When you think of Honda, what rider comes to mind?

Canard and Windham

Jeremy McGrath and (I know not mx, but that was not specified) Johnny Cambell

Almost like people associate different riders with different eras of racing 🧐

I don’t associate Johnny O with Honda during the 90s

dont forget andrew short. clean cut. professional. all that. 

Donnie Hansen and this bike. still in my mind one of the trickest hondas ever built

The 1982 RC250M was a nice bike, but Honda's last works bike, the 1984/85 RC250M was exotic...

Raced by O'Mara, Bailey, Lechien and Hannah...

 They sold a lot of Hondas.

 Seth Enslow. Always HONDA and one of the most bad ass riders ever.

I miss these painted helmets 

RJ- hands down. Nobody was as dominant or as cool in his Honda (except MC but RJ was the original). And he sits among some giants. And RJ never went to other brands, winning the last outdoor national of his career on Honda, which is awesome.

David Bailey, because he was on my school books in the 80s.

But as an Aussie,  Jeff Leisk made those early 80s open class Honda's look real good here before he went and crushed in the Gps. Style for days.

Jeff Leisk , Mr Motocross at Tivoli/Queensland. 

Can't quite remember the year.

True story, I worked with a guy that heard I used to moto (This was in my hiatus) and he said he used to be sponsored and showed me the top picture and claimed it was him. I let him run with that lie. So amusing. 

91 Millville I was bummed that RJ retired & didn’t get to see him race.  I,ll b doing impersonation vids of past riders.  The tall & lean riders like JmB . I,ll hv to work on his French accent a little & maybe call myself JNB so he won’t sue me. Haha.  Along with Damon Huffman rename Damon Huffmam Hi I,m Damon Huffmam of Black foot Honda today we,ll b testing the DBP cr125 in preparation for the biggest race of the year. Conclusion of the test of the DBP . We need to slow this thing down. No human can process the extreme acceleration. Including Damon Huffmam. 

Ricky Johnson, Jeremy McGrath, Jeff Stanton, Ricky Carmichael - in that order.

MC ,  KW,  Canard

Marty Smith

Stanton, Johnny O, McGrath in that order for me

He was such a nice guy. He camped with us at the shougie nats one year. I had a Honda step through 90, which he borrowed. The thing never ran right sense. 😆

Notwithstanding Vital being an MX forum, but when I think of Honda and any rider in particular, for me it's Mick Doohan.

Being from Australia there was literally zero MX coverage outside of the good old ADB mag but 500cc GP racing was big back in the day...probably more so than MotoGP is now, especially with the extremely limited media sources back then compared to now...there was so much focus on him.

Mick was/is huge over here, so if you say "Honda" that's who will comes to mind for me.

JMB

McGrath

Bailey/Johnson

(For frenchies : + Pichon 1993)

But there are many great riders

That little bike belongs in a museum...Marty Smith roached this scoot...lol.

Marty was pretty good at finding smooth lines but damn could he rail a berm.

Stanton McGrath Windham Canard

Funny thing, was that he didn't ask, just hopped on it and boogied up the hill. 

 Pierre Karsmakers; yeah, I'm that old

McGrath, Lamson, Fred Bolley, Carmichael

 Frederic Bolley

There's a few names that come to mind from way back to the past and present. But to name only one?!?!

DAVID BAILEY

AWESOME picture!!!

Magoo, JMB and Kdub