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In all those box vans it looks like there's only a 1 person bed and MAYBE a child or teenager on the top bunk. So where are the 2 other adult travelers on your spreadsheet sleeping in those box vans? You should multiply their total cost by 2 or 3 since each person needs their own box van to be able to sleep somewhere. Otherwise this was a great video with some solid info.

Just picked up a 97 xr100r yesterday and can't wait to rip it on the track this season. Solid video very sage advise , glad i found this channel!

Would love to see a clutch replacement on a Rotax

Similar to a rain set up in road racing when there is little traction. The chassis pitching forward and backwards gives way better "feel".

Been meaning to say this for a while - Mike, your relationship with Sammy is gonna end in tears... Love the Slammer, (and Dale) and the independence of your Flat Track Factory - but please don't give in and raise the rev limiter on your 680 - you've already had your baby smashed up...

Love your bike , i could listen to that pipe all day long

You didn’t even remove it

Looking for a base line 1/2 mile cushion final drive ratio…

Those are some big numbers 👍

This is like a look into the future with me and my buddy Jerry who always has everything pristine and loves to think his shit don’t stick and me who is always quiet and reserved but if needed will give it right back at him😂

When berry brigs came here he rode a yamaha 250 twin. Speedway frame and wheelsthink it was at the astro dome. Back then 250’s were the bigest you could run. There was a video of the race on utube at one time, not sure if it is still there.

How about a video about how and were to add oil after an oil change on a similar bike.i have a 505 rotax on a J&m frame with reservoir and am unsure were to add oil in the casing and how much.

This is what I’m looking for, wish I could find one just like it set up already for sale!!

Ok…..Blake was ahead of Sammy going into the turn on the outside. The bottom was open and he came down to take the inside line. Sammy had drive and ran into him. The #75 did not stop or brake check.

We have a local shale oval, about 400m, where they run Flat Track and Speedway. The speedway bikes run circles around the flat trackers (from the middle of turn two they are gone). However, as he said, doing more than 4 rounds on a speedway bike in competition is something few people can do. A Speedway track with clay content getting too grippy usually sends drivers not used to that straight into the barrier, as they can't turn the bike. Another thing: Horsepower in speedway is ... they are more worried about getting the power down, and most times tuning the engines down, than actually making the most power. It's also not uncommon for the pros to have a dozen engines with different cam and carb set ups in stock and choose for the particular track. The engines also go into complete service like every third race. While you can theoretically (the top tuners won't supply you) buy a top engine for 8000 $, you need at least half a dozen of them to even compete on the pro level. And expect to need at least 5 - 6 chassis a year - per circuit. The pros run 3 to 4 circuits a week all over Europe. The Long track bikes are a bit of a different animal and that's where the "stronger" engines (getting close to 80 hp) are used. They have a bit longer frames than Speedway bikes, rear suspension, two speed gearbox (but shift only once, right out of the tapes), 21 inch rear tire and about +- 110 mph top speed on tracks up to 1000m and different surfaces. They also don't go as sideways and are not as exhausting to run (hence why you will find quite a few drivers over the age of 35 in it - speedway not so much). What they do looks quite similar to how the dirt track racing looked in the early days in the US or when you run on loose soil. They also race sidecars. Long track as it's popular in Germany and France: ua-cam.com/video/iklA1oRtjUY/v-deo.htmlsi=26GKGl5bKMsVFu8J ua-cam.com/video/iUhzCgrAD38/v-deo.htmlsi=7JkNol4UxV8-W7W9 To give you an idea how big the speedway GP is: ua-cam.com/video/JisEp8tN-KY/v-deo.htmlsi=REvdgT7NkuWSmVGn This might also be of interest to you: Flat Track and Speedway in Europe on the same track / the same weekend: ua-cam.com/video/iqUJ_PElDmo/v-deo.htmlsi=a-7Uo1uMVttQKvMA ua-cam.com/video/7rwNCDCEnSk/v-deo.htmlsi=pvczEg820XnLgydU

What kinda power are we talking with these 680 Rotax?

I wonder if Dale ever saw Will Davis ride a Rotax in the MARS series?

In between the two are longtrack bikes which look like speedway bikes but with rear suspension and a two speed gearbox. Longtracks are 1km/0.62miles and loose surfaced like a speedway track. Very popular in Germany.

Hope we get to see Sammy back on the Rotax in the new year 👍

That shit happens. Much faster bike. Sucks he went over the highside though. Those cause injuries

Sammy Brags about slamming into other riders. The Opposite style that I admire. A lot of the Pros talk about racing with other Riders that they trust to ride clean.

Slamming Sammy, SLAM KEY WORD. What did you think would happen with a name like that. LOL

Even though I’m a washed up old motocrosser who only rides singletrack now I really enjoyed that. Flat track has always fired me up👍🏻👍🏻

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Admit I was fixated on the RR pic. Remember reading about Dale in Cycle News BITD (I followed everything back then, don’t care for online now),seems like a solid dude.

What frame builder do you use?

“SAMMY”

Does Dale have a brother maybe Dean think I raced karts with them

When a motorcycle racer gets in a car he feels really safe. Voice of experience.

I saw dale a few times at loudon during his bike days. He was the premier privateer for sure.

Idea for you two, host an event "Flat Track Factory featuring Slammin Sammy's Slide School"

Idea for you two, host an event "Flat Track Factory featuring Slammin Sammy's Slide School"

Thank you guys for making a video that I needed to see. I have some gray hair a 1200 sporty and the desire to lifelong desire to be sideways!

Met Sammy at the WERA GNF, he’s a great guy and an awesome rider!

Could you give an overview of how setting up this sort of Rotax (and the modern 450’s) differs from the days of sprockets and carb jets? Rev limiters certainly don’t sound as good as an Astro 360 with a compression release!

Love the banter…you two crack me up!

Bro has a only fans helmet

You guys should sell some Reaper/#69 shirts and hats and split it. That bike is Wicked!

Sammy: you're a bicycle racer too. TEGADERM for the road rash!

So glad you two met up. The Reaper is sick!!! ROTAX the REAPER!!! GO #69

Sammy enjoyed watching you over at the FIM flat track/ I also watched ur podcast with Don Colindres about FRAMERS. Which frame is a good one for an old guy to build a flat tracker? Thanks James

Hope Sammy is ok.

Lets see the connectors ...

That called a cuck?? Hahahah

I have loved American flat track racing (long track, not short track) since I watched Kenny Roberts back in the day on the Yamaha HD beater (I did see home race GP bikes in the UK) but one thing I think that spoils the sport is the number of categories, this is my favourite, unlimited, build-it stick in any engine, tune it, race it, I'm sure if the categories down to a three at most, under 500cc over 50cc and then this it would get more fans,

I was sure that was a ROTAX, when he replaced the cam chain cover it was verified.

I've been searching for this video many years now. Somehow, I knew you would be the guy who would finally deliver it. Way back in the 60's when I got the racing bug pretty bad, I was asking similar questions. But as I'm sure you are aware, brakes were not an option. I thought I had the secret answers but wasn't entirely sure. Local physicists at the cow college where I was going to school were of the other opinion. You try that stupid idea and you will surely die, they pronounced. So being a butt head I persisted in nibbling at the idea and I'm pretty sure you know exactly what I'm talking about because I saw a video with you and your friend Dale where Dale was shouting at one of his students who was apparently wearing a helmet phone and he was shouting push that damn bar, push it. That kind of sounded backward to me and then I realized it was the same technique as mine in which I felt like I was mostly pulling the bar, the right side bar. I think Dale meant push the left side bar and I had never thought of it that way. We didn't have the top speed back then as you guys have now but anything over 85 was good. At 85 I begin to notice significant wind resistance and I used to sit up like a parachute opening and that was my brake. The outside, rightward twist of the handlebars was my ticket to making the turn. To me it's manually operated quantum physics, and it works. Let me expound on that a bit. If you look closely at an atom and watch the electrons flat-tracking around the nucleus you will see they ride in grooves that are quantized in energy. An electron with insufficient energy will always ride in a low groove. If it receives more energy, it can hop to the next level. In a race at early days Ellis Park Raceway, I did a jackass stunt to childishly park my bike at the inside fence just before the finish line. That involved me spinning backwards down the track for a short distance before I could laboriously glide backwards over to the fence. That worked out OK and I'm proud to say I've never been that stupid since. Bill King was watching me like an eagle, black flag in hand. So I killed the engine and made a big show of watching for traffic to come around and exit turn 4 for the checkered flag and I just held on to the fence and waited for the other guys to pass by before I started to push back to turn 4 and the road down to the outside pit area and jockey's dressing room. But before I could start my journey a little man in a pork-pie hat came trotting across the track and said "Hi I'm Blank Blank (because I don't want to embarasse my new friend) and he said I would like to ask you a question. To his astonishment I said certainly Dr. Blank Blank because I very well knew who he was and that he didn't know me. I knew he got his Phd. in physics at MIT and that he should already have won the Nobel Prize and only had not because he methods were unconventional and very advanced for the time. He was a boy genius who left high school when he was 12 and enrolled at Princeton. Before he was 21, he had a Phd from MIT. His question was why did I do that crazy caper only he was polite enough not to call it crazy. So I told him my theory that I believed made it possible and added that I thought it was similar to what he needed to do to win the Nobel that he already deserved. Mostly I told him that because I was actually his fan and didn't want to confess that I might be slightly batshit crazy. Amazingly he liked my idea and declared to the world that he had departed from the world of high energy physics and was very contented to be director of research and development at Judson Electronics. That is not enough information for you to track him down, but before the trick actually won him the Nobel, he built an ignition that he named the Judson Cycletron. It was a play on words, aimed straight at the academics and it was my middle finger to the cow college physicists of the world. You see, he was talking to people who were well familiar with the Judson Cyclotron at the University of California's Judson Laboratory. Later on, I was able to communicate to him that I had actually seen a rider named Buddy Belden do that quantum hop on a early hooligan class "outlaw" race and that later I also found myself doing a quantum hop. That is where you break loose and hop to a 90 degree position and then not having enough energy to support that new position the bike immediately hops back to the lower energy trajectory. I have more evidence but it's long and I've already gone on too much. My friend did win the Nobel but I won't tell you what year because that would be the same as telling his name. He passed away, I believe in 2021 but it might have been 2019. My memory is affected by old age and small strokes. But I'm wondering if Dad whom you mention might be Douglas Dillon?

Great video, fun and insightful! I’m wondering, what front sprocket size is normally on the Rotax?

Always good content with the Slammer!

Matt powers , my name is Bobby Miller. I’m looking to get back into racing. I raced in the 70s- 80s. I’m hoping to rub elbows with you in the upcoming season. I’m looking for a bike to race in the hooligan class. If anyone has a bike they aren’t using let me know

@sammyhalbert watching you flog his bike probably feels like you borrowing his wife I would say??? 😂