Rode the Dirty Nine over to Gasket Goons HQ on Saturday to help assemble THE WALL of DEATH!!!
They'd begun the layout...
Rhett's old 101 Wall of Death Scout!
Complete with siren...
Combo Hummer / H-D dirtbike Wall Bike
Couldn't help sneakin' in a few pics of the Dirty Nine....
An engineering marvel...
...being assembled heathens...hey Mel hold that stick!
Oops there's another one...
Got the first panel up....
Regrouping...
2nd panel up...
Going for the 3rd...
3rd panel and a pause for pics...
Frozen Few Ice Machine photo op...
Joe Oz on a H-D
Mel hamming it up...
Onward and upward!
Rhett checking things from the top...
Keep 'em coming...
Coming around
A quick shot with the Dirty Nine...and I had to take off
Well folks Rhett Rotten is back in town and with the help of Meldon Van Riper Stultz III they are getting Rhett's 1938 Wall of Death back in service! It's a great honor to be a part of this process...although so far all I did was carry heavy stuff and drink beer...More to come...
Got some shit for parking the Frozen Few snow mobile on the side walk...
Michael Lang's 50 WR
Pits started to pick up...
50 WR Motor
Well... we were told to move the 1926 T Snow Mobile...so...
Five of us piled in and drove through downtown Milwaukee...
Metal tracks and all...See what I mean...
...and parked out front of the Mama Tried Show
Back at the Panther Arena things were heating up...
We kicked off the night after the opening ceremonies...
Here's an 8 minute video I found on Youtube.. at 39 seconds in is the start of our race with Josh performing a sweet face plant...
"Prince"! See below...
Video of the Inappropriate Class!!!! Funny Shit!
"Prince" takes it all!!!!
After the Races we brought the bikes over to Mama Tried
Benji built his bike in the van on the way over from NJ
Mr. Hot Bike Japan...
Cut Downs in the Show...
Ken Nagahara doing what he does...
Jason Sheets' Knuckle
My Knuckle hiding in the darkness...
Roadside Marty's Sweet Bobbed '50 Pan
Matt's Vard Knuckle
A better view of Marty's Pan...
Nick's bikes
Cyclemo's Knuckle
Ketterhagen's VL...
Mike Lang's Crocker
Twin Cam
Mike Lang with his Crocker
Matt McManus' sidecar rig
The mysterious Vanderbilt...
Chopper Dave's Knuckle
OK...Cyclemo...
Me and the kids...
Mr. and Mrs. Ketterhagen from H-D and his VL
Fat Bob
Adam Kings 45
Warren even let my 41 Knuckle park here for the day...
Thanks Warren!
Roadside Marty and me...
Flat Out Friday and Mama Tried what a TIME! Got out to the Panther Arena about 8 AM on Friday and got a little early morning practice in...I must say I had no clue as to what a concrete track covered in Dr. Pepper syrup was gonna feel like...It was not what I expected and was sticky as hell. I got out there and did a bunch of laps...felt pretty good.
The pits were pretty empty until about noon when bikes and riders started to show up...It filled up quick and there were a shit load of classes....everything from us on the old bikes to the Hooligans to kids on little bikes to Brakeless to the ever popular "Inappropriate Class" which for a lot of us turned out to be the high light! Funny as hell...There were thrills and a whole lotta spills...I think at least one bike went down in just about every race (all classes)! The crowd was big and they loved it!
We were at the arena 'til about 10 PM and then we loaded the bikes and brought 'em over to the Mama Tried building (directly across the water from the H-D Museum...a cool old warehouse / factory type place. We pulled the bikes into the giant old as shit elevator and brought 'em up to the 5th floor where the show was. Got a chance to look around while the place was empty.
Saturday was the show and we spent all day there into the night...it was packed and they had to count people coming and going because the building was at capacity. The show was fantastic with many different types of bikes. It was also great to finally meet some folks I had only known through cyber space like Roadside Marty and Kevin "Teach" Bass and to see old friends as well. We hit some after party's and got a little stupid...good times.
Sunday was a whole other story...The Ice Racing that almost wasn't!!! Coming up next....
