Posted by admin on 21 July, 2015
We made the 14 hour journey from Utah to Josh Hayes and Melissa Paris�s house.
We were blessed with the opportunity to stay at their house for an
entire week! We rode motocross and road cycled every other day! It was
awesome! The first track we went to was Cahuilla creek. I had a ton of
fun at Cahuilla and the track was mint!
The next day we went for a spin on the
road bikes, where I got the chance to talk to Josh a lot and sort of
pick his brain about different things in the racing world! It was an
awesome experience and Josh is a great guy with a TON of knowledge.
I mean, he has been in the sport since
before I was born. I figured I better listen close, because one day, I
want to do what he is doing! The next day we went out and rode motocross
again at Pala Raceway. I loved it!
The jumps were more supercross style and
just boosted you! It was so much fun that we ended up riding there 3
times while we were out there. It was awesome! There were always tons of
pro motocross guys. We met up pro road racers there too. It was an
amazing time and I learned a ton!
We went surfing with Tag of Tagger
Designs and my new buddy Zach! I am currently in love with the
California lifestyle. Motocross and surfing, what�s not to love! Surfing
was an awesome experience for sure. If you have never done it, then
you have to try it!
The waves absolutely beat you down, I
will tell you that. It makes it that much more gratifying when you
finally get up! If and when you do get up, its so satisfying for that 15
seconds that you just want to paddle right back out and do it again!
Next stop was to our friend Kenny�s
house, who is our cop buddy who arrested me. If you saw that on
Facebook, yes it was a joke, and no I was not arrested! He took us on a
tour of some of the pro-motocross race shops of Star yamaha and KTM. It
was awesome!
Next we also visited our friends over at Road Racing world and even did a 50 mile road bike ride with Chris Ulrich!
It was fun to catch up with him and ride!
We also seen Chris at the motocross the next day where this trip goes
from amazing to horribly bad. Most of you already probably knew but I
broke my radial bone in my lower arm in a motocross crash jumping a huge
triple.
I was rushed in and had a bunch of tests
done then found out later that night i�d be having surgery for the first
time in my entire life! I was nervous at first but they just knocked me
out and everything went great. I�m not going to into any boring details
no one likes hospital and they are no fun! So lets get back to the fun�
Once i finally got out of the hospital we moved on to one of my favorite
parts of this trip was being able to visit all my sponsors, while we
were out in CA. We started off by going to HJC and visiting their local
headquarters in California. We got some insight on cool new products,
also an inside look at designs, and some great features on the helmets!
If you haven�t yet checked out the HJC
RPHA 10 Carbon race helmet, I would try it on and see what you think!
I�ve been wearing it for about 4 years now and absolutely love it!
Next we moved onto Helmet House, who
distributes Cortech Leathers. We got the grand tour by the one and only
Dan Thomas, who takes care of all the Cortech race support at the track!
The building there is huge! It�s so neat and clean for how big the wear
house is and everything is in perfect order. The conveyor belt system
that they use is super cool and really looks like it simplifies things.
After the tour, we went to lunch with Dan and Mark. I had a great time
getting caught up with them and can�t wait to see them both out at the
track again!
Galfer was the next stop on the trip and we got a tour of there building!
We then started the 5 hour drive right up the coast up to Laguna Seca!
Once we got to Monterey we did some tourist site seeing we being we hit the track!
Old Fishermans Warf
Of
course we went back to the ocean and just had some fun seeing what was
around. When we got to laguna we got everything set up and I decided I
was going to try to ride with my broken arm.
I did three laps in practice and was
having trouble down shifting. Also just the sheer force of breaking was
not helping me at all. The right hand corners I felt good in but the
left hand corners we hurting me and my lap time big time!
Idecided
after riding qualifying and talking to Doctor Rossi that it jet wasn�t
going to work and it would be better to make sure I�m 100% ready for
Indy. Thank you all the De Keyrel�s and all the fans who came out to
watch sorry there was much of a show. But i will be back in full force
for Indy! Kaleb De Keyrel #51
Thank You to all my sponsors: GOD, 1-855-CzaiaLaw.com,
CWS.net, Cortech, Sportbike Track Time, Yamaha, HJC Helmets, Tagger
Designs, Dunlop, Motorex, Trip 7, Evans, Vortex, CoreMoto,Pro Flow Tech,
Sharkskinz, Impact Armor, TR, AIM Sports, Southeast Sales
Watch for Mason�s write up to come soon:
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