Loudon98

**Easy Rider Excursion to the**
**Loudon International Speedway**
**Sunday June 21, 1998**
**Photo Album #1**

How many bikes are parked outside the speedway?
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	Linus drools over Jason's Hypercycle Suzuki GSXR-750. Notice the #1 Plate on the front end. This bike won more 750cc SuperSport AMA races than any other bike in it's class.
	Well, he found out soon enough what it was like to ride with J. Pridmore. The next day he rode pillion with Jason on one of Reg Pridmore's CLASS VFR's!!! "Man Let me tell you that kicked ass." -Linus
	Our Presidente bravely led us into the pits of the speedway (he bribed the security chaps $10 a person) soon after the sidecar races. Here Max has found his new love machine...
	But then he realizes that on his stipend (other than the one given to him by his mommy and daddy) he can only afford this baby banana beamer.
	Oops...
	Here's Harley-Davidson-Buell Racing's #3 Lightning in the Pits... ready to go...
	Okay folks. This is the "TIRE VAN". Any Questions?
	Right before the start of the 250cc Two-Stroke Race, it started to rain. Meanwhile, the 250's kept their tires warm with these nifty electric blankets!
	At first I thought that those 250cc TWO-strokes to me sounded SLOW because they were 250's. However I realized later that they were actually TWO-Stroke environmentally hazardous suicycles. They can easy over take any superbike in the corners.
	Here are the same three bikes screaming up Turn #3. This turn is a doozy, you have to slow down alot, and then roll on the gas to get up and over the hill.
	Here we see theTeam Muzzy Kawasaki's Race Camp in the pits. Check out Doug Chandler's #10 Bike being prepped and ready to run in the Superbike Championship. Doug was last year's Loudon Superbike Champ. He is coming back this year to win it again.
	After 36 of 39 laps. Doug Chandler has hammered a 10 second lag behind the 2nd place racer to less than one second. However he couldn't quite overtake Gobert. The annoucer: "I guess Chandler has decided to be a bit conservative and stick with a 3rd place win... that's very smart of him..." Then... ScRAPE-CRASH!!! Doug eats it in Turn#1 in Lap 38 of 39. Ouch.