Aha! It was Larry who raced (and won) with a wrist cast. I couldn’t remember!
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I’m glad to hear this, because I’ve never done the TDC thing. I finally asked someone, this year, why he pulled on the cord a little after he shut down, and got the story. I had 4 years of blissful ignorance up to that point.
True story from the Laguna Seca corner of my brain.
Mid 70s, AMA motorcycle race at Laguna back in the 750cc 2T days with Baker, Roberts, Duhamel, etc.
A guy comes zinging up the back straight and crashes on the approach to the corkscrew. He’s laying in the middle of the track and can’t get up. The corner worker runs up to him and asks “Are you OK?” the rider says “No, I’ve got a broken leg.” The worker says “How do you know it’s broken?” the rider says “Because I cut the cast off to race.” 
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Epic.
@OldFartKarter take notes.
Takes notes on being stupid? I don’t need no stinkin notes to be stupid.
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Another one followed me home today, that makes 4 in the stable now. I think there is a step class in my future.
Its a 2021 TB Kart (roller) I plan to build as a 206 kart. Only had 2 sessions on it by a factory driver who parked it for 2 years, and then decided to sell it cheap as he had no money it in.
Need to ditch that medium seat and got find an XL seat. Otherwise, I already had all the stuff to turn it into a 206 kart.
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Ride 'em, don’t hide 'em!
Oooh a bike! Is you or your dad into fancy bikes we can nerd out about?
Your son has a lot of resilience to drive with a broken seat and fiberglass pieces in his ribs at age 11, and then continue like nothing happened. 
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dad likes bikes! This is some old italian bike from pre 2000, its titanium. we rebuilt it together, polished all parts, new parts, powder coated. But it doesnt have any stickers, There are no stickers for it 
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@AndreLafond paging my bike friend (he made a track bike and does goofy mountain biking stuff as well as race cars and karts). I send him pics of cool bikes I find in the wilds of NYC. This will be our first Swedish bike sighting.
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well my dad know the brand… i dont
Thus I challenge Andre. He was a bike mechanic all through High School at a shop, I think.
Raced 206 Masters at the Clyde GP and avoided much carnage. I finished seventh of 10 and won some beer money. My son in 206 Light was not so lucky. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was involved in but not responsible for a couple of red flag incidents. He retired from the feature when a front weight and a section of his bumper came loose.
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As far as vintage road bike stuff goes I can’t really tell from the photos apart from it’s a lugged steel frame. Maybe a Bianchi, Colnago, maybe even a basso?
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Put on a new Driven Performance livery just in time for the Texas Sprint Racing Series finale at SpeedSportz. Also prepared for some boat racing Saturday night in the pits.
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