How about favorite local hero

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hillbilly wrote:
Keith Watson,popped on the scene and then disappeared,, key bumps
There's a reason Watson disappeared. On second thought, make that plural...reasons.Wink
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Barry Higgins, Billy Liles and Keith Turpin.
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wreckitrandy wrote:
Mark Ashworth. Hey Dave, you ever hear of David Dula?
David Dula was the fastest thing on a Can-Am around these parts.
Fred Boss Mx Dion 4/6/2014 8:20pm
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There was a guy that I always thought would move on up. Name, Dave Coupe.....Everyone in D36 knows Dave. He is a legend there.
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Jim Meenan was a god in New England growing up, but he never really got out of there much...

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Sam Fotia, District 5 western PA, (Harbor Woods) was stupid fast.
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I will never forget the first time I saw Jojo Keller ride and couldn't believe someone that big could ride that good! I was only 13 years old and just getting into the sport. Then at the last Southwick of the year in 1993 someone on a Honda with the number 16 came out in the expert class and smoked everyone! It was his birthday and we happened to park right next to him and he offered us cake and was really nice. He pitted out of a Nissan pickup truck with one CR125 and we didn't even know it but he just clinched the National championship! Doug Henry was my new favorite rider from that point on! lol
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DC wrote:
Jim Meenan was a god in New England growing up, but he never really got out of there much...

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Pat Barton has dominated at NESC. Ryan Abrigo was superfast at a couple of Washougal races that I was at.
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Fred Boss Mx Dion wrote:
There was another guy in Norcal, in the mid 70s , Name; Alex Jorgenson, that was primaraly a smooth track rider with high National numbers. He...
There was another guy in Norcal, in the mid 70s , Name; Alex Jorgenson, that was primaraly a smooth track rider with high National numbers. He would show up at Dixon about 3-4 times a year and smoke on one of those evil Can-Ams......It was embarrasing for the regulars.
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Alex was a multi time Grand National race winner and and top10 in championship points many time.
freds old...cant help it.
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Fred Boss Mx Dion wrote:
There was a guy that I always thought would move on up. Name, Dave Coupe.....Everyone in D36 knows Dave. He is a legend there.
vintage badass with the coolest style to this day.
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Bobby Myersdork, fastest internet sum bitch walking.
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GIwasB4 wrote:
Bobby Myersdork, fastest internet sum bitch walking.
you were stupid fast too....well maybe not fast but. Smile
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GIwasB4 wrote:
Bobby Myersdork, fastest internet sum bitch walking.
BobbyM wrote:
you were stupid fast too....well maybe not fast but. Smile
No, I was stupid fast. Too stupid fast to slow down and smell the clorine and sun tan lotion standing on 1 leg.
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wreckitrandy wrote:
Mark Ashworth. Hey Dave, you ever hear of David Dula?
Nope,don't recall that name Randy,

Last time I saw Mark he was about gone,is he still alive?

What did happen to Watson because I never knew,figured he got in big trouble and time.
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Fred Boss Mx Dion wrote:
There was a guy that I always thought would move on up. Name, Dave Coupe.....Everyone in D36 knows Dave. He is a legend there.
BobbyM wrote:
vintage badass with the coolest style to this day.
I concur !
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Caleb Bertrand from Lake Charles Louisiana. I think it was the first year Pala was added to the nationals. It would be the first and only time Caleb would race a National. I think he placed 23rd in the 250's the first moto. The second moto he was running around 19th when he knocked himself out. That was one brutal track that day. Anyway, he still will tear up most, if not all the guys around these parts. I actually kept up with him for a few laps at my home track. But, the track was smooth and I had a cheater line...Lol
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hillbilly wrote:
Todd Harrell out of NC I believe
olds cool wrote:
His parents ran the old track at the Metrolina Fairgrounds north of Charlotte where a few nationals were held. The kid mixed iti up with Tony...
His parents ran the old track at the Metrolina Fairgrounds north of Charlotte where a few nationals were held. The kid mixed iti up with Tony Summey, Sam Dayton and Billy Liles when he came up from Ga for the big local races.
Todd won the 1979 100 cc Amateur Nationals in California with like a 4th and a 5th place finish.I went with he and his Dad out there.I can't find any results or info on that race or the year after in Minnesota.He moved out west and lived with Brad Lackey but took a couple bad spills on those blue grooved concrete California tracks.Todd was my best friend until I beat him a couple races..LOL
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wreckitrandy wrote:
Mark Ashworth. Hey Dave, you ever hear of David Dula?
Mark Ashworth was amazing.I watched him at a track called Barney Doogles somewhere in S.C.,the first turn was a wide sweeper and he looked like a flat tracker! Never let off the gas!
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hillbilly wrote:
Todd Harrell out of NC I believe
olds cool wrote:
His parents ran the old track at the Metrolina Fairgrounds north of Charlotte where a few nationals were held. The kid mixed iti up with Tony...
His parents ran the old track at the Metrolina Fairgrounds north of Charlotte where a few nationals were held. The kid mixed iti up with Tony Summey, Sam Dayton and Billy Liles when he came up from Ga for the big local races.
mach6972 wrote:
Todd won the 1979 100 cc Amateur Nationals in California with like a 4th and a 5th place finish.I went with he and his Dad out...
Todd won the 1979 100 cc Amateur Nationals in California with like a 4th and a 5th place finish.I went with he and his Dad out there.I can't find any results or info on that race or the year after in Minnesota.He moved out west and lived with Brad Lackey but took a couple bad spills on those blue grooved concrete California tracks.Todd was my best friend until I beat him a couple races..LOL
Lost track of Todd but now that you said that I vaguely remember hearing about him going out west.

Barney Doogle's Rocket Raceway....
Now that's a blast from the past! Was it in Anderson, SC or somewhere else in the upstate area? Can't recall the name right now but there was a little red headed kid that just flew around that place. Remember the jump half way down the start straight?

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olds cool wrote:
His parents ran the old track at the Metrolina Fairgrounds north of Charlotte where a few nationals were held. The kid mixed iti up with Tony...
His parents ran the old track at the Metrolina Fairgrounds north of Charlotte where a few nationals were held. The kid mixed iti up with Tony Summey, Sam Dayton and Billy Liles when he came up from Ga for the big local races.
mach6972 wrote:
Todd won the 1979 100 cc Amateur Nationals in California with like a 4th and a 5th place finish.I went with he and his Dad out...
Todd won the 1979 100 cc Amateur Nationals in California with like a 4th and a 5th place finish.I went with he and his Dad out there.I can't find any results or info on that race or the year after in Minnesota.He moved out west and lived with Brad Lackey but took a couple bad spills on those blue grooved concrete California tracks.Todd was my best friend until I beat him a couple races..LOL
olds cool wrote:
Lost track of Todd but now that you said that I vaguely remember hearing about him going out west. Barney Doogle's Rocket Raceway.... Now that's a...
Lost track of Todd but now that you said that I vaguely remember hearing about him going out west.

Barney Doogle's Rocket Raceway....
Now that's a blast from the past! Was it in Anderson, SC or somewhere else in the upstate area? Can't recall the name right now but there was a little red headed kid that just flew around that place. Remember the jump half way down the start straight?
Silver Sands was in Anderson,S.C. Will Kimbrell? He was a bad dude at Sand Hills.I remember that high speed jump.About 100 yards wide.lol
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Scott Tyler from Washington St. was so fast and smooth.
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mach6972 wrote:
Todd won the 1979 100 cc Amateur Nationals in California with like a 4th and a 5th place finish.I went with he and his Dad out...
Todd won the 1979 100 cc Amateur Nationals in California with like a 4th and a 5th place finish.I went with he and his Dad out there.I can't find any results or info on that race or the year after in Minnesota.He moved out west and lived with Brad Lackey but took a couple bad spills on those blue grooved concrete California tracks.Todd was my best friend until I beat him a couple races..LOL
olds cool wrote:
Lost track of Todd but now that you said that I vaguely remember hearing about him going out west. Barney Doogle's Rocket Raceway.... Now that's a...
Lost track of Todd but now that you said that I vaguely remember hearing about him going out west.

Barney Doogle's Rocket Raceway....
Now that's a blast from the past! Was it in Anderson, SC or somewhere else in the upstate area? Can't recall the name right now but there was a little red headed kid that just flew around that place. Remember the jump half way down the start straight?
mach6972 wrote:
Silver Sands was in Anderson,S.C. Will Kimbrell? He was a bad dude at Sand Hills.I remember that high speed jump.About 100 yards wide.lol
Pickens, SC maybe? Seems like there was a kid named Drake Pickens.
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Long Island, NY:
Eddie Hololob
Brian Murphy
Ryan O'Malley
Charles Ellis

FL:
Oscar Diaz (RIP)
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Todd Perkins?
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Who was the "Super Smooth" guy, I think he was from Colorado?
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Mark Melton from Oden Indiana. Nobody could touch him.
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Fred Boss Mx Dion wrote:
There was a guy that I always thought would move on up. Name, Dave Coupe.....Everyone in D36 knows Dave. He is a legend there.
BobbyM wrote:
vintage badass with the coolest style to this day.
Got that right----Coup had speed, style and the fittest rider I ever knew. Could ride all 3 classes and then run a marathon.
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Jo Jo Keller
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olds cool wrote:
Mickey did pretty good in the Nat's until he got black balled. Tony was a beast on that big Maico. Don't forget Sam Dayton too!
mach6972 wrote:
Why did he get black balled?
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I remember Mickey Boone. But, I remember his Mom even more. She used to sit in the grandstand close to us and yell "ON and GONE, Mickey...ON and GONE". It used to crack me up. Laughing
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Donny O'Slow O'Hara wrote:
Chappy Blose, Carlos Serrano and Gary Dirks were probably the three fastest Phoenix locals, when I was racing in the late 70s early 80s. Chappy got...
Chappy Blose, Carlos Serrano and Gary Dirks were probably the three fastest Phoenix locals, when I was racing in the late 70s early 80s. Chappy got a Factory Kawasaki ride in 79 & 80 and got 8th OA. in the 125 Nat. in 1980. I believe Carlos had a Factory Maico ride, and Gary rode for DG.





Chappy owns his own commercial fire sprinkler business in Arizona. Carlos owns a shop in Tucson. Both are quite successful business men now. I'm not sure what Gary is doing, but know that Chappy and Gary are good friends and respect each others riding talents from 'back in the day'.
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neverwasfastenuf wrote:
Who was the "Super Smooth" guy, I think he was from Colorado?
Arlo Englund?

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