It is almost time to gas up the truck and get ready to head to the July Penton Owners Group meeting. The meeting will take place on Thursday July 3rd and will be held in the Jackpiner Room of the KTM office building, just west of beautiful downtown Amherst, Ohio. The rubber band start to the meeting will occur at 7 pm with official POG meeting starter Rick Bennett handling the duty.
It is interesting to think back to how some of the races were actually started "back in the day". The old hand on the helmet was quite popular at many events. At the Grove City MC Club in Grove City, PA they ran some 4 hour hare-scrambles that were buddy races. They used a Lemans start with one of the riders holding the bike while the other rider was lined up maybe 50 feet away in front of the bike. The bike holder was helmetless. The club had this little cannon that they would fire off to start the whole crazy event. BOOM, and the guys with the helmets would run and get the bike which by now was usually fired up by the guy holding it.....off we would go across an open field for maybe 200 yards and then there was a tight left turn into a single track tight woods section...talk about two stroke smoke in the woods. Those were the days.
I hope President Rick doesn't decide to have one of those Lemans starts for the POG meeting........might be 7:15 or so till we make it to the other side of the room !