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I think just the positivity of those guys in the pits will help Kawi as a whole.

Well, at least the takeoff ramp was well-designed with the ice chest for extra support. 😂

ouch ...tooooo much rebound in them shockys..................

Ah the good ol ankle delete, classic

Better to go long than short I guess 🤷‍♂️ Would've been interesting to see how well the landing ramp would've held up. We will never know 😄

You are making it up because he was good to go until he broke his collarbone. He even tried riding after that to see if he could make it.

I was 21 years old when I bought my first bike, more on that in a second. I really wanted to ride/race when I was a kid but my parents were of the "you'll die on that thing" mindset. 4th grade I got caught doing donuts on my neighbors ATC90 in the alley by my mom. Spent the summer on restriction and could no longer be friensds with Brent because his parents would let him have a murder cycle. So highschool sports, 4 years collage ND State, moved 1,800 miles away to California in late 85, found Palm Ave and...

I remember one of his stories about getting in the van with EI Dave at Lorettas. Ivan here to you old timers that might remember.

Good to see all the old school MikeeeP and Motonews guys here. I've only gotten back into watching racing due to the Lawrences. Just a blast to watch. No bike. Waiting on daughter to finish senior year and send her off to college. Then I'm gonna live in a van down by the river with some type of bike. Still chat with GuyB on FB every now and then. Hope all are well. PS--Hillbilly sent me some shine decades ago and what blew me away was how smooth it was.

If you asked my parents, I was a defective child. They tried to get me interested in any sport they could from karate to soccer but, I would bypass the governor on a lawn mower and kick the rod out. Tie my Big Wheel to the ICE cream truck with a rope or build bicycles from the frame up, all I watched was car movies like Vanishing Point, Gone in 60 Seconds or Convoy. Finally, my mom found an ad in a magazine that you could rent a dune buggy at Pismo and at seven they took me. While she...

Montgomery Wards minibike with a 3.5 hp Tecumseh, riding an oval track and wishing it had a 5 hp like my friend's did

Four years old doing circles around the backyard of our house in Great Falls, MT on an Indian Mini Mini. I came around on one lap, hit some bumps and whiskey throttled straight for the side wall of the neighbor's house. Just before I hit, my dad grab the back of my shirt and pulled me off. Maybe a month or so after that, I was heading back into the garage from riding the vacant lot across the street, forgot where the brakes were and hit the front wall of the garage. Been hooked on this goofy sport ever since.

Took some money I scored from 8th grade graduation, even though mom and dad said no way, and went to a couple older kids house that had an SL70 for sale I knew of. They took me out back to teach me to ride it, and said hold the throttle open all the way and let go of the clutch. Of course landed on my ass, whipped out the couple hundred bucks and pushed it home. That was 43 years ago, and I’ve never been without at least one dirtbike in all those years. I currently have myself, 3 sons...

PW50, yellow& black, age 4. Nothing noteworthy except that I was complaining about the poor jetting at 4 without quite realizing I was. "Its faster at 3/4 throttle than it is at full throttle!" Foreshadowing.

Taught my then-girlfriend to ride, on a 490 Maico (in hindsight, possibly not the best learner bike). A big flat, empty 5 acre field - nothing in it except a single electric pole in the middle. Yes, she did.

A buddy up the street in SoCal had a Taco 44. We would trade off running up and down the driveway. Long time ago, can’t believe I still remember👍