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Olson 6/17/2015 4:21am
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Two things. Why the olympic rings on Jeff Ward Racing Products? And Up-tite Husqvarna doesn't seem to be the most enticing name choice.
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Highsider 6/17/2015 5:29am
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Olson wrote:
Two things. Why the olympic rings on Jeff Ward Racing Products? And Up-tite Husqvarna doesn't seem to be the most enticing name choice.
Refers to their spring-loaded add-on chain tensioners.
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slipdog 6/17/2015 5:55am
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My first time on a real motocross track was at Argyl Park in Dixon, Ca. Pops sent me to the Russ Darnell MX School for my 10th birthday.
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endurox 6/17/2015 6:18am
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Those were the days. 4 of us did the Russ Darnell school. We learned a lot as newbie riders. Our school was at Indian Dunes on the international track.

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TeamRags 6/17/2015 6:31am
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Would have been nice to get a little investment in Oakley Products right around the time this ad came out.
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wwoberg 6/17/2015 8:53am
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I did a week long Russ Darnell school at saddleback
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Xeno 6/17/2015 9:09am
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wwoberg wrote:
I did a week long Russ Darnell school at saddleback
Ditto here. My mom would drop me off at Saddleback with a can of gas and lunch. My dad would pick me up in the afternoon.

Russ Darnell got me to clear my first double jump during that school. I was on a 1983 CR250.
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Xeno 6/17/2015 9:22am
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dazzlindino wrote:
...where's the 909....
It didn't exist back then!
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TeamGreen 6/17/2015 9:30am
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I raced CMC...& NMA...& AMC
Most all of us ran Oakley grips.
I frequented all the Canoga shops...Mike's Maico, International Yamaha, The Monarch shop...& Carabellas...
There was a Penton shop (Rickman, too) up on Ventura blvd. (Penton = KTM for you youngin's)
Had a few DG pipes and gadgets...later replaced by Rudy & Dean's
Had some Red FMF stuff.
Pretty sure my 1st Gold Sun Rim was laced at the Wheel Clinic.
Up-Tite wasn't just for Husky...I remember those things on Elsinores, too. I think you had to take it apart and reverse some stuff...? I remember drilling a piece of aluminum for Carl, the guy that got one of the very 1st "Green Striped" Hondas, so that the tensioner would work on "the wrong side" of the bike.

Growing up on the same block as the Webb brothers in Canoga Park is probably how...hell...it IS how I got addicted to this sport. My 1st ride on a Dirt-Bike was sitting on the tank of Tom Webb's yellow Maico 501 as it wheelied thru the old military-intersection poles on the big dirt lot at the corner of Saticoy and Fallbrook. still remember the sound...the smell...

Funny, it wasn't until 1982 that I finally raced Indian Dunes on a CR480. I lived in Nor-Cal by then; but, I'd come down south for the Golden State Series: HUGE turnouts and Epic Racing...it was The West-Coast Winter Series for more than a few of the Pros & Factory Teams...makes me remember Magoo on an RC500...Howerton on the KX500SR...Kehoe on an RH125...

Thanks for the reminder Newmann.
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GuyB 6/17/2015 9:34am
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Remeber when Pros would race SX on Saturday nights and CMC Golden State races on Sunday.
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TeamGreen 6/17/2015 10:29am
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GuyB wrote:
Remeber when Pros would race SX on Saturday nights and CMC Golden State races on Sunday.
Yup!
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bigmaico 6/17/2015 12:14pm
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newmann wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/06/17/94889/s1200_386702_349883641691723_1920857515_n.jpg[/img]


Joe,

Thanks for posting the ad, It brings back a lot of memories form my early days racing inSo.Calif.

Anyone rember Collins & Son's Penton in Anaheim or Moto Mister in Signal Hill ?
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GuyB wrote:
Remeber when Pros would race SX on Saturday nights and CMC Golden State races on Sunday.
Slip and I used to do that...usually pretty worthless on a Sunday though (it just wasn't super exciting to be there after racing in front of 60k people the night before).

I remember the Golden States being so big that they had to split up the classes over the weekend...and they gave away trucks and you could make a living off of factory contingency.
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wwoberg 6/17/2015 1:06pm
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wwoberg wrote:
I did a week long Russ Darnell school at saddleback
Xeno wrote:
Ditto here. My mom would drop me off at Saddleback with a can of gas and lunch. My dad would pick me up in the afternoon...
Ditto here. My mom would drop me off at Saddleback with a can of gas and lunch. My dad would pick me up in the afternoon.

Russ Darnell got me to clear my first double jump during that school. I was on a 1983 CR250.
Hmmm. We could have been in the same school. Just barely remember, but it was around 83. My 82 RM125 was seized do I rode my dads 81 CR500 the first couple of days until I got the RM fixed. It was a pain starting and stopping that monster.
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Xeno 6/17/2015 1:14pm
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wwoberg wrote:
Hmmm. We could have been in the same school. Just barely remember, but it was around 83. My 82 RM125 was seized do I rode my...
Hmmm. We could have been in the same school. Just barely remember, but it was around 83. My 82 RM125 was seized do I rode my dads 81 CR500 the first couple of days until I got the RM fixed. It was a pain starting and stopping that monster.
Well, I got the CR250 used from a family friend, so I probably did that school in '84. If I could find the Certificate of Completion that Russ Darnell gave me...
dazzlindino 6/17/2015 1:29pm
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wwoberg wrote:
Hmmm. We could have been in the same school. Just barely remember, but it was around 83. My 82 RM125 was seized do I rode my...
Hmmm. We could have been in the same school. Just barely remember, but it was around 83. My 82 RM125 was seized do I rode my dads 81 CR500 the first couple of days until I got the RM fixed. It was a pain starting and stopping that monster.
Xeno wrote:
Well, I got the CR250 used from a family friend, so I probably did that school in '84. If I could find the Certificate of Completion...
Well, I got the CR250 used from a family friend, so I probably did that school in '84. If I could find the Certificate of Completion that Russ Darnell gave me...
...you guys are still babies then...
...you shoulda seen the FMF shop....was but a small place in 77...
...had a DG sticker at the bottom of the toilet....
...with an "O" magic marked in between the D n G....
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TankSlapper 6/17/2015 2:08pm
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bigmaico wrote:
Joe, Thanks for posting the ad, It brings back a lot of memories form my early days racing inSo.Calif. Anyone rember Collins & Son's Penton in...
Joe,

Thanks for posting the ad, It brings back a lot of memories form my early days racing inSo.Calif.

Anyone rember Collins & Son's Penton in Anaheim or Moto Mister in Signal Hill ?
I grew up with Rich Collins and his brother Davee. I still hear from Rich. Davey passed away a few years ago (RIP Crash!).

When we were in 9th Grade, Rich was in a Penton ad. Full on movie star status LOL. The text in the ad went something like "They all laughed when I unloaded my Penton 400 (the thing had a huge silencer for the day), they weren't laughing after the race...."

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Sprew 6/17/2015 5:40pm
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TankSlapper wrote:
I grew up with Rich Collins and his brother Davee. I still hear from Rich. Davey passed away a few years ago (RIP Crash!). When we...
I grew up with Rich Collins and his brother Davee. I still hear from Rich. Davey passed away a few years ago (RIP Crash!).

When we were in 9th Grade, Rich was in a Penton ad. Full on movie star status LOL. The text in the ad went something like "They all laughed when I unloaded my Penton 400 (the thing had a huge silencer for the day), they weren't laughing after the race...."
Seems like he moved up to Azuza after the Anaheim shop closed. I got some parts from him around 1980. Old car dealership or something. A framed, glass store front? Saddened to hear of his passing.
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HuskyEd 6/17/2015 6:22pm
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Up-Tite and George Erl are still around, selling Beta's these days.
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RandyS 6/17/2015 6:23pm
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I'm not going to pretend that I can but who can connect any of these to current companies, the more degrees of separation the better.
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RandyS 6/17/2015 6:26pm
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Olson wrote:
Two things. Why the olympic rings on Jeff Ward Racing Products? And Up-tite Husqvarna doesn't seem to be the most enticing name choice.
Mini Olympics was a big deal?
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Benchracer17 wrote:
"Everything's Sano At Miller Mano" [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2015/06/17/94949/s1200_csteel56_17.jpg[/img]
"Everything's Sano At Miller Mano"



Saw that bike when it was new at Ponca City in 84. At 10 years old, I was amazed at the work Dave could do....Last year I was in SoCal and saw that very special machine sitting in Troy Lee's shop. Still an absolute work of art! So ahead of its time.

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