2000/2001 GPs

Crush
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5/3/2010 9:33pm Edited Date/Time 1/25/2012 1:27am
With the passing of Sharky I've been trying to track down a 2000 and 2001 GP season video... And even more specifically the 2000 Grand Prix opener at Broadford where Sharky and Reedy put themselves on the map...

Does anyone have any ideas where to find em!?!?!

Golden times in MX for sure... Some amazing careers worldwide gaining momentum and the sweet sound of two strokes... I wanna get them up so people can remember....
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snowy816
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5/3/2010 11:04pm
Crush wrote:
With the passing of Sharky I've been trying to track down a 2000 and 2001 GP season video... And even more specifically the 2000 Grand Prix...
With the passing of Sharky I've been trying to track down a 2000 and 2001 GP season video... And even more specifically the 2000 Grand Prix opener at Broadford where Sharky and Reedy put themselves on the map...

Does anyone have any ideas where to find em!?!?!

Golden times in MX for sure... Some amazing careers worldwide gaining momentum and the sweet sound of two strokes... I wanna get them up so people can remember....
I was there watching that Cush was unreal. Reedy first year overseas with Kawaski and hauled ass. Andrew, pulled a hole shot I believe in the first moto and lead for some time. Can't remember exactly, I was full of pain killars with a dislocated elbow.

Boradford had a sketchy SX track there with rocks all over the place, and I did't really like the track that much.

Remember having goose bumps watching Andrew up front.
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5/4/2010 2:24am Edited Date/Time 5/4/2010 2:24am
Crush wrote:
With the passing of Sharky I've been trying to track down a 2000 and 2001 GP season video... And even more specifically the 2000 Grand Prix...
With the passing of Sharky I've been trying to track down a 2000 and 2001 GP season video... And even more specifically the 2000 Grand Prix opener at Broadford where Sharky and Reedy put themselves on the map...

Does anyone have any ideas where to find em!?!?!

Golden times in MX for sure... Some amazing careers worldwide gaining momentum and the sweet sound of two strokes... I wanna get them up so people can remember....
snowy816 wrote:
I was there watching that Cush was unreal. Reedy first year overseas with Kawaski and hauled ass. Andrew, pulled a hole shot I believe in the...
I was there watching that Cush was unreal. Reedy first year overseas with Kawaski and hauled ass. Andrew, pulled a hole shot I believe in the first moto and lead for some time. Can't remember exactly, I was full of pain killars with a dislocated elbow.

Boradford had a sketchy SX track there with rocks all over the place, and I did't really like the track that much.

Remember having goose bumps watching Andrew up front.
That was 01. I lived in OZ at the time and it was one hell of a year for Australian MX/SX, with the "big three" all having their first seasons as pros. I can´t believe it´s been 9 years already!

BTW, how cool looking was the the bike/fear combo Reed wore at Jan De Groot Kawasaki!!
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5/4/2010 2:39am Edited Date/Time 4/17/2016 10:36pm
Not sure where you can get hold of a 2000 or 2001 review, but you can get a 2004 & 2005 review from Duke video here:
2004 GP Review
2005 GP Review

I'll have a look on some moto websites later.

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5/4/2010 3:47am Edited Date/Time 4/17/2016 10:36pm
I was at the first race in 2000. If I recall correctly it was McFarlane and Byrner that really lit up the crowd, although Reed was there as well but I think he may have been running a support class? (in those days they didn't run the three classes together on the same weekend, so it was only the 500cc class for the MX GP).

Byrner was on a CR500, McFarlane on a KX500 built on a KX 250 frame (they were running numbers 87 & 88 although I can't recall which was which). I think first moto Byrner got the holeshot with Sharkey right behind, they run 1-2 for a while, then eventually Smets and Boeverts ran them down, McFarlane ended up 3rd.

Smets was on fire that day - 2nd moto he fell on the first lap and came back from nearly last to win and go 1-1.

I was trying to find race results - I think from memory that Sharkey ended up overall 3rd for the day but not sure, also I think Byrner finished somewhere in the top 10.

On the subject of two strokes, looking back at that race now it probably was evident that the demise of the two stroke was imminent. At the time the 500cc championship still meant something so you had the likes of Everts, Smets, Boeverts, Darryl King etc all competing, plus back then it was still full-on works bikes. I think the Yamaha factory guys were on YZM500's and Smets' bike was supposedly around 570cc. There were a few 500 two strokes in the race, but it was pretty obvious from watching that they were outclassed by the four strokes (which makes the rides by the Aussie guys even more impressive!)
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5/4/2010 5:07am Edited Date/Time 4/17/2016 10:36pm
Sharkys KX 250 framed KX 500 was just the trickest bike ever !
If I recall right they had to change a lot of things on the engine such as coolant pipe entry & exit locations to get it around the frame. Rob Treywould? built it if i recall rightly.
I wonder where that bike is now days.

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