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I'm only bringing this back up because, well, I've got a good story. About 2 years ago, an older vet rider who was still incredibly fast and had done everything and anything in the desert had a major accident, as in he's still recovering, has a crutch, he did kinda die twice in the hospital, on a bike. Well, at the Socorro event the weekend before halloween he wanted to do the pre ride, and I volunteered to go with him to be there to assist in way needed (turned out to be a good thing) we didn't ride very hard or very fast, as he is on a crutch after all, but even still, a bunch of riders I don't normally see on race day were doing the same pace we were, and we were only doing maybe 10-20 mph through most of it, but at one point we were sitting still and taking a break and I commented that we were giving those dudes hell, and he said yeah, remember that when you say you're slow, you're not ricky brabec, but to a whole lot of people in this sport you're on a whole different level, and a whole lot of them look up to the guys like you, more than they do the guys they see on TV

<blockquote data-quote="snowflake" data-source="post: 217387" data-attributes="member: 152"><p>I'm only bringing this back up because, well, I've got a good story. About 2 years ago, an older vet rider who was still incredibly fast and had done everything and anything in the desert had a major accident, as in he's still recovering, has a crutch, he did kinda die twice in the hospital, on a bike. Well, at the Socorro event the weekend before halloween he wanted to do the pre ride, and I volunteered to go with him to be there to assist in way needed (turned out to be a good thing) we didn't ride very hard or very fast, as he is on a crutch after all, but even still, a bunch of riders I don't normally see on race day were doing the same pace we were, and we were only doing maybe 10-20 mph through most of it, but at one point we were sitting still and taking a break and I commented that we were giving those dudes hell, and he said yeah, remember that when you say you're slow, you're not ricky brabec, but to a whole lot of people in this sport you're on a whole different level, and a whole lot of them look up to the guys like you, more than they do the guys they see on TV</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="snowflake, post: 217387, member: 152"] I'm only bringing this back up because, well, I've got a good story. About 2 years ago, an older vet rider who was still incredibly fast and had done everything and anything in the desert had a major accident, as in he's still recovering, has a crutch, he did kinda die twice in the hospital, on a bike. Well, at the Socorro event the weekend before halloween he wanted to do the pre ride, and I volunteered to go with him to be there to assist in way needed (turned out to be a good thing) we didn't ride very hard or very fast, as he is on a crutch after all, but even still, a bunch of riders I don't normally see on race day were doing the same pace we were, and we were only doing maybe 10-20 mph through most of it, but at one point we were sitting still and taking a break and I commented that we were giving those dudes hell, and he said yeah, remember that when you say you're slow, you're not ricky brabec, but to a whole lot of people in this sport you're on a whole different level, and a whole lot of them look up to the guys like you, more than they do the guys they see on TV [/QUOTE]

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