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A lot of bike for a little guy! Dad had a Bultaco Pursang (250) Dad would raceTT/desert / motocross all on the
same bike! He would drag me with him so I was exposed to all kinds of racing from a young age and feel in love with it.
I met Malcolm Smith, Sammy Tanner, Steve McQueen, Gary Bailey, Dave Bickers, Jeff Smith all before I was 12 years old.
Motocross and the people in it are some of the best people I have come across in my 45 years of riding.
I ride two times a week ( moto) and nothing compares to how one feels when you spin that fluid lap or land that jump
really smooth.
Moto is and will always be in my life.
Remember this boys, you will never see Viagra commercials on a moto broadcast! Only on the golf channel!
So get out and ride.
Cheers, Pat
Same exact bike, been hooked ever since.
So my dad and Eddie Crowell of Crowell Cycle's in Inglewood, CA built me a minibike and I was racing at Saddleback three months later. I never looked back. Because of motorcycles and MX, I've met friends as a kid who are now life long friends...racing taught me things that I never would of learned in everyday life and it's allowed me to travel the world. I still race REM at Glen Helen every weekend and I love every minute of it. Wouldn't trade it in the world…
Some of my richest MX memories come from those first few years of getting into it in the mid 90s. Like Liotta narrates in Goodfellas... it was a glorious time! There was no instant access to the sport back then as there is now with things like Youtube and the internet in general etc (at least I didn't have access back then). So every snippet of the sport you dug up or accidentally bumped into on tv, felt rich and awesome. I remember being totally obsessed with it for 2 yrs, picking up MXA and DBR whenever I could, studying the bikes, learning who all the riders were and trying to imagine what it was like to actually ride an MX track. And then of course when I finally got my first wreck of a bike in 96 it was the best thing since sliced bread as far as I was concerned.
I was great at basketball (captain u15)........way to short to make it
I was an excellent swimmer (my dad a coach, swimming in seniors when I was 12!).......way to boring
I was doing this by my 10th ride, at 15, say no more
Lots of long long stories guys and no paragraphs means very hard to read.
There's little difference in our choice of passion and my daughter's love of horses and my son's for Basketball. Good times, good health and a supporting cast keeps them rolling.
It should mean "too lazy; don't read".
Plus it's all for the chics Bro.
Pit Row
Dad had a Honda chopper when I was born. Mom still has pics of me at 1-4 years old sitting on it with helmet and goggles. My dad brought home and italjet for me at 5 as soon as learned to ride without training wheels. I was able to ride it once and mom said no way sell it!
So after the bigD, dad bought us a rupp mini bike for his house onmthe weekends. I loved that thing! Well he let his at te time GF ride it and she panic throttled into a semi trailer and it broke one side of the springer fork. We tried to have it welded a few times but the cheap metal wouldn't hold. Shortly after we( my brother and I) were treated to brand new kawi 100 enduro's I want to say KM100M's. We tore up the open fields all around the house. Loved bikes since I was a baby.
My son went on to be a pro for a while after we had made all the big none pro events over the country and did well. He then had two son's years latter and stopped riding. When the boy's were 7 & 6 I put new PW 80's in front of them and they were hooked. Both of them are now in there early 20's. All have stopped riding except me and I still enjoy the exercise I get from it. Now I am old and slow, but I still have too much fun to quit. I also have riding buddies my age and older that I ride with when possible. We do some long trips to ride and we have a ball.
If I was to stop riding now, it would be the end of me.
Paw Paw
I wasnt that lucky, i didn't get a bike until i was 12 or 13 ,
1987 Kawasaki KD80 , i had ridden BMX every day up until that point so once i got use to the clutch i was comfortable.
And then started watching all the pro races from 1988 on to Now, some awsome stuff , from wardy and Johnson to Bradshaw and Chicken, Stanton, Bayle.
To McGrath, RC, Bubba, The Ryans!
In those days even no one would let you ride their bikes.
I’d watch all day if they stayed out there.
1981 dad broke and got me a new YZ80H
$739.40.
Crashed it off a backroad bridge 2 months later
Cracked my skull, kneecap and broken arm.
Dad said never again, but I broke him in 1983 for a New KX80.
I think he caused my love for this stuff by denying soo long.
My dad took me to an AX race and on the way he said, “they’re gonna be jumping as high as those light poles” My mind was blown
I still remember the light reflecting off those chrome visors
I've been following the sport and riding off and on for 40 years. It promotes an active lifestyle (got bored with stick and ball sports years ago, not a shred of interest now. Can't even sit through the Superbowl).
I watch moto because it's the most exciting sport around, you never know what can happen.
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