Travis Pastrana, pro motocrosser, did a double back flip in the X games Friday night. First time eve done in competition. Travis was also the first to
do a single back flip in competition. It appears to have been done on a 250 two stroke bike from the pix in the paper today.
If I'm not mistaken, Travis teamed up with Ricky Johnson and a couple of others on a Suzuki 450 in the 1000 last year. I think they were DQ'd or given
a time penalty for not having their GPS box.Tomas Tierra - 8-5-2006 at 01:13 PM
I stood up uncontrolably screaming at my table. The other people at the little seafood restaraunt where I was dining had no idea as the volume was
down, and its just another motorcycle jump right??
NOT!!!!!!!
Sickity sick sick sicky sick
What next???bufeo - 8-5-2006 at 04:02 PM
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Originally posted by TW
...If I'm not mistaken, Travis teamed up with Ricky Johnson and a couple of others on a Suzuki 450 in the 1000 last year. I think they were DQ'd or
given a time penalty for not having their GPS box.
Yep, you're correct. There was a mixup and the 'delegate' who was supposed to mount the GPS at the start neglected to do so. The team noticed that
the 'box' was missing at Pit 2, but by then it was too late. They continued to race competitively on the much smaller bike than the winning Honda 650
and managed to finish third overall--only to discover the big error.
Greg Godfrey and Andy Grider were the other two riders. Pastrana and Grider and Suzuki will be back for this next B1K. They will have another
teammate, but I don't think it's "official" yet owing to sponsor formalities. It's going to be a formidable team this year, and you can bet that the
'box' will make it on the bike.
Grider is off to an Enduro in Romania next week http://www.redbullromaniacs.com/en/index.php . Pastrana has a commitment elsewhere, otherwise he would have gone to Romania as well.elgatoloco - 8-5-2006 at 05:03 PM
Pastrana also won the "rally" competition finished up today with a closed course sort of competition. They had done 8 or 9 stages of short course
rally driving ( 4 - 6 ) miles per stage in the Hungry Valley (Gorman) area on pretty good dirt roads. He won by a small margin as second place did a
barrell roll coming into the finish inside the stadium.
Interesting to have this kind of modified rally in the X-Games.
John MTMW - 8-6-2006 at 10:26 AM
Bufeo thanks, I had a brain fade and forgot about Andy being on the team. Tunaeater and I met him prerunning the 1000 last year. Are they going to
beef up the Suzuki 450. The run to La Paz is an open bike course with many flat out high speed sections. Too bad they can't race on the KTM.bufeo - 8-6-2006 at 12:04 PM
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Originally posted by TW
...Are they going to beef up the Suzuki 450? The run to La Paz is an open bike course with many flat out high speed sections. Too bad they can't race
on the KTM.
I don't have that info right now. I do know that they won't be using the MX model of last year. Neil (Andy's dad) did some magical stuff with
sprockets in order for the bike to keep up with the 650s. My guess would be purely that...a guess. Better to wait until more info is available.
