top riders of fla from 76-81

dogger315
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7/25/2011 7:41pm
No, I bought mine from some shop on Phillips Hwy just across from the Yamaha shop.

I think I remember the place you are talking about. Didn't they have this trail that ran
around the perimeter? Long straights and all of it covered by trees? If it's the one
I'm thinking about, you turned right on a road off of Atlantic Blvd heading East, right
before the intercoastal waterway bridge. I remember them having rentals, but I don't
remember them being Hodakas. Also the shop you mentioned, was it located in a
strip mall on Atlantic Blvd. close to Aqua East? If that's the one, I ended up getting
some of my parts there, and from another shop on the Westside near NAS. That's
the one I got my one down four up conversion kit.

dogger
7/26/2011 1:16pm
Moto Park South I made a lot of money at your track over the years. Many Many Saturday nights.
8/1/2011 9:12am
Good for you. Hope you invested wisely :-) My mother was a scorer....she'd probably remember your name. Thanx for the comment.
croom mx
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8/7/2011 1:49pm
Your photos are worth their weight in GOLD!!!!

The Shop

11/23/2011 11:36am
BVS40FL wrote:
Anyone remember Danny Adams?
Robert Gordon ?
Stan Yabczanka ?
Freddie Little ?
We used to call Adams the "Professor". Raced Gordie a number of times. Stan was fast, worked at Cahill's for a good while. I never knew...
We used to call Adams the "Professor". Raced Gordie a number of times. Stan was fast, worked at Cahill's for a good while. I never knew Fred, but worked with his brother Wally for about 10 years driving trucks for the Tampa Tribune. I believe Fred rode the very first Daytona Supercross in '71 ,back when it was held by the infield lake. (Lake Lloyd?).

How about Arthur North? Hank Stone? Ronnie and Robbie White? Bob Allison. Greg and Doug Kolonia. Pat Post. Christine Cummings. Bill French. Kenny Maycroft. Jay Rhodes. Bruce Buerk. Mark Cassels. Rhett Gerzel. John McCabe. Jeff Fisher. Tracey and Jimmy Brooks. Beannie Cummerford. Greg Gordon. Mark and Carl Johnson. Robert Noa. Ken Johnson. Mark Sharp. Conrad Eigenman. Brad and Kurt Kadau. Stan Perry. Scott Lorenz. Gene Maxwell. Malcolm Quehl. Frank Ligouri. Mike Shuman. Tim and Bob Buffaloe. Tom and Dave Wagner. Brian McElroy. Greg Porter.

Damn, I got a headache now. But memories of all these guys is worth it.
Bubba McClure..
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11/24/2011 8:11am
This thread just keeps on keepin' on.
croom mx
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11/25/2011 6:40am
BVS40FL wrote:
Anyone remember Danny Adams?
Robert Gordon ?
Stan Yabczanka ?
Freddie Little ?
We used to call Adams the "Professor". Raced Gordie a number of times. Stan was fast, worked at Cahill's for a good while. I never knew...
We used to call Adams the "Professor". Raced Gordie a number of times. Stan was fast, worked at Cahill's for a good while. I never knew Fred, but worked with his brother Wally for about 10 years driving trucks for the Tampa Tribune. I believe Fred rode the very first Daytona Supercross in '71 ,back when it was held by the infield lake. (Lake Lloyd?).

How about Arthur North? Hank Stone? Ronnie and Robbie White? Bob Allison. Greg and Doug Kolonia. Pat Post. Christine Cummings. Bill French. Kenny Maycroft. Jay Rhodes. Bruce Buerk. Mark Cassels. Rhett Gerzel. John McCabe. Jeff Fisher. Tracey and Jimmy Brooks. Beannie Cummerford. Greg Gordon. Mark and Carl Johnson. Robert Noa. Ken Johnson. Mark Sharp. Conrad Eigenman. Brad and Kurt Kadau. Stan Perry. Scott Lorenz. Gene Maxwell. Malcolm Quehl. Frank Ligouri. Mike Shuman. Tim and Bob Buffaloe. Tom and Dave Wagner. Brian McElroy. Greg Porter.

Damn, I got a headache now. But memories of all these guys is worth it.
Bubba McClure..
Been many years since I heard all those name. Hank Stone was pretty fast on a Suzuki ,I remember when he crashed at Orlando on the double up on the front straight. Bruce Buerk was the 125 A rider, McCabe was real fast at Coco. Tom and Dave Wagner used to sell parts at the races, I think they made enough extra money to pay for their racing. Those were the days.
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2/28/2012 5:04am
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I know we are talking 76 to 81, I did ride back then I was just graduating high school in 1976. I rode against alot of...
I know we are talking 76 to 81, I did ride back then I was just graduating high school in 1976. I rode against alot of these guys and traveled rarley due to $$$$. Kenney Keylon was from south Fla until his family moved to Brooksville Fla. to be near more MX tracks. He moved up from minis to 125's I believe in 1976 and started on a husky 125 out of John Cycle Center. This was a local shop that alot of us rode out of. Before 73 we rode Hodakas, Husky's & Penton's until the Elsinores. TM;s. RM;s Kaw's. My first trophy came on a 1975 Elsinore. In South Fla 76 to 77 Jimmy King was the King on 125's. He was injured in Clewiston Fla while running up front of the local Money class (on a 125) trying to pass or just did pass Joey Graton On a open bike. This was a extremely fast straight away (top gear top speed) with a double jump that the open bikes had a dificult time clearing even if they tried. Jimmy was going to turn AMA pro until the injury cut his MX carreer short. I believe that was 78. Jimmy did ride 250's also but I believe he was faster on 125's Here are a few pics from mags or MX papers I kept over the years.
Jimmy King

Jimmy King 1
Kenny Keylon
1976 Fla Melbourne MX Kenny was younger than Jimmy or myself 4 maybe 5 years. Both were smooth and fast in the Fla sand. Don Kudalsky was a Honda Support rider from South Fla at the time in 76 Hyiat Cycle Park

Kippy Pierce Steve Martin were north Fla am riders and fast in the sand in 70's.

Kippy Pierce 1
g0rd057 wrote:
I was spectating at that Clewiston race and remember witnessing Jimmy's bad crash. Seems that he didn't quite make the double and endoe'd hard at full...
I was spectating at that Clewiston race and remember witnessing Jimmy's bad crash.
Seems that he didn't quite make the double and endoe'd hard at full speed. As he was going over the bars, he instinctively stuck both his arms out trying to protect himself from hitting the ground head first. He broke boke arms at the wrists. I think it was similar to the injuries Bubba Stewart suffered last year except that medical technology wasn't as good back then.
Later on that year I remember seeing Jimmy hanging out at the races with both hands in full casts. I don't remember ever seeing him on a bike again. Pretty sad...
The way I remember it he seat bounced the bike on the face of the first jump and in one of those wierd things that just never happen, his front brake cable somehow got behind the top of the fork tube or number plate so that when the forks extended in the air the front brake locked up. When the front end touched down it was an instant endo and yeah, he did stick both arms out and landed on them hard. We always would pit there between the two jumps and I remember hearing the bones snap. Gruesome.

Jimmy was taken by ambulance to our local hospital there in Clewiston and on the advice of many of us that lived there Jimmy's dad would not let them touch his injuries and had him flown out via helicopter to either WPB or Ft Myers, can't remember which.

Very bad day...

Bruce McCrary
Lexington, NC.
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2/28/2012 7:30pm Edited Date/Time 2/28/2012 7:33pm
RDY2GO! wrote:
The way I remember it he seat bounced the bike on the face of the first jump and in one of those wierd things that just...
The way I remember it he seat bounced the bike on the face of the first jump and in one of those wierd things that just never happen, his front brake cable somehow got behind the top of the fork tube or number plate so that when the forks extended in the air the front brake locked up. When the front end touched down it was an instant endo and yeah, he did stick both arms out and landed on them hard. We always would pit there between the two jumps and I remember hearing the bones snap. Gruesome.

Jimmy was taken by ambulance to our local hospital there in Clewiston and on the advice of many of us that lived there Jimmy's dad would not let them touch his injuries and had him flown out via helicopter to either WPB or Ft Myers, can't remember which.

Very bad day...

Bruce McCrary
Lexington, NC.
Thanks for filling in more of the details. I was watching from some distance away and could only assume what happened. My memories of that day are very fuzzy anyway, but your story brings back vague memories of hearing gossip about the brake cable causing his crash.
Do you know if he continued racing afterwards? I can't recall seeing him race anywhere local after that awful day. But I stopped following the mx scene around 78' and began drag racing 4 wheeled vehicles until 90' when it finally got too expensive for me. Sad
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6/4/2012 4:14pm
Hey I knew almost everyone of the riders mentioned in this discussion. A few names not mentioned yet, Dale and Pat Ellis and John Bowers, they all rode Hodakas back in the early 70's. Dale and Pat were from Deland and 1/2 Pint Bowers was from Tifton Georgia. How about Troy Bush from Iron City Georgia, that kid hauled. Then there was the Carter Brothers from Tallahassee, Phil on the YZ400, Joe on the 250, Goober on the 125 and Chris on 80's and 100's. Mark Land from Monticello was fast, he won the Georgia Florida shootout in the early 70's. In 1973 Jeff Hope was super fast on an XR75 Honda. I think that kid had bad kidneys or something. Keith Watson was another fast guy from North Florida. Wow it's so cool to remember this stuff. I once saw Kenny Keylon win a local Hare Scrambles, that guy did it all.
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6/17/2012 11:15am
This is a great post. Brings back many memories of the good old days. Even though I have not raced MX since the early 80's I still ride (mostly out in the desert) and follow the races.
croom mx
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6/17/2012 1:09pm Edited Date/Time 6/17/2012 1:14pm
dkolonia wrote:
This is a great post. Brings back many memories of the good old days. Even though I have not raced MX since the early 80's I...
This is a great post. Brings back many memories of the good old days. Even though I have not raced MX since the early 80's I still ride (mostly out in the desert) and follow the races.
Doug Kolonia, Is that right? Seem to remember you. Rode Honda.
6/18/2012 7:40pm
I remember both Doug and Greg Kolonia.
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7/11/2012 9:19pm Edited Date/Time 7/11/2012 9:20pm
I did ride Honda. Yamaha before the Honda's. Riding KTM's out in Las Vegas now. The desert is nothing like Florida sand with all the rocks! There are sand sections out here and I still ride those much better.

I am sure I remember you guys also.

Jim Marchant is out here also. He raced with us back in the day in Florida. We both rode the Vegas to Reno race last summer. Three man team and about 500 miles. Took us just under 13 hours.

Doug Kolona
8/9/2012 1:19pm Edited Date/Time 8/9/2012 1:20pm
Anyone know Mike Lee?
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8/9/2012 5:13pm
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't he from the Ft. Pierce area?
8/9/2012 9:11pm
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't he from the Ft. Pierce area?
I am not sure where he moved. He was at MMI at one time and raced MX regularly. Some years later he became quite involved with motorcycle drag racing too. I'm not sure where that took him but he remained in Florida.
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8/12/2012 12:09pm
dkolonia wrote:
This is a great post. Brings back many memories of the good old days. Even though I have not raced MX since the early 80's I...
This is a great post. Brings back many memories of the good old days. Even though I have not raced MX since the early 80's I still ride (mostly out in the desert) and follow the races.
croom mx wrote:
Doug Kolonia, Is that right? Seem to remember you. Rode Honda.
Anytime I had to look at your back during a race for more than 1 lap helped me to remember your name!
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8/17/2012 11:39am
I'm trying to get a copy of the racing program from the 1985 winter am's and also the program for the 1984 orlando supercross...and if I can't. Get the whole program, I would at least like to get a copy of the riders list and the pro numbers from that year, I have a bunch pictures from diamondback and the orlando supercross and I'm trying to identify who all are in the pictures, any help aanyone one can give me with it would be greatly appreciated.

G. Kidder
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8/17/2012 11:53am
RDY2GO! wrote:
The way I remember it he seat bounced the bike on the face of the first jump and in one of those wierd things that just...
The way I remember it he seat bounced the bike on the face of the first jump and in one of those wierd things that just never happen, his front brake cable somehow got behind the top of the fork tube or number plate so that when the forks extended in the air the front brake locked up. When the front end touched down it was an instant endo and yeah, he did stick both arms out and landed on them hard. We always would pit there between the two jumps and I remember hearing the bones snap. Gruesome.

Jimmy was taken by ambulance to our local hospital there in Clewiston and on the advice of many of us that lived there Jimmy's dad would not let them touch his injuries and had him flown out via helicopter to either WPB or Ft Myers, can't remember which.

Very bad day...

Bruce McCrary
Lexington, NC.
g0rd057 wrote:
Thanks for filling in more of the details. I was watching from some distance away and could only assume what happened. My memories of that day...
Thanks for filling in more of the details. I was watching from some distance away and could only assume what happened. My memories of that day are very fuzzy anyway, but your story brings back vague memories of hearing gossip about the brake cable causing his crash.
Do you know if he continued racing afterwards? I can't recall seeing him race anywhere local after that awful day. But I stopped following the mx scene around 78' and began drag racing 4 wheeled vehicles until 90' when it finally got too expensive for me. Sad
Sorry, just saw this and wanted to reply.

I'm not sure if he did or not to be honest, though it seems like he hung it up after that. I wasn't actually at the hospital, but I remember hearing that it got pretty ugly. His Dad wanted him evacuated, the hospital wouldn't even administer pain medication unless he was admitted, something like that.

A trumatic experience like that would be hard to rebound from, you know. But again, I'm not really sure and if anyone has some more accurate information I'd be interested in hearing it too.

Bruce McCrary
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10/26/2012 4:50pm
what a cool site,her is an update on some of the guy's i know and are mentioned here

ronnie white lives in plant city fl, he used to race sprint car's with the t.b.a.r.a (tamp bay area racing association ) ran mostly dirt but some pavement,he retired from racing ,but i here he's looking at running a mini sprint maybe
robbie still live's in tampa

kippy pierce,ran sprint car's t.b.a.r.a and usac and still race's from time to time, all pavement

kenny maycroft, moved to cali, around1980 -82 havent heard from or about him since

great to here all the old name's and tracks i havent thought about in awhile
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10/30/2012 5:24am
Saw Ronnie White race the sprint car several times at East Bay and the Fairgrounds in Tampa .
Not sure if Kippy Pierce ever raced Sprints though . His dad raced modifieds back in the 60's and 70's.
Any chance you were thinking of Kip Beard ? His dad Clyde beard was the race photographer for many years at Sunshine.
He raced 3/4 midgets , then Sprints ,and then USAC Sprints in the 90's.
Some people may not know it but... Randy Yoho even raced stock cars one season at the Tampa Fairgrounds.
Stan Yabczanka , his one time rival at the old confederate raceway (dade city) was his crew chief.
10/30/2012 6:37am
BVS40FL wrote:
Saw Ronnie White race the sprint car several times at East Bay and the Fairgrounds in Tampa . Not sure if Kippy Pierce ever raced Sprints...
Saw Ronnie White race the sprint car several times at East Bay and the Fairgrounds in Tampa .
Not sure if Kippy Pierce ever raced Sprints though . His dad raced modifieds back in the 60's and 70's.
Any chance you were thinking of Kip Beard ? His dad Clyde beard was the race photographer for many years at Sunshine.
He raced 3/4 midgets , then Sprints ,and then USAC Sprints in the 90's.
Some people may not know it but... Randy Yoho even raced stock cars one season at the Tampa Fairgrounds.
Stan Yabczanka , his one time rival at the old confederate raceway (dade city) was his crew chief.
Yea he must be mistaken, wasnt Kippy Pierce ,, he never raced sprint cars.
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10/30/2012 7:12am
BVS40FL wrote:
Saw Ronnie White race the sprint car several times at East Bay and the Fairgrounds in Tampa . Not sure if Kippy Pierce ever raced Sprints...
Saw Ronnie White race the sprint car several times at East Bay and the Fairgrounds in Tampa .
Not sure if Kippy Pierce ever raced Sprints though . His dad raced modifieds back in the 60's and 70's.
Any chance you were thinking of Kip Beard ? His dad Clyde beard was the race photographer for many years at Sunshine.
He raced 3/4 midgets , then Sprints ,and then USAC Sprints in the 90's.
Some people may not know it but... Randy Yoho even raced stock cars one season at the Tampa Fairgrounds.
Stan Yabczanka , his one time rival at the old confederate raceway (dade city) was his crew chief.
got my kippy's mixed up your right it was kippy beard
1/31/2013 7:36pm
BVS40FL wrote:
Anyone remember Danny Adams?
Robert Gordon ?
Stan Yabczanka ?
Freddie Little ?
We used to call Adams the "Professor". Raced Gordie a number of times. Stan was fast, worked at Cahill's for a good while. I never knew...
We used to call Adams the "Professor". Raced Gordie a number of times. Stan was fast, worked at Cahill's for a good while. I never knew Fred, but worked with his brother Wally for about 10 years driving trucks for the Tampa Tribune. I believe Fred rode the very first Daytona Supercross in '71 ,back when it was held by the infield lake. (Lake Lloyd?).

How about Arthur North? Hank Stone? Ronnie and Robbie White? Bob Allison. Greg and Doug Kolonia. Pat Post. Christine Cummings. Bill French. Kenny Maycroft. Jay Rhodes. Bruce Buerk. Mark Cassels. Rhett Gerzel. John McCabe. Jeff Fisher. Tracey and Jimmy Brooks. Beannie Cummerford. Greg Gordon. Mark and Carl Johnson. Robert Noa. Ken Johnson. Mark Sharp. Conrad Eigenman. Brad and Kurt Kadau. Stan Perry. Scott Lorenz. Gene Maxwell. Malcolm Quehl. Frank Ligouri. Mike Shuman. Tim and Bob Buffaloe. Tom and Dave Wagner. Brian McElroy. Greg Porter.

Damn, I got a headache now. But memories of all these guys is worth it.
I know it has been a while since this thread started, but I happened to come across it when I did a search for Glen Lofley on Facebook. My name is Christine Cummings and I continued to race till 1995. I rode Loretta's in 1995 and for a 36 year old woman I finished 21st out of 42. And for me I was pleased, since the top 10-15 were the youngin's like I used to be. It was just a awesome experience to do Loretta's. Very thankful!! And it was way cool to see my name mentioned the likes of the popular locals back in the day. I did see Gordy back in the mid 90's at a shop I worked at in Tampa at the time. Memories big time!!!
2/1/2013 3:16pm
I know it has been a while since this thread started, but I happened to come across it when I did a search for Glen Lofley...
I know it has been a while since this thread started, but I happened to come across it when I did a search for Glen Lofley on Facebook. My name is Christine Cummings and I continued to race till 1995. I rode Loretta's in 1995 and for a 36 year old woman I finished 21st out of 42. And for me I was pleased, since the top 10-15 were the youngin's like I used to be. It was just a awesome experience to do Loretta's. Very thankful!! And it was way cool to see my name mentioned the likes of the popular locals back in the day. I did see Gordy back in the mid 90's at a shop I worked at in Tampa at the time. Memories big time!!!
Man, look who showed up. Chris, I recall my first race ever at Golden Eagles in 76 , I believe it was. You were on a Suzuki RM125 riding for HUB Cycle in the 125 Amatuer class. I was dreading the following week of school , as a few friends of mine watched me follow you around the whole first heat.

Great to see your post.
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2/2/2013 5:40am
I remember racing against Christine alot at Dade City in the 70's.
Still have the male ego that prevents me from disclosing the amount of times
she beat me . Ha ha
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4/29/2013 8:07am Edited Date/Time 4/29/2013 1:21pm
NY MX wrote:
How about Shane Leblanc?
#268 Suzuki rider. Jeff Hope, Tim Ealy, Doug Longwell, John Collins, Frank Thomas, John Olten, Keith Perry, Brian Ward, Keith Olerich, Jim Pinner, Kevin Foley, Dan...
#268 Suzuki rider.

Jeff Hope, Tim Ealy, Doug Longwell, John Collins, Frank Thomas, John Olten, Keith Perry, Brian Ward, Keith Olerich, Jim Pinner, Kevin Foley, Dan Farley, Steve Martin, Dennis Huffstutler, Brad Boger, Dan Schmit, Todd Shirah, Kenny Smith, Vince DeVane, Glen Lofley, Barry Ferrell, are more of some of Florida's A/Pro riders from the '70's-'80's.
Thanks for mentioning me. I raced from 71 till 83.. Heres some little known facts about #37 and 368 in my pro days. The # 37 was from the movie Cool hand luke Paul Newman's inmate # was 37..Honda of Orlando sold a version of my xr 75 called the JHR, I was the R&D rider for the Hodaka Dirt Squirt. In 83 at Sunshine Speedway got 18 1st moto. In 2nd moto ran 8th behind Donnie Hansen, David Bailey, Jeff Ward,Kenny Keylon,Rick Johnson, I cant remember the other 2 but I was 1st privateer possibly? Made it 30 minutes only 4 seconds behind leaders then blew the back shock,.DNF. After race George Ellis was Manager of support team gave me 3 brand new shocks .My brother was my Wrench and I did not pull over the 1st time he motion me to pull over next lap I was black flagged with oil all over the rear of bike and the bike was swapping all over the track.Not long after that me and John Reinholt were battling 250 pro Winter am at Chicken Farm for 2nd place behind canadian Ross Pederson with 2 laps to go and John come up way on the inside on the off camber rt turn and pushed me out and I lost my cool and over jumped next jump like a rocket launch literally high as the trees.I was seriously injured that day and decided to call it quits
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4/29/2013 9:02am
Hi Jeff, Joe Rogers here form Georgia. Me and my father was talking about you and Woody last week. A friend of mine had a Honda expo t-shirt listed on eBay. And we were there!
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245 wrote:
Hi Jeff, Joe Rogers here form Georgia. Me and my father was talking about you and Woody last week. A friend of mine had a Honda...
Hi Jeff, Joe Rogers here form Georgia. Me and my father was talking about you and Woody last week. A friend of mine had a Honda expo t-shirt listed on eBay. And we were there!
So cool to hear from ya...life sure was easy back then

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