Tuesday 10 April 2012

VINTAGE BOARDTRACK RACING AT DAYTONA . . . . FROM THE MARIK FAMILY VAULTS . . . . NOT ONE OF THE 'USUAL SUSPECTS', SOME GENUINE LOW MILEAGE FOOTAGE WITHOUT THE USUAL SHIT QUALITY, GENERIC, COCK ROCK SOUNDTRACK, TOTALLY WORTH THE TIME.

A COUPLE OF THINGS TO LOOK FOR, THE REAL WIDTH OF THE TRACK, THE SHEER FUCKING NUMBER OF THOSE BOARDS AND THE EXTREMELY SPLINTERED AND POOR CONDITION OF SOME OF THE OUTER TRACK . . . . IMAGINE COMING OFF AND ENDING UP WITH A SLINTER THE SIZE OF A BROOMSTICK UP YOUR DATE . . . . OUCH !!!! THESE DUDES WERE CERTIFIED HELLMEN, NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, 100 MPH IN 1920 MUST'VE SEEMED LIKE MACH 3 . . . . WHERE DID THEY PUT THEIR BALLS ???

AND, OF COURSE, THE FACT THAT ALL BIKES WERE PUTTING DOWN COPIOUS VOLUMES OF LUBRICANT ONTO THE TRACK SURFACE, CARE OF THEIR TOTAL LOSS SYSTEMS, THUS ENSURING THAT THOSE PRIMITIVE, SKINNY TIRES HAD MAXIMUM OPPORTUNITY OF COMING UNSTUCK AT ABOUT THE TON, SPEARING YOU DOWN THE TRACK, OPTIMISING YOUR CHANCE OF A SPHINCTORIAL CLOSE ENCOUNTER OF THE SPLINTERED KIND . . . . OH YEAH . . . . GIMME SOME OF THAT SHIT !!!!

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