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Indy mxer
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Indy mxer 4/5/2014 8:00am
4/5/2014 8:00am
This thread is funny as hell!!
Love the one about your mountain bike susp having more travel than your first race bike. lmao
60% of these posts would apply to me as well. Brings back the memories.

I would say if your first race bike was a 1972 Hodaka Super Rat with a Webco radial head.
And oh yes, wearing jeans (duct taped of course) and work boots, open face helmet and mouth guard.
Made by Jofa??? not sure on that one.
Indy mxer
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Indy mxer 4/5/2014 8:03am
4/5/2014 8:03am
Oh yeah one more.
You used rope to tie your bike in the bed of your truck. Tie downs just weren't in the budget!
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markit 4/5/2014 8:03am
4/5/2014 8:03am
You ever thought a PP front fender made a CB100 dirt worthy.
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Insider347 4/5/2014 8:05am
4/5/2014 8:05am
Rotax wrote:
If you bought a boost bottle.
That's so funny. The Answer Roost Boost.

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Spartacus 4/5/2014 8:09am
4/5/2014 8:09am
Saw Jeff Smith racing on a 4T against a field of 2T.

The [months delayed] USGP at Carlsbad airing on Wide World of Sports was one of the biggest days of your life.
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Big Lenny 4/5/2014 8:12am
4/5/2014 8:12am
If you remember this..

Indy mxer
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Indy mxer 4/5/2014 8:14am
4/5/2014 8:14am Edited Date/Time 4/5/2014 8:14am
Rotax wrote:
If you bought a boost bottle.
Insider347 wrote:
That's so funny. The Answer Roost Boost.
Yeah hate to admit it, I bought one. lol
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markit 4/5/2014 8:16am
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if you hated rubber bands.
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markit 4/5/2014 8:16am
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Love bean oil.
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Factoryphoto 4/5/2014 8:25am
4/5/2014 8:25am
If you had a husky 390 automatic and a broken leg to go along with it trying to kick start it on the left side.

Remember the humminbird throttle
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Ted722 4/5/2014 8:27am
4/5/2014 8:27am
You're old if you wore a red metal flake open face helmet with hockey style face shield while riding your XR75. Helmet matched my Dad's jet boat perfectly!
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bents 4/5/2014 8:27am
4/5/2014 8:27am
You ran boge or mulholland or koni shocks.

You took off signal lights to turn your dual sport into a moto-x bike (SL70).

You ran Chen Ching tires, but if you had the cash you upgraded to metzlers.

You used a good 10w-30 to oil your filters.

Your 2smoker had oil injection.
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Big Lenny 4/5/2014 8:29am
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jtomasik 4/5/2014 8:32am
4/5/2014 8:32am
You earned the envy of your 4-stroke Mini Trail buddies when you showed up with your first bike, a KV75 smoker.
neverwasfastenuf 4/5/2014 8:45am
4/5/2014 8:45am
Great thread, several of these bring back some good memories.
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JB 19 4/5/2014 8:48am
4/5/2014 8:48am
...................you ever raced a yellow YZinger.
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BobbyM 4/5/2014 8:50am
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Used a bungee cord to hold the carb onto yer maicos cylinder .
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Big Lenny 4/5/2014 8:50am
4/5/2014 8:50am
If you thought putting Maico forks on your bike was the answer....

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Fred Boss Mx Dion 4/5/2014 9:07am
4/5/2014 9:07am
MOTOXR12 wrote:
Your new "in the crate" 1973 CZ125 cost $675 @ Grand Prix Cycles in Santa Clara....
Your brand new shiny 400 CZ radial cost a whopping $1000 at Grand Prix Cycles in Fremont. Ian MacLaughlin was a good Dude.
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Tim507 4/5/2014 9:10am
4/5/2014 9:10am
Big Lenny wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/04/05/50157/s1200_post_3787_129614463985.jpg[/img]
Hahahaha I have a set if these in a box somewhere..........LOL
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Top End 4/5/2014 9:18am
4/5/2014 9:18am Edited Date/Time 4/5/2014 9:18am
You fastened your boots via leather straps.
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Daystar99 4/5/2014 9:20am
4/5/2014 9:20am
GuyB wrote:
Your corduroys got caught in the countershaft sprocket.
On your right leg
Whoops_Blitzer 4/5/2014 9:22am
4/5/2014 9:22am
...you call supercross 'stupidcross.'
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Beast666 4/5/2014 9:35am
4/5/2014 9:35am
Your JT leathers were made by Sinisalo
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Big Lenny 4/5/2014 9:46am
4/5/2014 9:46am
Owned any of these..





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jtomasik 4/5/2014 9:53am
4/5/2014 9:53am Edited Date/Time 4/5/2014 9:54am
You rode dressed like this and not a single person mocked you about it, 'cause they would wear the same.






If anyone ever starts a thread for best toad pic, I'm at least gonna get a podium with that one.
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pummel 4/5/2014 9:58am
4/5/2014 9:58am

If you thought this was a sweet cross-up.
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Foo723 4/5/2014 9:58am
4/5/2014 9:58am
"You've raced at a track with a rubber band start. "

you got slapped in the Jofa by aforementioned rubberband start on a
twin shock bike with skunk works suspension, a crossup swing arm,
boge mullholland shocks, a trapp silencer and a front barum tire.

gee, i'm an old rider
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pummel 4/5/2014 10:01am
4/5/2014 10:01am
How about a Steel Cable start with a traffic signal to watch before it dropped?
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