The Passing of Pop

He had a great run over the last couple years of
his life. The great-grandfather of Justin Buckelew, Keith and Kevin
Johnson and a fan of all the New Mexico motocross/supercross racers
including Ivan and Gio Tedesco, Isaiah Johnson, Ryan Clark and many
others. Pop chased these guys around the country, from California to
Florida. He went to Lorretta Lynns back in the day, to Anaheim, to the
Des Moines Arenacross. His trusty van had some miles on it.

Pop would
hang out with Erv Brahn in the announcer's tower at the nationals, and
even Erv would say, "I see Pop coming. It must be time to get started.
" The AMA ladies took care of Pop at all the races, helping him get in
and set up with front-row parking. I think the chocolate he would bring
them helped out a little with that. Pope was old but new the ladies
were a sucker for chocolate. Pop would even go down on the track and
check out the SX tracks on his electric scooter. I think somehow he got
more access at the races than some of the racers and even more tricked
out swag from all the industry reps.

Pop lived a great life, and thanks
to everyone along the way he was able to do what he enjoyed: hang out
at the races. We at Bobby J's Yamaha in Albuquerque and all of his
family would like to thank everyone in the motocross world for being so
nice to him and helping along the way. Pop made a lot of great friends
and lived for you people to the ripe old age of 93.

Thanks for
everything. The Johnsons and Bobby J's Yamaha Inc.