Been having a really good time over at Sharkey's. I love spring. The dirt is perfect, and so are the temps.

Here's a few from last night.

Waunch! Check out the fingers on the clutches!!! (dont look at the pic of Brian!)

Spencer Sharkey.





Brendan Bailey





Matthew and Sidney



Whoops:



Big Center Jump




Nice little step up triple through the trees.

Nice sequence of pics, so what's up with that last set - "Big Center Jump" & "Nice little step up triple through the trees"

Could that be anybody but Aaron, pres. and senior spokesman for MXPPA (Motocross Professional Practicers of America)?

Good photos #392. "Big Center Jump" looks-to-be a 90'er, while step-up-triple appears 60'

Good, good show dude.

Definitely a fun track. The Big Center Jump is great for good whips. The Triple through the trees is really a blast too and fast! Going to have to head over to the Shark Bait National track soon.

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Originally posted by Workman #21:
Nice sequence of pics, so what's up with that last set - "Big Center Jump" & "Nice little step up triple through the trees"

Could that be anybody but Aaron, pres. and senior spokesman for MXPPA (Motocross Professional Practicers of America)?

Good photos #392. "Big Center Jump" looks-to-be a 90'er, while step-up-triple appears 60'

Good, good show dude.

ken both jumps are about 65' but you can jump them to about 75 w/o flatlanding. the middle one pops you up pretty good and the triple is more of a speedjump

Oh that's just not right Brian, both at 65'? I was thinking #1 pro-practicer (MXPPA #392) was making some sorta monster huck coming outta a 180 bowl and whicking-it.

Now I see (w/some clarification) that the 90'er was actually a roll-n-huck move. Roll the after 180-turn bump/hump/hill and gas-it for a wicked photo-op. It's cool cause we all know that that come Sunday morn Jim Holly (SX Live announcer dude) had the same skills in his day. Problem for me is he was the first to exploit it in photo mode.

Q: Can we do the same in MXPPA mode today. (apparently so)

Workman, you got it all wrong!

LOL.

The take off is from the single back toward the berm. I'm not sure how long that one is but I know it's not 90'. I have never jumped a 90'er except maybe that one at Toes that goes down hill. Anyway, its a fun little track and you should surely come up after work, that's when we ride the most is during the week after work. It's kind of nice to ride a couple times during the week, then go somewhere on the weekend!

I hear your words Aaron but a pic is worth a thousand (ok euros - $0.775193798 backwards converted) $bucks. You gotta give us #numbers and I mean angles too. Like ramp and length and suspension numbers too. Oh ya don't forget about gearing and cams (ferget 2-strokers, cheat'n, wonder machines) and and and.

If yer vert 10' (guess) and camera has you positioned right then half-way-to-landing and I gotta wonder about the total geometry. Numbers dude ... it's all in the numbers and you look to-be-hacking-a 90'er.

Any chance you can break out a Stanley-Tape-Measure and tell us the whole truth?

Well Ken, I can't factor in any vectors, tough to tell the angle of the take off ramp without a man-sized protractor, and I don't even want to try to guestimate the geometry, although I was once pretty good at it. Can I use the Pythagorean theorem?

Anyway, here's what I know. You round the big berm in the background, run at the first ramp in 2nd gear (13/51 gearing on my most magnificent GREEN machine) weight the pegs pretty hard, at about 1/3 throttle. Up you go, propelled by 60 (another guestimate) of the most wonderful ponies Kawy ever packaged into a motor, over the apex and then you float back down to Terra landing oh so perfectly on top of the most wonderful EVO suspension a man can ask for. And when that EVO suspension dampens the landing, those Michelin MH-3s grip the ground like velcro. To me I'd say its about 70 feet, but if Sharkbait says it's 65, then it 65, cause he built the sucker.

Sorry I can't postulate this theorem in Mathematical absolutes, I guess its a more of the seat of the pants thing. Maybe if you would just come over, you can do it and then formulate a mathematical description for all the others on this board.

ken arron was jumping it about 70 but i have long drawn out landings so you can overjump stuff. the minimum you can go is 65'and as far as 80' then i got a few 50 footers and nothing smaller than 35

Well Aaron,

You done good enough. 13/51 gearing is sufficient description for final-drive, 2nd gear is ok for primary, 1/3rd throttle tells me it's a wimp-jump but got plenty of photo-op. Don't know about you but fer me if yer running EVO then no-worries on landing. I'm bagging current tires and going "B". Peeps are telling me it's-da-smak and lately I've been wondering about old-threads gripping power.

Is it me or do I really have a flat (excuses #918 ... da look back)

where is Sharkys track? private or public?
Thanks