Is there a story behind the number on your bike??
At loudon you can pick your number if someone else isn't already running it so i'm assuming thats the way they do it every where!!
Here's mine....
I've always been into airplanes and my favorite is the P-51. All that naturally aspirated unmuffled horse power! Damn how could you not love it!! Plus i always liked david pearson, richard pettys arch rival, who i think ran the #51 (although i'm 100% on that!!) anyway the letter P is the 16th letter in the alphabet so that would've been been #1651 which doesn't work .... so i just put a 2 in front of the 51 and got #251, now that i think of it i should've put a 1 in front of it as in 151.... get it!... as in barcardi 151!! Although when i look at how i ran this year i think i should've used #103. that's 10 = J + 3 = J3...... as in J3 piper cub... a true putt putt of an airplane!!
so what the story behind your number
That's funny.
Mine is not as funny and just simple. It's my daughter's birthday.
I ride a GSXR 750 and since 1 is out and 66 was taken I went for 67
Years ago I had number 77.
Kinda like 69 but you get 8 more.
6 is my birth month, and 11 is my wife's birth month.
611
Well I ended up with putting my telephone number in the box ::) and ended up with 908, which is no longer my number. I wanted 777 as my buddies numbers were 772,773,and 776 and our endurance number was 77.
I always liked the number #69, but it was taken so I settled for #669, guess why I like that number?? :P
One of the guys I pit with just picks the highest number he can get since all the low numbers are taken. Seemed like a good idea to me. He got 999, so I picked 997. That and it's a pain in the arse to put those numbers on the plates. So it suits.
Yep, she made me do it... it's my fiance's birthday.
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Here's mine....
I've always been into airplanes and my favorite is the P-51. All that naturally aspirated unmuffled horse power! Damn how could you not love it!!
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so what the story behind your number
The P-51 mustang has a blower. I think they pulled about 60-80" of boost at WEP. Reno guys run them around 120+" of boost. God I love that plane.
On topic, I picked my number because it was one digit away from the previous owner. It's been pretty good too me as well.
Jess
CCS gave me 828 when i started. It happened to be my birthday, so I liked it. Then I got the RC51, and everyone was whining about the number plate, and how we should put it in the middle. I requested a change to #808 so I could fit the "0" over the air intake. It turned out not to work out, but I kept the number as it was also available from WERA. Now one seems to be fighting for numbers that high up. ;D
Mine was #89. I had that from day one. Then I crashed and broke my femur pretty bad. I raced lightweight for about 1 1/2 season. When I got back on a 600 I wanted something different. So I got #911 since the last time I rode a 600 I ended up in the hospital. :)
hey CCS Racer, Just out of curiosity how did your femur heal? When did you break it? Did you have your rod removed? I broke mine also 15 months ago in Atlanta and I am having MANY problems with my leg. Mostly due to the fact that I threw in a shattered patella. Let me know how your doing.
Bill Cole
I broke it Memeorial Day weekend in '98. I crashed in T5 at Roebling in Expert MW Supersport. It wasn't a clean break in two. More of a split down the middle. I was told originally I had a rod inserted and would have to have it removed in about a year. After about a month of followup in Columbia,SC my doctor said there was no rod, just three screws putting it together. Needless to say after about a month of my insurance company investigating.... well you know. I was never in a cast since there was a lot of damage at the knee. I wore some machine in the hospital bed for three days that automatically bent my leg for me. Hell I walked two days after the break and even went to the Big Kahuna at Road A the following weekend. I didn't have full movement for about two years. It was always sore when it rained. Just now does it feel normal again. It gets a little stiff here and there and it "pops" sometimes too. I actually rode at the Bargy practice at the GNF in '98 too. My confidence wasn't at it's highest to say the least. I tried to ride for the next couple of years on my EX500 but "it" just wasn't there. Now I'm finally healed fully and got another 600. I'm ready to race again. :) I downgraded back to novice and plan on racing for fun instead of for the win now. ;)
QuoteThe P-51 mustang has a blower. I think they pulled about 60-80" of boost at WEP. Reno guys run them around 120+" of boost. God I love that plane.
OOPS!! I stand corrected :-[ I still love the way they sound!!
I picked Go Shows number he used in WSBK when racing the Bimota. #501.
First race ever coming up at VIR!!!!
I'm an electrician in IBEW Local 124.
Kevin Clark
CCS #124 AM
dang it thiam, why did you have to follow me over here. you even used my little devil thingy!!!! >:(
B.W.
David Pearson was number 21, he had a Biography written that was titled "21 forever". My number (67) was the first two digit number that was available when I asked for any 2 digit number. I guess the only odd thing about it is that the bike had a 76 on it when I bought it.
when I did my first track day with Team Pro-Motion, they gave me #977 as a member #. When I was at VIR last year after the race school, thats about the only number wasnt taken :) MA sure have a lot of racers
My original # was 896 which stood for the month/year I started racing. Now it's 52 cause I got fast enough to get a 2-digit! ;D
QuoteI always liked the number #69, but it was taken so I settled for #669, guess why I like that number?? :P
So tempting.....can't believe nobody has taken this bait yet.
OK, I'll take it. What's the significance of 669?
C'mon... what's the story??
QuoteDavid Pearson was number 21, he had a Biography written that was titled "21 forever". .
Hey my thread is still going!!
Damn not only did i screw up the engine spec's on a p-51 i also got pearson's number wrong!! :-[
Nice to see the boards still going! I should stop in more often!!
My daughter was born on Feb 8th, 1998, so my # is 298.... ;D
Ok, it's not my number, but this bike I ride in AHRMA is number 970.
The bike is a 1969 CB750 that apparently has the largest number of Honda racing parts on it that were available. The parts were virtually impossible to get in the US, what else is new. The bikes were called CR750's.
Anyway, all CR750 parts had a Honda prefix of 970.
Pretty neat bike.
http://www.worldmotorcycles.com
374 because 74 was taken and I want to be like Daijiro Katoh and go really fast on a 250 but I'm old and fat and really slow.
:o LUCKY 13 :o