Despite a cold morning and overcast skies, the rescheduled Iraan Sportbike Extravaganza went off mostly without a hitch today.
We arrived around 11 o'clock this morning, and when we got there, Carl was directing riders into parking in his bright yellow hall monitor shirt:
The turnout was smaller than in years past, likely due to the reschedule and weather, but there were still plenty of bikes and motorcyclists on the set:
Look! An old-school ZX-7R! Tim Kreitz must be here somewhere:
Heavy Bus Racing making a show of force:
That great Texas band Dingo Sanctuary donated copies of their new CD to the charity raffle:
Bikes lining up for the top horsepower dyno shootout. I don't know who won, but I do know that an N2O-equipped ZX-10R was verified at 201 horsepower early in the day:
Prepping the dyno for a run:
A rather groovy, very stretched ZX-14 gets loaded onto the dyno:
The stunt show featured some tandem trickery this year:
It was all fun and games until this happened. The guy being thrown into the air tried to leapfrog the approaching stunt bike on-foot and subsequently biffed the attempt. Don't worry, he was fine:
Good times. A big thank you goes out to all the sponsors and organizers. I hope to see more of you next year.
We arrived around 11 o'clock this morning, and when we got there, Carl was directing riders into parking in his bright yellow hall monitor shirt:
The turnout was smaller than in years past, likely due to the reschedule and weather, but there were still plenty of bikes and motorcyclists on the set:
Look! An old-school ZX-7R! Tim Kreitz must be here somewhere:
Heavy Bus Racing making a show of force:
That great Texas band Dingo Sanctuary donated copies of their new CD to the charity raffle:
Bikes lining up for the top horsepower dyno shootout. I don't know who won, but I do know that an N2O-equipped ZX-10R was verified at 201 horsepower early in the day:
Prepping the dyno for a run:
A rather groovy, very stretched ZX-14 gets loaded onto the dyno:
The stunt show featured some tandem trickery this year:
It was all fun and games until this happened. The guy being thrown into the air tried to leapfrog the approaching stunt bike on-foot and subsequently biffed the attempt. Don't worry, he was fine:
Good times. A big thank you goes out to all the sponsors and organizers. I hope to see more of you next year.
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