After Tyler raced Willow on a 600 and crashed coming over 6 once and later that day in 9, he said “dad maybe you were a better racer than I gave you credit for”. Lolol
He still has the track record for the SV classes, 1:27:19, if I remember correctly. I only ran 35’s on a 600 back in the early 90’s and the Vance and Hines boys did a 29 and mostly 30’s at the nationals.
I remember buying a “setup” 89 FZR 600 and just racing it. It was wallowing around, but I was still winning novice and then some regular races, when I didn’t crash out.
I didn’t realize that “setup” doesn’t mean gas and go. I had no knowledge back then, before the internet, and there were no suspension guys at the track like we have now.
We didn’t even have warmers back then, but it sure was fun!!!