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Coyote 12/18/2017 7:58am
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Blade Flanagan jr. wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was a bad elbow injury. I saw it in person and it was a nasty crash!
Squirrelings wrote:
One of the dirtier moves you'll ever see. Never been a GL fan, because of that incident.
worked w/Bobby in 2009 WORCS series, hard worker, great to be around, unreal talent!! as far as GL goes, we all make mistakes but that move was one of the worse I have ever seen, still have hard time listening to him talk!! good to hear bondos doing what he likes to do!!
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Blade Flanagan jr. wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was a bad elbow injury. I saw it in person and it was a nasty crash!
Squirrelings wrote:
One of the dirtier moves you'll ever see. Never been a GL fan, because of that incident.
Coyote wrote:
worked w/Bobby in 2009 WORCS series, hard worker, great to be around, unreal talent!! as far as GL goes, we all make mistakes but that move...
worked w/Bobby in 2009 WORCS series, hard worker, great to be around, unreal talent!! as far as GL goes, we all make mistakes but that move was one of the worse I have ever seen, still have hard time listening to him talk!! good to hear bondos doing what he likes to do!!
I remember the take out / wreck and the years that followed too. Was so pissed at Grant for doing it. I met Bobby at the PIR pro shootout ( which he won ) about 6 - 7 years ago? Guy is such a class act and was really cool to watch him ride. He was flat haulin' that night.
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Lightning78 12/18/2017 3:57pm
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Gukamonster wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2017/12/18/232717/s1200_bondslangston2001HT.jpg[/img]


For those that don't know about this move it was at a VERY high rate of speed ... I saw it too and it was flat ass UGLY!!

The crash may look violent from the pic but it doesn't do it justice for how fast they were going. I still remember that split second before when Langston looked over and moved right into him....coooold blooded for sure.
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StevieTimes 12/18/2017 4:53pm
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Didn't Langston take out a lady at a practice day too?

I'm being serious, I don't recall, but I thought it was mid-air or something like that...
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ruy 12/18/2017 4:57pm
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I remember seeing a dirty action from Langston, I think it could be that, but I do not know, because there is no video of it now.
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NorCalRedRyder wrote:
I remember seeing him ride at Club Moto in Livermore, CA right before he turned pro when he was on Hondas still. That kid had unreal...
I remember seeing him ride at Club Moto in Livermore, CA right before he turned pro when he was on Hondas still. That kid had unreal speed and was putting a hurting on his cr125 out there, you could tell he had IT. Still despise Langston to this day for that chicken shit move he pulled at Hangtown.....
KurtJ99 wrote:
Yeah, I saw that too. It was a douchey move that shoulda cost Langston something for dirty riding. Still hate hearing Langston as a commentator because...
Yeah, I saw that too. It was a douchey move that shoulda cost Langston something for dirty riding. Still hate hearing Langston as a commentator because of that.
I got stuck hanging out with him and his crew one night through mutual friends and yeah he's a douche . At least he was that night
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NorCalRedRyder 11/4/2022 11:06pm
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NorCalRedRyder wrote:
I remember seeing him ride at Club Moto in Livermore, CA right before he turned pro when he was on Hondas still. That kid had unreal...
I remember seeing him ride at Club Moto in Livermore, CA right before he turned pro when he was on Hondas still. That kid had unreal speed and was putting a hurting on his cr125 out there, you could tell he had IT. Still despise Langston to this day for that chicken shit move he pulled at Hangtown.....
KurtJ99 wrote:
Yeah, I saw that too. It was a douchey move that shoulda cost Langston something for dirty riding. Still hate hearing Langston as a commentator because...
Yeah, I saw that too. It was a douchey move that shoulda cost Langston something for dirty riding. Still hate hearing Langston as a commentator because of that.
MX558 wrote:
I got stuck hanging out with him and his crew one night through mutual friends and yeah he's a douche . At least he was that...
I got stuck hanging out with him and his crew one night through mutual friends and yeah he's a douche . At least he was that night
I'm not surprised.
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NorCalRedRyder 11/4/2022 11:18pm
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ruy wrote:
I remember seeing a dirty action from Langston, I think it could be that, but I do not know, because there is no video of it...
I remember seeing a dirty action from Langston, I think it could be that, but I do not know, because there is no video of it now.
Oh there is video now. Go look under the Langston bike thread.
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NorCalRedRyder 11/5/2022 12:32am
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ruy wrote:
I remember seeing a dirty action from Langston, I think it could be that, but I do not know, because there is no video of it...
I remember seeing a dirty action from Langston, I think it could be that, but I do not know, because there is no video of it now.
Here you go. It even makes it more comical because of how he lost a title because his pos KTM rear rim fell apart on the last lap of trying to when a National Championship with him crying on the side of the track. Or when when he was trying to fist pump over a jump in Supercross and ate shit. Bonds didn't come from money. I remember him showing up at races in an old school Toyota pickup with an old Toyota bed as a trailer. He obviously had nice bikes from Honda, but he was 10 times faster than the local pros who showed up...a couple being Team Green and RM Army supported riders. He was insanely fast.
https://youtu.be/s2rW3jisSF0
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Leave Us To 11/5/2022 3:35am
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FIREfish148 wrote:
He was getting a bunch of momentum in outdoors 2001 and Langston put an end to it from what I remember. Didn't he get hurt from...
He was getting a bunch of momentum in outdoors 2001 and Langston put an end to it from what I remember. Didn't he get hurt from that and it started a chain of events?
Blade Flanagan jr. wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was a bad elbow injury. I saw it in person and it was a nasty crash!
Totally punk move on GL's part to chop Bonds off at high speed but who remembers him taking out the woman rider at GH on a practice day? She got a bunch of broken bones after getting taken out by GL over a jump.

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Shiftfaced 11/5/2022 5:40am
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Washington state has a gem of a track called “Eddieville”, and it was on the WORCS circuit.

Track was cut into a wheat field, had some of the most amazing “natural features” that you could imagine.

Bobby was railing that whole track so hard, EVERYBODY was cheering him on.
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Shiftfaced 11/5/2022 5:46am
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Shiftfaced wrote:
Washington state has a gem of a track called “Eddieville”, and it was on the WORCS circuit. Track was cut into a wheat field, had some...
Washington state has a gem of a track called “Eddieville”, and it was on the WORCS circuit.

Track was cut into a wheat field, had some of the most amazing “natural features” that you could imagine.

Bobby was railing that whole track so hard, EVERYBODY was cheering him on.
On of the great things about that track was that so much of the track is visible from the pits.

Pros that year included Ty Davis, Russell Pearson, Destry, Kurt, and Nathan woods. Local pros were Lance Smail, Rory Sullivan.

As you watch this quick video, you can see all of the natural elevation features, but you also can constantly see blips of the pits, which means the viewing of a lap is great.

https://youtu.be/e1nOKCq3l78
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FIREfish148 wrote:
He was getting a bunch of momentum in outdoors 2001 and Langston put an end to it from what I remember. Didn't he get hurt from...
He was getting a bunch of momentum in outdoors 2001 and Langston put an end to it from what I remember. Didn't he get hurt from that and it started a chain of events?
Blade Flanagan jr. wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was a bad elbow injury. I saw it in person and it was a nasty crash!
Leave Us To wrote:
Totally punk move on GL's part to chop Bonds off at high speed but who remembers him taking out the woman rider at GH on a...
Totally punk move on GL's part to chop Bonds off at high speed but who remembers him taking out the woman rider at GH on a practice day? She got a bunch of broken bones after getting taken out by GL over a jump.

Was certainly a dick move
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yz763 11/5/2022 7:49am
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I don’t remember that but that was pretty cheap. I’d love to hear GL’s side of the story and his thought process on that.
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yz763 wrote:
I don’t remember that but that was pretty cheap. I’d love to hear GL’s side of the story and his thought process on that.
Actions speak louder than words. Here is the video which speaks volumes.
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Leave Us To wrote:
Actions speak louder than words. Here is the [url=https://youtu.be/s2rW3jisSF0]video[/url] which speaks volumes.
Actions speak louder than words. Here is the video which speaks volumes.
The video is posted above and I saw it. I meant that I didn’t remember that happening at the time. I would love to hear why Langston thought that was a good idea and what his intentions were.

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kylemenz1 11/5/2022 12:13pm
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Leave Us To wrote:
Actions speak louder than words. Here is the [url=https://youtu.be/s2rW3jisSF0]video[/url] which speaks volumes.
Actions speak louder than words. Here is the video which speaks volumes.
yz763 wrote:
The video is posted above and I saw it. I meant that I didn’t remember that happening at the time. I would love to hear why...
The video is posted above and I saw it. I meant that I didn’t remember that happening at the time. I would love to hear why Langston thought that was a good idea and what his intentions were.
Langston talks about it in detail on his Whiskey throttle show. He said he feels bad now, but at the time there was contributing factors that lead to him feeling like he needed to send a message. I think the message was sent and received!
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CPR 11/5/2022 3:26pm
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It’s pretty plain to see that Bonds was using a few dirty moves himself, which led to this.
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vitalriderCrf 11/5/2022 8:27pm
11/5/2022 8:27pm Edited Date/Time 11/5/2022 8:32pm
Amazing how hard something that happened 21 years ago still chaps peoples' asses.... I've met Langston and his family multiple times. They are good people. Even mitch said Bonds shouldn't have started it
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Mossy940 11/5/2022 8:37pm
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ruy wrote:
I remember seeing a dirty action from Langston, I think it could be that, but I do not know, because there is no video of it...
I remember seeing a dirty action from Langston, I think it could be that, but I do not know, because there is no video of it now.
NorCalRedRyder wrote:
Here you go. It even makes it more comical because of how he lost a title because his pos KTM rear rim fell apart on the...
Here you go. It even makes it more comical because of how he lost a title because his pos KTM rear rim fell apart on the last lap of trying to when a National Championship with him crying on the side of the track. Or when when he was trying to fist pump over a jump in Supercross and ate shit. Bonds didn't come from money. I remember him showing up at races in an old school Toyota pickup with an old Toyota bed as a trailer. He obviously had nice bikes from Honda, but he was 10 times faster than the local pros who showed up...a couple being Team Green and RM Army supported riders. He was insanely fast.
https://youtu.be/s2rW3jisSF0
Thank you for this - I’ve searched YouTube for a decade for this moto, and it’s like it doesn’t exist
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loftyair 11/5/2022 8:52pm
11/5/2022 8:52pm Edited Date/Time 11/5/2022 8:55pm
Well, if Langston says it was bad, then whose to argue? Sucks anyway you look at it! I guess they all do regrettable things. If only injuries didn't happen! I like Langston, but was even more stoked with Bonds.
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BeachMX 11/5/2022 8:55pm
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Gukamonster wrote:
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Lightning78 wrote:
For those that don't know about this move it was at a VERY high rate of speed ... I saw it too and it was flat...
For those that don't know about this move it was at a VERY high rate of speed ... I saw it too and it was flat ass UGLY!!

The crash may look violent from the pic but it doesn't do it justice for how fast they were going. I still remember that split second before when Langston looked over and moved right into him....coooold blooded for sure.
I was there (me and my buddies raced amateur day the day before), and you're right, the video does it no justice. Those guys were absolutely flying.
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UpTiTe 11/6/2022 8:08am
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Langston says Bond hit him two or three times and that he was over it and was proving a point.

Bonds says he was tired and doing whatever it took to win the moto.
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Moto Nomad 11/6/2022 9:35am
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StevieTimes wrote:
Didn't Langston take out a lady at a practice day too? I'm being serious, I don't recall, but I thought it was mid-air or something like...
Didn't Langston take out a lady at a practice day too?

I'm being serious, I don't recall, but I thought it was mid-air or something like that...
Years ago another rider told me that Langston took out a female rider mid-air and she crashed and got really hurt. I don't know if it's true- I was told it was Budds Creek.
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Regis 11/6/2022 10:22am
11/6/2022 10:22am Edited Date/Time 11/6/2022 10:25am
Hasn’t anyone here ever heard -

“You mess with the bull, you get the horn?”

When the heat, adrenaline and stakes are high, you can’t throw out the anchor, block and swerve and not expect retaliation. Racing 101. Bonds was in way over his head at that moment of the race.
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motoarmageddon 11/6/2022 5:43pm
11/6/2022 5:43pm
He came to my local track and he was doing this double out of two rollers in a corner, no one had ever done it before. I actually did the double after seeing him do it but i could never make the corner like he did.
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NorCalRedRyder 11/6/2022 10:21pm
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vitalriderCrf wrote:
Amazing how hard something that happened 21 years ago still chaps peoples' asses.... I've met Langston and his family multiple times. They are good people. Even...
Amazing how hard something that happened 21 years ago still chaps peoples' asses.... I've met Langston and his family multiple times. They are good people. Even mitch said Bonds shouldn't have started it
Funny how people accidentally cross jump someone now and they are instantly labeled a dirty rider and should be penalized. But Langston looks over on a high speed down hill at Bonds and then cross jumps on a table top while looking over in the air. The proceeds to swerve into Bond's outside line and proceeds to brake check him is cool? Because it happened 20 years ago? Ok gotcha.
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Langhammx 11/6/2022 10:38pm
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NorCalRedRyder wrote:
Funny how people accidentally cross jump someone now and they are instantly labeled a dirty rider and should be penalized. But Langston looks over on a...
Funny how people accidentally cross jump someone now and they are instantly labeled a dirty rider and should be penalized. But Langston looks over on a high speed down hill at Bonds and then cross jumps on a table top while looking over in the air. The proceeds to swerve into Bond's outside line and proceeds to brake check him is cool? Because it happened 20 years ago? Ok gotcha.
Don’t get too riled up over it.
I have met and been around both of them. They are both cool in my book. Obviously Grant did him dirty, but I don’t think he is proud of it. Racing at that level is something most will never know what it’s like. But I’d imagine Bobby was probably pissing him off, not getting out of the way for Grant and he retaliated out of frustration. Easy to see it was a bad choice, but Grant is good people and it doesn’t change my opinion on him one bit.
Haven’t seen Bobby in a few years and I didn’t even bother him when we went riding at the track he was running. But I watched him race amateurs and into his pro career, he had something special.
Ended up doing really well in the OffRoad works too, but I’d guess there wasn’t much money to be made there.
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