World's Biggest bull-$hitter?

kw859
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12/10/2010 6:22am
Are you kidding? I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him...
Are you kidding?
I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him once. But then they had the "big injury" and "lost their sponsors." if you really want a daily dose of BS, work in a bike shop.
Or people told me they won a championship at Loretta's, or used to race against Bubba/MC/Carmichael.
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell in first turn)

BS....or real....make the call....
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12/10/2010 6:24am
Used to ride with a guy nicknamed "The Phantom Rider" because every time he hit a big triple jump 3rd gear wide open on his yz250...
Used to ride with a guy nicknamed "The Phantom Rider" because every time he hit a big triple jump 3rd gear wide open on his yz250, or cleared some section better than anyone else, just happened to be the one time no one was looking, no witnesses in site.
LOL, This reminds me of a guy I know who they call the "invisable man". Everytime there is work to be done he dissapears.
kw859
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12/10/2010 6:26am
Anyone from the carolinas should remember Diamond Dan...he would pick up flyers from scott usa or anywhere at a sx and hand them out like he worked for the company...that was just the tip of it for Dan...
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12/10/2010 6:33am
Are you kidding? I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him...
Are you kidding?
I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him once. But then they had the "big injury" and "lost their sponsors." if you really want a daily dose of BS, work in a bike shop.
Or people told me they won a championship at Loretta's, or used to race against Bubba/MC/Carmichael.
kw859 wrote:
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell...
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell in first turn)

BS....or real....make the call....
Plus, you're a bass playin' rock star and probably a single digit handicap golfer as well. A real renaissance man. Oh,,,, and how big a fella is your brother anyway?

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12/10/2010 7:13am
Larry Brooks.
kw859
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12/10/2010 7:14am
Are you kidding? I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him...
Are you kidding?
I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him once. But then they had the "big injury" and "lost their sponsors." if you really want a daily dose of BS, work in a bike shop.
Or people told me they won a championship at Loretta's, or used to race against Bubba/MC/Carmichael.
kw859 wrote:
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell...
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell in first turn)

BS....or real....make the call....
Plus, you're a bass playin' rock star and probably a single digit handicap golfer as well. A real renaissance man. Oh,,,, and how big a fella...
Plus, you're a bass playin' rock star and probably a single digit handicap golfer as well. A real renaissance man. Oh,,,, and how big a fella is your brother anyway?
he is a little more rounder than me...he got 4th overall at a 125 national at Metrolina and even led about 30 minutes of the first moto. I actually got to see some old film footage of the race a few years back. the race was in 1978. bass player...yes. golf...love to play but usually shoot closer to 100 no matter where i play. shot a 87 one time but cant seem to pull it off again!
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12/10/2010 7:31am
OMFG! the south is loaded with these types I can't even begin to name em all. Tons and I mean tons claimed to have raced with Windham. When in all actuality there are only a handful that could stay on the same lap as him even when he was on 80's and they were on big bikes. What they mean is that they were at the track on the same day he was...it's so annoying even the ones that have claime to be money riders or local pro's and can't even name one single track from the era they are claiming or the dates don't match if the track was even in operation at that time.

All time favorite though

Dude roll's up to a local riding area on a SV650 street bike and claims to be a Navy seal and claims to have raced McGrath in the superdome, coming in second to him in his heat race, but couldn't remember his own PRO number at the time when I asked. Then proceeds to point out who on the motocross track who he could smoke on his street bike if he didn't have bad knees to soak up jumps cause his street bike didn't have the factory suspension his dirtbike had......shit was too funny!
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12/10/2010 7:36am
kw859 wrote:
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell...
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell in first turn)

BS....or real....make the call....
Plus, you're a bass playin' rock star and probably a single digit handicap golfer as well. A real renaissance man. Oh,,,, and how big a fella...
Plus, you're a bass playin' rock star and probably a single digit handicap golfer as well. A real renaissance man. Oh,,,, and how big a fella is your brother anyway?
kw859 wrote:
he is a little more rounder than me...he got 4th overall at a 125 national at Metrolina and even led about 30 minutes of the first...
he is a little more rounder than me...he got 4th overall at a 125 national at Metrolina and even led about 30 minutes of the first moto. I actually got to see some old film footage of the race a few years back. the race was in 1978. bass player...yes. golf...love to play but usually shoot closer to 100 no matter where i play. shot a 87 one time but cant seem to pull it off again!
Man you totally missed the 'Tennessee Customer Relations' reference. You should play more golf with Chester. He'll show you how to pencil whip that score into shape. I remember that day at Metrolina. Timmy might have won if he'd been on a Zookie. Just sayin'.
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12/10/2010 8:52am
or in a little better shape...those were long motos back then. Still was good though...
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12/10/2010 8:55am
Are you kidding? I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him...
Are you kidding?
I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him once. But then they had the "big injury" and "lost their sponsors." if you really want a daily dose of BS, work in a bike shop.
Or people told me they won a championship at Loretta's, or used to race against Bubba/MC/Carmichael.
kw859 wrote:
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell...
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell in first turn)

BS....or real....make the call....
Ha- Well, Mr. Walker, record-setting Loretta's champs get a pass.

True story- I passed you in a Vet race at Rolling Hills (in 2005 I believe).

Course, you were on the ground unconscious at the time, but still. I was running Vet B on a staggered start and you were running Vet A. You crashed and got knocked out. I thought it was cool that you came back to the track later that day to cheer people on.
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12/10/2010 9:20am Edited Date/Time 12/10/2010 9:23am
We delivered a load of firewood to a family about ten miles away a few years ago. Mom sent the son out to help and somehow the subject of dirt bikes came up. The kid started telling us he was a quad rider and then went on to ask if we had ever heard of Ricky Carmichael. My kids kept their mouths shut and the kid kept building himself up more and more. When we left, I gave his mom a business card that had our track info on it. My kids howled all the way down the driveway. Even now, when we have driven by their house - my kids are always saying "Look! There's Ricky's best friend's house!"
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12/10/2010 10:59am
brocster wrote:
OMFG! the south is loaded with these types I can't even begin to name em all. Tons and I mean tons claimed to have raced with...
OMFG! the south is loaded with these types I can't even begin to name em all. Tons and I mean tons claimed to have raced with Windham. When in all actuality there are only a handful that could stay on the same lap as him even when he was on 80's and they were on big bikes. What they mean is that they were at the track on the same day he was...it's so annoying even the ones that have claime to be money riders or local pro's and can't even name one single track from the era they are claiming or the dates don't match if the track was even in operation at that time.

All time favorite though

Dude roll's up to a local riding area on a SV650 street bike and claims to be a Navy seal and claims to have raced McGrath in the superdome, coming in second to him in his heat race, but couldn't remember his own PRO number at the time when I asked. Then proceeds to point out who on the motocross track who he could smoke on his street bike if he didn't have bad knees to soak up jumps cause his street bike didn't have the factory suspension his dirtbike had......shit was too funny!
"....Dude roll's up...but couldn't remember his own PRO number at the time when I asked."

Yeah, had a similar experience when I was selling some property. Somehow the title insurance guy and I got to talking about moto and he said that he used to race. I asked him what tracks and what level he reached, "Novice, Intermediate?" and his answer, "Oh I forget."

C'mon dude. NO ONE EVER forgets whether they were a novice or an intermediate. And in SoCal even if you didn't race you'd at least know that at one time there was this big deal track called "Saddleback." Geez!Whistling
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12/10/2010 11:24am
Obama.
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12/10/2010 11:25am Edited Date/Time 12/10/2010 11:26am
The other day, this dude at Burger King was telling me how he was a Supercross Champion! Yeah, pffft...







12/10/2010 11:56am Edited Date/Time 12/10/2010 11:57am
The CEO of the corporation that I used to work for. The guy would brag he could do nac nacs and was as fast as any local pro. Well I watched him do a lap one day and he was a goon. After that I just remember sitting in our monthly meetings wondering if every word out of his mouth was BS. And come to find out it was.
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12/10/2010 12:19pm Edited Date/Time 12/10/2010 12:19pm
me, the older I get the faster I was =)
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12/10/2010 12:40pm
Non moto, but a few years ago I had an over exuberant alarm sales rep come over to my place. After his sales pitch he tells me his last name, Aeropolis, comes from him being from a long line of airplane pilots! He delivered it so deadpan, I thought thats funny, but when I laughed he turned nasty and said "what are you laughing at?" Weird.

Suffice to say I did not buy an alarm that day.
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12/10/2010 12:52pm
Unfortunately, I occasionally ride with one of these guys. We were at a track talking after a ride, when we sit down he takes his boots off and is like "damn man, i was shifting so hard i got a blister on my foot" all the while i am looking at the flip flop tan line where the blister is at... He could jump the BIGGEST shit ever, but apparently not when anyone else was around...good stuff
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12/10/2010 12:52pm
A guy I used to work with, Frank T, lives in Reno. THE most compulsive BSer I have ever met. The dude lies about everything and has been like that since he was a kid. You should hear some of his "racing" stories. He expects you to believe that he was once a fast mx rider dispite the fact that the only bike he has ever owned was a 1970 something Yamaha DT175 complete with lights and turn signals. He has never even come close to an actual race in his life.
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12/10/2010 1:06pm
I was waiting for that Navy Seal thing to come out. I was a Jarhead and every Navy guy was a SEAL or about to become one and hurt their knee. Dirt Sickle is very funny!
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12/10/2010 1:13pm
17 years of running a track and I have met so many of these people...

Two of the funniest:

The guy who used to wait around until the end of the race and then try to talk me into selling him a trophy, usually for first place - when he had gotten about 8th or so - out of 9 riders.

The guy who bought a Raptor when they first came out, would come to the track on a slow day, unload it, ride it around in the pits - enough to get some dirt on the tires - and then load it up. He never bragged to me but I did hear that he had stopped at a local watering hole on his way home and tried to make a legend of himself.
kw859
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12/10/2010 1:40pm
Are you kidding? I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him...
Are you kidding?
I don't know what it is about this sport. apparently every single Virginia amateur racer in recorded history "raced Bailey" and beat him once. But then they had the "big injury" and "lost their sponsors." if you really want a daily dose of BS, work in a bike shop.
Or people told me they won a championship at Loretta's, or used to race against Bubba/MC/Carmichael.
kw859 wrote:
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell...
my brother timmy did...and i won a championship at LL....AND raced bubba(led 2 laps) MC(i wasnt even close) carmichael(beat him at a LL regional once...he fell in first turn)

BS....or real....make the call....
Ha- Well, Mr. Walker, record-setting Loretta's champs get a pass. True story- I passed you in a Vet race at Rolling Hills (in 2005 I believe)...
Ha- Well, Mr. Walker, record-setting Loretta's champs get a pass.

True story- I passed you in a Vet race at Rolling Hills (in 2005 I believe).

Course, you were on the ground unconscious at the time, but still. I was running Vet B on a staggered start and you were running Vet A. You crashed and got knocked out. I thought it was cool that you came back to the track later that day to cheer people on.
i remeber that day...well, most of it...Blink
12/10/2010 2:10pm
i got a random fact about my cousins and uncles. Two of my cousins punt for NFL teams. Dustin Colquitt punts for Kansas City Chiefs and Britain Colquitt punts for Denver Broncos. also they both punted for tennessee vols. And Then their dad Craig Colquitt who punted for Tennessee then punted for the steelers around the 80s and won two superbowls. Then my moms brother Jimmy colquitt punted for tennessee then went on to punt for the seahawks and giants but soon quit because he got made fun of for being a redneck. Thats my story of my family and it is 110 percent true.
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12/10/2010 2:25pm
How about " Its never been dropped "......." Its just been serviced "..... " Low hours"...." Never been raced "....I could go on.
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12/10/2010 2:42pm Edited Date/Time 12/10/2010 2:44pm
OMFG! The place isn't the same....They just don't know.
12/10/2010 2:43pm
Fleece192 wrote:
How about " Its never been dropped "......." Its just been serviced "..... " Low hours"...." Never been raced "....I could go on.
Suzuki TM400, low hours injury forces sale lol
wkdHH
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12/10/2010 2:51pm
teggers wrote:
OMFG! The place isn't the same....They just don't know.
LMAO!
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12/10/2010 3:32pm
i got a random fact about my cousins and uncles. Two of my cousins punt for NFL teams. Dustin Colquitt punts for Kansas City Chiefs and...
i got a random fact about my cousins and uncles. Two of my cousins punt for NFL teams. Dustin Colquitt punts for Kansas City Chiefs and Britain Colquitt punts for Denver Broncos. also they both punted for tennessee vols. And Then their dad Craig Colquitt who punted for Tennessee then punted for the steelers around the 80s and won two superbowls. Then my moms brother Jimmy colquitt punted for tennessee then went on to punt for the seahawks and giants but soon quit because he got made fun of for being a redneck. Thats my story of my family and it is 110 percent true.
A whole family of punters eh?! :p
12/10/2010 3:38pm
Oh my gosh, there are soooo many of these guys out there. Especially married guys or guys with kids. As soon as they give up riding, suddenly they accumulate about 10 national championships and dozens of stories about partying with the pros. I've actually come to enjoy it. When I meet someone and the subject somehow turns to bikes or motocross, I always say I like it and just kind of dabble, never really raced much. This is like a green light for all the stories. Can't tell you how many guys used to train at Carmichael's ranch, received weekly calls from Mitch Payton about offers, raced the pro series (one or all of them, as one guy said, his sponsor wouldn't let him race supercross because, even though he could've been on the podium, his sponsor wanted him racing the national GP series instead), etc.

Here's a quick dictionary:

- I used to race the supercross series = I did the amateur day on sunday once
- My sponsors = my parents
- Factory bike = factory replica graphics on beater bike
- Mitch Payton = owner of local dealer
- I partied with ______ factory racer = passed by him at a vegas casino
- Had dinner with _____ factory racer = saw him at IHOP after the race and said hi
- I was the next big thing in my region = I was a sucker and believed my parents who wanted me to race to curb my desire to be a back-up dancer in a boy band
- I finished 5th at loretta's = I started 5th on the 1st lap of my regional qualifier before dropping anchor
12/10/2010 7:31pm Edited Date/Time 12/10/2010 7:42pm
I nominate this dude Bernie Mcloughlin. I used to have dreams and shit so I started a moto zine called practicetrack. One day my best friend at the time/grahics designer David Graham was at a local shop where Bernie worked. So Bernie starts telling David how he owns practicetrack magazine and all. David took it in stride and let Bernie tell all of the details of how he was pretty much, me.

People fucking suck, man. Everybody is full of bullshit so much they belive their own to be true.

I had a silly ass rag and I couldn't ride myself out of a wet paper bag but I always joke about how much I suck. I did my best to reflect that attitude im my rag. I prefer people who are real and don't blow themselves up. And all of the people I met who wrote shit and gave me their photographs seemed to do the same.

I met and befriended almost everybody in this industry...so fucking what. Now I work at a family shop where I get thrown under the bus by the family fuck ups who I have to watch out for, while I try to make up for their shortcomings hoping to keep the doors open. Yeah, I've had two raises in two years which is pretty lucky in these times....but still I go to work everyday feeling like an awkward retard amongst these people.

May I reiterate, people fucking suck. Everybody is full of their own bullshit. Even this industry is not small enough to wipe it out from within. Take that to a global level and we are all too stupid to free ourselves. None of that is Bernie's fault. He's still caught up in his own bullshit. He's still fun to remember, though. He probably still has a flat billed hat and stealing from the register and smuggling parts home to outfit a bike he doesn't fucking ride.

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