MINI SHIFTY
CUSTOM BUILT BY ICON MOTOSPORTS
STOUT RACE-READY BOONIE
Our sweet little baby boo-nie homage to the original ICON 1000 gangsta, Low-Down & Shifty.
Big Dirt energy
We ordered ourselves up the ‘Race Ready’ model from Matt Stout at StoutMinis.com and in about a week we were uncrating the little powerhouse in our shop. With just a spit of gas and a pull on the recoil, it fired right up and was already lurching forward with an appetite for destruction. But wait, do we put on a helmet? What about some other gear? These are the things that may run through your head but quickly get thrown out when you’re staring down a minibike. “It’s so small and low to the ground. What’s the worst that can happen?” one might say. And therein lies the problem. With that minibike false sense of security in mind we can already tell that this is not one to mess with in that way. We can foresee twisting the throttle on this little guy landing us with a good blow to the dome and a little road rash. Nothing we haven’t gotten a taste of before, but this is your warning. Put your helmet and gear on cuz if minibikes had muscles, this one would be the Ronnie Coleman of minibikes with an enlarged middle finger.
IF IT AIN'T FUN, WE DON'T WANT NONE
Our minibike motto. Hell, it’s our motto for all of the bikes we meddle with, but this thing promises plenty of that and then some. It’s been labeled the “Baddest Mini Bike Around” which piqued our interest, and as you know, we at ICON are always up for testing such theories. While testing we decided the only thing that could make this better is more, more, more! We got our buddy Matt Stout of StoutMinis.com on the horn and ordered 4 more Boonie bikes for customization. We sent them out to folks that we knew could get down with our Boonie Bike Bonanza vibe. We gave them all an extremely short period of time to finish their builds, cuz we're jerks like that, but what they came up with was remarkable.
Boonie Bike Bonanza Builders-
Thor Drake // One Moto Cafe
Gary Inman // Sideburn Magazine
Carl & Silas Bjorklund // Super Rat
The boys at Steady Garage
And of course, saving the best for last, we the people of ICON make a total of 5 customized Stout Boonie Bikes.
BOONIE BIKE BONANZA WAS BORN!
With our steeds ready in the gates, the Stout Boonie Bike Bonanza was go. The 2023 One Moto Show was the battleground for what would become a legendary yearly goofball race for the masses to enjoy. For seat time in our Boonie Bike Bonanza on these tiny terrors, all you needed was to join us in the ICON Pit with a helmet, a little mini bike wherewithal, and a craving for thrills - which was served up to both riders and spectators alike. We had flat track racers, FMX stars, and even the boss hoss of The One Moto himself show up to try these babies out.
ICON Boonie Bike Bonanza track collaborator thanks goes out to:
Easy Rider Whiskey for outfitting our track with a trio of whiskey barrel chicanes.
MotoCorsa's Turn 2 provided an amalgamation of things to swoop through and avoid tetanus in turn two.
Poler camp stuff brought literally that, camp stuff, and a logjam rollover that on day one was found to be more of a launching pad than it was a roller. We had to trim the fat on that one for day two to keep our riders earthbound.
And lastly, J&P Cycles in collaboration with See See Motorcycles brought the giant road cone that kept our racers circling in bar-banging confusion while doubling as a hideout for photo-hungry influencers.
The Idea came from humble beginnings, we swear.
A wise man once said, "Funny thing about motorcycles... when you get one, you want two. When you get two you want ten. Then one day you have ten motorcycles." Well, our intentions were to order one STOUT Boonie bike to be customized and modeled after our beloved Low, Down, and Shifty but somehow that turned into a fleet of 5 Boonies and a wild idea to let people race them... Ain't that funny?
