Ascot had a real jump and Peoria had a real jump but I think today we are going to see a hump not a jump at Daytona. I never rode Peoria but I did have the pleasure of flying off the Ascot TT jump many ,many times and it was fun. You came around a tight right hander onto the very short spurt before the jump. No doubt you would be in second gear so if you wanted to, you could really launch yourself off the lip and into the wild blue yonder and hope for the best and this is what most riders did. You could also moderate it a little and land just over the flat on the beginning of the downhill and power down the slope hopefully catching and passing your hard landing competitors.Then it was a hard blast down to the decreasing radius right that was mostly slippery and treacherous. The 50 Lap TT was the big one in the early days and landing a big heavy twin 50 times had to take a toll. Later the Nationals were 25 laps which produced high flying, tight racing. Lets hope today's Daytona TT jump lets them air it out and have some fun.
The late, great Rick Hocking lets it fly on Ascot's famous TT jump.
