2016 AMA Hillclimb Grand Championship
Pleasure Riders M/C – Thunder Ridge Motorsports Facility
Neoga, IL – July 30th & 31st, 2016
Logo-bearing photos by Grover Webb Photography
Less than a year ago, the site of the 2016 AMA Hillclimb Grand Championship was covered in trees and brush. Raw and untouched. But Pleasure Riders Motorcycle Club, founded in 1958, had been awarded the 2016 national championship event based on plans for a new facility to be built on that land, owned by Dennis Fetters – grandpa to hillclimber Levi Peters and father-in-law to AMA District 17 hillclimb director Matt Peters. So the Fetters, Peters, McKays and other local families and friends, along with help from PRMC, got to work.
The result of their labors – untold man-hours and thousands of dollars’ worth of diesel fuel to run the equipment – was spectacular. A truly national-caliber facility, built from nothing, in the span of a few months. An amazing transformation which proved it’s worth this past weekend. Photos and video of the hill just didn’t portray it as it really was – but once you were there, you could see how great it was!
Max Skeans – Youth Class Action
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