Strangest bike raced at a WERA event...

I remember a novice on a CBX with 6 into 6 pipes on it at Blackhawk in the early 80s. He was a kid from Madison. Eric Bell raced the vf750 once at the first race of 82 and the Interceptor didn't come out until 83. The Sabre was a poor choice. It looked very scary coming out onto the straight. I don't recall ever seeing it on the track again.

 

Even on the street the V65 Sabre was a wet noodle.

 

I roadraced a DR650 on the stock wheels and TrailWing tires, not at a WERA event though.

 

. Yeah he came up short on that. That was the same year DuHamel hit 196 on his Superbike. 2004 iirc

 

Omg, I have heard Kevin’s name in forever

 

If I remember correctly, Johnny DuPont was racing a CBX at Pocono in 1983. Not that my memory is worth trusting, though...

 

MA needs to make he Baggers run bars with a minimum height of 12". maybe get credit for 1 sec per lap for every 6" above that minimum.

Also you get to start 1 lap ahead if you have a methed out chick on the pillion...and I mean methed out...scrawny, 8 teeth, bad tattoos....just toe' up. Also she cant wear leathers. Maybe jorts, sandals and a crop top/tube top....skull cap helmet only.

Now that would be a proper representation of true "baggers" and their fan base.

 

I like the 'two up' idea! Team sport then.

 

I haven't heard those terms used for quite some time now. I guess that dates us all...

 

You're obviously not a biker, it's called a bitch pad

 

Those scooters were bad ass too.

 

He definitely liked th

He definitely had some weird cool shit when I got to meet him in the early 2000s. Chris Marshall raced his old wera cb400 and probably won a race on it then put a Carillo right through the front of the case at summit. I for some reason seem to remember him crashing it in his gravel driveway test riding it when we picked it up. That bike was super fast until it wasn't. I remember him just going on about how and and all if his buddies were buying honda ascots to terrorize the back roads of pa on weekends. He had a spondon cbx at the time. One of the coolest things I've ever seen. And I remember it was the first time I saw a spoke wheel rs125 in his shop.

 

Was on track with one ridden by Lex van Dijk at DIS. Later saw it stripped to the cases at MMI as they had an engine issue and had to rebuild it. Went by me in practice like i was standing still

 

Sean, Graver or Sublet, my mind has failed me , who was racing the CBX at Nelson back in the day?

 

got it, Pat Mattachione, Phoenix cycle

 

That thing was super clean & the sound…. Oh my.

 

Who was the guy on the Yam XS1100 or maybe a XS750 at Sledges?