What Is This Weird-Ass Sport I Saw On TV Yesterday?

Timothy BurkeTimothy Burke|published: Thu 3rd October, 14:00 2013

Yesterday a reader tweeted at me, urging me to tune into Fox Sports Midwest where "unathletic adult men" were " racing tiny bikes around a tiny track." He wasn't lying, and I watched a good half hour without ever figuring out exactly what, or who, or where I was watching.

So, too, seemed the spectators in attendance at this event:


(Note the young child facepalming.)

We're not actually opposed to this kind of programming; it reminds us of what we saw on ESPN when tuning into the WWL required one of these...

...but how it ended up on Fox Sports Midwest is really a mystery. If anyone out there is familiar with this sport/Monty Python sketch, let us know.

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