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Edited Date/Time 3/18/2015 2:46pm
(A view leading into the whoops, taken after the 450 main.)



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Flex 3/16/2015 10:51am
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Gnarly!!!
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ATV's would blitz those wussy ruts! Wink
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I was. But I'm too old now... Thanks for asking though! Grinning
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goinrcn44h 3/16/2015 11:01am
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80's and 90's seattle was very much gnarlier than that. very very much.

The Shop

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Randy Savage 3/16/2015 11:01am
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You know who I respect the most when I look at that?

KJSC.
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Rowlands 3/16/2015 11:02am
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I am pretty sure I would like to be able to ride through them without loosing my teeth yes Wink Laughing
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reded 3/16/2015 11:02am
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No thanks, I just got my ass handed to me yesterday in a set half that size.
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Mr Bean 3/16/2015 11:06am
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The first time I walked Larry Ward's SX practice track back in the early 90's I knew I didn't want anything to do with it.

Let's just say the risk/reward ratio didn't fit my portfolio specs.

Then when I was sitting around BSing with him and Mike Craig after a practice session at a local track, I asked him about how he handled several of the sections. His answers 100% confirmed that I made the right decision to stay away from it.

The fact that I'm still alive is just further affirmation.

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Flex 3/16/2015 11:07am
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I've hit a lot of arenacross whoops which are pretty gnarly but they don't get so rutted up so it's not as gnarly as these. I hope I never meet up with a whoop section like this one lol.
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Flip109 3/16/2015 11:14am
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I'm good. Lol
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jeffro503 3/16/2015 11:16am
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Yeah. No thanks....I gotta work on Monday.
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BD233 3/16/2015 11:20am
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I see why they stopped using the left side......Woohoo
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nytsmaC 3/16/2015 11:21am
3/16/2015 11:21am
I'd go right in between those two ruts on the left, piece of cake. Nice.
GeorgiePorgie 3/16/2015 11:22am
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I like working for a living outside of a dirtbike.

That picture is scary. Just imagine how much moe gnarly it is actually going through it.
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i completely understand RCs road to sx, in 89 i was a new england expert my buddy and i went to giant staduim-now met life- we signed up for the 125 class, after practice i told him " im going to die today" and i also figured Dammon Bradshaw was going to land on me and kill me, the whoops? what whoops they were like indavidual bike stands i could barely get threw them in second gear

o ya and i think Mike Treadwell qualified for both classes that night
TriRacer27 3/16/2015 11:27am
3/16/2015 11:27am
That picture doesn't do them justice.





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just James 3/16/2015 11:30am
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I usually hit ones like that in third, then click fourth as soon as I clear the first hump. Wide open, baby!
What screws up my drive, is the dad gummed alarm clock telling me it's time to get up for work. Laughing

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Jaybird67k 3/16/2015 11:31am
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I would die !!!
Here I am doing some baby ones that had a couple of square edge deep ones toward the end and I use the word deep lightly compared to stadium whoops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUctH5DgdKg

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Randy Savage 3/16/2015 11:33am
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pete24 wrote:
i completely understand RCs road to sx, in 89 i was a new england expert my buddy and i went to giant staduim-now met life- we...
i completely understand RCs road to sx, in 89 i was a new england expert my buddy and i went to giant staduim-now met life- we signed up for the 125 class, after practice i told him " im going to die today" and i also figured Dammon Bradshaw was going to land on me and kill me, the whoops? what whoops they were like indavidual bike stands i could barely get threw them in second gear

o ya and i think Mike Treadwell qualified for both classes that night
So, down in FL, around that same time, we have this legendary (sarcasm) place called "Croom". there is a road that leads back into the place that is about a mile straight before it hooks left. along that mile straight, all the way down, are whoops. (used to be) because its Florida, the state is one big sand whoop. Damon Bradshaw unloads his bike there one day, in between Daytona and Tampa most likely.

Dude blitzes almost halfway down that road, on the whoops. Stops. Turns around and blitzes back. Rides straight into the pull-behind trailer, and leaves. Nearly a half mile long "whoops section", 4th gear tapped, kissing the tops. That guy's balls drag behind him, sparking, while he walks.
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GuyB 3/16/2015 11:38am
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Jaybird67k wrote:
I would die !!! Here I am doing some baby ones that had a couple of square edge deep ones toward the end and I use...
I would die !!!
Here I am doing some baby ones that had a couple of square edge deep ones toward the end and I use the word deep lightly compared to stadium whoops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUctH5DgdKg

Jason
You got out of that pretty well. Glad you got stopped before the fence along the side.
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Randy Savage wrote:
So, down in FL, around that same time, we have this legendary (sarcasm) place called "Croom". there is a road that leads back into the place...
So, down in FL, around that same time, we have this legendary (sarcasm) place called "Croom". there is a road that leads back into the place that is about a mile straight before it hooks left. along that mile straight, all the way down, are whoops. (used to be) because its Florida, the state is one big sand whoop. Damon Bradshaw unloads his bike there one day, in between Daytona and Tampa most likely.

Dude blitzes almost halfway down that road, on the whoops. Stops. Turns around and blitzes back. Rides straight into the pull-behind trailer, and leaves. Nearly a half mile long "whoops section", 4th gear tapped, kissing the tops. That guy's balls drag behind him, sparking, while he walks.
I just road there for the first time last month, I love whoops but in moderation. I did not like them after 3 days and wished my buddies wanted to go to an mx track instead...

Great Bradshaw story!
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Mr Bean 3/16/2015 11:39am
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Randy Savage wrote:
So, down in FL, around that same time, we have this legendary (sarcasm) place called "Croom". there is a road that leads back into the place...
So, down in FL, around that same time, we have this legendary (sarcasm) place called "Croom". there is a road that leads back into the place that is about a mile straight before it hooks left. along that mile straight, all the way down, are whoops. (used to be) because its Florida, the state is one big sand whoop. Damon Bradshaw unloads his bike there one day, in between Daytona and Tampa most likely.

Dude blitzes almost halfway down that road, on the whoops. Stops. Turns around and blitzes back. Rides straight into the pull-behind trailer, and leaves. Nearly a half mile long "whoops section", 4th gear tapped, kissing the tops. That guy's balls drag behind him, sparking, while he walks.
Watched the Beast from the East at his last amateur race before he turned pro (I believe Milville was his first national?).

There were some huge rolling sand whoops after the first turn .

He would wheelie them... sitting down... with his left hand off the bars.

He was 15.

SMH...
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nytsmaC 3/16/2015 11:40am
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Jaybird67k wrote:
I would die !!! Here I am doing some baby ones that had a couple of square edge deep ones toward the end and I use...
I would die !!!
Here I am doing some baby ones that had a couple of square edge deep ones toward the end and I use the word deep lightly compared to stadium whoops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUctH5DgdKg

Jason
Nicely done, you had some pretty good roost coming up from your throttle tube.
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Randy Savage 3/16/2015 11:42am
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Randy Savage wrote:
So, down in FL, around that same time, we have this legendary (sarcasm) place called "Croom". there is a road that leads back into the place...
So, down in FL, around that same time, we have this legendary (sarcasm) place called "Croom". there is a road that leads back into the place that is about a mile straight before it hooks left. along that mile straight, all the way down, are whoops. (used to be) because its Florida, the state is one big sand whoop. Damon Bradshaw unloads his bike there one day, in between Daytona and Tampa most likely.

Dude blitzes almost halfway down that road, on the whoops. Stops. Turns around and blitzes back. Rides straight into the pull-behind trailer, and leaves. Nearly a half mile long "whoops section", 4th gear tapped, kissing the tops. That guy's balls drag behind him, sparking, while he walks.
Mr Bean wrote:
Watched the Beast from the East at his last amateur race before he turned pro (I believe Milville was his first national?). There were some huge...
Watched the Beast from the East at his last amateur race before he turned pro (I believe Milville was his first national?).

There were some huge rolling sand whoops after the first turn .

He would wheelie them... sitting down... with his left hand off the bars.

He was 15.

SMH...
and had a beard at the time.

They make Chuck Norris jokes. but they don't make bradshaw jokes. because Damon ain't no joke.
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Mr Bean 3/16/2015 11:42am
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Jaybird67k wrote:
I would die !!! Here I am doing some baby ones that had a couple of square edge deep ones toward the end and I use...
I would die !!!
Here I am doing some baby ones that had a couple of square edge deep ones toward the end and I use the word deep lightly compared to stadium whoops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUctH5DgdKg

Jason
Must have seen some really good sammiches in the pits to want to make that right turn right in the middle of them!

Laughing

Don't know what they have strung up between the poles but might have acted like an egg-slicer on you if you'd made it to it!

Shocked
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Darryl916 3/16/2015 11:50am
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Racing RCSX last week taught me a lesson. SX is a whole different animal from MX and not in a good way. lol
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mxmasta 3/16/2015 12:02pm
3/16/2015 12:02pm
Sorry couldn't find it on youtube, but the guys with facebook can enjoy it. This is how I would look in the whoop-di-dos:

facebook video
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mpy 3/16/2015 12:09pm
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I'd be faster walking through them... and safer too!
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FB 3/16/2015 12:32pm
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Do you wanna be a F-ing fighter ?

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