DV and BooKoo

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Edited Date/Time 1/19/2012 8:43pm
I was in Target yesterday looking at MP3 players and I saw an RCA box with a motocross bike on it. I looked a little closer and it was none other than DV............in his BooKoo days! I can't remember what the product was, but I was like what da...............Huh


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Left over from 2006. They haven't produced any since then. That thing must have hair growing on it.

2006, what a great year that was. I still have scars on both wrists.
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Holigan wrote:
Left over from 2006. They haven't produced any since then. That thing must have hair growing on it. 2006, what a great year that was. I...
Left over from 2006. They haven't produced any since then. That thing must have hair growing on it.

2006, what a great year that was. I still have scars on both wrists.
You guys were just a little before your time. I really liked the show.
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Yeah, the show was good! Grinning I miss it.

Whats Lucky up to these days?
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never leaves ya!"
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Holigan wrote:
Left over from 2006. They haven't produced any since then. That thing must have hair growing on it. 2006, what a great year that was. I...
Left over from 2006. They haven't produced any since then. That thing must have hair growing on it.

2006, what a great year that was. I still have scars on both wrists.
Michael, spit the coffee on that one!

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SMITH201 wrote:
Yeah, the show was good! Grinning I miss it.

Whats Lucky up to these days?
Ran into him at the local Home Depot the other day. Was building a fence at his home. Lucky is still Lucky.

FWIW,I think he got a bit of a bad rap on the show. But I don't think it bothered him much at all.
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What ever happened to Keeney?
He killed it on DV's smoker at Indy that year.
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I have two questions:

1. What did Lucky invent?

2. What happened to Justin Keeney?

9/3/2009 10:36am
Holigan wrote:
Left over from 2006. They haven't produced any since then. That thing must have hair growing on it. 2006, what a great year that was. I...
Left over from 2006. They haven't produced any since then. That thing must have hair growing on it.

2006, what a great year that was. I still have scars on both wrists.
05/06 - yep. I believe that was right around the time RC jumped to Suzuki as well.
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I know Keeney was on the TLD team last year but had alot of bad luck. Not sure what he has been doing this year.
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9/3/2009 11:43am Edited Date/Time 4/17/2016 1:57am
Lucky is still doing engines and suspension. Loss some weight and is doing good.

Lucky has a pretty cool tool that he came up with but I believe he is still in the patent process. Jim and I found out that when you invent something and apply for a patent other companies can Ripoff & Duplicate your design and there is nothing you can do until you are granted your patent. I think Lucky is smart to wait until he has a patent in hand.

I have not seen Justin since TLD. Your right, he was killing it on the 250 two-stroke at Indy. He was going to pass Voss and win his Semi until he realized he was going to pass Voss and win the Semi. Lots of potential, but don't know where he is.

Yes Ozzy, it is in the blood. I have approached eleven companies this year, and had three tell me that they think this is something they want to do in 2010, but then later say "we can't because of the economy." I have one more that looks good. We are meeting in two weeks to see if we can work through terms. In the past I would have said we will get it done, but nowdays I cannot tell if it will happen or not. Fingers crossed.

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I loved the tv show and the moto world needs another team like that.

I remember seeing Keeney's name in supercross this year, but I would say he only made 1 or 2 mains events on the West Coast. As far as I know, he didn't have a deal for the outdoors this year.
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I believe he rode for the Fire Police KTM team
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I have two questions:

1. What did Lucky invent?

2. What happened to Justin Keeney?

Saw Keeny a few weeks ago he's dating my buddy's sister in-law .... From what I understood he is working for his family and to the best of my knowledge doesn't have a ride. Also heard he's already ridden the 10 YZ450 so maybe there might be something coming from that but I have no idea
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I have two questions:

1. What did Lucky invent?

2. What happened to Justin Keeney?

Saw Keeny a few weeks ago he's dating my buddy's sister in-law .... From what I understood he is working for his family and to the...
Saw Keeny a few weeks ago he's dating my buddy's sister in-law .... From what I understood he is working for his family and to the best of my knowledge doesn't have a ride. Also heard he's already ridden the 10 YZ450 so maybe there might be something coming from that but I have no idea
You will see Justin on Honda 450's for the 2010 Supercross season.......
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9/3/2009 1:43pm
I loved that show. It was way ahead of it's time. It sorta cast a bad light on DV also.
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The riders seemed to look horrible in that show, A person would have thought they would atleast fake being overly hard workers but they didn't.

and the episodes with DV were just flat painful.

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Me as J-Law's team manager on TV would be golden, the bank couldn't keep count of the cash...........

I would though of course.
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500guy wrote:
The riders seemed to look horrible in that show, A person would have thought they would atleast fake being overly hard workers but they didn't. and...
The riders seemed to look horrible in that show, A person would have thought they would atleast fake being overly hard workers but they didn't.

and the episodes with DV were just flat painful.

Yeah, pretty much all of the riders came off as slackers.
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Since Holigan won't spam his new venture, Merge Racing Technologies, I'll do it for him. I'm currently running Merge suspension on my new '08 CRF450 and it's the best stuff I've ever ridden with. Greg Swirinski is a tech at Merge and it was the suspension from his old CRF. Now I know why Kyle Regal was running Merge suspension on his '08 CRF450. Good stuff.
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The Show was Awesome Never missed one !!!!
9/3/2009 10:17pm Edited Date/Time 4/17/2016 1:58am
Michael, one of these days, you should sit down and write a memoir(sp?) of those years.

I have a hint of an idea how a few things might have happened from working the Bookoo Arenacross series for its final few weeks, then hearing things thru the summer. Luckily, I got paid in full from Bookoo but I honestly thought I wasnt, still have a copy of the check! But your story I would love to hear.... if you need a wedsite/marketing/webcasting guru in the future, give me a yell, I'm just up the road a few hours and would love to have a bite and hear the stories!
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breck wrote:
[img]http://www.mp3players.name/images/rca-lyra-mp3-player-x3030.jpg[/img]
Yep, that's it.


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those shows never put Lucky, DV or the other riders in a very good light.

suppose i watched it like a rubber neck watches a traffic pile up on the HWY
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Well, when they were running the 250F team the years before I thought it made them look pretty good.

You could see Troy Adams, Michael Blose, Cole Siebler were all taking it pretty seriously. They all had good results, and no one really expected anything like that from them at the time. When they got DV though, he sure did come across as petulant.
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9/4/2009 7:46am
500guy wrote:
The riders seemed to look horrible in that show, A person would have thought they would atleast fake being overly hard workers but they didn't. and...
The riders seemed to look horrible in that show, A person would have thought they would atleast fake being overly hard workers but they didn't.

and the episodes with DV were just flat painful.

Wandell wrote:
Yeah, pretty much all of the riders came off as slackers.
Steve Boniface looked good on the show. He seemed to try hard and was very professional.
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500guy wrote:
The riders seemed to look horrible in that show, A person would have thought they would atleast fake being overly hard workers but they didn't. and...
The riders seemed to look horrible in that show, A person would have thought they would atleast fake being overly hard workers but they didn't.

and the episodes with DV were just flat painful.

Wandell wrote:
Yeah, pretty much all of the riders came off as slackers.
GHOPPER wrote:
Steve Boniface looked good on the show. He seemed to try hard and was very professional.
When Boniface was on the team he would show up at a local Dallas area Arenacross. He was funny as hell to watch ride, ive never seen someone more aggressive.
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9/4/2009 8:13am
I watched most of them, still have some recorded on VHS as well...
Here is a couple of photos of DV's 2 stroke from Phx SX




And Micheal Blose at Lakewood...
9/4/2009 9:08am
You know why Lucky might have came off as an ass, and we all do, just havent thought about it.... Lucky is one of those guys that if he has something to say, he will say it. he wont talk behind your back, he will say it to your face, good or bad and I respect that so much its unreal. I would rather have someone say plainly whats on their mind so you can deal with it and move on than have someone be pissed and upset and not say a word and tell everyone else but me and your wondering where you stand.

Only way to live imo.

Say whats on your mind, deal with it, put it behind you, and move forward. Plus you eliminate alot of "well he told me" crap, because if he had said it, he would have said it to your face, there is no wondering.

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