Super Hunky Still Rides

For those of you too young to remember Dirt Bike magazine in the 1970's, you missed some of the best writting and reviews of dirt bike culture ever. This was a time of big changes in factory bikes and companies like Can-Am and Harley Davidson were actually fielding MX models, that would eventually fail, but they were trying. Suffice to say it was a great time to be into dirtbikes and Dirt Bike magazine was the final and only word for dirtbikers. Dirt Bike's editor during this time was Rick "Super Hunky" Siemen. My school chums and I would spend study hour like a pack of delinquents, laughing to the described exploites of Super Hunky and the witty responses of Mr. Know it All, both columns written by Rick. Dirt Bike and Rick did a lot to shape Americans perceptions of what a dirtbike or MX'er was or should look like. Think about it, here was an idea for a magazine that would cater to mostly kids or teenagers, who were interested in a niche market like dirt bikes in a down economy, there couldn't have been many backers in the early days. Nobody writes articles like that these days, except maybe Rick himself. You can get a glimpse of him over at OffRoad.Com. No I'm not being paid for this, I just thinks its a pretty good website, and people interested in mini's or dirt bikes will find something there they'll like.
Next week I plan on doing some upgrades to the Coolster, I will let you know how it turns out. We have manage to put about 3 1/2 hours of run time on it so far. The only thing to note is that the chain seems to have stretched alot. I will probably take a link out when I pull maintenance on it this weekend. I geuss I don't expect much from a factory chain and sprockets. The old wisdom here was always runn'em until the sprockets are too worn to reliable keep going around the track, and then replace chain and sprockets with some high quality aftermarket stuff.