- Mar 9, 2001
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The other day, I was invited to go to Amago, so today I ditched work and headed out for a day of riding and photos. Amago is a cool little mx park, tucked back in a valley on the La Jolla Indian reservation.
Well we all met up at the track around 10:00 am (1 Pro, 2 Am, 1 int. FMXer, my daughter and myself), so the whole range of riders was covered, from Pro to Spode and for 3 hrs. we had the whole place to ourselves.
During the breaks is when I noticed this strange dialog going on, it was something I have never heard before, while I’m changing the film out, they were sitting there bench racing, adjusting, refueling and speaking to each other in a series of braps, erupts and whaaap’s, all I could do was just sit there and nod and on occasions throw in a courtesy laugh, had absolutely NO idea what they were saying, add to this a certain kind of sign language to go with each sound effect, I was totally lost, so I just laid back in the truck, closed my eyes and just listened to this new language. After a short rest I was ready to go again, I jump down off the truck and said “Hey, Lets Roll ” and then stopped dead in my tracks, something wasn’t right, their riding gear seemed to be different, they were no longer wearing the Thor, the No-Fear, the Fox, it appeared to me as if they were wearing........... Animal fur......... their hair was borderline dreadlocks and the bananas and power-bars were, well they were drumsticks, the size of a Fooz ball bat and they were still talking and signing in this new language; The bikes were still there, all prepped and ready to go and the track was still there with nobody on it, but everything else was just wrong, as I stood there in disbelief, I hear this horrendous roar behind me and I thought ‘ OH my god, it’s going to eat me’, I spun around to see Chris firing up my 520 and asking to take it for a spin, I turn back around and there’s Steve, Dan and Dave all sitting in their Thors, No-Fears and Fox, eating bananas and power-bars, talking in this strange new language.
Well needless to say, the 20 + year generation gap is hard to get a grasp on and I will never again stay up all night eating pizza while watching Jurassic Park .
Another great day of riding
Well we all met up at the track around 10:00 am (1 Pro, 2 Am, 1 int. FMXer, my daughter and myself), so the whole range of riders was covered, from Pro to Spode and for 3 hrs. we had the whole place to ourselves.
During the breaks is when I noticed this strange dialog going on, it was something I have never heard before, while I’m changing the film out, they were sitting there bench racing, adjusting, refueling and speaking to each other in a series of braps, erupts and whaaap’s, all I could do was just sit there and nod and on occasions throw in a courtesy laugh, had absolutely NO idea what they were saying, add to this a certain kind of sign language to go with each sound effect, I was totally lost, so I just laid back in the truck, closed my eyes and just listened to this new language. After a short rest I was ready to go again, I jump down off the truck and said “Hey, Lets Roll ” and then stopped dead in my tracks, something wasn’t right, their riding gear seemed to be different, they were no longer wearing the Thor, the No-Fear, the Fox, it appeared to me as if they were wearing........... Animal fur......... their hair was borderline dreadlocks and the bananas and power-bars were, well they were drumsticks, the size of a Fooz ball bat and they were still talking and signing in this new language; The bikes were still there, all prepped and ready to go and the track was still there with nobody on it, but everything else was just wrong, as I stood there in disbelief, I hear this horrendous roar behind me and I thought ‘ OH my god, it’s going to eat me’, I spun around to see Chris firing up my 520 and asking to take it for a spin, I turn back around and there’s Steve, Dan and Dave all sitting in their Thors, No-Fears and Fox, eating bananas and power-bars, talking in this strange new language.
Well needless to say, the 20 + year generation gap is hard to get a grasp on and I will never again stay up all night eating pizza while watching Jurassic Park .
Another great day of riding
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