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     Road_thing |
It was a beautiful Sunday so I fired up the Road Pig and rode from the suburbs of Welcome, TX down to Goliad, about 150 miles south, where the Texas Mile was in its third day of competition. Hard to beat a ride in the Texas countryside on a beautiful spring day!  The venue is an old Navy airfield a few miles outside of town. There are two sets of side-by side runways; pits are on one side, course on the other. Lots of room! Racing was on one pair of runways while there was some general aviation traffic on the other. The format is a standing start with the timing lights at the mile mark. I think there's a mile or so of shut-off.  Jon Minonno was down from Ft Worth with Boar-Zilla, his turbo'ed 100" S&S 'liner (sans most of the bodywork). Jon has gone 227 at Bonneville on this bike; I didn't see his results at this meet.  "Beetle" out of Austin was running a stock Buell motor in this nice old drag bike; went about 130, I think. Really nice guy, I talked to him for a long time in the staging area.  Fireman Jim: Here's your next ex-wife!  TM is a run-what-you-brung deal-lots of interesting machinery. Mostly late-model, hopped-up production stuff; lots of 'Busas on nitrous, Mustangs, tuner cars, etc. This GT40 sounded real strong!  But there's always the unexpected...  There were a bunch of runs over 200, I think the fast bike of the meet went 254...unfaired!  One last "Court-ish" shot--how many of us are old enough to remember nickel Cokes?  It was a beautiful ride! rt | ||
| Crusty |
how many of us are old enough to remember nickel Cokes? I do. And when you were finished with the Coke, you'd return the bottle, get the 2 cents deposit back and buy penny candy with it. | ||
| Cobra |
I was there for a few hours Saturday evening as a spectator. I was parked next to a VW that went 193 mph! Lots of cool stuff out there. I know wfo_rey ran his 08 1125R. We need to get him to post some of his experiences over here. | ||
| Road_thing |
I was looking for Rey, but I didn't see any Buells Sunday afternoon. He was the one that got me interested in going down to Goliad in the first place. rt | ||
| Bomber |
Rjumor has it that Road_Thang remembers when Coke still had, well, Coke in it. Me, I don't believe it, though Looks like BIG fun down in Tejas! Much better than shoveling snow! | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Damn again! I should have been paying more attention! I was actually looking at a route on Google maps late last week for heading down there "next time they run the Texas Mile". Didn't bother to look up when that might actually be, though...  Jay | ||
| Road_thing |
Rumor has it that Bomber (who, for the record is currently even older than I am  ) was heard complaining when the price of Coca- Cola rose to a nickel! rt | ||
| Buellerthanyou |
Anybody remember when you could buy a l'il paper tube of roasted peanuts for a nickel at the "five & dime" and sometimes they'd have a coin tucked up in the paper cap?(unsanitary? HTFU!) It was like legalized gambling for kids! Pay a nickel, maybe get a dime or a quarter. I even found a tightly folded dollar bill one time! (or maybe I dreamed it all). Those tubes were perfect for pouring the peanuts into your 8 oz glass bottle of Dr. Pepper. Anyway, I'm not old, I'm just acting... HellBuelly J | ||
| Ochoa0042 |
man I wish I would of gone!!! i was planning on it too  (Message edited by ochoa0042 on March 31, 2009) |
