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<iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M7TSIxMoAAA" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" width="560"></iframe> What the hell thanks FloridaSteve now i've got to waste my evening watching your 2stroke blog
Seen at the local bike show last weekend. Don't ride over your foot! This bike competed in the Quebec City Winter Carnival ice racing scene featured in "On Any Sunday".
Happy to help! That video still gets me every single time I watch it. What a freaking ride!!! GOD I love 2 strokes! I even rode my RZ350 in to work today... Florida Living!
Serious question from a non-ice racer. Do/did they ever injure themselves with those spike? It has to happen on occasion I would think? Yeowch!
Not an ice racer either but , I heard a couple of gruesome stories . A guy crashes in a pack and his dead-man kill switch fails and the bikes landing position rolls the throttle on. Dude slides into the spinning wheel and in an instant it gouges out a trough in his thigh to the bone. Another, during a race in Russia, at high speed on a bitter cold day a competitors goggles fly off and before he gets stopped one of his eyeballs freezes.:eek1 -
Fortunately they use ice racing screws instead of spikes in North America these days. Even those can smart if you get run over however! Luckilly there is usually a lot of padding in addition to layers of riding gear on when you are racing in twenty degrees below conditions. In Europe they still use spikes, so as noted best not to ride over your foot!
Being the owner of lots of old shite, two stroke, four stroke, flat broke! I say leave it all alone! What is it with all this AirHead ethnic cleansing
On the subject of ice-racing....the sport has become one of the last bastions of the open class MX two stroke!