LJB Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 “Racing makes heroin addiction look like a vague wish for something salty.” the Marc Marquez documentary dropped on the prime yesterday... this is my first true love and where i learned how to really live... this is the sport that i first found my people in... cemented how i look at the world... where i first spent real time with world champions... you don't have to get racing to get this doc is not about racing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Luchador Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 1 hour ago, LJB said: Do you still race? I've always been curious about the bikes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 not anymore... my middle son would rather be racing than wrestling, but, we had to make a choice... this is him at 11... we do try and get out for the occasional play day... still have a bunch of bikes in the garage... project wolfsburg rabbit that some day will be a sexy psuedo track car with a plate... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) one last amusing tidbit... when the boy finally turned 8 he was able to race the big tracks... from 5-8 he was only allowed to race kart tracks in the club i ran... the other clubs would not allow him because of his age... first weekend we showed up at the big tracks with his kart track bike and he melted that down in 4 laps of racing... i had a special rear sprocket custom made to gear it as high as we could with the tranny in it... by lap 3 i could hear the valves making ail sorts of racket and was just praying to odin the bike would hold together for one more lap... by the next weekend we had him a better set up and different bike geared to take much higher speeds... won the race... set the track record by over 3 seconds... but... along the way happened to take out another kid as he was passing him on the banking in front of god and everybody... total racing incident, but, whatever... a 10 year old kid rag dolling down the front straight of texas world speedway at about 60+ is quite the site and gets some pretty excited... i told the race director don't worry about us... you do what you got to do to make that other crew less bitchy... everyone knows what really happened... still the only 8 year old to ever get DQ'd from a race win in the JR Motard class in the second biggest club racing org in the country... we laugh about it now, but, i had to talk him off the ledge when it happened... Edited February 21, 2023 by LJB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 My brother-law's exe's new husband was a drag racer on bikes. After they divorced, he crashed at the finish. Not sure why. He barely survived. I don't know the guy just heard about it. I'm guessing his NEED for speed and racing bikes has been somewhat reduced. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 18 minutes ago, mspart said: My brother-law's exe's new husband was a drag racer on bikes. After they divorced, he crashed at the finish. Not sure why. He barely survived. I don't know the guy just heard about it. I'm guessing his NEED for speed and racing bikes has been somewhat reduced. mspart for most racers i ever hung out with, your guess would be 100% inaccurate... that goes for the world champs i have got into shenanigans with as well as the club racers... i have never in my life felt more alive than driving home after a weekend where i woke up in the pits again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 I think I can say honestly that this guy I know of didn't feel very alive, probably mostly dead. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted February 21, 2023 Author Share Posted February 21, 2023 (edited) i think you might be missing my point... i yard sale'd our SV-650 endurance bike 11 laps into a 12 hour endurance race because i am a total jackass... made the pass for the lead and decided i was going to string together a couple of sprint laps and make a gap... dropped a rear wheel off the track at about 135 and woke up a while later... only thing salvageable off the bike was the motor clip-ons and foot pegs... corner workers immediately thought i was dead and wanted to stop the race... praise odin race control had been doing this a minute and was like calm down... could not look down for two moths without falling over from that concussion... few broken bones and just pain everywhere for weeks... never even contemplated stopping... and that is nowhere near the worst injury i have had just the absolute fastest crash i ever had... seen friends have limbs saved trackside... seen some limbs not saved... seen some friends die and/or never be the same after a weekend... it is a very real possibility that anyone should already have reconciled with before they ever even contemplate getting on the track... point being... there are people that would rather die than live a "safe" life... Edited February 21, 2023 by LJB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 Eventually Darwin catches up to those types. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 14 minutes ago, mspart said: Eventually Darwin catches up to those types. mspart adorable... who has ever cheated death in the history of ever? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 No one, but sometimes it sneaks up when you do stupid death defying things. It happens. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted February 22, 2023 Author Share Posted February 22, 2023 1 hour ago, mspart said: No one, but sometimes it sneaks up when you do stupid death defying things. It happens. mspart Sometimes it sneaks up while you are clutching your pearls as well… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Luchador Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 On 2/21/2023 at 5:39 PM, LJB said: Sometimes it sneaks up while you are clutching your pearls as well… How much safety equipment is involved in pearl clutching? It is a very dangerous pastime I hear. Your point is taken. People die everyday of lots of things. Might as well be racing motorcycles at extreme high speeds and be surprised when it actually happens. Tough to make that same analogy with pearl clutching but I think you may be trying to figure that out. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share Posted March 1, 2023 2 minutes ago, mspart said: How much safety equipment is involved in pearl clutching? It is a very dangerous pastime I hear. Your point is taken. People die everyday of lots of things. Might as well be racing motorcycles at extreme high speeds and be surprised when it actually happens. Tough to make that same analogy with pearl clutching but I think you may be trying to figure that out. mspart no one involved in high risk sports are surprised when bad things happen... that "surprise" might just be limited to the pearl clutchers... cattle act surprised right before the slaughter as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 See, I told you. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJB Posted March 1, 2023 Author Share Posted March 1, 2023 22 minutes ago, mspart said: See, I told you. mspart it wasn't tough... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 I knew you could do it. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Offthemat Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Run, eat right, live healthy, die anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mspart Posted July 14, 2023 Share Posted July 14, 2023 Jim Fixx taught us that. mspart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatWhiteNorth Posted July 17, 2023 Share Posted July 17, 2023 On 7/14/2023 at 1:17 PM, Offthemat said: Run, eat right, live healthy, die anyway. Yet... "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." -Dean Wormer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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