Who did the stunt show at Blackhawk?

[spyderchick]

Here's a little true story for you.

There once was a young man by the name of Stimpy.

I just want to know if his sidekick is named Ren?  ::) ;) ;D :P

BTW..good aliases on the names. Did you collaborate with K3 on that? :) (Chris, I didn't do it!)  :o ;D

[Super Dave]

I think there is an untapped market of racers out on the streets doing dumb things that don't see or know about club racing as an alternative.  If given the opportunity, I bet they'd think wheelies are more fun on a cool down lap (don't get caught!!!) of a race they won than on the freeway, but that's just my guess.
 

Heather

There's some well thought out ideas...

The relative investment to be a Stunta is low.  

Road racing, high.

Untapped market of racers?

Well, over the course of my life time, the numbers of bikes, as well as sport bikes, has DRAMATICALLY increased.

Are racers unique?  

Will having more racers make something better?

I don't think so.  If racers did a better job promoting themselves road racing... nice job Stumpy Family, Safety First Racing and others...that would make the value that racing has in the industry and in any market place more attractive.  

NASCAR ain't selling no Taurus' like the one's they race.  Some of those people only own trucks even.  But you're there to see the personalities...

Gary Rothwell...he had personality.  At Road America, I'd always go down to the far end where he'd turn around.  He'd see me and we'd exchange some glances...I'd kind of get my own show.  Dan and Cory had the personality to recognize that.

Personalities make stuff fun...

Mladin, Rossi, Rothwell, Favre, McEnroe...

Not volume.  Yeah, initially, seeing it, something might be cool.  But to really hook someone, you need the personalities.  

Club racers last how long?  

See why no one wants to go to a club race?

[StumpysWife]

And I agree wholeheartedly, SuperDave.

I was just throwing out a little food for thought.  

I also agree with your statement that about figure skaters and speed skaters.  Very good comparison.

Without some research and examinations of goals and objectives (who's goals & objectives being the main point), none of it really matters anyway.  

Heather   :)

[251am]

LOL!!!

Saber Lanes...  I thought they only had one in Menasha.   ;D

_   Umm, they did, I grew up in the Town of Menasha/Neenah. Have they remodeled? I thought SabreLanes were all over the place along with Gem Roller Rinks and every farm kid still gets a beat up DT 80 for their 9th birthday. :o That would be Menasha and the old Polish Connection.  Ahhh, memories...Dang, all this from the hooligan wannabes at BHF...guess they can't be all that bad then. :)  

[tigerblade]

I have no problem with people performing stunts in the right environment.  Sure, it takes skill (though I'm sure pretty much most of us could get the front wheel off the ground with a rear sprocket the size of a dinner plate) and I'm not one to tell other people what they can or can't do for enjoyment.  I bought a video or two when they first came out.  I love to watch a MotoGP rider hoist a nice wheelie across the finish line.  The main problem I have with the trend is that it seems a lot of the stunting crowd seems not to care about how the things they do affect anyone else.  Maybe the distinction should be made between organized stunting and street stunting, the former I have no problem with but the latter I do.  I'm a moderator on another motorcycle site which has in its site rules a ban on stunt talk.  There are plenty of forums for that.  It seems whenever someone doesn't like that rule, it's because we "can't ride" or "don't have the ballz" to do what they do.  They try to proclaim that motorcycling is evolving and stunting is the way of the future.  I see a place for stunting, in an X-Games type of format.  But this street stuff has got to stop or no one will be able to go for a nice weekend ride on his or her sportbike without constantly catching all the flak from a public who is sick of it all.  I love motorcycles and I'll be riding them until I'm too old to get out of my rocking chair.  Will most of these guys?  Or is it just a phase they're going though, trying to prove they are living on the edge?  It almost seems like the motorcycle is secondary to the image they want to portray (much like the guy trailering his Harley across the US just to ride the last 5 miles into Sturgis).  Like I said, I have no problem with organized stunting in the right place.  I just want to be able to enjoy what I do as well, and I do think street stunting is a threat to that.

[EX#996]

Umm, they did, I grew up in the Town of Menasha/Neenah. Have they remodeled? I thought SabreLanes were all over the place along with Gem Roller Rinks and every farm kid still gets a beat up DT 80 for their 9th birthday. :o That would be Menasha and the old Polish Connection.  Ahhh, memories...Dang, all this from the hooligan wannabes at BHF...guess they can't be all that bad then. :)  

Gem Roller Rink.....   Oh my goodness, we may have met many years ago.  Although, I think I may be a few years older than you based on your profile.  You know when you're in 6th - 8th grade, you can't be seen with the 'younger' crowd.   ;)

I haven't been to Sabre Lanes in about 15 years and then it was just trying to keep the balls between the two gutters after hitting the bars for a while.  I think I actually scored a 53, 86, and 123, if a remember correctly.  I all know is that we were laughing our a$$'s off the entire time.  According to the phone book, they're still there.

The polish connection sucks when you blow a rod on your little toyota and the motor seizes on top of the bridge.  

Dawn  :)

[251am]

Gem Roller Rink.....   Oh my goodness, we may have met many years ago.  Although, I think I may be a few years older than you based on your profile.  You know when you're in 6th - 8th grade, you can't be seen with the 'younger' crowd.   ;)
    
  YES!!! Well, it was a great break for the parents to get the 5 of us out of the house at once. Nothing like a roller rink disco ball and a little Saturday Night Fever! Stayin alive stayin alive ah ah ah ah Stayin aliiiiiiivvvve



The polish connection sucks when you blow a rod on your little toyota and the motor seizes on top of the bridge.  
 
     OHNO, not on the top...
   Dang, I can remember hanging on for life in mid-winter, bridge frozen, north winds pushing the car around, praying to get down to the other side.

   What do they say? 6 degrees of seperation?  :)

[251am]

 CrazyDale Fosno's school worked for him.  


     Say, is that Crazy Dale Fosno related to LaVerne DeFosno? You know, she's down in that Eagle/Milwaukee area working at Shotz's Brew Pub... ;D

[TZDeSioux]

Baller: root, as in ball player. Kind of a slang that developed to describe Star athletes. The street version is used to describe anyone who has it goin' on.  ;D

Also to describe an individual with alot of $$$ or material posessions.

[TZDeSioux]

Is Chef Ike, or is Chef  Isaac Hayes      

Chef is Isaac Hayes Anderson from the Love Boat

[Woofentino Pugrossi]

You can't outrun the PoPo??  On a Bike?!   Fo real?!
Dude, take up golfing!

Yep a FELONY is really worth it.  ::)

The harrassment isnt them pulling bikes over for no reason. It comes in the form of FOLLOWING and following VERY CLOSELY. I've had a Janesville cop yell at me at a light "We are watching you verticle mischief a$$hols". Hmm I have no VMC stickers on my bike, I wear FULL FREAKING GEAR on the street (ballistic riding suit in one color) and I still get crap from them. Call the station to report and all you get is "You got witnesses?"

But yet you can ride a Softtail with open drag pipe running at full song doing 15 over past one and they give them a thumbs up. Go 5 over past them on a sportbike and they pull you over.

We never had problems with the police here in the past. Most the time they just told us to settle down. But ever since this stunting fad started, they've been real asses to anyone on a sportbike. Its not just the "teams", its every fre4aking newbie who buys a sportbike for a first bike trying stunts IN FREAKING TOWN on Milton Ave (Janesvilles busy road). Its just a matter of time before one kills himself or someone else on Milton Ave and then you dont even want to think of riding a sportbike in Janesville.

I even had an officer who was parked down the street from my house follow me the 3/4 miles to the city limits from my house to the highway on my way to work at 6am.

[Super Dave]

Stunting isn't new...

One of the most famous motorcyclist of all times is Evil Knievel.  He's got family around where my mother and father grew up.  They all look alike...

Anyway, Evil made money.  He made a show out of it, no less.  But it was a closed course thing, right?

Fonzy even jumped some flaming barrels on a Triumph and jumped some sharks, right?