Your Moto Ancestry

My Dad:











One of my uncles:



Two of my three uncles roadraced as well as just riding on the road. Before them it was all a bit too much povertytown for anyone to have cars or motorcycles.

I don't have any family history I was the first to race moto.

My first bike in 1996, it didn't get raced.


Me in 2001, it didn't get raced either.


2003


2006


Last week.

Cool, thanks for sharing!

Pa and me circa 1971, CT175

I don't have any pictures, but my dad and uncle started racing in the 80's. They were local experts in NY. Pretty sure they tried to qualify at Unadilla and Broome, maybe more than once. Fond memories. No pics on my computer. But my own moto ancestry started with this 88 PW50 in the picture below. I got it for Christmas when I was only 2. I rode it and raced it. Moved on to other bikes. My brother would go on to ride it next. I'll never forget the first time he did. It was at my uncles house. There was a plowed field next to his yard. Really choppy. The bike had a huge fat pipe on the back. It was a Dynoport pipe. My brother got on, grab the throttle and didn't know how to turn or stop. Ran it right into that field and tipped it over. That pipe burned his leg and he came back screaming at my dad saying he tried to kill him and that he'd never ride that thing again. Well he did. Next was my little cousin. He started racing it probably around 2003. Now he's looking to qualify a second year at LL in Supermini. And finally, the last little guy to ride it is my little brother Connor. There's 19yrs. between us, but he's starting on the same PW50 I did. Pretty cool. He now has KTM.



So the next recipient of the 88 PW...



is this little guy. He's almost 2. Looking to get a Strider balance bike soon. It's been fun. He loves bikes. As for me, my bikes include a 96 KX60, then a 01 KX125, then I rode an 01 YZ450F, and now I have the 09 KX250F - the first bike I've ever bought myself.

Now THIS is a great thread! That V8 gasser is badass PDub, and your dad was even more badass for riding that beast!

I'm literally the only person to ride a motorcycle in my extended family and my son is now the only sibling to ride. These vintage pics make me wish I had a history like that. Very cool.

Awesome thread. I'll have to look back into the family photos because I know we've got some old pictures similar to the ones posted.

Cool Shots !
Heres a 8mm movie my dad shot of his buddies in the late 60's. Palmdale California, Right off what would now be the 14 freeway, very close to the old LACR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qm2qFinC7E

Here's my dad...


He was a local pro in the 70's that raced a lot of nationals and trans ams. He road for the Yamaha support team and said they gave him a factory cylinder for one race and it was a night and day difference. But then he had to give it back.

I was one apple that fell pretty far from the tree. I started on a PW50 and had my first race on a KX 60. I never made it out of the C class but could always do good at mud races and got a lot of holeshots but that's as far as my racing career would take me.

Great thread!

It's cool hey. He's a right mad old bastard. This is my favourite picture of it.



I had a cousin who was very good at motocross in the 1970s as well. He was killed racing though and the only photos are with my crazy ass Aunt.

This is my grandfather sometime mid 1960's.



Another one probably early 70's.



My fathers last dirt car before he went to asphalt with another '66 chevelle. The way I figure just half of the convertible '55 chevys they cut up for the stronger frames would be worth millions. Lets not discuss all the muscle cars...



Not sure if this was his first "race" bike or not, but this is my father late 70's



I think at this point he realised that unlike stock cars bigger was not always faster...



My second bike. CR60 sometime in 1986. It was passed on to my younger brother.



This is me after a spectacular holeshot, and my brother, on the ground...lol



My son, he is about three months in this picture, it is his first trip to the track. Two weeks before he was born my wife was pitting for me at a harescramble in the heat of June.

Me.


Me and my Dad.

Cool thread!!!!

my moms parents raced cars on track and rally, sold the cars to get everyone bikes. Marilyn and Larry lutz
their kids all raced mx and gp. Randy Lutz , Lorilyn (lori) Lutz, Debbie (debra) Lutz (matthews) raced sx, Steven Lutz. all but Lori went local pro, and debbie was national pro.

My dads father raced, desert, gp and mx Robert (roy) matthews
my dad was an only child and he raced desert, gp and mx raced expert and pro

I Heather Matthews ( majcherek) have been on a bike since before birth. 30 years now :-) raced mx, sx, gp
my brother ryan only raced peewee first timers and hated it.

my husband doesnt like bikes, but my daughter has my peewee and is getting into it now.

We all mostly have raced in southern california from the 70s to present day.

yall are lucky to have family into it...it sucks being a total moto head when no one in your family is into it at all, lol

FULLY awesome thread!

My "moto ancestry" started with my older bro and I begging my dad to let us get an old beat up trail bike. My dad HATED bikes, he calls them murdercycles. Me and my big brother got into it, and now me and my younger brother race as much as we can, and my daughters are also starting to feel the passion!



Oh, by the way, OP - you are running my #!!! I ran 717 for years, but I took 117 this past summer.