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After a 25 year break, our local urban legend is back on the track and looking great!
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Like I said someone correct me if I'm wrong, I just thought it was a wild story.
Sometimes life throws you curve and you swing and miss. But you cant just go sit down and not go up to bat again so its great to see Billy back at it. Now we just need Mark Tripp, all three Surdyke boys, all three Stahlman brothers and Randy Sheckell racing again and all in the STL will be right! Warrior Willis is still lining up waiting for them!
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I think he rode practice and the first moto with no gloves and then a gear company hooked him up. Im sure nobody gave him riding position tips but look at this pic. Elbows up, knees gripping the bike and ready to attack the upcoming corner. He was a natural.
Good luck Billy, hope you have fun back on the track and I hope to see you at LL this summer. There are a lot of us early 80's SLIR guys still around and wish you the best.
on a side note Derrick Roe is looking at starting to ride again soon. couple fast cats from back in the day back at it.
He smoked the 250 A Class against all the known top names. No gloves, mismatched gear, whatever he had.
I remember it was Mike Guerra from Yamaha wasn't happy the bike looked so clapped so they hooked him up with some plastics and I believe it was GEAR gear that hooked him up with some duds.
whoever mentioned Mark Tripp, I heard he passed away quite a few years ago, I think while living in Texas.
Not sure what from.
I have stories for days and days. My Dad and his Dad got along well when we would run into each other at an odd race.
He got a little teary eyed when he heard Fast Fos was in some legal troubles. Both times that made RacerX.
We often talked that had he had some better opportunities come his way what would have happened. He didn't race often(Not really that much on Minis either I remember unless it was a qualifier for something), but when he showed up he didn't lose much.
Kenny Bollmeier was another fast dude from around St. Louis but he was quite a bit older. I remember in 1981 he had pre production '82 Liquid YZ 80s.
He still races too now and then I see in Cycle News.
There was a race at Casey, where Fos was running I think # 4N after Ponca and LL's.
His laptimes on his 80 was 3-4 seconds faster than 125 A with If I remember right, Junior Jackson running 2nd and Doug Harrington and Curt Libbey were right there too up from TN.
And the list of fast guys in that 125 A class was long as hell.
Veugelar, Old Brother Greg Randa, Canner, Tuman, Bollmeier, a couple Stahlmans, and a shit ton of other guys who were top guys at Ponca and LL's
It's good to see he's riding again.
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