Doug Ledford
This is my personal site. Navigate via the links at the left.
Recent Updates:

• Mar. 2003 - DAMN! I HATE DEER! Ouch...I hurt. As one of my collegues now calls me, Doug "Bambi--;" Ledford.
• Dec. 2002 - Well, when it rains it ices! We took a bit of damage around the house, but not too bad. We had somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 trees that were 6" in diameter or larger snap. We had about another 20 or so small trees snap. Something like 4 of the trees managed to fall right on our wood privacy fence, so we ended up with about 24 linear feet of fence getting destroyed. We spent 5 days without power, running the entire time on our generator. However, the house is heated entirely off of electric, and the heat pumps and hot water heaters are too much to put on our poor little 6kw generator! Needless to say, we had to make trips to other places to shower on occasion (Gold's Gym works remarkably well for that purpose!) At least we could cook though, and we all huddled around the little bit of fire we got out of our decorative gas logs. We had some friends over Friday night.
  
  This is what the house looked like Saturday morning
  
  
• Sep. 2002 - I bought a new Yamaha FJR-1300 from Deming Cycle Center in Deming, New Mexico. The shop owner was Great! to work with. I ordered my bike back in April, it arrived in Sep., I sent them the final payment on the bike, they put together all the paperwork, then I flew from Raleigh, North Carolina to El Paso, Texas where the shop owner's son picked me up at the airport and drove me the 1 1/2 hours to the dealership. I took delivery of the bike that afternoon and by about 3PM I was out on the open road starting the long trip home.
  
  
• Apr. 2002 - I finally sold my SV650. So, even though the SV650 page is still here to show what I did with it, the bike itself is gone and being raced by another.
  
  
• Oct. 2001 - I'm no longer racing. As of the GNF, I decided to hang up the racing gauntlet and lead a less hectic life ;-) I still love motorcycles and would probably still race if it weren't for the time demands.