The Dayton Motorcycle Club puts on an annual hillclimb in Oregonia Ohio.
The 1999 event was the 51st anniversary race. We aren't huge motorcycle
fans, and neither of us were drunk, wearing leather, or had any tattoos,
so Sandy and I were in the minority at the event. But it was pretty fun,
and had some interesting sights.
The event is always the second weekend in October.
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This is the race course. You can either stand next to the course
(look out for out of control racers) or watch from the opposite hill.
You can see the stair steps on the hill. |
| Riders try to pick the best rut to start in at the bottom of the
hill. There was quite a bit of rain in the days before this years race,
so it was a sloppy race. |
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Because the race was wet, I think the bikes caught less air on the
stair steps than usual. |
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| A rider crossing the finish line at the top. The winning time was
just 9.205 seconds. Not all riders made it to the top, and some of the
ones that did took 18 seconds and longer. |
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Like I said, it was an interesting crowd. These two ladies had the
crowd cheering more loudly for their mud wrestling than they were for
the race. |
| The police broke up the commotion after a short while, and the
wrestlers were apparently best of friends after the fact. |
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