RSD Super Hooligan Flat Track Took Over Downtown Austin

TheHandbuilt Motorcycle Showin Austin, conveniently takes place on the same weekend as the famedCOTA Moto GP as well as the COTA GNC Flat Track. The event is a mashup of racing, custom and culture creators. You have the crème de lacrème of custom motorcycles from builders like Max Hazzan, ShinyaKimura, our own Roland Sands and of course the shows originator,Revival Cycles. Moto GP and Moto America is happening right down thestreet so guys like Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwartz, Jason Lee and KeanuReeves are in attendance. You throw in the American Motordrome Wallof Death with some craft cocktails inspired by Paul D’Orleans ofthe Vintagent, some original motorcycle inspired artwork and onewould think it couldn’t get any better. Right?

 Wethought so too… and then the city of Austin allowed us to run anRSD Super Hooligan short track in the middle of downtown. And race onit. It took the team from IndianMotorcycle,RevivalCyclesandRolandSands Designahell of an effort to make it happen, but happen it did.

In48 hours Brian Bell and the relentless crew of IVLeague Flat Tracktook a gravel parking lot, too many tons of dirt to count, over onehundred orange and white barriers and built a solid sure bet of arace track. Our money? On the Indians, of course.Thesun was setting, the light draping the bodywork of machines in dustin a way only found at a race track covered in dirt. Indians,Harleys, Hondas, Ducatis, you name it, it was there. This is theepitome of Hooligan racing. Run what ya brung, boys and girls. Expecta hard, short and fast race with the only real trophy being to callyour claim, a Hooligan.

 RSD’sown Roland Sands, #10 was seen battling it out with GNC legend JoeKopp in the initial track turns. Both mounted on Indian Scout 60’s,rider pitted against rider. Pushing their 500lb machines to the maxon the short make-shift track, they found traction where they couldand made it where they couldn’t. All the while the crowd pressingon the chain-link fences begging for more.

Inthe midst of Indian Scout 60’s several other bikes showed up forrace day. A BMW R nineT stood out amongst the V-Twins with itsopposed cylinders, but most noteworthy had to be Jamie Robison’sDucati Scrambler. Armed with not much more than knobby tires and whatappeared to be a gas tank attacked by an angle grinder, Jamie wasable to tame his Italian machinery and the dirt saw him through theheats and into the night.

Asif having legendary racer David Aldana #13, the first true Hooliganshow up to race wasn’t enough, the Hooligan crew advanced a fewshutter clicks with Dimitri Coste, infamous Flat Track photographerand racer, hanging it all out there. He piloted his loaned IndianScout Super 60 around the IV League built flat track like he’d beenriding it for months. You’d never know it was his first time on atrack built two days ago.

Despitesporting a soon-to-be-released Bell Moto3 helmet, RSD leader RolandSands wasn’t fast enough to claim the checkered flag under thelights. (These races aren’t fixed folks!) Jamie Robinson took firstplace at the end of the “A” Main on his Ducati Scrambler. Behindhim, exhaust bellowing, Roland Sands and in third spinning wheelssliding sideways, Cameron Brewer. Not only were these riders racingfor Hooligan glory, but they were also knocking elbows and kicking updirt to qualify for Saturday’s half mile AMA Pro Nationals race atCOTA. The Indian Motorcycle sponsorsSuper Hooligan Tour by Roland Sands Design put on such a memorablerace in Daytona, that they were invited back to put on another SuperHooligan show at the pro races again! FansChoice.tv streamed both theAMPPro Austin Heat Races(Hooligan Heats start at 52:40) and AMAPro Austin Main Eventlive on Saturday, April 9^th.

TheHooligans came out, raced hard and gave the fans an exciting evening!The only thing topping it was the fact that Steve Bonsey, #80 fromSalinas, CA on his XR750, a hard-working, race-living young man, whosurvives race to race on what he earns, took home the bacon. $2,500from Indian and another $1,000 from K&Nin the “Dash for Cash”! (Indian paid out $5k in total purse tothe Pro-racers who showed up.)

SuperHooligan Friday Night Flat Track Main Results

SuperHooligan

1.Jamie Robinson

2.Roland Sands

3.Rennie Scaysbrooke

GNCPro Twins

1.Stevie Bonsey

2.Jarod Vanderkooi

3.Kale Kolkman

Air-CooledVintage

1.Logan Roerig

2.Mystery Rider #331

3.Patrick Tharp

RunWhat Cha Brung

1.Jeff O’Leary

2.Shawn O’Leary

3.Travis Hayes

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