![]() Spearheaded by the minibike maniacs over at MNNTHBX (Man in the Box), The Crawl took place in a field outside of Townsend, TN, for the first few years of its life. If you're unaware, the Small Bore Festival started out as a DIY event called the Smoky Mountain Crawl back in 2017. Honda held the 2022 Grom launch event at the 2021 Barber Small Bore Festival at the Barber Motorsports Park in Leeds, Alabama. ⠀ Yoshimura Launches Sweet New Accessories For 2021-22 Honda Groms The Event I was in like Flynn. So, on June 4, 2021, I boarded a commercial aircraft for the first time since February of 2020 and headed down to The Yellowhammer State for some small-displacement fun. That all changed at the beginning of May 2021, when the team at Honda called me up and asked, "Would you like to hoon some new Groms around Barber Motorsport Complex in Alabama the first weekend in June?" Let me tell you, friends, I couldn't say yes fast enough. Thanks to that decision, I missed out on a whole lot of fun as a youngster and never got to experience the wide, weird world of minibikes. No, like an idiot I jumped right into the deep end with one of Yamaha's fast, heavy, big-bore, early-80s triples. ![]() See, I didn't start my riding career riding minibikes or small-bore dirt bikes like so many of my contemporaries. ![]() ![]() ![]() I was in love with the idea of tiny little pocket-sized bikes you could use to zip around town on and use to get into some sensible trouble, but I'd never actually ridden one. However, that love was, until very recently, hypothetical. ![]()
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