Whatever happened to twist and gone?

[ohhbuddy]

There was a scooter drag racing event started back in 2009 thur 2010 called twist and gone (North American Scooter Racing Association)

I remember following it back then but it seemed to just disappeared quietly I think after 2010, not really sure it's been a long time since I last heard of it

I managed to dig up some information but not very much pulls up on Google if any if anyone knows exactly what happened please share

[190mech]

A few of us here had some scoots running there..I guess the nice way of putting it is management problems are what caused its decline...

[aeroxbud]

The days of Skeedr and Snoopy!

[90GTVert]

It went on longer than that, though I can't recall the last events. They had 1 or 2 events in North Carolina as well. There used to be YouTube vids of those, which now I can't find. There was a whole race series for points at the Brown County Dragway in Indiana for at least a couple of years. The sanctioning body was NASRA (North American Scooter Racing Association). They also did a couple of other things like an offroad scooter race and road course races.

The founder had a scooter parts company and he got out of that business. I don't imagine it ever met financial expectations and I don't know that turnout was what they hoped. The scooter scene boomed just before the first events when gas prices were very high and then declined. That couldn't have helped.

I am proud to say I named Twist And Gone and I tried to help with online stuff when NASRA was first started, but that didn't last long at all. I had no desire to invest money and mostly wanted to volunteer with the forum creation and moderation and coming up with drag racing rules. I was hoping to work toward a small rule book to make things clear right from the start but the founder thought that was not necessary and overkill for a small event... and then went on to change rules along the way, which I know for a fact that some racers disagreed with. With the forum up and running and little desire for my opinion on rules, I was no part of it after the very beginning and couldn't tell you anything about it internally.

I appreciate that NASRA was ever created and wish it stuck around. It did at least bring some scooter racers together. I think a scooter racing league or event is particularly tough in the US anyway.

[Kaos]

I wish it had hung around, I think there's a small but dedicated group of people enjoying making fast scooters. It'd be a blast to get them all in the same place for events, it just sucks its so hard to do with how big the US is!