Not motorcycle specific but as a child my dad and grandpa owned a machine shop that built rim for stock cars. I pretty much grew up in that shop, cleaning and running the mills and lathes since I could stand on a milk crate and spin the knobs.
My dad and grandpa were at pretty much every race in the US (I would go to as many as I could). When I got to go, we had access to pretty much everywhere and every racer. This was in a time when the pits weren’t open to the public. They were wild haha.
When I was about 10 they started making rims for drag motorcycles. Getting to see top fuel motorcycles for the first time was pretty mind blowing (motorcycles and figure 8 train races with school busses were my all time favorite races!!!) . Throw your leg over it, twist the throttle and pray you make it out the other end! I couldn’t get enough of em as a kid.
The company my dad and grandpa started is still around today but they seem to be out of the race game with no mention of their former selves on the website. Kind of a bummer but still cool it’s still here. My dad sold it about 20 years ago.
Www.circleracing.com
Well not quite all the time.
