My best pics of 3 Time World and 1999 250 MX Champ Greg Albertyn

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albee (2) by teyblyy, on Flickr
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FreshTopEnd 9/26/2011 10:03am
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They're cool pics and your threads rock, but just a nit. Since you didn't shoot them you might want to title it "your favorite" pics rather than "your best" pics out of respect to the shooters that did.
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Sunhouse 9/26/2011 10:05am
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I´ve always wondered how the 125 RMs that year could run works front suspension, i.e. the conventional forks. I thought indoor 125 suspension had to be available to the public

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tblazier 9/26/2011 10:17am
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FreshTopEnd wrote:
They're cool pics and your threads rock, but just a nit. Since you didn't shoot them you might want to title it "your favorite" pics rather...
They're cool pics and your threads rock, but just a nit. Since you didn't shoot them you might want to title it "your favorite" pics rather than "your best" pics out of respect to the shooters that did.
I usually do just thought I would mix it up this time. Can you edit a post title? I can't see how to.
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Erick 9/26/2011 10:26am
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Thank you very much for the pictures!

I was looking for pictures of 1998 - 1999 RM250 factory bikes for ages :D
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Jefro98 9/26/2011 10:29am
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Great to see you have pictures of Albee while still racing in Europe.

Here's one I shot my self when he was racing Dutch Nationals while on the Venko/JHK Honda team.

Motocross83 9/26/2011 10:39am
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tblazier wrote:
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/65727046@N02/6183411771/][img]https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6167/6183411771_936d6dd8f4_b.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/65727046@N02/6183411771/]Greg Albertyn[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/65727046@N02/]teyblyy[/url], on Flickr

Greg Albertyn by teyblyy, on Flickr
God I remember this shot like it was yesterday. Many many years ago when I first got into MX, I remember looking at this exact pic for ages in one of my mags. Probably MXA.

In regards to the 1993 pics, I still have that season on VHS including the special at Foxhill. Greg was a privateer that year and even when he won the title Honda STILL wouldn't step up with worthy support for 1994. Hence as I understand it - his move to Suzuki.
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mccread 9/26/2011 11:00am
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tblazier wrote:
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/65727046@N02/6183411771/][img]https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6167/6183411771_936d6dd8f4_b.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/65727046@N02/6183411771/]Greg Albertyn[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/65727046@N02/]teyblyy[/url], on Flickr

Greg Albertyn by teyblyy, on Flickr
Motocross83 wrote:
God I remember this shot like it was yesterday. Many many years ago when I first got into MX, I remember looking at this exact pic...
God I remember this shot like it was yesterday. Many many years ago when I first got into MX, I remember looking at this exact pic for ages in one of my mags. Probably MXA.

In regards to the 1993 pics, I still have that season on VHS including the special at Foxhill. Greg was a privateer that year and even when he won the title Honda STILL wouldn't step up with worthy support for 1994. Hence as I understand it - his move to Suzuki.
Nice Post, Albee is my favourite ride of all time.

Honda US had a contract with him and said they didn't want to pay a guy in America when he was already winning for them in the World Championship. Here is a quote from an interview I did with Greg in 2007. " I was negotiating with Honda at the end of 93 to go to the US, then at the eleventh hour, when I was about to sign a deal with them, Honda Japan decided they didn't want to pay me to race in the US when I was winning for them in GPs, it would have been a lot different if I had went to the US riding a Honda."

Re: his Suzukis he said "the bikes were terrible, the (95) was not a supercross bike, in 96 they came out with a new bike, but it was so bad and a lot of my injuries came from trying to over compensate for the bike. A lot of guys would have been content with fifth, sixth,seventh but I always wanted to win."

He also said he was at his best in 1993, he was so dominant that year, an incredible rider.

Albertyn is a legend, one of the best of his generation, and maybe the nicest guy in the sport.
Motocross83 9/26/2011 11:07am
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tblazier wrote:
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/65727046@N02/6183411771/][img]https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6167/6183411771_936d6dd8f4_b.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/65727046@N02/6183411771/]Greg Albertyn[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/65727046@N02/]teyblyy[/url], on Flickr

Greg Albertyn by teyblyy, on Flickr
Motocross83 wrote:
God I remember this shot like it was yesterday. Many many years ago when I first got into MX, I remember looking at this exact pic...
God I remember this shot like it was yesterday. Many many years ago when I first got into MX, I remember looking at this exact pic for ages in one of my mags. Probably MXA.

In regards to the 1993 pics, I still have that season on VHS including the special at Foxhill. Greg was a privateer that year and even when he won the title Honda STILL wouldn't step up with worthy support for 1994. Hence as I understand it - his move to Suzuki.
mccread wrote:
Nice Post, Albee is my favourite ride of all time. Honda US had a contract with him and said they didn't want to pay a guy...
Nice Post, Albee is my favourite ride of all time.

Honda US had a contract with him and said they didn't want to pay a guy in America when he was already winning for them in the World Championship. Here is a quote from an interview I did with Greg in 2007. " I was negotiating with Honda at the end of 93 to go to the US, then at the eleventh hour, when I was about to sign a deal with them, Honda Japan decided they didn't want to pay me to race in the US when I was winning for them in GPs, it would have been a lot different if I had went to the US riding a Honda."

Re: his Suzukis he said "the bikes were terrible, the (95) was not a supercross bike, in 96 they came out with a new bike, but it was so bad and a lot of my injuries came from trying to over compensate for the bike. A lot of guys would have been content with fifth, sixth,seventh but I always wanted to win."

He also said he was at his best in 1993, he was so dominant that year, an incredible rider.

Albertyn is a legend, one of the best of his generation, and maybe the nicest guy in the sport.
Interesting read! Thanks. I wonder what Greg's up to these days.
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Jefro98 9/26/2011 11:17am
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Motocross83 wrote:
God I remember this shot like it was yesterday. Many many years ago when I first got into MX, I remember looking at this exact pic...
God I remember this shot like it was yesterday. Many many years ago when I first got into MX, I remember looking at this exact pic for ages in one of my mags. Probably MXA.

In regards to the 1993 pics, I still have that season on VHS including the special at Foxhill. Greg was a privateer that year and even when he won the title Honda STILL wouldn't step up with worthy support for 1994. Hence as I understand it - his move to Suzuki.
Basically he was a privateer but he was on the Venko / JHK team, led by the legendary Jan de Groot.
When Honda refused to back up his team when Albee won the title, Jan de Groot switched to Kawasaki's where he won world championships with Tortelli, Everts and many more.

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