{"id":186,"date":"2022-06-05T05:24:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T05:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gobugatti.pro\/?page_id=186"},"modified":"2024-06-26T22:08:37","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T22:08:37","slug":"about-ron-ulbrich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gobugatti.pro\/Home\/about-ron-ulbrich\/","title":{"rendered":"About Ron Ulbrich"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"186\" class=\"elementor elementor-186\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8456ade elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8456ade\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4225776\" data-id=\"4225776\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bc8b723 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"bc8b723\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! 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elementor - v3.22.0 - 26-06-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>I discovered cyclekarting late one night several years ago and thought to myself that it looked like a lot of fun.\u00a0 But I waited until I retired before actually embracing the idea.<\/p><p>Cyclekarting just spoke to the builder within me.\u00a0 I love building things with my hands and my mind.\u00a0 I inherited this characteristic from my father who seemed to be able to fix or build anything.\u00a0 Besides being my father, he was also my best friend and we did everything together.\u00a0 By hanging around him, it was only natural that some of that capability would rub off onto me.<\/p><p>As a kid I started building plastic model cars and planes, then graduated to u-control flying airplanes from kits and my own design.\u00a0 As a relatively poor kid, I had to be innovative in scrounging materials and motors, it&#8217;s just what I had to do to progress.<\/p><p>I went to college and got a degree in drafting but only worked in that profession briefly before rapidly ascending through engineering, manufacturing, project management, and finally into sales and marketing.\u00a0 I spent most of my professional life in the radiation safety field which afforded me to travel a great deal throughout the US and Europe.<\/p><p>With 7 kids, we had to improvise so buying a house was not always an option.\u00a0 Over the years I designed and built three homes and helped others with extensive remodels or additions to their homes.<\/p><p>My father, with my help, built a Thorp T-18, two-place experimental class, high-performance airplane.\u00a0 It was an all-aluminum design and I helped my dad over a seven year period in building this scratch-built airplane.\u00a0 I bucked and shot thousands of hard rivets, formed wing ribs, and drilled, dimpled, and countersunk a gazillion holes.\u00a0 It was while building this plane that I took a personal interest in model airplane building.<\/p><p>Unfortunately, Dad tragically died in that plane before I even got a ride in it.\u00a0 That experience when I was only 17 years old, squelched my yearning for flight for about two decades.\u00a0 But then it returned and together with a very good friend we built a Rutan-designed, all fiberglass Long-Eze.\u00a0 It first flew in 1998 and I had several hundred hours in that awesome bird before selling it to my friend who moved half way across the country for a new job.\u00a0 So I started over building a Van&#8217;s RV-7A, kit plane, two seater aluminum construction very much like my Dad&#8217;s T-18.\u00a0 But travels, several job relocations, growing family, and church responsibilities always took priority and so my planned two year build sat mostly dormat the past 20 years.\u00a0<\/p><p>Now that I&#8217;m retired, I finally have the time, but unfortunately not the wherewithal to afford this very expensive sport.\u00a0 I hung on to my dream for a long time despite knowing I could never afford to finish it myself.\u00a0 Cyclekarting has given me new excitement and enables me to feed the builder hunger within me without breaking the bank. 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