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While not the best, Chuck Sun was "pretty good" too....
That USGP video made me realize two things
1) Damn I miss Carlsbad...that place was brutal (brutal fun!)
2) Damn I miss 500cc two-strokes!
As in "Period".
Joël Smets the only guy who was capable of doing great things with the Husaberg!
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Joël Smets crushed Emig at the MxDN in 1997:
Ooh yeah same thing happened at the MxDN in 1995!
PS: I posted that MXDN video from 1997 specially because in the MX Media, Emig told everyone he would smoke that Husaberg Tractor. But case closed
Although he didn't put in the time on a 500 as most of the others mentioned ... he was a master on the bike. In the US 500 series he toyed with Stanton and Ward seemingly passing them at will. At the two 500 USGPs he annihilated the GP field each time ... and any US riders that showed up.
and Magoo
maybe not the string of titles as some,
but both were JUST unreal to watch on a open 2 stroke.
MxMatti posts Belgian guy on 610cc fourstroke.
Case closed.
I'm going to go post about Johnny Campbell and his XR600 at Baja in the best 125cc riders of all time thread. Just need to figure out how to put some sort of nationalistic spin on it in the process.
Hey, did an American guy bang your sister and never call her again? Just wondering.
Pit Row
No2 Carla
No3 Ricky Johnson
People also haven't forgotten Thorpe getting beat by O'Mara in the '86 Des Nations. Thorpe did have a problem with his front brake and he was carrying an injury that day.
Still one of the top 500cc riders in the world.
Roger DeCoster
Heikki Mikkola
Danny Chandler
Honorable mention for possibly the greatest accomplishment by an American on a 500cc mx bike- Marty Moates
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