funniest/craziest memories and stories from racing

Craig_Lambrecht
Edited Date/Time 4/11/2013 6:13pm
I'm sure there's been a billion of these threads but, what the hell.
After watching that "nervous novice" video it reminded me of a couple old incidents I had back in my mini days. (one of which I posted in that thread)

Here's a couple...

Story #1:
The setting..an arenacross in, I believe South Dakota.
The bike: a 89? KX60
The race: the SIGHT LAP before my main.
The incident: after the start was a 180 to the right, followed by a whoop section, a 180 left, then a triple, etc..
I came flying (or so I thought) in to the whoops and was blitzing them like Milsaps (again, or so I thought) when, I got a serious case of the "HUCKABUCKS". I shot due right and caught the banners with my throat. I'm not sure why they didn't rip from the hay bails but they held their ground. I laid there half dead for a minute and finally got up.l The crowd went wild! LOL
I lined up on the gate for the race and, I was so shook up that I just cruised around the entire race. I'm pretty sure that if I would have gone any slower through the whoops, I would have tipped over. (Reminds me of RC's comment about JH75 a couple races ago.

Story #2:
The Setting: Mazeppa MN
The bike: The same KX60
The incident: the 30 second board went sideways. I clicked'er in to second, looked two gates to my left and stared at the pin. When it flinched, I went!!!! I was a good two bike lengths ahead of everyone els a quarter of the way down the start. I ripped the gnarliest holeshot known to man..and I had never pulled a holeshot before.
Amidst the excitement of my first ever holeshot and the thought of all the sponsors that would sure to be lining up to give me free stuff (joke)... I completely forgot about the left hander coming up. I kept it pinned and went straight in to the tires that lined the track, thus weeding the shit outta myself. I don't remember what happened after that..I know I finished the race but, I think I was so damn embarrased that I probably didn't do worth a shit.

alright, your guys' turn.
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Parris 4/10/2013 4:49pm
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Must of been the right State But it was the wrong race.
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bayodome 4/10/2013 6:01pm
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Grip came off the bars during one of my first races at Englishtown as a 125 Novice.

Went to hit the double in the back corner along Pension Road and the clutch side grip just slid right off the bars. The great thing was that instead of reacting, I just looked at the grip in my hand and landed in that position.

After picking my bike and body off the track it suddenly dawned on me, "I finally understand what grip glue and safety wire are for!" Doh!
Craig_Lambrecht 4/10/2013 6:12pm
4/10/2013 6:12pm
Parris wrote:
Must of been the right State But it was the wrong race.
??
Craig_Lambrecht 4/10/2013 6:13pm
4/10/2013 6:13pm
bayodome wrote:
Grip came off the bars during one of my first races at Englishtown as a 125 Novice. Went to hit the double in the back corner...
Grip came off the bars during one of my first races at Englishtown as a 125 Novice.

Went to hit the double in the back corner along Pension Road and the clutch side grip just slid right off the bars. The great thing was that instead of reacting, I just looked at the grip in my hand and landed in that position.

After picking my bike and body off the track it suddenly dawned on me, "I finally understand what grip glue and safety wire are for!" Doh!
hahah!! I can picture ones self just looking at the grip in the air. Would that be considered "grip swag"?? LOL

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Corey_Tallent 4/10/2013 8:35pm
4/10/2013 8:35pm
There was this guy at Bremen MX that used to race all the time back when the track opened up and I remember him wearing overalls and boots and this flourescent orange helmet...pretty much Ronnie Mac for that day and time. I remember someone cut him off or something and he wrecked and he literally took off on his bike and went across the mid section of the track chasing after the guy to I dont know, take the guy out or something, well he wrecked again in the midst of doing that. I dont know if something was wrong with his neck but his helmet was always cocked to the side so he looked like he was always staring at something other than what was in front of him.

The guy raced for years and had never won a race because he wrecked every race.. The one time in his life, that I recall that he actually won, he didnt wreck...until he crossed the finish line and then slammed into the scorers table/tent at the finish line.

I still giggle about that guy.
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PADDY'S LAD 4/10/2013 8:42pm
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1977 & I'm racing Friday night summer series at Indian dunes (here in Cali) normally I would get to the track a little early to get my favorite parking spot only this night I worked late and didn't get my spot. So there was this hippie group parked on the hill above the pits in this huge bus( complete with pot smoke coming out of the windows) . After the first round of moto's I was sitting on my tailgate drinking water and the bus rolls down the hill and cleans out about four trucks fortunately no one was injured .
It never bothered me to not get my parking spot after that. Dunes locals will remember this incident . Total chaos !
Cheers, Pat
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RandyS 4/10/2013 9:51pm
4/10/2013 9:51pm
Late 80/early 90s at the Sacramento Raceway motobowl track. They ran a quad class, there was this guy racing that was the prototype for Bubba from Crusty Demons. He was racing a Honda Big Red. He had to have been straight off the farm, overalls, work boots, he probably even had a piece of wheat in his mouth. Racing may be a strong word but he was doing laps. Anyway, he hit a hay bale and knocked it into the track. Like any good farmboy he put that thing in reverse and pushed the hay back in place with the guard in the front before continuing. It was perfect.
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Bill163 4/10/2013 10:34pm
4/10/2013 10:34pm
Summer of 1978 show up to Corona raceway late barely make practice doing my laps a bike comes up behind me cleans me out in the next corner I flip over the berm the bike lands on me running wide open the rear sprocket was 2 inches from ripping my face off.Who took me out? Gary Jones on that damn Ammex!.

Show up to L.A.C.R raceway barrow my friends RM 125 I get a good start land from a table top then the next corner the front wheel locks up go over the bars go to pick up the bike Crap! the whole front tire rolled off the rim but the tube was still fully inflated! it looked like a cartoon wheel I had to pop the tube to roll the bike.Turns out it had a Ching Shin piece of shit tire on NEVER run them!.
Craig_Lambrecht 4/11/2013 6:11pm
4/11/2013 6:11pm
Corey_Tallent wrote:
There was this guy at Bremen MX that used to race all the time back when the track opened up and I remember him wearing overalls...
There was this guy at Bremen MX that used to race all the time back when the track opened up and I remember him wearing overalls and boots and this flourescent orange helmet...pretty much Ronnie Mac for that day and time. I remember someone cut him off or something and he wrecked and he literally took off on his bike and went across the mid section of the track chasing after the guy to I dont know, take the guy out or something, well he wrecked again in the midst of doing that. I dont know if something was wrong with his neck but his helmet was always cocked to the side so he looked like he was always staring at something other than what was in front of him.

The guy raced for years and had never won a race because he wrecked every race.. The one time in his life, that I recall that he actually won, he didnt wreck...until he crossed the finish line and then slammed into the scorers table/tent at the finish line.

I still giggle about that guy.
great story! thanks for sharing!
Craig_Lambrecht 4/11/2013 6:13pm
4/11/2013 6:13pm
RandyS wrote:
Late 80/early 90s at the Sacramento Raceway motobowl track. They ran a quad class, there was this guy racing that was the prototype for Bubba from...
Late 80/early 90s at the Sacramento Raceway motobowl track. They ran a quad class, there was this guy racing that was the prototype for Bubba from Crusty Demons. He was racing a Honda Big Red. He had to have been straight off the farm, overalls, work boots, he probably even had a piece of wheat in his mouth. Racing may be a strong word but he was doing laps. Anyway, he hit a hay bale and knocked it into the track. Like any good farmboy he put that thing in reverse and pushed the hay back in place with the guard in the front before continuing. It was perfect.
hahaha!!!! it's not about winning, it's about keeping it safe! lol

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