Race Tech's Mental Edge by Paul Thede

[@davidbailey6343]

Good stuff Paul. I just saw this after all these years and it’s still valuable and I’ll bet overlooked..

[@jontom6375]

I watched this almost every day after school for a long while. Still talk about it to this day.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

3:55 Good saying. I have another similar. "The day you think you know it all, is the day you have a lot to learn." :)

[@benjaminrich9396]

Thanks for this. I have so much respect for both Paul personally and Racetech as a company. As much as he's achieved he's always seemed a humble and funny guy. The Racetech suspension bible is technically superb..but it cracks me up in parts. :)

[@zealobiron]

A phenomenal book!

[@stephenpartida4683]

Too the MOON! THANKS PAUL!

[@AtimatikArmy]

Paul Thede are you hiring? This is somebody I could enjoy to work for.

[@soulshinobi]

Thank you so much for saving and providing the log book!

[@markostarr4062]

thank you Kris Keefer for sending me here on your podcast!

[@EarthSurferUSA]

This vid would have helped me in my 80's racing days. Especially with mental attitude. I was a different (and slower) guy on race day. I could beat or keep up with my buddies on our practice tracks, but had a real hard time riding to my actual level on race day. But I am happy to say I did win a couple races,---with no confidence. lol

[@dennhilly4506]

This is awesome, thank you 💪💪💪

[@RhinoDan]

Awesome and Thank you! I am going to club race this year and this video is extremely helpful​.

[@federicopralong9350]

Thanks Race tech!!! Good video!! More please!!

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I wanted to leave a comment on your CNC porting shot vid from last year. I have a lot of machining and formal education. Get your cutting tools as short as you can, and your cutting dimensions/finish will be more accurate/smoother, make less noise and vibration and you might even be able to pick up the feed rate a bit. I may be the first guy to port 2-stroke cylinders with a CNC machine for a production basis, but I know of a couple other guys who were working on it at the same time. The reason is, I do it for little gas 30cc rd car engines, and get 36 cylinders in a case. Dirt bikes never saw that kind of production, so they were done by hand. I have done about 2000 of them before I got the little CNC machine in 2007, and it took me 2 hours to port them by hand, and 2 hours to set up the CNC mill. :) (EX, intake and transfers,--still need to be finished by hand). Would love to develop a process for the hand work on a second machine. Then---I could do something else. :) Shorten those tools, and your process will improve markedly.

[@emexduzentos]

He forgot to tell you that in competition first place is the first loser (in life).

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Really? Do you have any examples?

[@emexduzentos]

@@EarthSurferUSA Cemeteries all over the world have lots of examples.