MONKEYBUTT by rick seimans

[ODDJOB UNO]

bean recently chatting with "super hunky" former editor/writer of monkeybutt/dirt rider/dirt bike magazines. seems he has really gotten his website rolling "superhunky.com" and we have bean falling out of our chairs laughing.


guy is hysterical in his writing style and calls an ace an ace and a squid a squid. since dirty bikes were and still are a way of life for us dezert rats, re-reading tales of WOE and MISERY and DEE-STRUCTION of countless people/dirty bikes over the years is the pinnicle of laughter.

some of his articles have me splayed across the floor laughing at the sheer STOO-PIDITY of man and machine.

if you were or have bean involved in any sort of worthless motorcycle activity thruout yer life............... these are a must read.


check it out and be prepared to HOWL w/LAUGHTER.

[dhoward]

Have an autographed copy.
He used to have a different site, with all of his past columns....

BTW, you a member of dirtrider.net?

[ODDJOB UNO]

no im not. will check it out. im glad somebody else has read his humor. over the top hysterics, and the best part..............some of the stories are about people we know of!


the top "10" worst dirt bikes was CLASSIC!

[deathpunk dan]

He's also now a guest contributor to VMX magazine, a great quarterly australian mag covering dirt bikes from the 50s to the 80s. I've been a subscriber for years.

He's wrong about the YZ490, though.

Have eric gorr fix the head and it's a totally different bike.

[ODDJOB UNO]

VMX is a class act magazine. incredible pictures.

[ODDJOB UNO]

want some laughs? go to youtube and punch in vintage enduros and start clicking .

bloopers 2007 dutch enduro

1981 austrian enduro


for starters...............OH THE FEEKING HORROR! TOTAL SADO/MASOCHIZM!


to watch this is like WTF were we thinking? i mean WTF WERE WE THINKING at the time. spend an entire month prepping bike. spending damn near every penny we had on zoomy parts/gas-oil/tires/excessive amounts of beer/entry fees etc. all so we could literally PULVERIZE every bone muscle in our bodies into a PULP for a lousy piss ant finisher pin. and then do it all over again a freeking month later 12 times a year!


gawd what memories.

[dhoward]

Originally Posted by deathpunk dan

He's also now a guest contributor to VMX magazine, a great quarterly australian mag covering dirt bikes from the 50s to the 80s. I've been a subscriber for years.

He's wrong about the YZ490, though.

Have eric gorr fix the head and it's a totally different bike.

Eric's an old friend of mine.
He can tune anything.

[herr_oberst]

Bought my first dirt bike (Yamaha 90 enduro, gold tank. don't remember the year, '70?) That evening I bought my first copy of Dirt Bike magazine. Super Hunky was the first thing I read, and I was hooked. The guy makes it all seem easy. Writing, humor, racing. Tell him 'hey, from a fan" if you don't mind.

[ODDJOB UNO]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Bought my first dirt bike (Yamaha 90 enduro, gold tank. don't remember the year, '70?) That evening I bought my first copy of Dirt Bike magazine. Super Hunky was the first thing I read, and I was hooked. The guy makes it all seem easy. Writing, humor, racing. Tell him 'hey, from a fan" if you don't mind.

be glad to. since we are close in age and like warped to hell minds, we have bean kabitzing back and forth via our steam/pedal driven puters. hes in rosarita beach ,baja norte.


hell of a guy and knows his poo no matter how big or small or what country the damn bike came from.

[dhoward]

[ODDJOB UNO]

hahahahahaha i wrote him "if yer interested in my 1972 penton jackpiner 175 parts bike, that i bought for $1100 bucks back in 2000, theres 27 bars 10 minutes from where i work, and i can be easily persuaded to drop my asking price via a few coronas and limes>"


yeah great guy. the hell he went thru as "the phantom duck of the dezert" with BLM over the barstow to vegas race is legendary.


great guy and just the cover pic on his book already has me peeing my pants with laughter!

[herr_oberst]

For some reason, I've never been able to forget a picture that used to run in the magazine, it was a sort of self - promo, the gist was how thouroughly 'Dirt Bike' checked out the new scoots; The editors were all clamoring around a Yamaha YZ, closey examining really stupid things, and Supe was measuring the Yamaha logo on the seat with a micrometer. It cracked me up then, and when I think about it I still get a laugh.

I bet hanging around him is a ton of fun. I'm jealous.

[ODDJOB UNO]

ya know my amigo who writes for racedezert.com/dusty times lives in san felipe. he bumps into him alot. hes a checker(ya cant be a checker if ya dont have a pecker) read superhunky.com re: checkersMC.

super hunky won his class in a ISUZU(ex-cuse u) 4wd stock at one of the SCORE races. he still prowls around the peninsula and i guess has a few bikes hes slowly restoring.


now one of the "blessed" things about doing this since we were about 10 yrs old is you LEARN ALOT. especially NOT what to do and how to do it right.


going to these races since dinos roamed, we dont key in with our cameras to the "pro" teams. their "pros" with factory rides cuz they do it RIGHT! thats why they win.

what we key on is "flatlanders" from say canada/new hampshire/maine/boston mass ya know complete polar opposites from baja terrain and watch the BOOFOONARY of ROOKIE TEAMS from east BFE,come to race and get their asses handed to them. always a riot to photograph fuel being poured all over riders private parts,no spares in pits,no pits where they should have been, no tools at pits, and on and and on and on. imagine riding 50-100 miles with yer private parts soaked in VP 110 race fuel!!!!


yes staying with this sport despite insane dangerous painful incidents has taught all of us HOW TO DO THINGS RIGHT!


one of my proudest moments was being invited to pit for team honda(campbell/hengveld) at the 1000 one year. bruce olgislby (RIP)was in the red team honda helo circling us at about 200AGL(above ground level), and radioed us after we were done pitting campbell that "we were the fastest pit time he had EVER SEEN in all his years of racing baja" and that one stuck.


we practiced for an entire day with a rider actually riding up and going thru all the motions over and over and over until it became beer thirty with the other head of honda racing "donavan". every known and even unknown "what if" angle was covered down to the nats ass. honda pits every 40-50 miles. that way they dont need giant assed dezert tank and the weight associated with 5-7 gallons high up on frame. every 40-50 miles is a honda(unmarked) box van with an identical xr-650 complete in it with at least (2) spares stashed in box van. van had mill and lathe/welder/generator lights etc. everything you could imagine. and then some.


yep its "only off road...........but WE LIKE IT!"