Your biggest Moto accomplishment??

umagumadog 12/1/2014 6:05pm
12/1/2014 6:05pm
I swung a leg over one for the first time.
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Motoxdoc 12/1/2014 6:12pm
12/1/2014 6:12pm Edited Date/Time 12/1/2014 7:01pm

This was a good day. I believe it was in 1986. I won 2 classes and when Cycle News came out I was so excited I cut the story out and underlined my name everywhere.....I kinda regret doing that now! The coolest thing was that I tucked it away and forgot about it for almost 15 years, at which point I found it in an old photo album and started looking at the results of the other classes that day. I was amazed at all the racers that were already heros, or went on to become heros in MX! Check out who won the VET EXP and 125 NOV classes....but the real kicker is check out who got third in the 80 NOV STK class!

http://vault.racerxonline.com/1984-04-01/250mx/saddleback-park
This was a good day too...One of the top "true" privateers at the last Saddleback national.
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Subwaytom 12/1/2014 6:27pm
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Getting to race my daughter(Jacki Short) in he plus 30 class at Rio Bravo. I think she is faster now than when she raced the Pro class at WML.
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wfo250 12/1/2014 6:29pm
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Still riding/racing at 51. 5th place +45
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Coyote 12/1/2014 7:14pm
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Bauer wrote:
I'm most proud of being named 2004 AMA Supercross Series Humanitarian of the Year (along with Scott Kandel) for our Wonder Warthog Racing privateer support programs...
I'm most proud of being named 2004 AMA Supercross Series Humanitarian of the Year (along with Scott Kandel) for our Wonder Warthog Racing privateer support programs, then winning it again in 2012 for my Big Air Kid's Fair charity event at Loma Linda Children's Hospital. This next one will be my 12th annual event and it gets better every year.

I'm also partnering with my friends, Dirt Diggers North, to do an additional Big Air Kid's Fair at the Shriners Children's Hospital up in Sacramento, the week before the Hangtown National. We are still working out the details on that one.

Had a lifetime of racing memories: Won close to 200 pro races in SoCal during it's heyday; almost won the 125 pro class at Mammoth; stood on the podium with my DG teammates Glover and Eropkin at the first Supercross race ever held at Anaheim Stadium (HS State Championship during intermission); won the 1978 AMA Western Regional Motocross Championship; 6th overall (support) at the 1979 Carlsbad USGP, after going over the bars; kicked Rex Staten's ass in a fistfight in the infield of Corona Raceway (broken up by current AMA SX referee, John Gallagher, when he was just a lad); had nine Cycle World magazine covers, a couple of Crash n' Burn issues and some other cool shit...

But my biggest moto accomplishment had to be letting Bob Hannah know how much we all appreciated him spanking us every week...

classic SB, I crack up every time I see that. it's from Hangtown, en?? I bet Wheats laughing his ass off
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TeamGreen 12/1/2014 7:17pm
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Subwaytom wrote:
Getting to race my daughter(Jacki Short) in he plus 30 class at Rio Bravo. I think she is faster now than when she raced the Pro...
Getting to race my daughter(Jacki Short) in he plus 30 class at Rio Bravo. I think she is faster now than when she raced the Pro class at WML.
I introduce her like this...

"This is my friend, Jacki. She's the fastest 'Short' I know. Her husband's ok, too."
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Gary105 8/19/2015 9:35am
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1981. I was racing the 100cc expert class. Usually finishing 3rd to 5th. About half way through the year a friend of mine, who was regularly...
1981. I was racing the 100cc expert class. Usually finishing 3rd to 5th. About half way through the year a friend of mine, who was regularly beating me, named Pete Rodovich, was killed on his way home from the southwick national.
A few weeks later the southwick promoter put on a big benefit race for his family. The family was understandably devastated by the loss of their son. Anyhow, the Rodovich's had some bad blood with the kid who had been winning every week. His mom came to me the morning of the race and asked me to win the trophy for them that day. Honestly, though I had finished third a few times, I never really even saw the two guys who would run away from the pack in every Moto.
But, something happened that day. Whatever she said to me, or whatever I was feeling unlocked something in me I never knew I had. I started in the top five, went to the front and ran away to win 1-1. I gave his family the biggest trophy I had ever won and everyone was crying. I still think about that day often. His family, and Pete in a way, had given me the gift of learning to believe in myself.
God Lee i hope it was not me she hated!!! I won the championship that year :/ I remember when NEMA retired Pete's number 64 that i rode Southwick by myself alone on the track with his jersey then crossing the finish line and taking it off and giving it to Pat!!!! I am feeling devastated right now. WOW!!! I remember his funeral. Me and Arnie actually went back before they covered the casket and i laid my cross necklace on the casket before they covered it up with dirt. Now to think this could have been me she did not like is heart braking.

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