Rockys Great Outdoors Jumps on Board with Rogers-Lake Racing Team
Photo of Paul (Rocky) Roll - Left and Jared Mees - Right
2009 AMA Pro Twins National Champion Jared Mees
2009 AMA Pro Twins National Champion Jared Mees has reached a sponsorship agreement with Rockys Great Outdoors for the 2010 AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Championship Series. Rockys Great Outdoors brings new support to the Rogers-Lake Racing Team for Jared's first title defense.
Rocky's Great Outdoors located in Burton, Michigan opened in June of 1971 as a small motorcycle parts and accessory store that was located in the front office area of a gas station. Within three years Rockys Great Outdoors moved into a 10,000 sq, foot retail location and was recognized by the industry as the world's largest Motorcycle Accessory Store. Over the past 37 years the company has grown to occupy 46,000 sq, feet of showroom with specified departments that include camping, archery, hunting, fishing, snowmobile, kayak & canoes, footwear, paintball along with a vast selection of motorcycle parts, accessories, and apparel.
Rockys Great Outdoors is now expanding to the arena of selling products on-line and through the agreement with Rogers-Lake Racing Team, the team will carry rockyonline.com as a sponsor. The professional atmosphere of the team along with Jared's exposure as the 2010 Pro AMA Twins Champion is expected to enhance rockysonline.com business for the upcoming riding season.
"We believe the loyal fans of the AMA Pro Flat Track Grand National Championship Series fit are our customer base," said owner, Rocky Rall. "We look forward to working with Jared and his team on another championship winning season."
"I want to thank Curtis Collins for helping put this program together," said Jared Mees. "Sponsors play a significant role in the success of any team and I believe we can deliver what rockysonline.com is expecting."
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Mees 2010 Daytona Bike Week Race Report!! 03-19-2010
Daytona – Wednesday March 3
The new short track is nothing like the old place at Municipal Stadium, except the dirt, they say. The place was way more round with shorter straights. I seemed to struggle with getting off the corners and the middle. For the practice/qualifying I have never seen anything like it---rocks, ruts and dry dirt! It was impossible to get around this thing the same each lap. I was on the 2nd row for my Heat race. The AMA-DMG turned the track around for the Heats and Main Event by packing it down to give us a smooth surface to run on. Thank you for doing that. I ended up getting a 5th in my Heat and had to go to the Semi, which I won. I got a great start off the back 3rd row and was up to 5th but slowly dropped to 10th, where I ended up. Not what I wanted at all.
Daytona – Thursday, March 4
The second day, Steve Beattie came up and said “Hey, we did everything we could with this chassis. I think you have too much power. What do you think about taking out my bone stock motorcross bike and putting your suspension wheels plastic on it?” My mechanic, Brent Armbruster, thought it was worth a try so he, Steve and I were running around swapping things around. This was a brand new ’09 Honda that had one ride on it, so I knew it wasn’t whopped out. I qualified better this time, 12th. I was in the first Heat race with Sammy and Wiles. I got a decent start and was running 3rd. There was a red flag so we had a re-start. I ran 3rd the whole race, missing the Dash for Cash and the front row for the Main Event, for which I was on the 2nd row. I got a great start and bang! I was up there. I got around Wiles and then Joe Kopp and was running 2nd for a long time. Coolbeth came up and got around me when I slipped real wide off of turn 4. I ran 3rd for the rest of the race to the finish. It felt like I damn near won the race as far off as we were to get a 3rd I was pretty happy with that. The points are close, with a three-way tie for 2nd place behind Jake Johnson. I’m only 9 points behind those running 2nd. Not too bad. My special thanks to Brent and Steve for all their hard work the entire week. And to all my sponsors, especially Craig Rogers who never misses a race, coming all the way from California. Next up is an indoor concrete race at the end of the month in San Jose CA. Rod Lake is putting it on. He’s one of my biggest supporters. I’ll see you all there and if not, you’ll hear about it.
