It seemed like it was funnier back in the early stages but everything wasn’t so Politicallly Correct back then. And it started between friends who always ripped on each other and played practical jokes on each other...... it was a continuation of the fun we had riding / racing together with all the jokes.
I’ll share the EPIC practical joke the Kreps played on me that played out on the early site.
In 1999 / 2000 my wife was my girlfriend back then and was coming to all the races with us on the weekends and taking pictures of all of out on the track over the weekend. These weren’t digital photos shared by email or text, but actual prints that she would get printed during the week in Chicago and bring them back the next weekend and pass around the photos to the group and let everybody pick out the pictures of themselves and keep them. Well she handed out a few envelopes of pictures that included pictures of me laying shirtless in the grass after a moto where she had sat on top of me and snapped some pics. Kreps sees these pics and says “oh boy, I can use these” and takes those pictures. I didn’t even know they were In there.
He made a gay personal ad with those pictures and loaded my email address in the gay personal site so I’d get all the responses. But I didn’t have the password to change or take the stuff down, instead he would log in, get the responses and then post them on PitRacer for all our friends to read. It was hysterical and all I can say is boy are those gay men looking for love online very forward about what they want to do to you and you to them!!!!
Just the kind of stuff we were doing back in the beginning...... it was funny, and when we get together it’s always like that! But when the site took off and lots of members joined and kids were there...... well we couldn’t do that kind of stuff anymore. Plus digital pictures soon took over and then texting and everything else took the place of this site for lots of things, but it’s still very useful!
Thanks to John for creating it and to Chuck for keeping it going.
I’m sure Kreps has an image of my gay personal ad somewhere in his archives..... I don’t mind if he shows it here, I’m confident enough to have lived through the original ad to the current jokes that would come from it now, LOL!
Sent from my iPhone using PitRacer mobile app