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Does Dale have a brother maybe Dean think I raced karts with them

When a motorcycle racer gets in a car he feels really safe. Voice of experience.

I saw dale a few times at loudon during his bike days. He was the premier privateer for sure.

Idea for you two, host an event "Flat Track Factory featuring Slammin Sammy's Slide School"

Idea for you two, host an event "Flat Track Factory featuring Slammin Sammy's Slide School"

Thank you guys for making a video that I needed to see. I have some gray hair a 1200 sporty and the desire to lifelong desire to be sideways!

Met Sammy at the WERA GNF, he’s a great guy and an awesome rider!

Could you give an overview of how setting up this sort of Rotax (and the modern 450’s) differs from the days of sprockets and carb jets? Rev limiters certainly don’t sound as good as an Astro 360 with a compression release!

Love the banter…you two crack me up!

Salmin!

Bro has a only fans helmet

You guys should sell some Reaper/#69 shirts and hats and split it. That bike is Wicked!

Sammy: you're a bicycle racer too. TEGADERM for the road rash!

So glad you two met up. The Reaper is sick!!! ROTAX the REAPER!!! GO #69

Sammy enjoyed watching you over at the FIM flat track/ I also watched ur podcast with Don Colindres about FRAMERS. Which frame is a good one for an old guy to build a flat tracker? Thanks James

Hope Sammy is ok.

Lets see the connectors ...

That called a cuck?? Hahahah

I have loved American flat track racing (long track, not short track) since I watched Kenny Roberts back in the day on the Yamaha HD beater (I did see home race GP bikes in the UK) but one thing I think that spoils the sport is the number of categories, this is my favourite, unlimited, build-it stick in any engine, tune it, race it, I'm sure if the categories down to a three at most, under 500cc over 50cc and then this it would get more fans,

I was sure that was a ROTAX, when he replaced the cam chain cover it was verified.

I've been searching for this video many years now. Somehow, I knew you would be the guy who would finally deliver it. Way back in the 60's when I got the racing bug pretty bad, I was asking similar questions. But as I'm sure you are aware, brakes were not an option. I thought I had the secret answers but wasn't entirely sure. Local physicists at the cow college where I was going to school were of the other opinion. You try that stupid idea and you will surely die, they pronounced. So being a butt head I persisted in nibbling at the idea and I'm pretty sure you know exactly what I'm talking about because I saw a video with you and your friend Dale where Dale was shouting at one of his students who was apparently wearing a helmet phone and he was shouting push that damn bar, push it. That kind of sounded backward to me and then I realized it was the same technique as mine in which I felt like I was mostly pulling the bar, the right side bar. I think Dale meant push the left side bar and I had never thought of it that way. We didn't have the top speed back then as you guys have now but anything over 85 was good. At 85 I begin to notice significant wind resistance and I used to sit up like a parachute opening and that was my brake. The outside, rightward twist of the handlebars was my ticket to making the turn. To me it's manually operated quantum physics, and it works. Let me expound on that a bit. If you look closely at an atom and watch the electrons flat-tracking around the nucleus you will see they ride in grooves that are quantized in energy. An electron with insufficient energy will always ride in a low groove. If it receives more energy, it can hop to the next level. In a race at early days Ellis Park Raceway, I did a jackass stunt to childishly park my bike at the inside fence just before the finish line. That involved me spinning backwards down the track for a short distance before I could laboriously glide backwards over to the fence. That worked out OK and I'm proud to say I've never been that stupid since. Bill King was watching me like an eagle, black flag in hand. So I killed the engine and made a big show of watching for traffic to come around and exit turn 4 for the checkered flag and I just held on to the fence and waited for the other guys to pass by before I started to push back to turn 4 and the road down to the outside pit area and jockey's dressing room. But before I could start my journey a little man in a pork-pie hat came trotting across the track and said "Hi I'm Blank Blank (because I don't want to embarasse my new friend) and he said I would like to ask you a question. To his astonishment I said certainly Dr. Blank Blank because I very well knew who he was and that he didn't know me. I knew he got his Phd. in physics at MIT and that he should already have won the Nobel Prize and only had not because he methods were unconventional and very advanced for the time. He was a boy genius who left high school when he was 12 and enrolled at Princeton. Before he was 21, he had a Phd from MIT. His question was why did I do that crazy caper only he was polite enough not to call it crazy. So I told him my theory that I believed made it possible and added that I thought it was similar to what he needed to do to win the Nobel that he already deserved. Mostly I told him that because I was actually his fan and didn't want to confess that I might be slightly batshit crazy. Amazingly he liked my idea and declared to the world that he had departed from the world of high energy physics and was very contented to be director of research and development at Judson Electronics. That is not enough information for you to track him down, but before the trick actually won him the Nobel, he built an ignition that he named the Judson Cycletron. It was a play on words, aimed straight at the academics and it was my middle finger to the cow college physicists of the world. You see, he was talking to people who were well familiar with the Judson Cyclotron at the University of California's Judson Laboratory. Later on, I was able to communicate to him that I had actually seen a rider named Buddy Belden do that quantum hop on a early hooligan class "outlaw" race and that later I also found myself doing a quantum hop. That is where you break loose and hop to a 90 degree position and then not having enough energy to support that new position the bike immediately hops back to the lower energy trajectory. I have more evidence but it's long and I've already gone on too much. My friend did win the Nobel but I won't tell you what year because that would be the same as telling his name. He passed away, I believe in 2021 but it might have been 2019. My memory is affected by old age and small strokes. But I'm wondering if Dad whom you mention might be Douglas Dillon?

Great video, fun and insightful! I’m wondering, what front sprocket size is normally on the Rotax?

Always good content with the Slammer!

Matt powers , my name is Bobby Miller. I’m looking to get back into racing. I raced in the 70s- 80s. I’m hoping to rub elbows with you in the upcoming season. I’m looking for a bike to race in the hooligan class. If anyone has a bike they aren’t using let me know

@sammyhalbert watching you flog his bike probably feels like you borrowing his wife I would say??? 😂

What does "Push the front" mean?

I'm itching to turn my Street Scrambler into a hooligan flat tracker and be the guy in last place at some races.

This is really helpful. I suffered from wheel hopping in supermoto and flat track now... I'm working on going in with more lean angle instead of straight up before I get to the rear brake. So far that's helped. I just have to get used to less rear brake going in with greater lean angles.

I think SH is using Mike D - Rotax more than he is.

I have seen a lot of videos like this given advice to others but he gave the best advice I’ve ever heard. “ instead of putting $1,000 into upgrades to your bike, put the $1,000 into the gas tank and go riding. “ Best advice ever. I look at facebook pages of other riders and they post their bikes all finished. But never post about riding it.

I've got two Weslakes in the shed. A Solo and a longstacker ( Solo + extended wheelbase + two speed gearbox + twin shocks at the back).

Rotax are wicked fast!

That track looks gorgeous. Got that Rotax geared nice and low too.

CTIS! the johnsons are some of the nicest people in flattrack!

I see this is a year old.....who rebuilds the cranks on xr75s-80s-100s? I've been told it can't be done...I have a hard time believing people build these without rebuilding the cranks.i wanted to have one lightened.

Thanks

You talk about 3rd gear, what gear is direct drive?

Excellent definition of a framer. Now I know a little more about the bikes.

Motocross bikes have been allowed, at least for TT, for a long time. Harken back to Houston, 1982, when Steve Wise dang near won on a lightly modified Honda CR.

Quit playing and get back to work. 😅

Back in the 90's I wrote Dale and ask him for an autographed photo for our "Wall of Fame!" He sent a poster of him on the BMW Roadracer and I now can look back and smile knowing what a great ambassador he is for the Industry! Thanks Dale and FTF!

Very easy to remouve the lock ring.. impossible to remove the chaine link…..wtf.. im stock

Rake and trail are measured with the bike motionless and the wheels inline and the bike straight up and down. That is the static rake and trail. . Here’s the kicker. Rake and trail change a lot while the bike is being ridden due to pitch change. Pretty obvious. But!! When you start sliding the back end and counter steering the rake and trail change drastically. . With the back tire way out to the side and the bike leaned way over and the handlebars turned way to the right you now have a rake and trail that is huge. This is why flat track bikes have such little static rake and trail. Less than you would really like for stability when hitting bumps. With a lot of static rake and trail the bike would be very cumbersome when counter steering.

I know the rotax 600s were very popular in the 80's/90's, but less so now. And the chassis were always someone else...Knight, J&M, Trackmaster, etc... Whatever type that frame is, the gas tank suggests a honda motor.. So why are you referring to the flat trackers as "Rotax"? Seems that most now are honda, kawasaki, or KTM.

Speedway ! ... end of conversation

What tires you got on that bad boy?? Great video!! I love it!!

Wanted to ask who made the frame on that # 20 ?

Longtrack bike would blow off the rotax all day long and definitely 6 times every Sunday. On grass, on shale, even on a solid serface.

mines silver 604 oil comes frm top ocerflow idk why still maybe lil extra

tube fell off motor tgek stopped bogged down. maybe a metal went or carb thing idk