The Start of Summer Edition
The Jump
I’ll never know what made me do it but it was just one of those things you feel you have to do.
Back in the mid seventies we used to spend a lot of time riding our mini bikes and motorcycles in the woods between 12th and 17th streets just north of the West Shore Plaza. It has since mostly been taken over by development but there is still a little left. There were trails all through the woods on both sides of 12th street and it made for a fantastic dirt bike playground. You could ride from the North 15th to the bypass on a spider web of trails. By we I mean Brian Butt, Dean Mantis, Frank Shimer, Larry Kaspar and Dale Radnor to name a few. We would spend endless summer days doing time trials and jumps. We were the X-games before anybody ever thought of it. “The Dips” were in the woods, so named because they were a series of indentations created by several dried up streams. We used to love motoring down the trails and flying through the dips and getting some air.
Being a fan of Evel Knievel, I used to try to emulate his jumping talents.
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