Quote: Originally Posted by
ononewheel
is that related to your name duster?cause you eat alotta dust?????
its been awful here to no rain for like a month!
Well, this will probably be a humorous story for a northern guy, especially if you somewhat get the southern country boy thing, and the dialect...
I actually picked up this nickname at the track when I was a kid, back in the 80's. Before quads, I'd already been riding 125's and 250's well. So when the 250R came out in '86 I was on it...
I was 11 years old... technically 12 for the race season... things weren't restricted like they are today... as this was before the "Final Consent Decree".
Now as respected and touted as the old 250R is today and has been...
To some people this would seem like an OMG situation... (and it was for some).
But to me, with lots of bike experience, the 250R was "rather tame" to me.
Lot's heavier than a CR250 and rather "de-tuned" as all motors are when they go in a quad frame...
So now back to the story.... I started riding and racing the quads, just to build stamina for the bike races... And frankly back then, not many people raced the quads in either discipline. I mean there was plenty of entries for a great race. But we didn't really fool around too much with "classes" in the early years. All the quad entries just ran together in one race.
As it turned out I was dang fast on the quad also, and could podium the dang thing up against everyone. Then a race came along that was very dry... I mean terrible.... just an orange cloud. I ended up winning that race in pretty dominate fashion.
When all was said and done the old 80's hillbillies were giving me a good old hard time... My name is Dusty... and one old country boy said Dusty hell... You weren't the Dust-e out there today... reckon we're going to have to start calling you the Dust-er...
Everyone had a good hee-haw laugh at me and themselves... and the nickname spread and ended up sticking. And the next year it just got worse cause we changed to the Kawasaki Tecate 4... and the guys started aggrivating me saying "Honda last year, Kawasucky this year... ol' Duster is gonna show up running a Dodge next year I reckon..."
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