Freestyle Blunder Jet

Aquaholic

World's Oldest Teenager
Location
San Diego, CA.
I know you had this blaring on your two speaker truck stereo with the windows down on the way to the lake!


With this scene in your head...

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Thanks a lot, Dood. Now, I have that stupid song stuck in my head.


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“The Danger Zone”
Kenny Loggins

That whole song is stupid. First of all, though, the centerpiece lyric:

Highway to the Danger Zone!

Right. So there’s this place called the “Danger Zone,” and it’s full of all this dangerous sh*t, like gila monsters and pitfall traps and venomous snakes and killer robots, right? So what do they do? Do they build a wall around it? Do they rope it off with yellow tape at least? Hell no! They build a highway right into the center of it. That’s so damn stupid! The only thing stupider than that would be deciding to go there with Kenny Loggins!
 

rubbertoe

X-H20 certified
Location
San Diego
Enough of your fractured fables ,get to the part where you loose your marbles and are foaming at the mouth with a gas can a lighter in your hand and the f14
 
Would it be somewhere along the lines of the the feeling you would have after buying a Cannondale and riding it for a few months only to realize that you paid alot for a name and got very little quality out of it..........


I have never owned a C'Dale.
Ahahahahaha I built bikes for a few shops in high school (the late 90s). Get gig I was paid flat rate per bike and al the time I could build 3ish bike and hour so every spring I would make bank. Just show up and work day and night for these shops. Well when ever I opened a Cannondale box even all the way to there high end stuff I would always say to myself "here we go what's going to be wrong with this one". Just an over priced name, they would try like heck with the different shock setups but when it was all said and done the other brands in the years to come blew them out of the water.

Sorry for the side track
 

Yami-Rider

TigerCraft FV-PRO
Location
Texoma
Would it be somewhere along the lines of the the feeling you would have after buying a Cannondale and riding it for a few months only to realize that you paid alot for a name and got very little quality out of it..........


I have never owned a C'Dale.


One off my buddies owned a Cannodale ATV, that was a mistake, he would blow the engine every couple months!

Back to the story!
 

Aquaholic

World's Oldest Teenager
Location
San Diego, CA.
Enough of your fractured fables ,get to the part where you loose your marbles and are foaming at the mouth with a gas can a lighter in your hand and the f14

Silence, RubberSphincter...I'm getting there. This thread has taken a slight detour. But, the backstory is important, so as to put the whole BlunderJet debacle into perspective. I guess I'm telling this tale, so that it frames things in such a way... so that you, the reader, gets the whole picture of where I was coming from, and which direction my riding was going at the time, right up to the point I got tangled up with that POS BlunderJet.

That part of the story is classic. So, stay tuned. But here's the thing... I have to locate the infamous tape. It's on VHS. Then, I have to figure out how to copy the tape to digital format, so that I can share it.

In the meantime...back to the tale. It's the summer of 1988, and we're hitting the [Colorado]river hard. Pretty much every weekend. I'm starting to hone my chops as far as freestyle goes. But, having the fastest ski around is equally as important. In between bouts of doing tricks, we would break into impromptu drag races.

Bragging rights, you know? Chicks dig a fast jet skiier... or so we thought.

The result of repeated WOT runs took a heavy toll, though. I was grenading top ends, and even cranks, at an alarming rate. The more I modified that 550... the frequency of DNF's went up. I had to decide between going fast, or doing tricks.

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Steve, the pics at El Cap are amazing. Looks like my brothers ski haha! I enjoy all these 550 pics, keep em coming. Btw, that dry suit is pimp. See ya soon, as desert season is ending it is time for the lake!
 

Aquaholic

World's Oldest Teenager
Location
San Diego, CA.
Around this time (1988), the jet ski rags started featuring articles on this new, revolutionary ski that was being tested in local waters.

The craft was dubbed the Hydro Ski F-1. American Hydro ski would later become LaserJet

While still in the embryonic, prototype stages...the media was already cranking up the hype machine. Super sleek, and sexy lines. Innovative features. It looked incredibly fast... just sitting still.

I admit it...my interest was piqued!IMG_1085.JPG IMG_1088.JPG IMG_1090.JPG IMG_1086.JPG
 
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rubbertoe

X-H20 certified
Location
San Diego
images.jpeg Are you sure its not 8mm film reels ? no need to lie to kick it .
 
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