First time Larocco hit Larocco's Leap

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Edited Date/Time 7/6/2015 8:21am
Just seen it over on Vurb, thought some one may like to see it as well

http://vurbmoto.com/videos/blast-past-first-time-laroccos-leap-was-jump…
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agn5009 7/3/2015 10:38pm
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Larocco is such a bad ass
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Does anyone remember the full story? I believe that wasn't the first time it was jumped, but I don't remember very good these days.

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The asterisk is that he was the first to jump it in competition. He had hit jumped it in previous days during the track prep for the race, as he lives near the track. He didn't jump it in practice, but some of the 250 guys did and continued to throughout the day. Nobody else tried it on a 125...until Bubba came along 5 or 6 years later.

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yak651 7/4/2015 6:03am
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The old double double in the infield was a cool section, they should bring that back.
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Xracer wrote:
The asterisk is that he was the first to jump it in competition. He had hit jumped it in previous days during the track prep for...
The asterisk is that he was the first to jump it in competition. He had hit jumped it in previous days during the track prep for the race, as he lives near the track. He didn't jump it in practice, but some of the 250 guys did and continued to throughout the day. Nobody else tried it on a 125...until Bubba came along 5 or 6 years later.

I thought there was some 250 guys hitting it. Thanks for the info
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TX24 7/4/2015 6:17am
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Anybody remember back when, it looked like a big bite was taken out of the hillside. Coming up short was landing into a wall. I believe Dowd broke his leg on it years ago.
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Xracer wrote:
The asterisk is that he was the first to jump it in competition. He had hit jumped it in previous days during the track prep for...
The asterisk is that he was the first to jump it in competition. He had hit jumped it in previous days during the track prep for the race, as he lives near the track. He didn't jump it in practice, but some of the 250 guys did and continued to throughout the day. Nobody else tried it on a 125...until Bubba came along 5 or 6 years later.

bubba came along 10 yrs later, i think this was 1992. its so wierd this clip has been posted, as i literally watched this season review on thursday
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Xracer 7/4/2015 7:16am
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h&m_cycle wrote:
Here'ssssss Bubba... a whole 7 seconds on the tiddler... Cody Gragg should be launching on the 250 smoker
correct?...

https://youtu.be/ZVE8K2utRqQ
They've moved the turn at the bottom closer and it's a 180 now, compared to the last time that 250 2-strokes ruled and the turn was further out and somewhere between a 90 and 180, I don't think anyone was doing it regularly on a 250F last year, and I think a top-shelf 250F is putting down comparable power to Gragg's 2-stroke. I'm gonna go with "no".
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yak651 wrote:
The old double double in the infield was a cool section, they should bring that back.
And they bitch about the tracks today being too Supercross'y ? ! ? !

Could you imagine the uproar .... but then again bitches will bitch.
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yak651 wrote:
The old double double in the infield was a cool section, they should bring that back.
KMC440 wrote:
And they bitch about the tracks today being too Supercross'y ? ! ? !

Could you imagine the uproar .... but then again bitches will bitch.
Yes, that era was clearly the beginning of motocross.
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burn1986 7/4/2015 8:45am
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yak651 wrote:
The old double double in the infield was a cool section, they should bring that back.
KMC440 wrote:
And they bitch about the tracks today being too Supercross'y ? ! ? !

Could you imagine the uproar .... but then again bitches will bitch.
Yep, exactly what I was thinking. A lot of complaining about the jumps today, but this track looked way more jump filled. lol
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davistld01 7/4/2015 9:15am
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agn5009 wrote:
Larocco is such a bad ass
Yep. That says it all!
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yak651 wrote:
The old double double in the infield was a cool section, they should bring that back.
KMC440 wrote:
And they bitch about the tracks today being too Supercross'y ? ! ? !

Could you imagine the uproar .... but then again bitches will bitch.
Spartacus wrote:
Yes, that era was clearly the beginning of motocross.
No the 70's were
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KMC440 wrote:
And they bitch about the tracks today being too Supercross'y ? ! ? !

Could you imagine the uproar .... but then again bitches will bitch.
Spartacus wrote:
Yes, that era was clearly the beginning of motocross.
cz2crf2wc wrote:
No the 70's were
Thank you.

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steve.hackler.1 7/4/2015 10:34am
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The year Larocco won the 250 Championship he always got a poor start. I remember seeing McGrath leading one time and his mechanic held out his board and it said "he's coming". Didn't even have to put his name or number on it. Larocca was a bad ass that year.
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steve.hackler.1 wrote:
The year Larocco won the 250 Championship he always got a poor start. I remember seeing McGrath leading one time and his mechanic held out his...
The year Larocco won the 250 Championship he always got a poor start. I remember seeing McGrath leading one time and his mechanic held out his board and it said "he's coming". Didn't even have to put his name or number on it. Larocca was a bad ass that year.
Yep, huge Larocco fan.. dude was always charging

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