Monster Energy Graves Yamaha’s Josh Herrin at Daytona2013 Daytona AMA SuperBike VideoThe 2013 AMA Pro National Guard SuperBike season began this past weekend with the first of 11 rounds at Daytona International Speedway.
Helping to highlight Daytona 200 Week, the SBK series began on a quick note for three-time AMA SBK Champion Josh Hayes. The Monster Energy Graves Yamaha rider was quickest throughout practice, and took the pole by over a second ahead of National Guard Suzuki’s Roger Lee Hayden.This momentum continued during the opening laps of race 1 of 2, but by lap five, things slowed dramatically. Hayes would have clutch issues attributed to his aggressive launch, and ultimately suffer a DNF.But luck was still in the Monster Energy Graves Yamaha paddock. Josh Herrin, who was running in second until Hayes had issues, took the race-1 win at Daytona. It was Herrin’s first-ever SuperBike victory.Herrin would take victory at the 2.9-mile circuit featuring 12 turns ahead of Yoshimura Suzuki’s Martin Cardenas and Pegram Racing Yamaha’s Larry Pegram.Attached above are video highlights of race 1 at Daytona. Stay clicked to UltimateMotorCycling.com for race 2 video highlights. To read a review of race 1, including full results, click here.
Hello everyone and welcome once again to Ultimate Motorcycling’s weekly Podcast—Motos and Friends.
My name is Arthur Coldwells.
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This week’s episode features Senior Editor Nic de Sena’s impressions of the beautiful new Harley-Davidson Low Rider ST that is loosely based around the original FXRT Sport Glide from the 1980s. Hailing from The Golden State, these cult-status performance machines became known as West Coast style, with sportier suspension, increased horsepower, and niceties including creature comforts such as a tidy fairing and sporty luggage.
In past episodes you might have heard us mention my best friend, Daniel Schoenewald, and in the second segment I chat with him about some of the really special machines in his 170 or so—and growing—motorcycle collection. He’s always said to me that he doesn’t consider himself the owner, merely the curator of the motorcycles for the next generation.
Yet Daniel is not just a collector, but I can attest a really skilled rider. His bikes are not trailer queens, they’re ridden, and they’re ridden pretty hard. Actually, we have had many, many memorable rides on pretty much all of the machines in the collection at one time or another.
From all of us here at Ultimate Motorcycling, we hope you enjoy this episode!
