Love it! Drive the wheels off of it and worry about restoring it later.

It was about 10 a.m. the Saturday before Labor Day in 1993. I was a young buck with a sweet job at the big video game publisher, and I was taking the long weekend to solo ride and camp in Northern California. I had been riding on the street for more than 10 years, with dirt bikes for another 10 years before that.…

A great race, for sure. And it’s wonderful that you guys are calling attention to it. Anyone remember the 500cc era? Almost every race was like this, with four or five bikes fighting it out to the line.

This...

Stoner could be blistering with a clear track, but when it came to close racing he lacked the knack I would require my best of all time riders to have. (I’ll give him credit though for racing hard in close quarters a few times over the course of his motogp career.) Jorge is similar: blazing fast on an open track but…