
Liane:bed loud pipes save lives, Brad.
Brad:That is the biggest pile of shit. Like, it really is. How many times have you been cut off in traffic?
Liane:Well, I give myself space. Like, I'm responsible where I am on the road.
Brad:You're in time and space. Right? You would see
Liane:Have I been cut off? Of course.
Brad:Of course. I got hit by a
Liane:cut off in my car.
Brad:Of course. Right? So my loud pipe is not gonna save the fact that I'm not paying attention. Yeah. If you're not paying attention, you're not paying attention.
Brad:If you're in and out of traffic or lane splitting, another thing I absolutely hate is lane splitting. It's not. I just I just I just don't. Anyway, is being aware. Being aware of the surroundings, being, you know, what's going on around you.
Brad:You know, you could see drivers in the car. They're gonna they preload the steering wheel. They drift. Like, if you're aware, everybody gets cut off once a year, but guys are like, oh, people cut me off, and I did this, and I did that. Well, you're not paying attention.
Liane:Well, that also and how fast were you going?
Brad:How fast are you going? 20 over in traffic is a safe for 15. It's it's legal, but it keeps you aware of the situation. You're not a target. Yeah.
Brad:Right? But even after that, it's just you know, I'm no I'm no saint. I'm not saying I'm saint, but there's a time and a place for all this stuff. And I watch these modern guys and these kids and stuff, and my kid just started riding a couple years ago. And, you know, I drill it into his head.
Brad:This is how we do it. This is what we do. Doesn't mean we're not having fun. Yep. Doesn't mean we're not, you know, at time and a place, but this is not the spot.
Brad:This is not the spot. This is not the spot. Yeah. You know? And I lent him my my beloved BK, like, to like, we're up here for the weekend, and he's at home riding it.
Brad:So That's when it's coming. I trust him. So, you know, if you're you coach these kids right and you give them this kind of basis, it's obviously your Far straight. It's obvious that, you know, it's not within the letter of the law, but it's still you could have fun and not be a total dick. Yeah.
Brad:And the plate's tucked up. Yeah. And that
Liane:Yeah. That stuff that draws the attention to get you pulled over in the first place, and then they Yeah. Run over your entire bike and get reflector tickets or whatever. Yeah. Like, I got pulled over once going slightly higher than the speed limit up a hill by the University of Alberta, and and I got pulled in.
Liane:I was on my Daytona nine five five I. And the police officer walked around my entire bike, and she's like, your bike's legal.
Brad:Yeah.
Liane:And she was shocked. And I'm like, well, I do this. So, like, I, like, I need to be, but my plate isn't tucked up. And it's like, I get it. Tidy tails, whatever.
Brad:Yeah.
Liane:You want clean lines and stuff. But at the end of the day, legislation is legislation. And if you're going to do stupid things, you're going to get more than what you bargained for if you get pulled over.
Brad:I agree with that. And and, you know, I just I don't like the modern I don't this part of our industry, the part of our sport or whatever that I I don't like about that is is that this us against them, which is fine. Like, I've had some really I've been pulled over by some in you know, police officers that, you know
Liane:Are not kind.
Brad:They're not kind in no reason.
Liane:Yeah.
Brad:But then I watched them. I watched these guys, and I'm like, man, it'd be hard to be a cop against these guys. Yeah. I'm watching these guys in action. I'm like, bro, if I was a cop, I'd be writing you up because I think this is not the right spot.
Brad:But, again, you know, I'm here throwing rocks in my glasshouse or whatever. Right? So
Liane:But but if I understand it correctly, if it wasn't for you riding on the street, you wouldn't have met your wife.
Brad:That's correct, actually. So if you want me to tell that story, I can tell that story.
Liane:Let's because there's there's a little romance to the Yeah. When you're out riding, and it's kind of fun.
Brad:Yeah. You know, it's it's a good story. We told have you ever watched how I met your mother where they talk about how Lily and Marshall met their significant other, and it's part of, you know, the lore. You always tell the story 10 times or a thousand times or whatever. Yeah.
Brad:Well, we we saw I was out riding around, and it was 2016. I'm riding I got a GSXR 1,000, and pull up in traffic, and there's a construction zone on Glenmore Trail in Calgary. We're heading east or whatever. And I pull up, and this chick has stopped beside us. And I pull up beside her, and I'm like I go, hey.
Brad:Nice bike. She had a nice yellow Gixxer seven fifty. And I'm like, Nice bike. She goes, thanks. Hi.
Brad:I'm Bronnie. I'm like, first you are. Right? So we get going. I did a did a wheelie.
Brad:And and then I motioned for her to follow me, and then she did. And she followed me, and I'm, you know, just it was late at night. No traffic around, obviously, being in control and, you know, not fast in straights. Don't slow down for the corners. Right?
Brad:Yep. So, you know, she's keeping up pretty good. I'm like, oh, this this trick's pretty good, man. So he's pull over and stop and start talking. And I'm like, man, you ride really well.
Brad:And, you know, she's exuberant and all the things that go along with it. I'm like she goes, thanks. I've been riding for less than a year. I'm like, holy shit. I'm like, you need to go to the racetrack.
Brad:She's like, I'm going to do a school. I'm like, cool. Which school? She goes, on track performance school. I'm like, oh, yeah.
Brad:I teach her that school. She's like, sure. She didn't at the time because she's sweet. She's like, oh, yeah. But I knew but she told me later, she's like, oh, this guy's full of shit.
Brad:Right? So I'm like, I go and I just I totally flexed, and it's terrible. But I go, hey. Just this is my last name. Just look at my page.
Brad:And then she messaged me, and she's like, oh, he really is that guy. I'm like, yeah. There's, like, twenty eight years of racing and wheelies and championships and schools and all kinds of crazy stuff. And then, you know, we went riding a few other times, and, you know, three months later or four months later, she moved in. Aw.
Brad:And we've been out there ever since. It's funny. We're talking about it on the way up today. It was yesterday, actually, when we were late for the other podcast. I don't know.
Brad:Is that get all mad? Because I No.
Liane:Not at all.
Brad:So, anyway, we're talking about it on the way, and I'm like, oh, it's been ten years driving to Edmonton to go to racing. And she's like, Jesus. I'm like, it's my dad always says, he's like, he goes by fast. I'm like, ah, shut up, up, old man. It's not that way.
Brad:And then I'm like, oh, that
Liane:It does.
Brad:And I'm like, ten years, man. It seems like yesterday we just started doing this.
Liane:Yes. So
Brad:it's been really cool. And then it's, you know, just another another another, I don't know, brick in the wall, so to speak. You know, we've been doing this a long time.
Liane:And Yeah.
Brad:And, you know but I saw it right there that there was some talent there. And I've, you know, I've coached. I don't know. It it's hard to it's hard to give my resume, but I started riding in '97. I started racing in '96.
Brad:Yeah. And I opened up a school in 2003, and I coached for the fast riding school when they came to town. Yeah. And then I've been ten, you know, ten years a decade with NAPIC. Right?
Brad:You know, I haven't missed
Liane:Friend of the pod.
Brad:Friend of the pod. I haven't missed Justin's school, maybe one school in ten years. Yeah. So, you know, I so I've seen a lot of talent. I've ridden.
Brad:I've been passed. I've done Canadian nationals. I got a couple club championships.
Liane:Mean, you're kind of a big deal, little bit.
Brad:Yeah. But
Liane:you're also a super humble guy, which is kind of fun.
Brad:I I am on on camera. I'm super humble guy. But, you know, I I might
Liane:You have bragging rights that you've earned,
Brad:and you
Liane:can do it.
Brad:Yeah. Yeah. I I guess, yeah, I talking to squids, though, I'm definitely not. I'm I'm kind of a dick, but I got, you know, I got probably 70,000 track hair Yes. Minimum.
Brad:Like, maybe more. Right? So I've seen it all. Like, I've seen it all.
Liane:And So let let's talk a little bit about that. Like, you know, for the majority of the time on the track, it's smooth sailing, and it's great racing. Yeah. And it's entertaining, and it's fast, and you get these, like, photo finishes sometimes, and it's exciting. Yep.
Liane:And then every once in a while
Brad:It's the worst thing in
Liane:the world. The worst thing in the world.
Brad:It is the worst thing in the world.
Liane:You know, like, obviously, I would guess that probably the worst thing in the world is when there's an unfortunate fatality at the track Yep. Would be the worst. Yep. I don't actually, I think the worst for you would be if Bronte goes down.
Brad:Yeah. Sorry. It's funny. Yeah. That's a good question.
Brad:Nicely done. Yeah. You know, I saw a guy, Dave Prezlowski, who's from Edmonton. Yeah. They had an award for him.
Brad:Yep. You know, this was 2001. Most of the modern 99% of the MRA doesn't know who this man is. Right? Yeah.
Brad:I raced against him. Right? So, you know, I was there the day he died. He died in front of me. That's brilliant.
Brad:And as, you know, his pregnant wife was in the stands. And so I saw that. It was pretty bad. And then we, you know, the helicopter a few times, Waze City.
Liane:And is that just,
Brad:like unfortunate thing of Sean Yes. Couple years back.
Liane:Sean, couple years back.
Brad:Yeah. You know, I was third or fourth person to him at the time. Me and Max and Bright Body, you know, we were there. It was it was a pretty it was a pretty traumatic moment. So and I've seen hundreds of crashes at my school
Liane:Yeah.
Brad:In front of me. You know? I've followed people, and they fall down. I've hundreds and hundreds of
Liane:them just crash. The majority of the time, they get up and walk away.
Brad:Yeah.
Liane:Yeah. It's okay. And then you have, like
Brad:You're leading the witness. Yeah. The I try to avoid the stuff when I talk about brawny because I get misty, and you're trying to do that to me on purpose.
Liane:It's a little dusty in here.
Brad:Yeah. It's a little dusty. Yeah. You know what? It it is really tough.
Brad:So, you know, I after 2023, you know, I've watched her crash every time. I've so I've never missed a a session Yeah. In ten years. Yeah. Not watched.
Brad:Like, I've watched every session. Every corner that I can stand at, I've watched every session in ten years. Like, I maybe missed here in one and there, but, like Yeah. I've seen every corner downshift all this other shit, and, you know, I've seen her crash a bunch of times. Her not come around.
Brad:You know, it is it is it's it's really, really hard. And as a as a spouse, I wanted to do really, really well, and we put everything into it, like every dollar we have and dollars we don't have and dollars that my grandkids will never have. You know? So, you know, we we do that. And but it is the hardest part of what we do is to watch her, you know, come around and, you know, she doesn't come around in, you know, the one the big one in RadTorque.
Brad:The big one in RadTorque was I was down giving her pit signals at the upper end. And I was watching from the upper end, and the red flag came out, and she didn't come around.
Liane:Mhmm.
Brad:And then I, you know, I hoofed it down there, and then, you know, that was what happened. You should have find all this other stuff. And then, you know, and I I've told a few people this other one, the second one, the two months after because she wasn't really all the way there and which she had to think there was a race coming up and, you know, I was watching. We're coaching at a school. Nappy wasn't there that day, and, you know, she crashed and hit her head in Stratotech again.
Brad:And I go running across the track. And
Liane:But she's here, she's okay. And that's like
Brad:I'm so mad at you.
Liane:I am so sorry. Just take a breath. We're okay.
Brad:She did that on purpose.
Liane:I did not. I did not. Anyway,
Brad:yeah, it was bad. So, anyway, it was been it was nine months later back on, and that's the hardest part. You know, the besides, you know, worried about her getting hurt. Yeah. That's that's basically it.
Brad:So, yeah, I've seen a lot of it. Now my kid's gonna do a race. So in, you know, the EMRA, we're gonna probably do one with the EMRA this year, and my kid has a Gixxer 600. So and at CMRA, we're gonna she's gonna do the race. I'm gonna do the race, and my kid's gonna race.
Brad:So it'll be my thirtieth rear, and my kid will be there. My my wife will be there. So it it'll be it'll be something. So yeah.
Liane:You gotta make sure I'm there because I wanna
Brad:see that. Yeah. It's well, I'm gonna be slow as shit. So see, I've managed to pivot from you making me all upset and soft.
Liane:So No. It's all good. It's all good.
Brad:I I think I did an excellent job.
Liane:Apologize to everybody. Brad is not a soft person. Okay? Soft. You're such a good guy.
Brad:So, anyway, yeah, I was really that moment, I guess, the that moment there, I was running out to the track to to say goodbye. And then, you know you know, d big d got her coming around and, you know, we're in the hospital on the way home and, you know, I'm like, I think we have to take some time and, you know, and there was a real chance that she was never gonna ride again. And, you know, she came back and we did everything we could to to make sure that she was there, and then she created some greatness, which she always was. Right?
Liane:So Yeah.
Brad:It was good. Yeah.
Liane:She's a crazy rider and so talented. Like, it's fun to watch her.
Brad:Yeah. You know, like, it's funny. And I'm a little I'm obviously close to it. Right? But I've I've I've ridden with lots of really good riders.
Brad:Ridden with world champions. Yeah. Not like I'm saying that she's that bitch. And, you know, I've ridden. I've been passed.
Brad:And, you know, it's funny. I I've told the story a thousand times, but I passed I watched Steve Gavey in '89 win. And then in 2001, I'm on the front straightaway at Race City Speedway, and Steve comes by me, drafted me, and I'm in the race, but I'm I'm not in the race.
Liane:Yeah.
Brad:And then ten years later, he's on the back of my bike, and we're talking shit, and he's buying me shots at the roadhouse. So it was a really good thing. But, anyway so I've seen a lot of I love telling that story because it's real. And then we're at the museum. We're at the road racing hall of fame last week on my last Mossport, and and Steve's there.
Brad:But my wife got me into the road road racing hall of fame, and Steve's there. Michael Taylor's there. It was cool. It's been a really it's been an incredible ride. And and I guess getting back to, you know, she has there's something there.
Brad:Yeah. She she has it. Right? She has it there. And and you know as a woman, you know, women it's Right.
Brad:There's you guys are few and far between that do this, that do it well. Yeah. You know? And there's some gals in Edmonton are doing it well. And, you know, there's some gals in The States that are obviously doing very well.
Brad:And, you know, for it's way harder for you guys than, you know, anyone
Liane:that's on. But I think the one thing with Bronte is that, like, for me, she's pulling the gender out of racing because she's on the podium with the boys. Like, she is head to head, and there's no gender in the racing for rogue racing anymore. Yeah. I mean, there's still a women's class, but, like, the fact that that line is now fully blurred is
Brad:Yeah.
Liane:Awesome. And I credit that to people like Bronte.
Brad:Yeah. And that's a really good that's a really good thing to do and a really good way to be. And, you know, we we still we still you know, we're still pushing and, you know, it's man, it's just we would do more, but it's just a money thing. Right?
Liane:Oh, I know. Racing is not cheap for anybody.
Brad:Last time I was at seven Eleven, Red Bulls and fucking all kinds of oh, shit. I swear. Nothing cheap.
Liane:So they're
Brad:on on the Barn Burner podcast. They got a duck they squeak when the guy swears. Yeah. Jack Jack just said he's gonna get a duck for the next time. So hopefully, if I mess it back up
Liane:He can bleep out things. It's all good.
Brad:But, you know, it's it's it's not cheap. And to do a to do a season, you know, some people, you know, it's, you know, it's a lot.
Liane:But at the same time, doing, like, a track day or Oh, god. Like, that's a cheap way to go get your adrenaline.
Brad:Ever. Like, when I started a billion years ago, you know, we took to school. We went racing. Yeah. There was no track days.
Brad:Yeah. And, you know, back in the late nineties, I motorcycle wanted to do some track days, and I kinda it was like the it was like the, you know, It's like the it was the reason I started my school.
Liane:Right.
Brad:Impetual. No. No. That's not right. But anyway, so it was both I go do track days or whatever.
Brad:And I ran them for them and took care of it. And they were doing like one or two a year. Yeah. And this was in the late nineties. And they were doing a lot in England at the time and they called them frenzies and all this stuff.
Brad:But anyway, so I'm like, from there, you know, now in Alberta, there's four track day companies or three track day companies and schools and all these other stuff. And I had my school, you know, one year I ran 29 events.
Liane:Yeah.
Brad:So like there's options. The track community has never been healthier. Yeah. There's never been more opportunity for a, instruction. Yep.
Brad:B, get out there. Information, obviously, media and all that crap. But Not right. Yet racing is You'll get them. Still the same a little bit.
Brad:You know? Like, we'll get five or you know, there's six women racing in the class in Edmonton, but the pro class is the same 10 dudes. Right? Yeah. So race I was you know, racing is healthy, but the track day is it what's the word I'm looking for?
Brad:The track day life is never been bigger ever.
Liane:Which is a good thing because it gets people off the street.
Brad:100%. And then, you know, you you get people off the streets and, you know, the the street squids and stuff like that, and then you get them out there and you show them what it's really about. Yeah. And, you know, you show them that there's another aspect of this riding that is quite a bit harder than it looks. Yeah.
Brad:That these things are incredible mechanical devices that require respect at all times. You know? Like, you just have to look at a modern superbike. You know? They're like Bugatti speed.
Brad:Right? So it it it's it's it's an incredible sport with incredible people in it, and it's never been easier to get out here and do do to do riding. I worry about racing sometimes long term.
Liane:Yeah. But, I mean, if we can, if we can get the younger generation in it the right way and then to keep wanting to move forward and like, there's a couple guys that done enough track days now that they're not gonna go on the street anymore. They wanna race now.
Brad:Oh, yeah.
Liane:And that's that's a great thing. So to to tie this all up, because we got other things we gotta do today.
Brad:I told you I would talk long, and you I know. And did you get to your four questions?
Liane:I did. Everything's all there. It's all good.
Brad:Alright. Alright.
Liane:But to tie this all up, my takeaway is let's, like, keep the racing thing going and track days and get it off the streets. That would be your tip.
Brad:That would be 100% my tip. You know? It
Liane:And support your women in racing.
Brad:Support anybody in racing, man. Like, have you know her? Yeah. Once you Save a racer, you know, buy a get by dinner. He needs it.
Brad:No. I mean, yeah, it's absolutely like, if you wanna get wise, it's not even close. Yeah. Right? So you get out to the track.
Brad:Yeah. I've seen thousands of crashes. At my school, thousands. I think the worst one we ever had at one of my schools, obviously, was a concussion. You know, one guy tore up his finger pretty bad.
Brad:Yeah. You know, it didn't work. That was it. Yeah. You know, a couple guys, you know, no one you know, a couple guys a little sleepy and, you know, here and there, but it's so much safer than the road.
Brad:Yeah. It's so much more you get to enjoy your bike. Like, I'm looking at the RS six sixty as we're sitting the what booth are we in?
Liane:Motorcycle. Brown.
Brad:James a Brown booth. Nice plug. Good job, guys. Injury lawyers, motorcycle accident injury lawyers. Thank you.
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Liane:Well done.
Brad:Thank you very much.
Liane:Platinum member of the AMSS.
Brad:Oh, I didn't know that. Oh, yeah. But, anyway, so we're sitting across from the RS six sixty, and, you know, that bike makes a that's a bike Ronnie races against in in CSBK. Makes a 100 horsepower, does a 160 miles an hour. You know?
Brad:Like, that's just a slow one. Yeah. So, you know, you need to get out to school. You need to get to advanced training. It's more you know, there's some amazing you get your license from some of the best schools, you know, Motology School in Calgary and Tuku Motorcycle School, etcetera.
Brad:You get your license, and you come out to the racetrack, and you learn what these things are all about. And maybe, just maybe, it will be me there helping you out or my wife passing you around the outside. Probably my wife passing you around the outside.
Liane:Well, Brad, I wanna thank you so much for this has been an entertaining conversation. I'm sorry you got dusty in here a little bit.
Brad:About my wife. I can't believe you.
Liane:You're a good man. You're a
Brad:good man. Laughing the whole time.
Liane:Goddamn. Alright. Well, we'll do it again sometime.
Brad:You do it anytime. Anytime you need me to come on and do some filler for you, I could be your podcast fluffer.
Liane:Oh, and we're gonna end on that note. Alright, everybody. Hang tight for the mixed bag.
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