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Never saw these old pics before. I was lucky enough to see both these guys race locally and later when they were Giants. I was never at a level to race with these guys but I did get rammed ( more of a push) by Lackey in a morning practice at Saddleback. I heard a guy come up behind me real fast and was planning to let him by after the tight corner but he was in a hurry and got inside and put an elbow in my arm and hit my front wheel on the way by. I was pissed then I saw Lackey on his leathers and was like: cool Brad Lackey just hit me.
I remember seeing a Cycle World article on Lackey before he went to Europe again for his first year on Husqvarna and his new bikes must have been over there, because he rode that CZ for their photographer near his house. Think he wore a plain sweatshirt or jersey and desert boots, jeans, no logos anyway. Husky would have been sticklers about that. Not surprised he raced that bike to stay sharp between seasons if he believed he needed to, very methodical guy,
Here is a shot of Marty Tripes during his first stint on Hondas in 1973. It looks like Rio Bravo, and it must have been the Tex-AMA spring race series that year, where Tripes et al found out that Stackable, Howerton, Steve Wise, Danny Doss and other Texans were pretty tough at home. I remember Rich Eierstedt saying something like, "Tripes and the Joneses, they liked the stockers," meaning they preferred stock or Don Jones-tweaked Elsinores over the RC250 that Eierstedt won the 1973 Trans-AMA support class on. It sure looks like an externally stock Elsinore to me, original photo looks like stock fins on the shocks. Is Tripes sliding that thing standing up, feet on the pegs?
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Couple more pictures I never saw before.
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