first pro you saw at your local track

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Ezra lusk holy shizzle saw him in early 2000 at a R.I.P. practice track called the x track he was insanely fast blowing by everybody even the local fast guys had no chance at all. the craziest thing about it was how bad he rutted the track in two hours time footpeg scrapping the rest of the day every corner and jump so fast.
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Damon Huffman came to a Wednesday practice day at Piru Mx back in 2004 I think, maybe 2005.
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Not a fair question for us So Cal guys....................
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Ryan Mills racing Schoolboy and whippin' everyone (myself included) in District 34/NY State.
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colton faciotti. 2007 xtreme raceway red deer alberta. lined up with him before practice. nice guy. he as commenting on my bike. we were both on 07 yz 450s. he was on his practice bike. mine had a lot of stuff on it. more then his. he was laughing at all the shit i had, not being mean , we were both getting a kick out of it. his corner speed was insane. hes better now. at that time he was about 18 without any titles. i think ne won the tite later that year.

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jwag87 12/5/2011 6:09pm
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thats very true you west coast people are spoiled.
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Lusk jumped into my practice session on an amateur day at Washougal.

I was one of, if not the last guy, to leave the line for the practice session and halfway through the second lap I started hearing this 125 just wound out screaming behind me and getting closer fast. I'm thinking to myself holy crap these guys must be hauling if they're coming around to lap me already, then there was a yellow flash and I saw the name on the back of his jersey. I got brave and thought, well here you go, see if you can keep up. That lasted about three corners before I came to my senses and backed it down and he was still yarding me like I was standing still.

The first pro who could run with the big boys that I saw was Ross Pederson. You just don't realize the difference in speed between a local pro and national pro until you see the guy that would win every moto at your local races by 45 seconds or more get beat even worse than he beat up the rest of the locals.
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Ddavis 12/5/2011 6:17pm
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TannerMxer wrote:
Damon Huffman came to a Wednesday practice day at Piru Mx back in 2004 I think, maybe 2005.
That was what I was going to say as well, when he was riding for Blackfoot Honda. That's my earliest memory of a pro riding a local track.
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Guy Cooper. Elk City, OK. 1991.
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TannerMxer wrote:
Damon Huffman came to a Wednesday practice day at Piru Mx back in 2004 I think, maybe 2005.
Ddavis wrote:
That was what I was going to say as well, when he was riding for Blackfoot Honda. That's my earliest memory of a pro riding a...
That was what I was going to say as well, when he was riding for Blackfoot Honda. That's my earliest memory of a pro riding a local track.
seen biily payne, damon huffman, anthony gobert, michael picheon, miguel duhammel, ben bostrom, eric bostrom, kevin windham, mike laracco, ezra lusk, stepane roncada, alessi's and a few others ride there back when it was called max track and run by Marc peters (I was working there at the time)
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roost251 12/5/2011 6:26pm
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bubba too but he wasnt a pro then, still on an 80. So many guys were pissed that this damm kid passed them on an 80 and were trying to keep up. I just told them let him go, you wont catch him, and they didnt, lol
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Rooster wrote:
Lusk jumped into my practice session on an amateur day at Washougal. I was one of, if not the last guy, to leave the line for...
Lusk jumped into my practice session on an amateur day at Washougal.

I was one of, if not the last guy, to leave the line for the practice session and halfway through the second lap I started hearing this 125 just wound out screaming behind me and getting closer fast. I'm thinking to myself holy crap these guys must be hauling if they're coming around to lap me already, then there was a yellow flash and I saw the name on the back of his jersey. I got brave and thought, well here you go, see if you can keep up. That lasted about three corners before I came to my senses and backed it down and he was still yarding me like I was standing still.

The first pro who could run with the big boys that I saw was Ross Pederson. You just don't realize the difference in speed between a local pro and national pro until you see the guy that would win every moto at your local races by 45 seconds or more get beat even worse than he beat up the rest of the locals.
Remember Ross Pederson racing that Rm with a Cr 500 motor stuffed in it. He won on it.
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jwag87 12/5/2011 6:36pm
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i saw bubba in the early 2000s also at a at the time brand spankin new track called monster mountain in alabama he was two stroking it out on the kx125 damn that kid was fast pinned the whole track. he was pitting out of the biggest box van id ever seen.
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Nielsen277 12/5/2011 6:39pm
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K-dub has made lots of appearances at my local track over the last 9 or so years.

One time he came for a benefit race and rode a lap around the track. I don't think his front wheel ever touched the ground!

I grew up watching Lance Vincent ride my local tracks, he was out there a couple months ago.
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I was an 85 beginner and my local track had just built the biggest whoops I'd ever seen.

I'm rolling the whoops, get squirrely and wad.

I look up and I see Andrew Short blitz them like he was riding on flat ground; mind = blown.
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Ronnie Clark was most likely the first. Billy Swap, Brian Edwards, Isaiah Johnson or even Gio Tedesco could have been there at the same time.

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Team Honda with RJ and Stanton at Evansville MX in Berwick PA. They would practice there before unadilla. Love the Mems!
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Way way back in the day, it was late December and the Pro's were in town to get ready for the Anaheim Supercross and my dad got the idea that I should skip school and go to Saddleback and ride with some, that surely would be there. We get to the track and the only people there for the most part was Mosier, Croft and of course myself. So I did lap after lap and got to watch them go by as they lapped me. Lap after lap. it was awesome.
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Jeffro503 at Mt. View.

Had to be there to truly experience it!
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Brad Lackey, Indian Dunes Shawdow Glen course summer of '72 on a flat black Kawi prototype.
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Billy Liles at Burnt Hickory in 1980...actually, just before he went pro...
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"Rocket" Rex Staten at Canyon Raceway in Peoria AZ, at the time I was a 125 beginner in say 1988? I had no Idea who this guy was or what his reputation was all I know is he knocked me over in a corner and yelled something as he went by in a blur.... I was like who the hell is this guy and was pissed. Now I know the history and his reputation.... and I am proud to have been that goon to be knocked over by a legend!

After that, destry abbot and of ocurse Jimmy Button and the Blose brothers!
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Roger D and the rest of the Europeans along with Americas finest at a Trans AM event at historic Rio Bravo.
"that can't actually be DeCoster, Weil, Bauer, Jones, Weinert, Lackey, DeSoto etc that I see in MXA/DirtBike & Pop Cycle is it!?" (:-D it was unreal at the time man. I was SO eat up with it.
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Liles
Turpin

Then
Bradshaw

Then

Dukes
Shue
Bentley
RC
Walker

Left some out I'm sure.

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