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Fly on the wall

Published October 12th, 2003

Suzuki test track, lunch, Troy Lee Designs, the garage, 466 miles



Only a moto enthusiast could appreciate it







RJ wasn’t returning my calls or e-mails. Finally, I got ahold of him. He said “I don’t have much going on today, and my day is basically open. Meet me, we can hang out, and talk about business.”



I drove up the 15 to meet Rick at the Suzuki supercross testing track at 8am. I was excited – we could finally get together and get some business stuff done. As I pulled into the facility, I noticed Rick was working with Nick Wey and Brian Gray.



Click on thumbnails to see what I saw the rest of the day.



Around 5pm I headed back home. At the end of the day I had logged 466 miles. We didn’t get much real work done, but I did get to be a ‘fly on the wall’ for a few hours.



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Rick and Nick Wey at the Suzuki track
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Rick and Brian Gray
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Suzuki test track – keep out
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Honda’s test track is very close by. Is this spying?
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And Yamaha’s test track is nearby too
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And, KTM has their test track in the same area
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After the test track, we drove to lunch at the World Famous Seven Oaks deli
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Then we hit the road to drive over to Troy Lee’s. That’s Brian Gray’s rig
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This is the front of Troy Lee’s new building
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Troy Lee’s place is still getting organized. As soon as we walked in, RJ noticed the leathers of Kenny Roberts, Mert Lawill, and Gary Nixon.
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A few of Shaun Palmer’s bikes at Troy Lee’s
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Troy Lee could open a museum with all the memorabilia he has. Here’s Jeff Stanton’s gear, circa 1993
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TLD custom paints lots of helmets
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This is where the helmets get painted inside TLD
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Ricky Carmichael’s helmet in the process of it’s painting
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TLD has Jeremy McGrath’s championship winning 1991 125 Pro-Circuit bike
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Here’s the actual paint inside TLD
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Brock Sellard’s helmet in the painting process
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James Stewart’s helmet getting ready for paint
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This is a concept vehicle Troy Lee Designs is working on for Hyundai
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Painting of Jeff Ward inside Troy Lee Designs new building
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Next we drove over to one of Rick’s offices. It’s where he stores most of his motorcycles
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Lot of memorabilia in Rick’s garage too. Vintage Oakley poster
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His garage
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More RJ memorabilia on the walls – the Honda days were good
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Rick on Yamaha in 1985
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Rick on his Yamaha 1982



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