by Joe Buttweiler –
MASON CITY — Matt Swanson of Goodell won the much-needed prize of a new tire Saturday after spectators voted him winner of the burn-out contest at Mason City Powersports.
Take a look what was left of the back tire he rode in on and it’s easy to see his need. It was shredded.
(PHOTO: Corey Oleson of Kensett poses with what’s left of his back tire.)
So were several other tires after the smoky competition witnessed by scores of cheering and photo-snapping onlookers during the motorcycle dealership’s 10-year anniversary celebration.
“I think everybody had a good time,” said Corey Dodd of Garner, whose brother is a friend of Swanson. “It was really fun to watch.”
A couple minutes of throttling against the side of an immovable object provided serious engine roar, smoke and shredded rubber for the six competitors.
“Blow it up. Blow it up,” one of the competitors yelled to another. You wondered: Would the engine or tire go first?
“It was pretty fun,” Cory Oleson of Kensett said moments after trashing the back tire on his 1984 Harley-Davidson Softail.
He said he’d seen burnout competitions at Sturgis. “But I had to make it home and I didn’t want to be stranded.”
Having a competition close to home, “I figured: Why not? I’ve got a trailer,” he said.
Some of the participants had already booked tire replacements, said Jeff Finley, general manager of Mason City Powersports, 4499 Fourth St. S.W.
He said the burnout competition was the first one sponsored by the dealership. He estimated that about 150 took in the competition, which was part of the Spring Open House.
If you show up soon you may still catch a whiff of what happened.
For more on Mason City Powersports, visit its website at masoncitypowersportsinc.com
Big hairy wheel
Reinforcement strands and shredded rubber are about all that’s left of the back tire of the Honda VTY1300 that won the burnout comptition at Mason City Powersports on Saturday afternoon.
Matt Swanson of Goodell competes in the burnout competition at Mason City Powersports
We even today seasoned of which cycle after i seasoned already been 15 and christian louboutin bianca also going do the job. We in that case invested in a new cycle from a friend’s frankly.
SHUT UP!!! Wow is everyone a f—ing tree hugger these days. This was all in good fun,( does anyone remember what that is?) lighten up and live life to the fullest because it could be gone in seconds. Stop worring about everyone else!!!
Thats right carman! These people think the pursuit of happiness only includes them. One campfire puts out more smoke then the good time people had at powersports. I don’t know how anyone can live at the lake with all that hot air that comes out of Peters mouth!
Air pollution? Some folks have no idea what that is today, no realistic basis for such a comment.
As I look around me, things are a lot cleaner than I have ever seen them. Where a gray pall hung over large metropolitan ares, where NW Indiana once sported a rust orange painted sky, today is clear and clean. Love Canal’s are a thing of the past.
This happened largely through man’s vivid imagination to solve problems. And I believe man still has quite a few more tricks up his sleeve. I aint talking about inefficient electric cars or solar stuff. That aint viable to the American way of life.
Coal gas (FT Fuels), Electrostatic filtering to render coal plant emissions practically pure. Man has the ability to make it happen. To continnue to lead the world if we so choose.
Or, we can declare doom and gloom, and revert to living in one of Peter’s space alien ships/caves.
Frack till the water catches fire…oh wait that already happened.
Cool? Cool does not get you a job. It does not get you to your job. It does not help you excel at your job. Cool does not take you halfway across the country to visit your friends. Cool does not pay the bills. Cool means your a sheep. Cool means you have an over-inflated ego. Cool means you are trying to be something you really aint! Cool means vanity is more important than integrity.
Cool, is perhaps the most superfluous, specious, and silly idea since the pet rock. Cool means nothing and is worth nothing.
You act like some teen in gradeschool.
Observer, you’re a nicely packaged ignorant human being.
Thank you for that Peter. If it were ignorance as you say, there would have been no discussion on solutions now would there? In fact Peter, I did talk about solutions.
Why is it, when someone rejects or questions your point of view, you resort to name calling?
Like disassembling their cars!
Thanks Peter for deleting those. They were awful. Now play nice, ya hear? Pollution needs to be controlled, but this is far from a grip. Let’s talk about what China is doing to the planet earth. Not what a few extreme sports fella’s are doing for entertainment. It’s like night and day.
You sure I am not 6…..The DR that wants you in 5 East.
Once again Peter proves pot makes you paranoid, as he sits in his trailor. May the Harleys ruin every moment of peace.
If your worried about air pollution, stop using you phone or computer. Because that electricity came from pollution.
Yes, they were there.