May 2008 - WW Newsletter #3 

We’ve got a pretty awesome announcement for this issue of the Watts Happening Newsletter and it all centers around you saving money!

Currently we have in place several discount promotions from our sponsors that are available to students of the Dirt Wise riding school. These are;

1. 20% off any sprocket purchase from Dirt Tricks Sprockets (Ph. 775 7831750)
2. 20% off any radiator guard purchase from Bullet Proof Designs (Ph. 816 6953784)
3. A free day of riding on the  60 miles of golden trails at Brushy Mountain Motorsports Park (Ph. 828 6357766), located near Taylorsville, NC
4. Able to purchase from me a set of Fasst Flexx handlebars for $300, with free shipping (normally $330 retail + $20 shipping)

The big announcement is that now you can essentially get your 2-day Dirt Wise riding school tuition fee of $350 paid for by Fun Mart Cycles, the largest selling KTM dealer in the USA if not the world. Yep, that’s right you get to come to one of my Dirt Wise offroad riding schools for free! So how does this work I hear you ask? Well, Tim and the awesome crew at Fun Mart Cycles in Moline, IL (Ph. 309 7629624) have now really stepped it up with the support of my Dirt Wise riding school program by offering the majority of Dirt Wise students a free discount coupon to the value of $350 which can be used towards the purchase of any new  Honda, KTM, or Yamaha motorcycle. Not only does Fun Mart offer the best prices anywhere but if necessary they’ll deliver the bike to your door step nationwide generally within 4 days. Plus it’s valid for any new bike purchase, dirt or street. Now that’s a bonza deal don’t you think!!!!

This offer is available to any student who has attended a Dirt Wise school since the begining of 2008, except for the following schools, Georgia (Feb 16/17 & Apr 5/6), Idaho (June 28/29), Oregon (July 3/4 & 5/6), and Kansas (Oct 25/26). This out of respect for the KTM dealers (KTM World, Motosports KTM, G & G Cycles, & Letko) that have also help me out immensely with the organizing of those individual schools.

 Even if you haven’t attended one of our schools I’m sure that these companies above will set you up on a great price for their products anyway. Give them a call and find out!

Not only have Fun Mart Cycles lined up a roaring deal for you guys but they have also loaned me two new bikes to use for the rest of the year. One obviously will be the bike that I ride while the other bike will be at the majority of our schools on hand for anyone to rent for the day. The rental cost per day will be $125. So if your bike is broken, or if you don’t even have a bike, or if you just want to visit another part of the country and do some riding and training whilst there then we have now got you covered.

Thanks to Fun Mart’s generosity I will now be able to go ahead and sell off my 2007 KTM 250XC to someone would like to buy a totally refurbished machine. The list of new products on the bike include;

*New Maxxis tires front and rear, *New chain and sprockets, *New seat and plastics (shrouds, fenders, number plates), *New rear brake lever and gearshift lever, *New countershaft sprocket seal, *New piston and rings, *New rear chain guide, *New grips, *New gearbox (transmission) oil. *Clean airfilter and 3 spare filters already oiled, *New rear brake pads, *New handlebars (stock)

Along with the following products that have 5 hours use (2 dry GNCC races):

*Front chain guide, *Bottom rear shock bearing and seals, *Rear wheel bearings and seals, *Complete rear brake caliper, * FMF exhaust system (no dings in the pipe)

All this for the price of $3900 if you come and pick it up, or for an extra $300 I have it delivered to your door. Thanks to www.ktmhutt.com for giving us some excellent pricing on all of those KTM parts to get my bike back to A1 condition.

While on the subject of used bike sales, I also have for sale a 2008 KTM 300XC that only has 15 hours of use on it. The bike was actually loaned to me by my good friend Kenny after he got hurt, so as I could have a bike there to ride if I needed to while waiting for mine to come out of the repair shop. I only got to put in two 1 hour sessions on it. It comes with;

*The original tires in new condition (never used)

*A set of new Cycra Powerflow Intake race system plastics kit (shrouds, fenders, and number plates) still in the box

*Clean airfilter

*New gearbox (transmission) oil

*New rear brake pads

*New original handlebars (never used)

*An extra set of new grips

The exhaust pipe (stock) is perfectly straight but has some discoloration (as normal) and some scuff marks from the carbon pipe guard and hose clamps (pipe guard is not included). The original plastics have normal “dulling” scratch marks from the brush. The radiator shrouds are cracked at the lower mount position. The rear fender has 3 drilled holes from mounting a tail light. The left footpeg has a slight bend/dent in it. Other than that the bike is mechanically perfect and ready to roost on.

This stead will leave our barn for a steal at $5300 if you come and pick it up, or for an extra $300 I have it delivered to your door.

Now for the not so good news of the month. Doug Masencup, one of the riders from the local crew of “go fast guys” that I ride with during the winter has unfortunately been diagnosed with the same cancer that the great Lance Armstrong had, and is now under going that same nasty chemo as the first stage of his recovery. Doug is not only a strong rider, but also a strong guy with a great supporting family, so in conjunction with his friend Russell Epley, also former SETRA Enduro overall race winner during 2002 just like Doug, we are conducting a raffle with all of the proceeds going to offset the huge costs associated with this treatment that he’s faced with. The tickets are $5 each or 5 for $20 and will be drawn on June 14. The winner will get free admission (value of $350) at one of our 2-day Dirt Wise riding schools that we conduct across the nation before June 15 2009. Even though we have yet to release our school schedule up until that date I can tell you that the list of states we will definitely be visiting before then is; Northern California, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Idaho, Oregon, Connecticut, Michigan, Minnesota, Tennessee, New York, Kansas, West Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and Southern California.

If the winner is a previous Dirt Wise student we will refund their tuition fee from the school that they attended. The winner may select to have a different person attend a school if they are unable to make it by the expiry date. So please go ahead and get a raffle ticket to support the fight of a lifetime and hopefully you will be the lucky person that we get to see at an upcoming Dirt Wise riding school. Tickets can be purchased at our web store by visiting www.shanewatts.com

Does anybody out there have solid experience with being able load and edit riding footage from a mini DVD camcorder onto a website. We have got all of this excellent footage of the Pro GNCC guys cutting laps during their practice session that we want to put on my website but after repeated attempts with different software my wife Carrie (the brains of the operation here!) has been unable to do it. She did the clips that are already up on our site from a few years ago, but she can’t seem to make it happen again. Any advice/direction on this would certainly be appreciated. Hopefully we’ll get some new footage up soon of Kearney, Whibley, Mullins, Kanney, Garrahan, Strang, Jarrett, and more out there shredding it.

Check the link below to read my Race Reports from Rounds 4 & 5 of the GNCC series that I recently competed in;

http://www.shanewatts.com/resultsnew.aspx

 

This newsletter is made possible by the great support of GPR Stabilizers, Dirt Tricks sprockets, and Fasst Flexx handlebars.