Anyone (Sean maybe?) familiar with Andrew Clark? Apparently he
used to race MX, and then he was sponsored on the pitbike circuit for
awhile. He's got several videos like this one on You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s04oNSFtJXw
Anyway, I met his dad and treated their house today. His dad, Mike,
is a nice guy and a PRS guitars distributor. He gave my son some PRS
stickers and a couple T-shirts.
In the garage was a super-tricked out pitbike. I'm pretty sure it
began life as a stock KLX110, but with all the BBR components, wave
rotors, and other goodies on there it was hard to tell. Mike said that
Andrew was sponsored (I forgot by whom) and they delivered two, $15k
pitbikes! I'm not sure if the one I saw was one of them, but I imagine
so. There was also a slightly-modified CRF50 nearby, and an old KTM
300 that looked a lot like this one:
http://www.transworldmotocross.com/m...343898,00.html
Apparently the KTM was given to him by a customer (Andrew currently
works at a KTM shop in McKinney). Dad said he was either gonna part it
out on eBay or steal the motor for a radical pitbike project.
Dad also said that Andrew got to race with McGrath, Charlie Bogart
and others earlier in his career, but broke his neck and, combined
with the hectic schedule, decided to back off a bit. He still rides,
but I think he rides mostly for fun now. He's been to Boondoxxx, Red
River, all the local MX tracks, and several local pitbike tracks
(Squidville 2, for example). He's also competed in a few cross country
races, dad said. I think he's currently about 22 years old if I
remember correctly.
All in all it was an interesting new customer. Way better than the
typical tech-industry goobers or overweight housewives that I usually
get (NTTAWWT).
Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
fjbradfordREMOVE@tx.rr.com