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Remember Rick Ryan?
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I also know how ya feel when ya see old pics of Danny, too.
We're lucky, you & I...
Kinda funny, runnin' into Rick while making my way down to Baja for the 250...we go waaaaay back.
So, Hangtown, needs to be a "Gathering"...?
....and what is the Holister place you are talkin about?
Speaking of HH
Look familiar huh?
It's in the blood man!
Nice
Cool pics Scotty
Back around 76'ish at HH Ricky rode a RM100 and my dad would have to hold his bike up so he could start it lol To stop he would pull up to a picknick bench and step off, he was so tiny he couldnt come close to touching the ground. But good ole Jimbo (his pop) was sick of him tearing apart RM80's so he was riding 100-125's by the time he was only 10 or 11 yrs old.
We had such good times back in the day at HH when the Wosicks owned the store. Some of the best memories of my life!
I would love to see some of those old pics,we raced all the same track at the same time.
I remember Rick on that RM100 with the cut down seat,when he turned Intermediate
I chased him at all the Nor-cal tracks.
Pit Row
btw: such a small world bro! we were prob at SO many of the same races, If you were around Ricky in the early 80's, i was with him. He was so good to me, treated and took care of me like a little brother, and he LOVED my mom, if you know his fam situation...you get it. he even called her mom
He would come pick me up from school and we would go practice out at PAL during the week. Remember his toyota truck? the black one? I was only 14 and he would pick me up, toss me the keys and say, you drive. LOL The guy was such a nut!
First time i saw him after i got hurt was kinda tough, he was kinda kicking the wheel of my chair saying, "man we gotta get you outa this thing!" He wanted to take me riding at just duct tape me to the pegs and stick it in 3rd gear lol
When I spoke to Rick (Ryan) back in 2010 (and the day the photo posted above was taken with his kid), only one of his boys wanted to ride, while the other one was doing other stuff and not as interested in MX. Sounds like things might have changed!
Also, in that pic, the kid is running #10, and chose that because that was his dads lowest national number. Pretty cool.
Ricky is one tough dude. When we spoke in 2010, he was old school - no cell phone, no email, and no bullshit.
I remember when he won the Daytona SX and afterwards couldn't stand up cause of his bum knee.
Yea my mom gave Jim a copy of that pic way back in the day, she was so proud of that one!
..and as far as Dean and Ricky together...oh gosh! we could be here for days telling stores about those days
Those guys where always up to something and most of the time it was.... Well, It might have been wrong but it was a hell-a lot of fun.
I remember coming home from school and hearing people riding on my parents back property. Jack and his friends where ripping it up. In the back we had an uphill sort of gravity cavity jump. One guy turned around at the top and went down the uphill into the cavity WFO and launched halfway down the hill. My jaw dropped, thats when I first came to know Ricky Ryan.
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