Back to the interesting part….
Watching these bikes race around this custom indoor dirt
track was like watching a well-choreographed ballet. They
floated and seemed almost flawless as they flew through
the curves and jumps, except you were almost guaranteed
a pile up at least once in every race. With 16 bikes racing
wide open, in a display that could be likened to all 16 trying
to fit all at once in my neighbors one car driveway, only the
leaders made it out untouched, only to find themselves in
another dimension of the course. Flying through a series
of jumps that looked like a washboard that would rattle their
brains, each jump popping them into the air with an amazing
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organized chaos that resembled popcorn in a pan.
The pinnacle of each lap was an amazing jump known as the
“catapult”, launching the bikes up in the air as if they were
being fired from a cannon. Flying 10, 15, and as high as 25
feet in the air where they seem to just lin