Everyone’s favorite scooter/moped/pit bike/mini moto/bicycle race is returning to Detroit’s re-discovered Dorais Velodrome with two dates this year. Thunderdrome will race on 30 June and 15 September, 2012. Make sure you visit the Thunderdrome site for full details, there’s changes … Continued
The Thunderdrome took the show on the road for the first time, in what was also the first race ever held on the Gilmore’s Car Museum’s track. Usually used for parade laps by only the finest show cars, this weekend … Continued
Everyone’s favorite debaucherous two-wheeled demolition derby is departing Detroit this weekend for a road trip across the state to the Gilmore Car Museum outside of Kalamazoo. There, a 1/4-mile oval flat track will play host to minibike, moped, scooter and … Continued
Once again, Detroit has proved itself America’s leading city of hoonage. Saturday, The Thunderdrome’s second ever race went off successfully, defying the infield lake, roving packs of post-apocalyptic UAW zombies and this country’s encroaching mediocrity in the process. What follows … Continued
Detroit’s guerilla race, The Thunderdrome!, is returning for 2011 with three dates. Last October’s inaugural event on the city’s derelict Dorais Velodrome saw hundreds of people who wouldn’t otherwise have any involvement with motorsports actually racing mopeds, minibikes, bicycles and … Continued
You know the standard race deal. Stand around in the rain, occasionally see some bikes ride past with no idea how Rossi got in front of Stoner somewhere else on the track and you’d better leave your girlfriend at home … Continued
In the post-apocalyptic wasteland of Detroit, a cynical journalist has agreed to enter a race to the death in an abandoned velodrome…on a moped. This weekend will see an epic trial of strength as pit bikes, scooters and mopeds race … Continued