Power Band Testing/ Directions With Map

For some of us this was our first outing to Power Band or you can even say our first Baja outing. After packing all the parts up and the two cars, we departed from the school between 3:30 and 4pm. On the drive some of us stopped for a bite to eat (nothing like subway on the run). When we arrived at Power Band despite having directions and all we some how still managed to have difficultly locating Power Band. Personally I drove right by the Road 3 West... it was after driving by the road that I realized which road we just passed. Herman did happen to make the right turn however. We then proceeded down Road 3 west only to find Herman and Bill take a different detour. They looked a little lost so we had to pull in to advise them of their wrong turn... They said they stopped there cause they knew those people... So as expected we had a bit of fun along our travels after all the slight detours we eventually did make it to Power band to meet up with the rest of the team. Turns out we heard stories of past experiences on tracking down Power Band turns out we were not the first to miss it. So to save the hassle down the road enjoy the directions below as well as the link to a google map.

1.	Head southeast from Sunset Ave - go 0.3 km
2.	Turn right at Wyandotte St W - go 0.3 km
3.	Turn left at Huron Church Rd - go 0.5 km
4.	Bear left at HWY-3 S - go 11 km
5.	Continue on HWY-3 - go 6.5 km
6.	Bear right at HWY-3 E - go 0.8 km
7.	Continue on HWY-3 - go 2.3 km
8.	Continue on Talbot Trl - go 6.9 km
9.	Turn right at Arner Tlin - go 9.7 km (Keep an Eye out for a Colasanti's Sign (small street sign) points to Road 3 W)
10.	Turn left at Road 3 W - go 1.4 km (Keep and Eye out for a First Choice Renovations sign Address 1683 Road 3 West, located on the right hand side of the road. Take the first right when heading down the driveway.)

Google Map (Power Band)

Testing was fun. We managed to get some good action shots of the cars with a photographer. He also took a picture of the group next to the cars. We happened to break a tie rod on the red car (about our third jump). We also happened to break the shifter making it impossible for the driver of the yellow car to switch gears. We managed to just drive the car in 4th gear for the time being. After that we borrowed a tie rod off the yellow car since we didn't have the proper tie rods present for the red car. This allowed us to conclude most of our testing. After packing up the cars Dylan and a friend put on a pretty good motocross demonstration for team members. It was very impressive. By 9pm we had the cars back to the shop cleaned up and put away. Note made... consider looking into tie rod designs and gear shifter designs. These could be areas of possible improvements.

Chris Kelly