TP199 and RR17 Ripping South Texas

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I've got a new baby boy headed into the world sooner than later and was cleaning out the room that will be his tonight. I found a stack of photos from Cycle Ranch dated May 2004. Travis and Robbie showed up at the four stroke nationals that year about two weeks before the AMA nationals started at Glen Helen. Both of them were hauling ass and mixing gas that day. Travis' bike was factory as it could get and Robbie's was a clapped out POS KX250. He gave TP all he could handle in the second moto until the engine went boom. The rod was hanging out of the crankcase. Still one of the best races I've seen in person. 20 plus mins of plastic trading.
On a side note look at the track! This place is epic. The past few months as been rocky but lets hope it makes a serious comeback.

















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mikec265 12/30/2016 10:46pm
12/30/2016 10:46pm
Cool pics. Anything from Travis and his racing days is always way cool.
I hope you have as much fun as I do with my son and great nephew. They are both about 3 yrs old.
It keeps getting more fun so far.
Congratulations
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JAFO92 12/31/2016 5:53am
12/31/2016 5:53am Edited Date/Time 12/31/2016 12:16pm
Was Travis in his big yellow truck ?

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RPM68 12/31/2016 7:15am
12/31/2016 7:15am
bobby397 wrote:
who is 129 leading ?
Vernon McKiddie (Vmac Tracks)

That was a great day.
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Bob693 12/31/2016 7:34am
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JAFO92 wrote:
Was Travis in his big yellow truck ?
That looks like his. In TX you see 100 like that a day but in MD people would gawk at it like it was Big Foot.
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Moto Mofo 12/31/2016 8:25am
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I was there! Never seen a two stroke catastrophically explode the way Reynard's did that day. A couple years before, he destroyed 3 Cannondales over the course of the weekend and didn't even have a running bike left to begin when final moto.

Cycle Ranch was so great in the early 2000s...
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dmc22tx 12/31/2016 8:37am
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I was there when Robbie and Travis showed up. By my picture dating it was 2003.
Robbie and Travis were close each time they took the track. You can see Robbie's right elbow just above Travis' right knee in the first picture.



Robbie's front fender in this one.











Travis' ride.



Calling the action.




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jhansen510 12/31/2016 10:01am
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That roached out KX 250 appears to have some Factory KYB bell bottom forks on it!
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MxKing809 12/31/2016 11:57am
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That No Fear gear was the sickest. I wanted a Suzuki just so I could have that gear.
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JAFO92 12/31/2016 12:17pm
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Moto Mofo wrote:
I was there! Never seen a two stroke catastrophically explode the way Reynard's did that day. A couple years before, he destroyed 3 Cannondales over the...
I was there! Never seen a two stroke catastrophically explode the way Reynard's did that day. A couple years before, he destroyed 3 Cannondales over the course of the weekend and didn't even have a running bike left to begin when final moto.

Cycle Ranch was so great in the early 2000s...
I dont remember the year, but I raced the amateur stuff at the 4-stroke Nats, they ran us one moto saturday and one moto sunday. Robbie was smoking the entire class of Pros that day on the Cannonball. Well, until the ignition fried and he DNFd.

That saturday night I ran into Kevin Windham down on the San Antonio riverwalk. Small world.
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Gukamonster 12/31/2016 1:17pm
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What class would this battle have been in? I don't remember two strokes being allowed to race the main pro class at the "4 Stroke Nationals".
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Xracer 12/31/2016 2:46pm
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That Yellow F350 reminds me of when I went to Steel City in 04' and parked right next to Pastrana in the back lot. He waited in traffic and pulled in with the rest of the paying public, parked, hopped out and walked the long hike past Mad Mike's place and into the track. It just surprised me that he was that humble. I'm sure he could have rolled into VIP parking or even the pits on sheer recognizance, but nope, he was just a spectator that day and seems that all he wanted to be. When we left after the races I took a closer look at that truck and it was clearly not babied. A bit of a mess actually. So Travis though.
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ufsx459 12/31/2016 4:50pm
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Awesome shots! It was exciting times when Travis was riding at that level, who knows what could have been but he is doing pretty well for himself either way.

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dmc22tx 1/1/2017 9:30am
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I found a very short video I had from them being there. It is really grainy, but this was from 13 years ago on a cheap digital camera... The sound is good though!

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mikec265 1/1/2017 9:37am
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Xracer wrote:
That Yellow F350 reminds me of when I went to Steel City in 04' and parked right next to Pastrana in the back lot. He waited...
That Yellow F350 reminds me of when I went to Steel City in 04' and parked right next to Pastrana in the back lot. He waited in traffic and pulled in with the rest of the paying public, parked, hopped out and walked the long hike past Mad Mike's place and into the track. It just surprised me that he was that humble. I'm sure he could have rolled into VIP parking or even the pits on sheer recognizance, but nope, he was just a spectator that day and seems that all he wanted to be. When we left after the races I took a closer look at that truck and it was clearly not babied. A bit of a mess actually. So Travis though.
I remember him walking around the regular spectator area and bs-ing With people that day.
I never saw him race in person. Wish I had a time machine to go see him, McGrath, and David Bailey racing.
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JkopMx 1/1/2017 10:43am
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dmc22tx wrote:
I found a very short video I had from them being there. It is really grainy, but this was from 13 years ago on a cheap...
I found a very short video I had from them being there. It is really grainy, but this was from 13 years ago on a cheap digital camera... The sound is good though!

Cycle ranch back then was the best ever ! That layout was amazing !

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