Glen Helen Prequel

Sup everyone.

Had a great day on Saturday - went to the Prequel motocross out at Glen Helen. This is a warm up race before the outdoor motocross season begins. This is a mix of a few top pro's along with the local pro's - makes for great racing and a good time. Plus, since this is not a "AMA sanctioned" event, the rules about how close you can get to the track are not in play and that is what made are day kick ass.

Hit the road about 9:45 with the Maxican (mexican named Max) - I have known him since I was about 10 or 11 then cruised on over to the bachelor pad of the AVman and off to the races. Towards the middle of the first motocross moto, we were finally able to hook up with my brother. While we were watching we noticed the riders doing the big tabletop jump at the top of a hill. So through a fence and a serious hill climb and on top of the hill we were. Great view of the whole track and man what a knarly jump. After reading another site, this was a 100 foot high table top - big steep climb up and a very steep downhill landing. Plus it was about a 50 ft leap across. You really had to be there to get how crazy this was.

Two cool things about this spot. 1. At times the riders were flying through the air no more than a foot from us and 2. the riders started doing some whips over this. This was the cool part. Once we realized a few guys were doing that, we would hang over the track cheering them on as they climbed up the face of the jump and they recognized were cheering them on and started doing tricks for us - big whips, giving us the thumbs up, or the cool "look at you with the finger point". In the last race, one guys was doing 1 hander, no footers every time for us and on the last lap he did that then gave us a big look back before he dropped out of sight down the landing - freaking wicked cool.

My favorite moment was on the last lap of the last race. A pro rider named Grant Langston - he is a top 10 rider in America - was leading and racing the whole race, really focused, and we cheered him on every lap. On the last lap he comes over the big table, does a big whip, gives us a look and gives us the cool "i recognize you guys" finger point. But.. he was so close to us on that jump that while I was clapping, I swore his hand (the "i recognize you guys" finger point" hand) went between mine.

YEAH BOY!!!!

I gotta say that was one of the best times I have ever had at a race. Myself, the Maxican, AVman and my Bro had a blast, great racing, kicks ass whips, and nothing but great jokes and bagging on each other.

This is as cool as you can get with a group of guys with a zero gayness factor!!!

Later!