BLAST FROM THE PAST: THE BLACKWATER 100

The Blackwater 100

There is not a dirt bike event that helped to shape the sport as important as the Blackwater 100. It churned out of the brain of Dave Coombs who took his 100-miler series into a small town in West Virginia and he fit the most extreme natural obstacles that had ever been painted onto a racing canvass. The terrain was rocky, slimy, full of bogs and river crossings where thousands of fans would plop themselves in the water, consume vast quantities of adult beverages, ward off the snakes and howl when riders would cartwheel their machines at the Highway 93 river crossing. The event ran from 1975 until 1993, when pressure from environmentalists shut it down, but it was no doubt the catalyst to world wide extreme racing the likes of Erzberg, the Romaniacs and the Roof of Africa.

 

 

 

 

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