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Mainers Are Racing Customized Lawn Mowers At Breweries For Fun 

Every one of the recognizable sights and hints of a race are there: the drone of the motor, the energetic hoots from the sidelined swarm, spinning tires kicking up dust as they tear towards the end goal. 사설토토

However, these riders aren't zooming by on beefed up sports vehicles. They're on ride-on-top lawnmowers, everything from standard stock cutters putting along (however, in light of the group's energy, you could never figure) to expertly changed machines destroying the track at 40 mph. 

It's a way for the Thunder Valley Mower Racing club out of Lincolnville to fulfill its requirement for speed — and it has become something of a nearby marvel in doing as such. 

Grass cutter hustling with Thunder Valley Mower Racing at Threshers Brewing Co in Searsmont. Credit: Courtesy of Neil Greenleaf 

Mainers are no aliens to dashing odd and superb natively constructed makes, from lobster boats to cut pumpkin kayaks. Trimmers fall into that equivalent particular soul, however with an additional a degree of availability. Numerous Mainers as of now have trimmers — some might even utilize them for work — so racing them on the ends of the week is an ideal method to utilize what you as of now need to release some pressure. 

"It's modest, fun diversion," said Aaron Boetsch, leader of the Thunder Valley Mower Racing club. "You don't must have truckload of cash contributed. Folks that have yard care organizations can cut on Friday, dump Saturday and contend." 

Boetsch began Thunder Valley Mower Racing after he left the military in 2010. He was exhausted at home and perusing the web when he ran over yard cutter racing recordings from the Midwest. Motivated, he and two or three companions hauled their trimmers out of their carports and began hustling in Boetsch's father's patio. 

Grass trimmer dashing with Thunder Valley Mower Racing at Threshers Brewing Co in Searsmont. Credit: Courtesy of Neil Greenleaf 

"We initially began with every one of the nearby folks, simply verbal," Boetsch said. "Individuals continued to come to watch us and began to bring [their own mowers]." 

Between the groups and the new riders, Thunder Valley Mower Racing soon grew out of its terrace track. Boetsch began searching for nearby backers that would toss two or three hundred bucks for T-shirts and other product and for bigger scenes to hold their trimmer races. 

Thunder Valley Mower Racing began holding races at the Union Fair, and leasing the carnival's track when the reasonable wasn't occurring. Last year, Boetsch said the gathering had three races at the Union Fair with between 300 to 400 observers. 

Hustling grass cutters on ice with Thunder Valley Mower Racing. Credit: Courtesy of Neil Greenleaf 

"That is countless individuals to appear for a thing like that," Boetsch said. 

The gear has developed, as well. Boetsch and his companions might have begun by dashing all around common stock grass cutters, yet presently, Thunder Valley Mower Racing has various classes for beefed up trimmers, everything from little alterations to the "Prohibit Class," where even the motor can be supplanted. 

Obviously, they have carried out security measures en route as well, such as requiring head protectors and shut toed shoes and wellbeing ties appended to the trimmers' off buttons. 

Trimmers line up for a race at Threshers Brewing Co. Credit: Courtesy of Nicole Bendston 

Beside fairs, Thunder Valley Mower Racing has additionally held races on frozen lakes and for the recent years has had normal occasions at Threshers Brewing Co. In Searsmont. 

"Each time we notice [the races], it carries a grin to individuals' faces," brewery proprietor Nicole Bendston said. "It's only sort of various and cheerful and it sounds sort of interesting." 

While Bendston said that there are regulars who look for the occasion, she sees new faces each time they have a trimmer race, as well. 

"Throughout the mid year, out-of-state individuals go to the show and they're similar to, 'Good gracious I've seen nothing like this,'" Boetsch said. 

Online media has permitted the gathering to arrive at more individuals and devotees. Briar Lyons is the secretary of Thunder Valley Mower Racing, which has in excess of 800 individuals in its Facebook bunch. 

Boetsch likewise credits individuals like Neil Greenleaf with the ascent in the gathering's prominence. Greenleaf is a YouTuber with more than 100,000 endorsers on his channel, RedneckComputerGeek, where for longer than 10 years he has been fixing, reestablishing and altering trimmers into ATVs and such. He began dashing with Thunder Valley Mower Racing two years prior. 

Greenleaf began a channel explicitly for trimmer races called RCG Racing, which has very nearly 3,000 supporters. 

Boetsch trusts that the gathering will proceed to develop, and said that they are continually searching for new individuals — simply make an appearance to a gathering, join the Facebook bunch, read the guidelines and prepare your cutter.