Hubert Bastié and Maxime Petit-déjeuner aka the Mario Brothers both asked me to ride their 2 strokes. Maxime asked me on Saturday if I wanted to try his 125 vespa deathtrap. It tried to kill me but I survived, ha! That was the scariest thing I've riddin so far, damn that thing was incredibly light, aggressive, fast and impossible to ride with that flimsie frontend. No feeling at all. It was like riding with a flat tire.. Now that I think of it, that probably was the problem. I was riding it on the (wrong side of the) road after the race. Most riders where riding on the track with almost no tire presure at all. Riding an almost flat knobby tire doesn't improve the handling very much I reckon. :)
The next day Hubert Bastié said I could try his YZ250 on the campsite in the wet grass. That was a lot of fun :) I tried to get it sideways in the grassland without crashing. I failed miserably and I want to do it again. :) This was my first time on a proper dirttrack bike. No grip at all of course with the dirttrack tires on the wet grass so just before we went back to Amsterdam I had my share of dirt and fell of the Yamaha 2 times. I could not wipe that smile off my face the rest of the day. Thanks dudes for the ride! And thank you Dirt Quake for organizing this great! I'm hooked!
Ben Part lost his forward control in the second chopper class heat if I remember it correctly.
His rigid XS chopper frame now had a giant hole and he needed a new shifter so in the tropical heat he tried to fix his chopper with some spare parts from the Dutch Brothers team. On the other side of the Dutch Brothers van, Jan Willem was inspecting the damage on his 2 stroke Bultaco. This weekend was the first time that he tried his new Bultaco Astro. It was fast. Very fast! Jan Willem was flying over the track in the vintage class taking the lead. But the engine stopped dead in the middle of a corner. A overheated cylinder was the end of the race for the beautiful Bultaco
