I'm probably not the only one who did dumb stuff like this back in the day....

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22 years later and I am still asking myself, "what were you thinking"? At least Holeshot Magazine came out and covered the race. IMG 4262.jpg?VersionId=r

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2/19/2023 3:35pm

That looked awesome! I bet every one of those kids remembers that day! 

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2/19/2023 4:27pm

To F’ing Cool!! 

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2/19/2023 4:53pm

That's great, everyone of those kids will remember it for the rest of their lives. 

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2/19/2023 5:23pm

This made my day.  
man  the good old days. 
you know everyone of those kids still talk about it.  

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2/19/2023 7:39pm

How freaking awesome is that.  
 

BTW, is that you watering the track?
 

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2/19/2023 8:05pm
CG118 wrote:

How freaking awesome is that.  
 

BTW, is that you watering the track?
 

No that is Jr. when he was still on Cobras...or at least 65s. Jr. turned 30 this year and is graduating with his Master's in a couple of months. My time flies. 4-6 and 7-8 will make you pull your hair out. Maybe that is why I am bald now. 

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2/19/2023 8:07pm

No phones, I like it.

Doubt I even had one. Nowadays I see them with a phone and tablet while they are still in a stroller. 

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2/19/2023 8:09pm

Dawson Draycott and Jacob Turbyfill were the fastest of that bunch. In fact, I think they both still make LLs. 

 

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2/19/2023 9:20pm

Awesome!! Mini bikes and sneakers are an almost sure-thing recipe for a broken ankle tho!  Looks like a great time was had by all there ;-)

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2/20/2023 9:24pm

I had a track in my back yard for my z50

nice

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2/20/2023 9:35pm

Core!

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2/20/2023 10:02pm

Nothing dumb about that man 

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2/20/2023 10:27pm

The good ol days 😔.  My buddy's parents who lived in Pleasanton, Ca retired in the mid 2000s and bought a house up in Redding. They rented the Pleasanton house to him, and 2 more of our friends. This was during the big mini bike phase. The house was at the end of a court bordering an elementary school and had a huge lot. So naturally we built a badass track in the back yard with multiple turns, different lanes and a good sized double with an old blue Honda trail bike in the middle. We even had a hand full of outdoor pot plants along a fence line in one of the more wide open turns after someone rode halfway through a fence. We had the "Mathis Safety nets" well before Feld ran them. Pot plants, nets, they both served the same purpose. We would bbq, our buddy would dj, and we eventually set up flood lights for late night races after leaving the bar. Good times. Sad that the younger generations most likely will never experience that, well at least in California. Oh the stories I could tell about that house.

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mark293
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The good ol days 😔.  My buddy's parents who lived in Pleasanton, Ca retired in the mid 2000s and bought a house up in Redding. They...

The good ol days 😔.  My buddy's parents who lived in Pleasanton, Ca retired in the mid 2000s and bought a house up in Redding. They rented the Pleasanton house to him, and 2 more of our friends. This was during the big mini bike phase. The house was at the end of a court bordering an elementary school and had a huge lot. So naturally we built a badass track in the back yard with multiple turns, different lanes and a good sized double with an old blue Honda trail bike in the middle. We even had a hand full of outdoor pot plants along a fence line in one of the more wide open turns after someone rode halfway through a fence. We had the "Mathis Safety nets" well before Feld ran them. Pot plants, nets, they both served the same purpose. We would bbq, our buddy would dj, and we eventually set up flood lights for late night races after leaving the bar. Good times. Sad that the younger generations most likely will never experience that, well at least in California. Oh the stories I could tell about that house.

This ^^^^^^, lol, I never even considered the liability. God forbid one of those kids whiskey throttle through my bedroom's sliding glass door. With age comes wisdom (sometimes), but we still had a kick ass time. 

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