Houred Out ???

It’s been at least ten years since I’ve attended a SERA event, let alone ridden one. Imagine my surprise when asked to write the lead article for a new SERA web page column. Who could be the author? Maybe ole SERA #1, Ron Burks? Could it be the Amite Flash, Jonny Kemp? And then they told me….. it was Fred.

Oh…

Now I understand. Nobody else would do it.

True to form, I was smothered with email suggestions (from one address) of how to express the garrulous, witty, and pointless diatribe that is about to be unleashed on an unsuspecting moto-world. One post hinted at a likeness to a hairy Tom Cruise. Now, one look at any picture of Fred in the past twenty years blows that away. Another post suggested a writing style similar to some of the great writers of novels. The only thing in common was that all are fiction. There was even one post that stretched the limit so far as to suggest a parallel in writing style to the late Lewis Grizzard. I shuddered at such imprudence. Let’s face it, Grizzard never tried to sell the riding public an over priced padded toilet seat by calling it a neck warmer (though Jonny Kemp says his worked pretty good). No, ole Fred has his own unique style. If we must draw a comparison it would be this; What the Sioux did to Custer, Fred does to a sentence.

Enough of this babble. It’s time for me to introduce my friend Fred Pittman and a reincarnation of his witty, uncouth, and sometimes controversial column, “Houred Out”. We look forward to the zany products offered by “Full Moon Racing”, stories from the trail, and maybe a few secrets about how to be a member of SERA for over twenty years and hold the record for being “HOURED OUT”.

 

Ray Fagan
Retired Editor
Dirt Pilot Magazine
& Suspected Mental Institution Escapee