<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Jul 10 2009, 11:54 PM)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Ok, (Hey Ooost, I think you'll like this one too).
So if you've ever been a racer, you'll know there is plenty of down time between practice and race sessions. So the riders usually sit around doing .... to pass the time. You can imagine all the .... that goes down, I for one would be with every umbrella girl I could get into my motorhome. But that's just me. Anyway, so Ben Bostrom is hanging out with a friend of a friend (this is how I heard the story, believe me, the AMA is a small world, if you know any racers personally, you pretty much get to meet them all eventually). It’s a down time and Bostrom is getting his gear ready for the race coming up. BTW, Ben Boz ran the Daytona Sportbike class at Laguna (he usually only rides the Superbike class). The reason being is because the powers that be are pushing to lift the profile of the Daytona Class, hence why he also ran the this class at the Daytona 200 (Laguna being also a high profile round).
Anywhoo, so the boys are hanging around and B.Boz asks his buddy who's kicking it with him, "Hey, can you get some white paint"? His buddy, thinking this is an odd request before the race asks, "Why the hell do you need white paint"? Bostrom reply, "Because I'm gonna paint one of my gloves white." At which the reply came, "Why the hell are you gonna paint one of your gloves white?" Bostrom;
"Because I wanna be like Michael with one white glove!" He explains, "You know, I'm gonna do a Michael Jackson tribute!" So his buddy, laughing his ... off goes and finds him some white paint. They paint the right glove white and Bostrom tries it on. "Looks good." But then they realize that the other glove, still being the factory colors, doesn't let the white glove stand out. So at the track there is this artist, a guy like Burky, who paints these big ... portraits of riders (some of you might have seen them at the track). Anyway, Bostrom remembers that artist and tells his buddy, "Hey, you think that guy who paints those pictures has some paint that looks like skin?" Naturally it’s a WTF moment.
Bostrom explains, "I wanna paint my left glove the color of skin, that way the white glove will stand out more and I'll be just like Michael." So they go on a mission, explain the deal to the artist, the man complies and he starts painting his left glove the color of skin. He jumps on his bike and into the race. No ........! Hahaha, .... me!
I don't have a picture to prove it, but if you recorded the DSB race, twice you can get a glimpse of the gloves. At lap 10, he's motoring down the straight, and they do a close up of him. Pause it and you will see the white and skin glove. Again, at the end of the race when they are doing the race highlights, the very last image is of Bostrom getting a congratulations from his crew as he rides back to victory lane. You will see the white and skin glove.
Moral of the story? When you give props to MJ, good things happen.
Bostrom won the race! Michael is surely smiling from above... (cue up Vince Price voice from Thriller: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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Come on JohnnyK, if Bostrom can like MJ, surely you can give the man a pass, eh
(I doubt you're gonna find this story in any website, but you heard it here first).
Thanks for the Boz story Jum, you know I'm always up for a good one. And thanks for posting all the pics everyone. I need to get out there again next year, haven't been since 2005. Too long.
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