Crack Don't Smoke Itself

WTF were they thinking/smoking/drinking?

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/image/archive/1993usgp/wod/neelhodgson.htm

 

That rocks!

 

Yikes... I need to print out that picture and try to get him to sign it next race I go to.

 

Dude, that was so ahead of it's time. Did you see the wicked barbed wire?

 

Man, neon used to be de rigeur..You hadn't arrived if you didn't have the obligatory neon wheels...I have a set of neon RZ350 wheels in the basement that are embarrassingly neonized...You went neon or you went home...

 

I like it!

 

I had a florecents yellow front rim, and a florecent pink rear rim on my Hawk for a while. I could be seen from space. Good stuff.

 

you're high, those leathers rule!

The barbed wire is a bit much though.

 

Heck yeah, florescent pink, Swine Dudes/Team Pearls and their neon pink team t-shirts...

 

Did you see some of the stuff guys like Fogarty wore back in the day? It looked like racing with Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.

 

I was mountain bike racing back in the late 80's and early 90's. You want to see some wild/eye gouging stuff? Klein bikes always had wicked color combos. Bike jerseys looked like someone ate Playdoh and threw up all over the place.

 

The Pearls boys had a neon pink GSXR-1100 that was faster than stink, and as Gary Evans explained, "It rides like a Cadillac," and this was at Nelson...I think it had blue PM wheels on it, ahhhh gawd, I thought I'd blocked this out...

I remember looking at the bike, and looking at Gary, who is about the most genuine guy you'd ever want to meet at a track or anywhere else, and saying, "But....Geeze, Gar.....The thing is PINK! It's real pink."

Yeah, yeah it is...Ughhhhhhh...

 

You would rock those leathers, with a United Colors of Beneton headband, and a pair of chartreuse Oakley Blades...

NTTAWWT

 

I scrolled back a few pics. Damn those Cagiva bikes were sharp looking. :up:

And I still think the early to mid 90s Vance & Hines Yamahas with the yellow and magenta paint scemes were some of the best ever.

 

Those things are a feathered hairdo away from a WHAM video

 

Does anyone remember "Mad Dog Racing" ( I believe that was the team name)? I was pretty young, but I remember that team having these crazy neon bikes. I want to say I saw Sadowski crash one of their bikes at Daytona when a rear tire blew out.

 

Oooooohhhh....I remember that rear tire deal, he fragged a rear at some insane speed like a buck eighty or something heading for one and slid forever? I thought that was in testing...Maybe I'm getting mixed up...

 

I was probably only 12 years old and don't remember all the details, but I was standing on the pit wall with my dad when we heard this loud "BOOM" followed by body work scraping across the race track. When I turned to look I saw him bouncing off the wall and the bike flipping down the track. Later I watched as they pulled the bike in.......nothing left of it or the rear tire.

 

And I'd look dead sexy doing it too.