Mama Tried and Flat Out Friday 2016 - Part 1

Back in 2016 & 2017, a lot of my photos from Mama Tried and Flat Out Friday were included in a pair of ChopCult features.  It was pretty cool.

So why am I am posting photos now (7-8 years later)?  Three reasons: (1) The 10th year of Mama Tried is this coming weekend (Feb 24-25, 2024) and I'm excited, (2) ChopCult re-platformed their website and all the old features I wrote and the photo galleries are gone (click here for more info), and (3) I took WAY more photos at these events than ChopCult wanted to use and I want to (finally) share them as we lead up to this year's show.

We'll start with Friday, February 19th, 2016.  I had a press pass so I got a bit of a sneak preview during set up.  This was truly the calm before the storm.

After checking out the show setup, I headed over to Flat Out Friday.  2016 was the first year of Flat Out Friday and it remains a key part of Mama Tried weekend.  Here are a bunch of photos from practice laps before the mains:

Scott took that haybale for a ride.

The guys on the vintage Harleys was really cool to see.

When doves cry, this guy does wheelies.

A couple of the stickers I had printed up for Moto Mania:

Scott got bit by the flat track bug the year before at Moto Mania.

Over 250 photos from the Flat Out Friday 2016 mains are up next.