To my friend, the Rock:
He hosts, he wrenches, he drives like a SOB.
My canoe camping groups annual fundraiser was great but looks like you had a blast. This old man is going to have to sharpen his skills and I'm sure you will help do that like you do with the wrenching.
I know Sandy Hall, the owner of Tanom and his factory is 15 minutes from my house so if the gang wants to make a list of issues I will present it to him personally. He is a decent guy who sounds like had a less than stellar day. Last year he invited me to join him on a similar track day which I couldn't attend when he saw my Sling in front of the local rental store. I think all of us need to take a step back from some of the conflicts in our Sling community such as differences with vendors, competitors, forums, etc. and give Sandy credit for trying to bring a product to market without the resources Polaris has. He might even have better quality control, LOL. Besides, we always have our political "leaders" to divide us.
Once again, congrats on what looked to me like a great time you set up based on all the comments here. Now be ready for more wrenching as I have more goodies coming (cosmetic ones).
Hey Andy!!! Hate that you weren't with us but I'm glad to hear the fundraiser was great! Not sure who told @ethermion that the Invader that crashed was the owner, but it surely wasn't Sandy, he wasn't there at all. Not sure what was going on this time. Last August when we did track day, most of them were very polite. We looked over their rides and they looked over ours. We talked about our rides and mods and seemed to show respect and appreciation for each others rides. This time had a different vibe. I will say that the majority of the Slings were ass stomping the Invaders though. I never had an Invader pass me, but I know I passed several!! I know that if I had paid $60K for a vehicle and was getting my ass schooled by guys in $24K vehicles, I probably would be a bit miffed as well. Even those that have some performance mods, such as myself, turbo, JRI shocks, Nitto 555s, I'm still well under $33K... thats gotta hurt.
Anyway, I don't fault Sandy for how his customer base is behaving at the track. I have talked to Sandy a few times, on the phone, email and in person. He seemed to be a very cool and down to earth guy. He offered to give us a factory tour back in August, which I am very interested in doing, so I guess I will make that my next project to put together. I'll see if I can nail down a date and maybe we can get a group together to do some riding and go down to Sandy's for a tour of the factory where they build those things. As much as I love my Slingshot, I still appreciate the Invader for what it is and if I had the money, I would have one of those sitting in my garage next to my Sling!