Rupert X Indy SX report

“Cops can’t see ME ! “ That’s what I kept telling my buddy Gonz as we rolled through the Indiana countryside at about 83 mph in the wife’s stupid Mini Cooper. He was so insistent that I back it down – that I finally did, just as an undercover blue Ford Mustang GT nailed the guy next to me, as he went past. Why does I-70 always have to be so dramatic ?

Anyway, here’s some GNARLY GNOTES from Windy Indy.

After his 2nd practice – KEVIN WINDHAM was SERIOUSLY pissed off, he ran out onto the track and was busy yelling at the track workers, AMA operatives and, anybody that would lend an ear. We never did figure what that was all about. Maybe that silly corner they kept messing with. Or, it could be about the Health Care Plan, NAFTA – or a bid on Erin’s boob-cast.

If the announcers don’t know what is going on – WHAT THEN ? Nobody seemed to know WHO it was that got black-flagged, all we knew for sure was that track workers and all kinds of folks were chasing after Dungey as he exited the course. #338 brought his bike in for sound-check right after all that went down…

My hotel had a conference of about 300 religious folks, mostly hot girls between 18-21, a meeting of shrine clowns and a couple dozen Supercross fans. If you’re ever in an elevator with a overly friendly, far-too-happy clown, that’s cross-dressed as a pirate and has to have an “Arrgh” after everything said -and YOU have a category five (5) hangover, you’d ignore that sleazy bunghole, too.

Hot damn - do clowns ever annoy . Clowns sure as hell shouldn’t be playing pirates or in my hotel or up in my elevator before my morning coffee. Bastards.

Indy has a great downtown. Vibrant. Fun. Shopping. 3 Brewery-pubs Fancy restaurants. And tons of homeless – requesting fundage. I provided many a token economic stimulus package of change, but one dude TOTALLY pissed me off. With my posse behind me, a well dressed man approached me fingering his change in his palm, gently requested 65 cents for a bus ride. Naturally, I emptied my pocket of coinage and wished the down-on-his luck bum-with-glasses-” good luck”. After practice – on our way back to the hotel to party it up, he was about a block away and tried it again.

Me: “Dude, you already tried that with me and I gave you money this morning ”
Bum: “No I didn’t”
Me and my colleagues “ Yea ya did”.
Bum: “Oops, maybe I drank it then…”

Sure, we chuckled awkwardly and marched off, determined that every bum is NOT an angel. One has to wonder how often he gets away with that. Probably has more money than I do. Dummy.

RYAN DUNGEY has the BEST intro music and the crowd totally gets into it – LED ZEPPELIN. Kashmir, I believe… FINALLY, someone gets it !
Other riders could learn something and can their fruity techno-gospel-rap-crap-Euro-disco nonsense…. Seriously, you can’t fire up a crowd with that shtuff….

Announcers, we still can’t hear ya. Either give it up, or fix it. Bikes more muffled, please. And more two-strokes.

Everybody wanted Kevin Windham to win. Cycle News probably had a cover ready – W INDY-HAM !!!
Lappers hurt Dungey more than Villopodium, everybody saw that. Lappers need to be penalized. NOW.

Yeah, the tracks DO seem to be getting skinnier.

Those trick new pegs that a few privateers were using ? www.anklesavers.com

I almost won the B main at the Friday night kart races. That damn SHENZI and his AGV helmet used lappers and caution lights to his advantage. Dammit.

Mike Heingartner and his #894 Suzuki RM-250 two-stroke had no luck at Indy. Jetting problems. Mike is planning on trying again at St Lou. Bummer. He was due to get a couple hundo in American bucks and a bucket of chicken if he made the night-show….

The East Coast Lites is stacked a zillion times more than West. Lots o “names” didn’t get in.
When Jimmy DeCostis of New England was leading the Lites briefly, everybody was throwing up the hands – “Who is this guy?”
I told everybody he was another secret French import – who the hell knows anymore ?

Not that it was just impossible to believe that RV was in the LCQ – but when he was running around in fifth – people were all “WTF?”

I did notice RC’s former right-hand-man, Scott Taylor, tending to his charge – Mr Ivan Tedesco – oddly enough, Mr Taylor was donning a ONE Industries winter hat. He must have left the den.

Mixed responses to “How’s the track ?” Some dug it, others not so much. The throttle control of Windham and Pourcel is amazing to watch, by the way.

Hey, what the HELL was Tedesco doing past the mechanics area ? He took a line like no other – blasting dirt and making far too much noise and commotion into the first corner – dragons back thingey… Crowd loved it.

Oh, here’s that new VOLKS camper contraption : http://www.mymodernmet.com/...en-westfalia-verdier

Something that the Supercross crew does VERY well – is the opening sequence; The introductions, the pomp, the pageantry, the fireworks, the flags, the ceremonial enlistment ceremonies – all that. It’s a spectacle – the way it should be. Very cool.

Christophe Pourcel . Yes, Bubba should be concerned. Next year. He’s deceptively quick and Wind-Bayle smooth.

What happened to riders tossing out some random freestyle every now and then ? Especially with MIKE “ The Godfather” Metzger in the crowd. ! Halftime FMX show is very well done. Sumo fat men in roly-poly suits race - is not even good enough to be called silly. Replace it.

Embarrassing.

One thing’s for sure, Dungey’s pissed and he ain’t gonna take it no more.

Even the crappy seats up in the rafters were taken at Indy. Hey, instead of five Anaheims, and ten California races, how about two INDYS ?

Missing at Indy were a sand-section and a bridge/tunnel. Bring ‘em next year.

And hey, for all you four-stroke lovers – if they are SOOOOO great – how come all the freestyle guys bust out the smokers ?

Yep – called it.

There was a party in the hotel room next to mine - that was SOOOO out of control, that not only were the 3 a.m pizza boxes in the bathtub and beer cans and liquor bottles ground into the carpet – there was actually some broke aluminum crutches, snapped in half, by the HD plasma-flat-screen. This was no ordinary party . Nosirreee – this was INDY.

And Indy – has become the REDDDDD BUUUUUDDD - of Supercross.