Sit back in your chair and imagine for a moment a world where you don’t have to be on a factory team to have works bike and a personal test track in your back yard. A world where all of your riding buddies have the same access to all the trick parts you do (which might not be the best thing). In this dream world you can ride Monday through Sunday sunrise to sunset with no gate fee… just a bunch of your pals getting together, having a great time.

This world exist! I and three others from the EDM wrecking crew went to this utopia for a day in late September. We have photos to prove we were there, all four of us. It’s a place hidden away in the hills of Virginia, on the property of a fellow by the name of Ron Feather, or as anyone who has met him, Boots.

This story begins with me trying to find a pit bike in our area to do a story on “the value of play riding”. After searching high and low with little to show for it I called Paul Gullien at BBR Motor Sports to ask him for help, he said “he’d see what he could do.” A couple weeks later Paul contacted me saying he has spoken to this guy in Virginia who has a few BBR equipped bikes we could ride for our story and he emailed me the contact information for Ron at 2UPminis.com.

Back in ’98, a few years before the pit bike explosion, I was fortunate enough to be invited to ride at Bob and Linda Langin’s famous backyard Supercross mini track known as Langtown, located in Thousand Oaks, Ca. Back then it was a bunch of guys who turned up with slightly modified XR100’s. I seem to remember one or two CR80’s with XR motors wedged into them. This was a sign of things to come. The rule was bikes had to have a four stroke motor to run on the track. As you know things have changed… a lot!