As Mark Bennet and I time Larry as he completes lap after lap of the track, I wonder how he isn’t killed. Mark explains that although the bike looks like it is flying, its average speed on this track is probably around 30 m.p.h. Mark says that although it’s the most physically de­manding sport, try hanging onto 100 kg of leaping metal for an hour and you’ll believe it, but about one of the safest. After years of attending moto-cross, Mark can’t remember a serious injury and yet he’s been to only two rodeos in his life and he’s seen a fatality already.