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posted April 10, 2008 03:17 AM
OSC,
I had no idea that Buddy was racing way back then.
WAY COOL story! 
please give a lil more background, where was this? how did you meet Buddy??
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One of my favorite "Buddy" stories:
May of 1993 we installed a new engine in a very old frame. It was a 1970s Denco laydown frame that was designed for a 120 hp engine. It was a flexi-flier and not safe at any speed but I was too dumb to realize that at the time. The new engine made about 200 at the crank which made the bike a rolling death trap.
We made three passes that night and it was intense to say the least, it shook like a dog passing a peach seed all the way down the track. On two of the passes I thought I was going down, we should have just put it away and started over with a new chassis but Buddy said he would like to give it a shot so I told him to go for it. My thoughts were that he would launch it and go to about 300 feet or half track at most and then shut it off and tell me how dangerous it was.
But no, he twisted the throttle to the stops and stayed at WOT throught the traps and when he came back he didn't say anything about the bike except it was fun to ride....
Needless to say I gained a whole new respect for Buddy that night.
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Old Scholl Cubed
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posted April 10, 2008 08:49 AM
I met Buddy at one of the local tracks, probably the motorplex or Kennedale. We just started talking in the staging lanes and we hit it off. He came with me to dyno a bike and we raced together in the PMRA, we always seem to bump into each other at various tracks.
When I first met him, around 2001-2002, I thought it was cool that an older guy was at the track and was expecting him to be tentative or cautious but was I wrong, he can flat ride a bike. Some of his launches on the ZX12 were super aggressive but always in control, I was immediately impressed with his skills.
I was also impressed with his story of surviving colon cancer, Doctors have sent him home to die before and he beat it so I am praying he proves them wrong again.
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sleeperbusa
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posted April 10, 2008 10:18 PM
I'm at a loss for words.
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kawachan
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posted April 18, 2008 12:44 PM
My favorite time hanging out with Buddy is the trip up to MIR that I took with him and Entropy. Heck of a drive up and back for the race, but surely worth every minute Wound up finding out after we left that Buddy went and had treatment, then put off more treatment until we all got back from the trip. What a hell of a guy and hard-core racer!! Wish I was back in the states so I could go holler at him.
Buddy, I will be praying for ya!!
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posted April 18, 2008 02:09 PM
I was at KOTT in La, and it was HOT. 100 degrees at noon hot.... I had family with me, and a FULL motorhome......, or I would have let him and his friends crash in the AC overnight.....
Buddy and a couple freinds, slept in a black truck bed, with a black camper, with a fan.....,( could not have been less than 80 or 85 at night..... that they plugged into my electricity........, how they were still asleep in that truck after sun up, in 90 degree weather at 9 am, I will never know.......
I was glad to pit next to him and get to meet him. Only other time I was actually at the track with him, was when he blew that motor in Rusk........, and I did not know him then......
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posted May 22, 2008 03:36 PM
Bump, great pics, vid, and stories.
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charlesclemens
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posted June 23, 2008 11:34 PM
Great story i only say one thing to buddy! to don't giveup
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entropy
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posted June 24, 2008 01:53 AM
charlesclemens,
nice pic, thanks for posting it.
even right at the end, Buddy didn't "give up".
(he relaxed...)
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