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When were you racing as a kid was it always flat track or were you racing motocross and
scrambles as well?Usually when I got on a trail bike, it’d be somebody’s old worn out piece of junk with bad shocks on it, so when I’d go trail riding I’d say “Golly, this might be my last ride!” I didn’t have any really good equipment to get used to it, so it was kind of scary for me when I went trail riding. It’s always a fun time -- up north they always have the one ride; they used to call it the J ride, then they called it the Scotty Parker ride, and now it’s called the Alpina ride. Everybody goes up there in the fall. It’s a beautiful country, you wouldn’t think there’d be a lot of sand, but the farther up north you go it gets sandy.
The weather isn’t conducive to riding all year ‘round in Michigan, what did you do during
the winter? Any experience ice racing?Ohh, all the time. Most guys had jobs and whatnot and my parents used to go down to Florida and stay in a travel trailer and I’d be in the house, so I’d go ride on the lake (I don’t think it’s very good to go riding by yourself, but I used to do that a lot.) Just ridin’ on the lake with the screws in the tires and stuff like that and I started indoor racing on the hockey rinks. They used to put on speedway style events with four guys per race, twenty-some events throughout the night, match races, and then eight man main events, so we were used to that. Byron Molloseau, which he passed away, was my me- chanic and he was a very good mechanic with anything and he was really into the ice racing. He was the first person to put metal in the tires in Michigan. So he put the number eight sheet metal screws in there, which were the half inch at first, but then we started rippin’ the knobs off and throwin’ screws, so they went to the liners for outdoors anyways. But, we used to run the five eighths and the Carlisle semi-knobbies which they quit makin’. It’s all changed since I quit racin’ there, but I was like the six time champion in that with Byron, and I also rode for Ted Boody on the indoor ice -- he was gettin’ knee surgery and had a bike from college, from a shop in Lansing, and he wasn’t able to ride it so I rode it that year and got the number one plate. >>
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