I am locking this thread. Please take this discussion someplace less public.

Scott, it's great to see you are in preparation for the Dakar again - we will watch your progress, so please let us know how you get on during preparation, and good luck with the new passenger. Tracy, with Dakar 2008 entries opening in just 4 weeks, I think it's unlikely we will find a big sponsor ...

Those of you in UK, Spain, and USA will find higher resolution images in Google Earth today. There was a large update that affects the following areas: UK: Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire, Berkshire, Peak District, Birmingham, Greater Manchester, Avon, Gloucestershire, Lincolnshire. Spain: Gran Ca...

My passenger Duane McDowell has decided to quit sidecar racing. So, I am now testing with a new passenger (Joe). I'll announce more about him soon. He's good!!! He's won the Baja 1000, and other significant desert races. But he has never ridden an off-road sidecar before now. On the first two days w...

Dietmar, Thanks for this great list of tracks. It was difficult for me to download and convert your file, but after one hour I have everything working well. I made a few changes to your file, and placed a new Google Earth file onto SidecarCross.com. So now it should be easier for others to see. For ...

adam wrote:hiya scott why eagle?

Made in America! (copy of Wasp)

Another great photo from the same race, same jump.

Bollhalder/Bollhalder:



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That photo was taken by my brother Eric Whitney. I think the track is Ruswil? It was 1979. I was racing with my dad in the same race, but on this big jump the front forks broke and my dad went to the hospital. That was the end of our first racing trip to Europe. Grogg helped us a lot while we were t...

Spam in the forum has gone out of control. Just today I had to delete more than 20 spam messages in the forum from two different users, plus I deleted about 8 new registered users (spammers). So, I changed the setting in the forum so Admin (me or Rien) must confirm the registration for each new pers...

Daniël, best of luck in Dakar ! ! !

mike wrote:show me/us pic's if you like if you can..

I think this is it:

is it me or is anyone else getting slighly annoyed with the yank sticking his orr in... One boat in MY lake has been rocking back and forth too much, and was getting close to sinking. There have already been a few good people knocked overboard by all this rocking. I brought out a second boat to try...

...with out group a....there d be no group b Rondog, you left out group C. They are the people who do all the work to organize the races, keep the clubs alive, distribute the information, calculate the points, and all that. Those people are often also part of groups A or B. When some group C people...

guss returns wrote:HAS RONDOG BEEN KICKED OFF THEN FULLY

Not that I'm aware of. His username is still here, and not disabled.

He's back, hopefully with a new appreciation for the difference between the two UK forums.