About
I’m Andrew Gore. I’m not the greatest at creating anything web related, but it’s never been my goal to be good at that. I am however working on my ability to be a better motorcycle racer. I ventured into the sport of Motocross racing during middle school. Although that budded into a brief stint in racing, I fell out of it due to availability of practice locations (among other things). I became an avid skateboarder due to location, and obviously friends being able to go out and have a good time together. I spent much of my time from the age of 13 until 19 or 20 skateboarding nonstop. I acquired a few sponsors, had my own line of skateboards, and maintained a rather high rapport with the locals in my area. However after High School, reality hit that possibly skateboarding wasn’t for me.
After I made my more or less silent departure from skateboarding, I found myself entangled in a variety of things from paintball, to the realities of needing to work to support my hobbies. Drawn to the security and familiar circle, I came back to my fathers shop to work as a machinist. I dabbled in various other hobbies ranging from cars to various R/C hobbies. I found myself sometime around the early summer of 2006 wanting to pick up another motorcycle. I picked up a 1973 Yamaha RD350. I spent the summer re-kindling my love for 2 wheels. I did a few mods to the bike, but didn’t really get completely sunk back into motorcycles at the time. I enjoyed riding, but was distracted by a variety of things.
Something still seemed like it should be there with 2 wheels. I decided in the spring of 2007 that I would pick up a modern sportbike for myself. At the time I wanted to just go cruise with friends (without the intense buzz of a 70′s 2 stroke machine) and be able to mess around a little bit. I had no idea at the time what I was really getting into and found myself with a 2004 Yamaha R6. I told myself that I wouldn’t do anything to the bike (partly due to making payments on it) and felt that it was already too fast in bone stock form. Somehow I found myself one day registering for a riding school at Blackhawk Farms Raceway through Visionsports Riding School. I slowly picked up my gear, telling myself I’d just try this track thing out for giggles; not expecting to get all that interest.
Somehow after my first visit to the track, I decided that I would do more of these track days. At first I was afraid of crashing (mostly due to owing $ on the bike) but these feelings quickly subsided. Towards the end of the summer (and after a few more track days) I felt the need to get into REAL racing. I knew I had fun at trackdays, but I wanted to have that competition back. I felt little fun in having the “no close passing” rules associated with the trackdays (although I do understand their place). I tried to put things together to get ready for a race by the end of the 2007 season, but couldn’t pull it all together. I decided it’d be better anyways to get the bike setup over the winter than to rush things and have an accident or something before then (read: scared of what could happen.)
This all lead me to where I am today. I’ve spent a good amount of time at the track and continue to have a desire to push harder and faster while at the track. Not just to win races, but to prove to myself that I can be better than anyone else out there. That is my goal. To be the fastest, to do what I can to put myself at the head of the pack of other riders out there and have an incredible time doing so. It’ll be a long road, but despite how bumpy it may be, I long to travel on its winding path. It’s racing. It’s what I’ve been neglecting; Now so glad I’ve gotten back to it.
-Andrew Gore
