| Well you can now color me
green. I was fortunate to spend 4 days with Chevy Trucks Team Kawasaki the last week of
September cleaning up, photographing and documenting Kawasaki’s Championship winning
MX bikes. This was all made possible through the generosity and patience of the whole race
team and in particular Norm Bigelow. This month's "I WAS THERE" has photos of
some of Kawasaki's championship winning bikes. The MotoXmuseum is working on documenting
the MX history of Kawasaki and plans are to have the project completed in 2002. Plans are
also underway to document the history of the other MX manufacturers and some significant
privateer race teams before 2005. The trip to
visit Kawasaki started with doing the race coverage of the Sept. 23 Glen Helen National MX
race for Vintage Views. The Glen Helen Race report article contains our report on the
race, bikes in the pits and other fun information.
The final weekend of my trip was spent in Yakima,
Washington with Jim Pomeroy. Jim was gracious enough to all me to stay with him so I could
interview him and record all his race stories. Jim also has a huge collection of
photographs, articles and other memorabilia from his career which he allowed the
MotoXmuseum to capture. Jim has been inducted into the AMA Museum Hall of Fame and one of
the goals of the trip was to write his profile for the AMA Museum website. Jim is a
prolific story teller and pack rat. The visit resulted in 3 hours of taped stories and
over 2.5GB of pictures. (And Jim still wasn’t lost for words or boxes to go through.)
Watch for an profile of Jim Pomeroy next month and more stories and photos in the Vintage
Days West edition next year. Jim will be the Grand Marshal for next years Vintage Days
events, which celebrate Spanish motorcycles.
I would also like to offer up a big thanks to all
the people who sent in questions concerning the BasketCase 500. Congratulations to Scott
Anderson for being the first official entrant. Check out Scott’s basketcase TM250 in
the news part of the BasketCase 500 section. However all of the questions so far have come
from riders in the Central and East coast regions. The MotoXmuseum is looking for
indications of interest from West coast riders so a decision can be made if there will be
a BasketCase 500 event at Vintage West 2002. SO come on all you West coast people, get
involved. The BasketCase 500 section has been expanded to include a Question and Answer
section. As well the rules section has been expanded and now includes an example of the
documentation required to prove the total costs. Please continue to email in your
questions .The final rules will be released in November.
This edition of the website also marks the debut of
Project Carabela. Project Carabela is the first of project articles we will be doing as
part of the regular web site. Project Carabela is our Spanish motorcycle project for the
2002 Vintage Days, which will feature Spanish motorcycles.
Well fall is here and the home renovation season is
almost over. My house is half painted (the sides you see from the street) and my
wife’s bathroom is finished. Riding season will end soon for this part of the
Northeast and I will have recorded three laps this year. Not to despair as this makes it
easier to improve for next year. Hopefully winter will bring more time to write articles,
finish interviews and do some more work on the project bikes. So stay tuned and as always
please subscribe. This will allow you to be updated by email when the website gets
updated.
Thank you and keep it WFO.
Paul Parkinson
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