If not playing golf what sport would you be playing?

Yipsy · 2025-02-16T17:12:38+00:00

Pickleball? Fishing? Shuffleboard? Hoops? As senescence creeps there are less and less sports to be enjoyed but if you were your younger self what other sp...

CallMeAl

jsippy73

The Red Bike was a air cooled CR125 that was converted to water cooled by Leckich Porting and Tuning. Circa 1980

The white one was a CR250 with a 360 Mugen kit in it. That thing was ALOT of Fun!

jsippy73

My Maico hauler:

jsippy73

Bob "Hurricane Hannah" at High Point late 70s.

Some one was jacking him. That's why they are looking towards camera and smiling. Before they ate his roost.

jsippy73

My favorite action photo. And no, I did not lose it.1974 Yamaha YZ 125.

jsippy73

My favorite Maico. 1978 400. 3rd gear hole shots many times. I only weighed 115 lbs back then.

sdandrea1

jsippy73

Maico = BEAST😳
I think I told you I had a trail riding buddy with a 501 square barrel Maico.....the largest single cylinder 2 stroke ever built. God it was horrible riding behind him.

jsippy73

Funnest bike to ride that I owned. 1974 Honda CR 125 Elsinore. Tricked out with Redline swing arm, Poppy bodied Koni shocks, DG pipe, DG radial head, DG ported cylinder and bigger carb. Fastest 125 around. Had over 40 motorcycles. You can probably understand why I am broke now.

CallMeAl

jsippy73

If I can find a pic of my '78 CR125 we built I'll post it.

DG Gold Radial Head, Simon's Forx, custom built FMF Up Pipe and Swing Arm, Fox AirShox, Boysen Reed Valves and ported.

Patterned after Steve Wise Bike...

Nat

Squash. I played in college, and we had a bunch of older guys who have practice with the team. A doctor, a few business men, all former college players who were competitive with us even in their 50s. My plan was to stay in good shape and play At the high level through old age. Unfortunately, my knees didn’t get the memo and Medical school took way more time than I even guessed it would. So my competitor squash careers over by my mid 20s, And by the time I had time, my body was long shot. That’s when I started playing golf.

azgreg

Nat Squash. I played in college,

Squash, I ate in college.

jsippy73

sdandrea1
Eat some rocks did you?
I rode open class along with other classes. Let's just say, we didn't have the protection items that they do now.
Somebody is making (Maicos) again and they have a 700cc 2 stroke. Doubles as a ditch digger.

Eguller

Track, tennis, basketball and fast pitch softball -pitched back to back no hitters. But it took golf to help
destroy any attempt at most other sports. Torn rotators, bicep and worn joints from LD and competitive golf.
Now, just trying to enjoy being out there and nutting a shot or two. 😵🏌

sdandrea1

jsippy73 Eat some rocks did you?

Bullets.......,.that beast was like a machine gun.

Nat

azgreg

You should’ve gone to a 200-year-oldNew England College. No squash at dinner, but lots of squash courts

Par4QC

Now that I recall.....I was very good at marbles. Only got beat in the championship match when my thumb developed a nasty blister that popped, causing me to fudge.
🤔Shit.....what I could have been......

jsippy73

CallMeAl
Nice Honda. I raced for 11 years. From beginning of April to late October. However far we had to travel. Raced in Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, West Virginia.
Seen the pros many times. Went to 2 Canadian Grand Prix races. Zoar Valley, Ravenna, Ohio. Mid Ohio. Many Nationals and the Trans Am series. Have seen all the big name riders in those times. DeCoster and others.

CallMeAl

sdandrea1

My YZ460 wasn't much better!

jsippy73

CallMeAl
Didn't follow too many of them. lol

CallMeAl

jsippy73

I raced mostly in the Midwest. Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas, Tennessee. Did travel to Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Texas and Kentucky.

Here's a bike that's very similar to the one I built. We did retrofit a set of the European side panels which made it even more unique.

candukid

sdandrea1 you did trials? Those guys are amazing!

sdandrea1

candukid you did trials? Those guys are amazing!

I started out in motocross, then enduros and hare scrambles, and then Observed Trials. The balance and precision appealed to me. It's much harder going slow, actually.🤣
I was a B Class amateur and couldn't perform like the pros, but here's a taste of what the world class guys can do. 180 pound, water-cooled, 2-stroke scalpels that can climb anything.

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