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o 00 0') 26 point of no return when you do those wheelstands?" "Not really. If you don't use the back brake though, you're on the point of no return. If you didn't have a seat or a fender you could do a wheelie on pavement with a slick tire and go over and touch your backbone just like you were looping over and flop back up. It depends on traction. You have to have forward momentum. You'd have to be doing 50 to do that. You could go down a steep hill too, dragging your back if you didn't have the fender to hold you up. There's, two things, traction and speed." "I just hate it when people say that something can't be done, you can't go up that." . "I like it when people tell me I can't do something because that pumps m.e up more to do it. I ask people if they think I can make it around the track and I bet I can. I love proving people wrong. Like you were saying, Bernie, that nobody else could get up that wall. I'd love to go back there some other day and do it. If you can do it, I can. Tbat's the way I feel. I just put on a positive attitude. What I can do, you could do easy, no problem." "Doug and me and Debbie Evans could probably do Barnum and Bailey Circus that would blow people away. " - Schreiber. a "Could you be a trials champion?" "I don't think I could be a World Champion, but National Champion? Yeah, if I applied mysclf, 1 think I could. I've heard more people see me and say: Why aren't you in trials? I never knew much about it. I did ride one trial in Michigan and finished about 12th. If 1 had started on a trials bike I would have been a good trials rider, but I started on a motocross bike." "I could be 28 and start in doing what you do, Doug, but you're too old already to start in trying to do what I do. You've already gone past your time. There are guys riding as good as me right now who are 18. They started when I did, at age 10. There are a lot of kids coming up today that are really good." "The biggest thing is you know ex· actly what your bike does and you're a part of it, Bernie. You watch Hannah and DeCoster and you can see DeCoster is a natural rider and Hannah is hang· ing on for his life, at least it looks that way sometimes." I "I used to watch Hannah race local· Iy, and I remember when Eddie Cole was whipping him. He was wild, all over the place, but going fast." "I guess to go that fast in a stadium race you have to get out of control. Tripes is the only guy who can go faster than Bob and stay more in control." "Tripes is a natural rider. He shows it in his trials riding." "But Bernie, I don't feel I 'have special balance. I can't stand on my toe for more than three seconds, but I have a good feel [or brake and throttle coordination, and knowing where the balance point is, where you have to be in every tum. I don't call that balance. it's coordination. You just know where the bike has to be and you keep it there. There are people with perfect balance. Tight rope walkers. ',' "Ifyou can picture doing it, you can do ." zt. - D omo k os.. "It's all basically coordination. I think I have more things to coordinate when I'm riding in a section like steer· ing, deciding where the wheels have to be. using the clutch and brake at the same time. For a turn in third gear I have to hold the throttle wide open and use the brake and clutch to get the motor in its power range and then dump it to get up the next thing." "There are similarities between moto-