Congrats to the AMA guys... Oh Wait.

Well there's your problem, jerk. I've only got a pickup to bring my stuff to the races with, it's not fair that you have a more comfy ride.

 

A 15 year old kid AND a sprinter van!?!?!?!

Cherry Picker!

 

Hey, I showed up with a 13-year-old and a YSR50 in a 12-year-old box van (with 200,000 miles on it) at a CMRRA mini race once and at the riders meeting some guy actually said that it wasn't fair that a kid showed up "in a big truck" when he was driving an old Mitsubishi pickup and that the kid should be bounced out of the Amateur class as a result.

I thought about bringing the kid and his YSR to the next CMRRA race in an actual semi-truck and setting up the big racing awning, but the logistics never worked out.

 

What? A sprinter van! F@ckin' cherry picker! Joe Lunch box has to push his race bike to the track with all his spares and pit equipment on his back 400 miles through 4 feet of snow, up hill, both ways and you show up with a sprinter van!?!? I bet you even ate FOOD at the track and didn't have to eat grass and dirt!!!

 

How come when sombody starts one of these bitchin threads they are never back to stand up for what they thought was right? This isnt collage sports that once you leave for the pros you cant come back, If you got your ass handed to you just suck it up and take youre ball and go home! Quit whinning that some one is better then you.

 

Shit!

I came in a box van and didn't win anything! I must suck on a whole different level

Thats it! Where is the local freightliner dealer. I am not legit enough!

 

Scott Carpenter and I showed up at VIR one year right after Scott got his 48ft Trailer. We thought we were going to be the big spenders in the paddock. When we showed up there was a Novice kid there with (2) Ex-BSB / John Reynolds Red Bull Ducati 998's and a full semi with crew...We immediately went back to our comfortable second class status.


Anybody remember that guy? I think he only ran his novice year and one a couple of championships in heavy weight twins....2002-ish? Bikes cost him $100K each.....

 

From `72 `till `79 I carried my bike in a Datsun King Kab pickup. Camping gear in the bed, tools and both spare parts in the king part of the 'kab'. Had a ball!

 

What? a 48 foot trailer!?!? And Scotty raced AMA! Scotty Carpenter is a cherry picker!!!!


and shit!

 

Raced him once at VIR in 01. That thing was stupid fast. Thank God for corners.

 

I did that until 1980-ish, but I didn't have a King Cab, I had a regular-cab with a 4-cylinder and a manual 4-speed. When I put both my bikes in it it looked like it was trying to wheelie!

 

So you're saying he couldn't corner low?

 

I thought he ran both....

Maybe it was 01....it was super fast....he was not.

 

I used to push my bike uphill to and from the races.

 

Anyone can see how a person might get upset at a pro racer "cherry picking" club trophies (even if that's not exactly what happened in this case).
Then again, I went to a club ice race once with a guy who used to ride a 125 pretty well and currently does ok in Moto2. The club guys at that event just put a target on the pro's back and saw it as an opportunity.
Different perspectives, I guess.

Hey John, gimme a call sometime.

 

I work at one, what you looking for we can set up right up.