What is/was your race number and why?

Short 43
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Short 43 2/15/2012 9:44am
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143, Exit number to Lorettas on I-40
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Mx4life320 2/15/2012 9:53am
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My number used to be 320 March 20 is my b day.. But i like the 2 digit look so now its just 20.... That will end up being my number till i die.
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Mx4life320 2/15/2012 9:53am
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Short 43 wrote:
143, Exit number to Lorettas on I-40
LIKE!
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BMR179 2/15/2012 10:10am
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Being a kid in '76, I thought the number 7 was lucky. Every time we went to the races, there was another 7 in the mini class. I got tired of being 7ducttape so I put a 1 in front of the 7 and a 9 behind it. Thus 179. I ran 177 in the early 80's because someone already had 179 in the GNC here in Texas.

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Tumblin 2/15/2012 10:26am
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Prior to racing I ran a big #1 on my Hodaka, Then started out racing with District 36's epic number 69j, Everyone wanted to know how I came to acquire such a cool number...at 15 I hadn't a clue.
189q was my next, but sprang up in points for 77 to #5 for CMC Nor Cal in 78, I also ran 635 for a National number that one and only year. After no racing for 3 years I started making shit up...140, then to 14 to simplify buying numbers. It got to where a half dozen of us were showing up with the same KW number so I went with my age & 49, six years ago.
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Hawwy 2/15/2012 10:35am
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88... year of birth!
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motomx88 2/15/2012 2:06pm
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33...total of my 3 kids birthdays!
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Big Daddy 2/15/2012 2:24pm
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26, 217, then 457. No reason, just thought they were cool numbers at the time.
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JIM256 2/15/2012 2:56pm
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Way back in the day in 1983, my favorite riders as a kid were Mark Barnett #2 and Rick Ryan #56...
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OldGuy 2/15/2012 3:07pm
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When I started racing back in 1969, there was no place to buy numbers. So the next best thing was to buy contact paper and cut your own out. 38 was the hardest number to cut out so I went with that. I never ran into anyone else with the same number for years. You seen a lot of 1, 4 an 7 in different orders.
BermShredder 2/15/2012 3:11pm
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When I run #'s, I like to run 506, because I'm the fifth of six siblings in my family. So, I'm 506, see? Cool
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rbigair40 2/15/2012 3:16pm
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# 40 is the only numbers the shop had when I bought my first bike in 1987 a leftover. 86 rm125 1 mean machine LOL
TheWeapon 2/15/2012 4:45pm
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I used to run whatever was assigned to me for that season (state / national mx)....or that event (enduro). But after many years off from injury and slowly getting back into racing this year, I'm going with #874. 74 was this first ever number I had when I was a kid, and the #8 is for a friend who lost his battle with cancer when he was 19. He was always that little bit faster than me, so the theory is if I run his number (apart from honouring him in my own way), hopefully a bit of his speed will transfer to me....that, and the feeling he'll be looking out for me, riding with me Smile
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#491 National issue year 1977.
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Phillips467 2/15/2012 4:50pm
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71..... because it was my Dad's number, so I run it as a tribute to him.
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three9zero wrote:
390, it was the last 3 digits of my AMA #. I've had that since 1990 [IMG]http://i1025.photobucket.com/albums/y319/tysonfoster/IMG_2732.jpg[/IMG]
390, it was the last 3 digits of my AMA #. I've had that since 1990
124 because the AMA said the last 3 digits of your AMA number was the rule! Go AMA!
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sec114 2/15/2012 5:08pm
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114 because my mom whom died and had always supported me riding died on 11-4. also bradshaw ran that number when he came back to race yamahas after he was burned out and quit.
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Big Daddy 2/15/2012 5:14pm
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OldGuy wrote:
When I started racing back in 1969, there was no place to buy numbers. So the next best thing was to buy contact paper and cut...
When I started racing back in 1969, there was no place to buy numbers. So the next best thing was to buy contact paper and cut your own out. 38 was the hardest number to cut out so I went with that. I never ran into anyone else with the same number for years. You seen a lot of 1, 4 an 7 in different orders.
Ditto on the contact paper numbers! I forgot about that. However, my first race on my 1973 LT3-MX Yamaha had the number 26 made from electrical tape.

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ocscottie 2/15/2012 5:18pm
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I was #45 for a long time growing up, but when my brother retired, and i moved to Kawi's (what he rode) i switched to #28 to carry on his legacy.

That is why i fully root for guys who run #28, like the year Dungey did, and now Rattray is 28 for life! I was so stoked when Gibby scored me one of his jerseys.
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nc97 2/15/2012 6:08pm
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Got a bike from Kevin Walker back in 1991.. Had his national # 97 on it.. Been running that # since. That was one sweet bike.
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Pat327 2/15/2012 8:19pm
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Dad suggested 327 after the small-block Chevrolet engine.
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dhicker47 2/15/2012 8:24pm
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47 Sophomore football
Just liked the #
swedishfishmx 2/15/2012 9:07pm
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243...Race on the 2nd row, so hence the #2 and my brother is 244, so I went with 243. Didn't like how 245 looked.
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Cygnus 2/16/2012 6:51am
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Thanks for all the responses guys. with out anyone flaming out. I am not sure there has ever been a thread that hasnt.
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Racer92 2/16/2012 7:10am
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rocrac wrote:
Grandpa Danny 1969 [img]http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i385/rocrac89/23516_1149829564823_1800135361_289270_3280661_n.jpg[/img] Grandson Danny 2009 [img]http://i1091.photobucket.com/albums/i385/rocrac89/197216_1010226954845_1800135361_17089_7795597_n.jpg[/img]
Grandpa Danny 1969


Grandson Danny 2009

This kicks ass !
ninesevenfour 2/16/2012 7:11am
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I was seven years old when I got an xr70 as my first bike. 7 also happened to be my favorite number. By the time I started racing, it became #74 (My number and RC's #) Than I wanted to keep the 74, but needed to change my number at a race so I threw on the 9. Been running 974 ever since.
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jeffro503 2/16/2012 8:17am
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Cygnus wrote:
Thanks for all the responses guys. with out anyone flaming out. I am not sure there has ever been a thread that hasnt.
This is a good thread Cyg!
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Bill_Carroll 2/16/2012 8:25am
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Dug up another photo, check out the VH helmet job...Laughing

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