Thanks mate and I sure got a kick out hearing it for the first time in all of it's animated glory.
It's easy as a kid to see your parents as being born 40 years old and boring so hearing about their young and wild was always a good thing.
I got into dirt bikes as soon as I could and both my sisters did a fair bit of enduro racing on horses, some were Arab crosses from memory.
There was the never ending horse vs bikes debate between us, as was the case everywhere.
In the late eighties a well known dirt bike magazine called the challenge...quarter horse vs motocross bike in a barrel race...to put the debate publicly to bed.
Can't remember where it was held exactly but loads of folk turned up and saw the A grade pro racers on current model factory tuned RM250' get absolutely flogged royally stupid everytime.
The utter best of the best needed near twice the time as the horses.
All came down to traction, the bikes couldn't get power down or turn nearly as quickly no matter what they did.
Quick shut me up I tell you.
They're certainly enigmatic animals and have played a big part in pretty much every civilization.
This is a bit debated but I've read from a few sources that, back in the day, industry needed to quantify machine output and James Watts in the early 1800's came up with horsepower.
You probably know that torque is measured in weight over distance i.e how many pounds can be lifted using a bar 1 foot long...ft/lbs and horsepower is essentially how quickly that can be done.
So 1 horsepower is anything that can lift a man's weight (about150lbs) the height of a man(about 6 foot) in one second....so the story goes.
So being on the way to Brissy you might've passed through Toowoomba? I grew up there and is where the whole horse/bike caper started.
Do have very fond memories of having horses around and a few mates around here are right into it.
Take care mate it's the old school adrenaline sport!