News From Ben And Eric Bostrom

News From Ben And Eric Bostrom

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From two press releases issued by Norm Viano:

BOSS NEWS

This week marks the return of Eric (and Ben) from their ten day South African trip. Eric and Ben’s idea of a trip to that part of the world is guaranteed to be very different than most people’s. There were no safaris scheduled. Instead, lots of competitive activities between the two that were designed to push each other hard. Activities that you can bet included surfing and rock climbing. Preparation for the trip included bouldering at a special area in Atlanta called “Boat Rock”. “It was a pretty cool place. Real pretty and real zen.”

Said Eric before taking off from Atlanta last week; “Four days of productive testing and it’s going to be nice to get out to South Africa and take a little bit of a breather and get refreshed and motivated for Infineon. I’m planning on coming back and improving upon our second place finish at Fontana.”

While in the Atlanta area, Eric tested at Road Atlanta and also the new Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama. “There is so much elevation and there are corners where you would be able to put all the power down but you’re going over the crest of the hill or you’re going down into a dip or something. And it just changes it up and makes it so tricky and challenging that Barber is going to be a good time. Period.”

Fans of Eric will also be excited to hear that Eric will be participating in a few rounds of the RedBull AMA Supermoto series on a very trick Kawasaki. “The boys are working on my Supermoto bike right now. The chassis is down at the race shop, Brembo is doing the brakes for me, and Mike Young (from Big Gun) is doing the motor up. It should be done by the time we get back. It looks like we might have a special Kawasaki race bike when I get home.”



BB NEWS

Ben Bostrom, like brother Eric, is returning from South Africa today after a ten day training excursion there. This following four days of testing at Road Atlanta and the new Barber track in Birmingham. “We’ve been testing a lot. We got our asses kicked in the Atlanta test, though. But that new track in Birmingham, that was real fun. The best facility I’ve ever seen in the whole world. And I mean that sincerely. It was that clean and well put together. I’m still blown away by it. That track was like a small version of a GP track.

“And we’re going fast on it, which is another plus. We’ve been getting a lot of feel for the Honda finally, which is great because we’ve been getting our asses kicked lately. And I’m sure that Honda doesn’t appreciate that so much. But going to that track made me remember how good it was to be on those world tracks. Real fun, fast, flowing.

“In between riding the bikes and testing, we’ve been doing some climbing and bouldering. Quite a bit of that, actually. We had a really neat climb, more than 500 feet, at home in Vegas. Also had some fun bouldering in Atlanta, just trying to get strong for our ten day training & climbing trip to South Africa with my brother. Hopefully the training will pay off. We’ll fly back before Infineon, also a cool track, rest a few days, jump on the bikes and hopefully take everything we learned recently from these last couple tests and put that thing closer to the front.”

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