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Edit:
I do see SIMONS forks which were awesome for that era and probably helped on the impending wammo!
I don’t much care for his online persona most of the time, but can’t imagine anything that he’s said that would make me want to ‘out’ him…….
But for reference, he raced at least 2 Saddleback Nationals, and finished what I’d consider pretty damn well. So while his silly season and ‘Industrie’ rumors are sometimes pretty whack, I’d say that he had a very personal experience with Suicide Mountain…..!
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But I havta wonder regarding the class he raced if he ever CLEARED SUICIDE MOUNTAIN, cuz that's what had me wondering as he stated "it wasn't that hard" 😳
Spill da beans Uptite!
Very sad times in SoCal MX for sure and the closing of Indian dunes was the final nail in the coffin. I was going to go ahead and move with the company to Arizona as I was still on the fence about it.
My dream was to be able to ride out of my garage like I use to in my youth and make tracks in the desert.
While I lived that dream for a number of years and there were great tracks to race now with all the Californian's also moving here 33 years later most tracks have closed it's like history repeats itself.
There was a jump that was just like another jump we use to do in the hills near my house.
I use to stay with a guy who lived in Simi Valley, there was 8 or 9 tracks in the hills within a 10 minute drive of his house that are all housing tracts now, sad.
But that said there still is no way way I would even think about it either way.
It was epic, off cambers steep hills and there was a road crossing jump, natural terrain at its finest. 👍
Just found this on the interwebs gives a good perspective of Suicide Mountain in the background before it was ever considered a new section of track.
Keep in mind there was a tight right hand corner at the bottom is what made it REALLY challenging for the Pros.
I don't remember that, just on the Factory bike.
Pit Row
Looks like a YZ80 with shitload of suspension
here's a stock one for comparo... the tank looks way closer to the exhaust on that one compared to the stocker too. IDK WTF that is.......suspension looks a lot like 76 YZ100
Who was the family in the pics and riders of these bikes I wonder?
They may have been quite good to have a bike like this and the effort it took to make it back in 1976 thereabouts.
Reckon SLAPAHO is correct... is prob a mix of 1976 100cc cantilever and 80cc engine.
Edit- just remembered something similar here- abit later though- was a very fast kid from South London area who rode for Team Suzuki in like the early 1980's- his Dad modded a '81 125X Full Floater with early pre- production frame(would have been one of the first to arrive here) to house a tricked out RM100 aircooled motor- the kid was quick- did the Nationals and was up there with the fastest at the time.
Funny back in the earlier years only a few people seemed to mod the bikes like this- think nowdays more people do it
Cool bike for sure and pics.
I contacted him and hopefully he will reply with the info.
He was not from SoCal and was on a vacation to Disneyland and Saddleback with his buddies.
Also found a few more pictures.
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