Johnny Girroir of Team USA blows his KTM up in celebration

All well and fine till it blows a hole though the cases, and there's some kind of ricochet with a bunch of people nearby.

I totally hate seeing that shit - I'm very sentimental about equipment that treated someone well.

There'd be much higher value in the sentiments of championship winners on the matter.

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I feel like, if the bike was reliable to win you the championship, you should cherish it... Maybe two quick rev limiter blips of the throttle but keep the machine in one piece... Its a special moment, keep the thing intact. as you may never win another title.

Johnny Girroir is a member the actual KTM Off Road Team - I believe.

So he isn't paying for the bike : ie : perhaps he didn't give a stuff about it, after he's finished with it. It's 'just a tool that did it's job'. 

I'm no fan of such 'performances', but, what I think, has no effect on what is done.

But, I've been thinking : what if you did such a thing with a 'Rental' bike?

For those that don't know, "rental' bikes are usually available for the Six Day, be they official Factory rentals, or 'other' company rental set ups. I've had mates that did such a thing, not just for the 6 Days, but for WECs / EWCs / Romaniacs / ROAfrica /  Erzberg etc.

As I always say, I'm well out of the loop of  the Six Days etc , well,  most racing nowadays, so I couldn't put up an accurate idea of what today's rental and parts supply deals are with 'Rental Bikes'.

But I do wonder what sort of bill a Rental Rider would be faced with if they did such a 'Rev Until Destruction' performance.

One would think it could be frightening...... 

Set it on fire and give it a proper viking send off. 

Maybe I'm just overly sentimental, but I've kept loads of stuff from my old bikes. Mainly front plates from bikes I've had good races on etc. It's cool to me to have memorabilia from over the years just sit back and look at and reminisce over.

If I won a championship, and had an option to keep the exact bike I won it on, then I would. The last thing I'd do is blow it up into a ball of flames.

Each to their own I guess!

Mitch Payton was trying to blow up Adam’s 250 national championship bike if I remember.

A nice quick burnout is cool. Anything beyond that is for mouth breathers. 

I get the burnouts and the rev limiter stuff... to a point. Doing it for the 3-4 minutes it requires to actually destroy the thing is overkill, though. 

Curious how long Johnny's bike lasted before it blew?

I'm fairly certain it had 10x the hours on it of most bikes we see do these burnouts.

I am not offended by it at all, I also don't find any entertainment value in it either. 

Maybe take off the shrouds and plates if you're just going to burn them, sign them and give them to the fans who came to watch.  Or blow it up and ghost it into the spectator's section and let them get what they can.     

No, it does not have a soul. Stop being silly.

To these guys, that bike is just a TOOL. Disposable. They get another.

I've never understood it.... I get the need to proclaim/celebrate a high goal achieved, I just don't get destroying a beautiful bike.  It almost feels phony, like one must out celebrate the last champion. 

I like the "act like you've been there before" attitude.  

Just cash the check!