Strangest bike raced at a WERA event...

Has anybody ever entered a race with a scooter, or maybe a Goldwing?

What's the strangest stock bike y'all have seen on the track?

Give me some stories?

 

Blackhawk Farms 1982'ish? Pit bike races, I believe? Older Honda Z50 with a sidecar added. A rolling floor seat was used for the frame, with some kind of axle and wheel attached. I was the Monkey.

Sometime between '84 and '86, I raced a Honda MB5 at Summit point regularly in the WERA pit bike races. Guys had stepped up their game there, with a maximum displacement of 100cc. I was way sideways on many occasions, trying to catch Roger Lyle on his Kawasaki KE100. Worked hard trying to make up time with my faster corner speeds. Some of my best saves happened on that MB5!

 

Rich Oliver on a TZ375 (or so).

 

Brian Drebber should’ve gridded up that crazy wing thing he made… who remembers what it was… I’m not sure…

 

I’ve seen one pit bike race and it was total carnage with injuries for a few and destruction for all…it was at Gingerman and it was worse than a c production race from the 90s with plastic scooter parts everywhere

 

Did Robin Tuluie ever bring the Tul-da or Tularis to any WERA events?

 

Pit bike races = real life Road Rash.

 

I saw someone actually try to race a tlr. Those things are barely even bikes, let alone track worthy.


And my buddy Turpin on the MotoCzysz. That thing was strange. And very cool.

Ah, but neither one at a WERA event. Oh well.

 

that’s all that was missing… weapons

 

I think I remember pics of it at Blackhawk… I know Robbie tested it somewhere but I’m sure that would’ve been Brainerd…

 

There was a guy out of Colorado that used to bring his TLR’s to Brainerd, guy was hauling the mail on them!

 

AAMRR used to have Dandy Pocket Bike races. Helmet, gloves, and full leathers required.
USCRA had races out back in Frontierland. One time the Soho Vespa factory team showed up.

 

Saw an electric cruiser at a Wera West Willow Springs. It was fast. You knew it was coming every time down the straight. Didnt look like it handled very well, was running a class on his own I think. was in 2021 I believe.

 

Yes, the Tul-da for sure; I raced against him several times on my FZR400 in D-Super and F2.

 

you’ll appreciate this odd connection egg…

so Chuck Sorensen’s dog named Jessie just died and I sent him condolences and a link to the video for the song Jessie from the band PAW, a grungy 90s rocker group… it’s a song about the guys dog named Jessie that died… Chuck said he’d forgot about PAW but his buddy used one of their videos for the video game….. Road Rash

our tiny little racing world where nearly everything is connected

 

Watching Photo Ken @JGP in full battle gear on a pocket bike around 2008 or so was enough to make everyone lose it.