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    Lol.. your story reminds me of one my Dad tells me often when we start talking dirt bikes.
    ...The went and parked, loaded up and went home. Said that he only rode for fun after that. Very humbling experience.
    Yeap.. it's the rider, not the bike!!!

    I didn't give up though.. went to race school, did A LOT of track days (my life ins. barred me from actually racing.. I should have told them to pound sand). Sold my last 2 track bikes to move to TX, but I still have 3 of my street bikes. One is being put back together after getting totaled out..
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    Wednesday nights in high school were fun. Everybody pile into the car and go watch amateur drag racing. Especially when the CHP would show up and drag one of their cars.
    Some in the Houston area may remember when the big street racing crackdown happened a decade or so back. The cops would stage and descend on whatever area of town everyone organized in, and block all the exits. Helicopter would swoop in with the spotlight, and everyone would go full crazy trying to 'escape.' The more seasoned of us would stay put and watch the mayhem. Good times, good times. But, honestly, the best times were before the Fast & Furious crowds came out and ruined real street racing.
     

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    I never went to Fremont. They used to do the same races at Sears Point also.
    OH! Right!! Sears still has it's drag track too!!

    We used to go to Fremont (long gone) every Wednesday for grudge match night. We'd run our cars and generally be miscreants. One of our buddies was a HUGE Mazda rotor dude, a complete f*ckup in HS but he was brilliant with the rotor. Developed a peripheral porting method that turned a 1300cc 13B into a monster. He stuffed it in a little RX2, and cleaned the pickets of every rat-motor Chevy guy at the track one night. He had to sand bag it though because sub-10 seconds required a roll-cage and driveline loops (he, of course, had none of that --- Safety Third!). Man... do kids even have fun like that these days???
     

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    This is probably my favorite hobby though.... :whip:

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    Some in the Houston area may remember when the big street racing crackdown happened a decade or so back. The cops would stage and descend on whatever area of town everyone organized in, and block all the exits. Helicopter would swoop in with the spotlight, and everyone would go full crazy trying to 'escape.' The more seasoned of us would stay put and watch the mayhem. Good times, good times. But, honestly, the best times were before the Fast & Furious crowds came out and ruined real street racing.
    They did that to us too. We had a sections of town called "Industrial" that was almost perfect 1/4 mile from a corner to a set of RR tracks. One big race nigh we got there late and drove around the back of one the warehouses... and right into a HUGE PoPo task force that was about to pounce... we caught them off-guard.. they launched the raid before they were ready... and most everyone got away... I get it, public safety and all but man.. but as kids.. we couldn't figure out what they had such a bug up their asses to bust us! Didn't stop the street racing, of course.. we just got better at picking our venues...
     

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    They did that to us too. We had a sections of town called "Industrial" that was almost perfect 1/4 mile from a corner to a set of RR tracks. One big race nigh we got there late and drove around the back of one the warehouses... and right into a HUGE PoPo task force that was about to pounce... we caught them off-guard.. they launched the raid before they were ready... and most everyone got away... I get it, public safety and all but man.. but as kids.. we couldn't figure out what they had such a bug up their asses to bust us! Didn't stop the street racing, of course.. we just got better at picking our venues...

    Ah memories of rolling around the Industrial Park of one sleepy east bay town on a Friday night. It's amazing what I could get a '77 Monte Carlo to do with enough pavement. ;)
     

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    Some in the Houston area may remember when the big street racing crackdown happened a decade or so back.
    I remember crackdowns much older than that. I lived 3 blocks from the Goodnight Trail, if you remember that scene.
     

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    Good for him! I'd bet that's extremely exciting!

    It is. Or was, his wife put the kibosh on that when she got pregnant. I see all the folks talking about how fast their bikes are but we had proof. A timing slip showing just over 140mph in the quarter. Also had a lot of fun around Harley riders when I told them my little old sportster would outrun their big twin.
     

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    Some in the Houston area may remember when the big street racing crackdown happened a decade or so back. The cops would stage and descend on whatever area of town everyone organized in, and block all the exits. Helicopter would swoop in with the spotlight, and everyone would go full crazy trying to 'escape.' The more seasoned of us would stay put and watch the mayhem. Good times, good times. But, honestly, the best times were before the Fast & Furious crowds came out and ruined real street racing.

    As I was reading this post I felt like you were telling my story! The only difference was that I was running around DFW and surrounding areas. We would be pulling in just as the cops would be chasing the previous group away. We’d bang out runs before they’d show up again and we’d all scramble to the next spot. Rinse and Repeat all night!
     

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    I remember crackdowns much older than that. I lived 3 blocks from the Goodnight Trail, if you remember that scene.

    The width and depth of your life experiences never cease to astound me! Goodnight Trial brings back more memories than you could imagine. Drove that way just the other day and the fresh tire marks show it is still one of the places in North Houston for street racing. May have to make a trip down that way with the GTO and see if this old man still has anything left in him.
     
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