D23 Hillclimb Banquet

As it was last year, the 2015 Season D23 Hillclimb Banquet will be held at Bill Paider’s on Feb. 20th, 2016.  The deadline for getting your tickets is Jan. 21st – which seems like a long time from now, but why wait?  Get your tickets ordered now and you’ll be all set.  Note that all attendees must pre-purchase a ticket – there will be no walk-ins or at-the-door ticket purchases.

A form was included in the fall D23 flyer that was sent to all D23 members…if you lost yours, you can use the form linked below instead.  See you there!

D23 Banquet Ticket Order Form

2016 AMA Hillclimb Grand Championship

The 2016 AMA Hillclimb Grand Championship will be held on a brand-new hill in Neoga, IL, hosted by Pleasure Riders Motorcycle Club.  The dirt work will be getting done this fall, and the club is aiming for about 250′ of hill.  More information will be posted here as well as on the PRMC website – for now, just mark down July 29th-31st, 2016 – an earlier date than usual to make it easier on some school kids.

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NAHA 3-peat!

In 2013, Jason Smith did the impossible – he won all 3 NAHA pro exhibition classes, plus the X-Climb.  In 2014, he did it again.  And now, in 2015…he did it again.  Wow.

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To say that the feat is unprecedented is to make a ridiculous understatement.  The last time Jason Smith didn’t win everything was in 2012…and in that year, Bret Peterson almost made a clean sweep – winning 3 of the 4 available classes.  You know who won that other class that year, spoiling Bret’s bid for total domination?  Jason Smith.

Big huge congratulations to Jason Smith and Team Action Machine!  And props to Tyler Cardwell, who came up #2 in 3 of those classes himself this year…generally losing the championship by an annoyingly small number of points.  So close…yet so far…