You Got, Like, Three Feet of Air That Time
Reader Smitty liked our motorcycle racing video from Monday. He thought road racing was fun and all, but suggested something with a little more air involved. Holy cow these dudes are flyin’, speed-wise and jump-wise.
Of course, it wouldn’t be motocross without engines that sound like 10,000 angry bees and 40 metal washers being shaken in a coffee can. Little-known fact: The racers don’t really wear helmets for safety. They only wear them to muffle the sound of the exhaust.
[Thanks to Smitty for sending that one along]
2 thoughts on “You Got, Like, Three Feet of Air That Time”
BTDT as a young’un (I was the youngest of four, so I figure my folks considered me expendable). Two cracked helmets, a broken tooth, a severed Achilles Tendon, and other misc. trauma convinced me to retire at 13. As for The Lad, I told him he can get a bike when he’s 30.
Raced Motocross at Red Bud back in my 20’s…..Boy has that track changed. I miss it, but the cost became too much for the budget. The other side is how many other hobbies were ruined by not providing a similar adrenaline rush. Once you go around that first corner leading a pack of snarling machines with everyone riding on the razors edge……well, trail riding just doesn’t cut it anymore.