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Edited Date/Time: 5/23/2008 11:05 PM
IIRC it happened before the races. The 3 racers had gone to a store in a rental car driven by a guy named Dana ? (can't remember the guy's last name). I heard that this Dana guy had been jumping the tracks and trashing the rental car beforehand and apparantly didn't notice the train when they crossed the tracks this particular time. Bonehead move on his part. The 3 kids were killed and Dana survived. His last name might have been Duke and he worked for an MX industry company that sponsored the racers.
I think I first read about this in Cycle News.
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Dana was an Oakley rep. It happened after the second day of racing. Brookes was goimg to be in that car too but he had to go to a meeting with his team manager, his bike was being protested and they wanted him there.
They were all going back to the hotel becouse the day was over and Dana was in a hurry to get there, he swears he didnt see the train but alot of people siad he was jumping those tracks earlier in the day. To this day Brooks still wont talk about it. I rode for Oakley and knew Dana, I can tell you he was messed up in the head about it as long as I knew him.
Bruce and Rick were gauranteed factory riders and Kyle was pretty fast also. I was a year or two younger and it didnt really hit me until I went to the first Kyle Flemming memorial race in Az. I really liked Kyle. If you take away a mans ability to fail, you take away his will to succeed.
You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
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Bruce Bunch's 1982 R&D Suzuki he rode at Ponca before his death.
Click on the link below to view information and pictures of the bike. A guy bought it from R&D and it is in perfect restoration condition.
http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:d2hnJE5NhqsJ:www.vintagefactory.com/arm_pump_4.2.08.htm+%22Bruce+Bunch%22+Suzuki&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us 1980's Motocross was the best! It was Heaven and we never knew it!
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It was Duke Dana - came from the BMX world, same as Kyle Flemming. 1980's Motocross was the best! It was Heaven and we never knew it!
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I thought that was his name. The question is - How in the hell did he not see that train coming ? This kind of "accident" happens all too frequently around the country. I mean, a train is pretty big and easy to see as well as being pretty loud.
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Edited Date/Time: 5/27/2008 2:34 PM
The article I read from the accident is that the train came from behind a lumber store...the sun was dropping and facing right into the cars front windshield. There was only a blinking train light signal that was hard to see because of the sun. So that was the original "official" statements made to the press. Later, obviously I have read that he was crossing the tracks and ignoring the signal all weekend long. The article also stated that they were in a truck and just got done racing and were running to get some food before the trophy presentations.
Both Bruce bunch and Rick Hemme were 16, while Kyle Flemming was 13.
Rick Hemme finished 4th, 2nd, and in his very last race, a 1st place that day. 1980's Motocross was the best! It was Heaven and we never knew it!
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i also remember bruce had a broken wrist and was racing with a cast on that day...and he was still up around the top 5...
by the way, that bike was bruce's 1981 bike...the last bikes he was on were single shock bikes....
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I'd say Tripes also. Feet up through the corners, butta smooth style. Short bus team captain.
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Most talent? I vote for Jojo Keller. He was never the fastest, the luckiest or the fittest but he could sure do some wild stuff on a dirt bike
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The Zhart brothers weren't the most talented, perhaps, but they were quick. "Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat everytime."
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Edited Date/Time: 6/26/2008 6:06 PM
DId you see that jump when he hit the 'thumb' on the great ride open? sickest jump ive even seen, no one can whip like that guy. far as pure speed its rick johnson pure talent it was ron lechein maybe RC nowadays i havent been watcing for years and years heres the link the renner whip. near the end of the video. also clowers catches absurd air
http://video.aol.com/...OABYMCkQAzgouyaqqnWs
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You got them confused......Robbie Reynard is the Mxer, Robbie Renner is the Fmxer !!! The older I get, the faster I was
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Edited Date/Time: 6/28/2008 8:59 AM
 Ricky was a friend of mine.
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FYI:
If this bike has the red Kurnut shocks, then it is not the actual 82' full floater. The full floater in 82 was a single shock. Just an FYI! and the guy on vintage factory is mistaken.
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CARLA and HEIKOLA is the beast of MX
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Edited Date/Time: 10/4/2009 3:06 PM
Actually Mikkola was (1) of the best riders I have ever seen, very smooth and fluid always looking for results not always 1st place, In the End he would WIN. He was a Classic thinking rider! Work was his Motto. Not Pleasure! I was at Carlsbad when Mikkola won with a broken collarbone 1978 I think. How many rider's today could win a overall with a 1 week old broken collarbone!
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Only in Old School can a 3 1/2 year old thread become active and still be fun. My wife calls you guys the Yahoos.
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Of all time? I was always a big Roger DeCosta fan!
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Erik Geboers was the first to win 125,250 and 500 GP but never raced AMA season?
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Pure talent it was Ron Lechein
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If we could hold one race for all the marbles with every rider in the peak of their career riding equal bikes on a good, challenging outdoor track I don't think anyone could touch Ricky Johnson.
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X2 one of my favorites no fake run here
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Burleson in the trees, Malcom in the desert and Roger D in MX???? Hard question to answer so many guys that could tear it up. Jobe, Glover, Wardy, Aberg, Ake Jonson(late bloomer), Barnett,................too many to name. By the way I named my first son after Bengt Aberg and my third son after Rossi.
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Joel, Roger, Sylvan Geobors(sp?), JN Roberts, And Bobby Myers, Timmy Aston, Rodney Harringer, Spud Walters, And Ake Johmson. Adolph Weil was meanest! Well, maybe Bad Boy Berluti!!! Back to talented: John Desoto and Hollywood Holley. Chuck Sun.
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I watched Dick Mann get a top ten finish riding a BSA thumper in 1971 racing the best in the world at a Trans-Am motorcross race at the old Orlando Sports Stadium. I think he was over 35 at the time. He was the Mann.
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yer a very smart man of motocross...that is apparent! 
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Edited Date/Time: 10/19/2009 1:03 AM
Yea, Rocket Rex and another "jet-setter" Rodney "Rocket Man" Smith. Tim Hart. Danny Turner in the mud! Sean Wooten. Larry Rippencrouger (no way remember how it's spelt!), Larry Wosick. He was one hell of a boater too - Holiday Inn style...Jimmy Ellis, Tony D, Broc Glover.
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Back to Bobby M. How you been? email me @ gregoryneukam@yahoo.com
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NW#599 wrote: Bruce Bunch, Kyle Flemming, and Rick Hemme. Truck hit by a train in Ponca.....I remember reading the article in Minicycle Magazine (I believe). Larry Brooks won that year in Ponca, right? Were these three killed before or after the race? Who knows the details to help refresh our memories (at least mine).
Also, where were you and what were you doing when you found out about it?