Years ago Gene Romero lived down the street and I picked up the Love of
Road Racing from him.... As for Reverse....yeah I know the feeling as some
young punk kid Blasted past named Kenny Roberts.... WOW.... watching him
pull the back tire in the air as he Braked going into a corner
There will always be a place in my heart for a Two Stroke at 14000 rpm ...
and the Buzz in the handlebars.... neat stuff....
Keith
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> From: Dick Jurkowski <lsr_man@yahoo.com>
> To: kturk@ala.net; JAMES CANNON <dr.piston@worldnet.att.net>; John
Beckett <landspeedracer@email.msn.com>; Parks, David <David.Parks@lfr.com>;
land-speed@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Pistons?
> Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:41 PM
>
>
> Oh, I agree fully. Sound means a lot. I'd
> rather hear a DC-3 crank up and fire any day over
> an F-16! Remember what I said about the end of
> the Allisons. To me, America is predicated on
> flatheads, harleys, and hemis!
> ahh, OK, and SB Shivvies too.
> All I meant was we all share the same race course
> and the same love for speed. We just all have
> different ways of getting there. For some it's
> the trip. For some it's the destination. But if
> it's a race car, it has my attention, and if he's
> a race driver, he's got my respect - no matter
> what he drives.
>
> PS: I've raced on the same tracks, in the same
> races with Don Vesco on two wheels - believe me -
> the man knows what pistons are for too!!!!! I
> didn't even know my race bike(?) had a reverse
> gear until DV passed me on the banking at
> Daytona. Talk about feeling like you're going
> backwards!!
>
>
> --- Keith Turk <kturk@ala.net> wrote:
> I still love
> > a conventional Piston engine
>
> =====
> Dick J in East Texas
> - - ECTA #72 - -
> G/FCC - FX/STR
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