And speaking of Motorcycles again. Friday, I rode the Tiger 140 miles to Auburn Fairgrounds for the AMA Flat Track races. I hadn't seen this type of racing in about ten years. A buddy had ridden his R90S up from San Jose and we met for dinner. Parking was four bucks but the parking guy nodded to Russ and I on our bikes and said "How 'bout a buck each?"
They had a motorcycle parking area which was packed.
The track was an 1/8th mile which made the racing really close. Between the qualifying races there were kids races with what looked like five year olds hustling around the track, though not really going fast enough for them to have a foot down for effect, but really cute. A slightly older class with five riders ran a little quicker. The qualifying and main events were great to watch with some pretty close races and some (I don't use this word very often) amazing riding. The crowd was mostly local and the stands about 7/8ths full. The announcer knew everybody and there were pretty umbrella girls and a couple of leggy brunettes carrying the heat numbers (denoting each race, you perverts). One rider wearing and slime lime colored helmet had his own cheering section heavily populated with entusastic young women waving color matched slime lime flags. Lots of families were having a night out, there were lots of teenagers and the folks were friendly.
I got home about two in the morning on Saturday.
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