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Short 43 12/21/2009 9:21am
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vetarider 12/21/2009 9:33am
12/21/2009 9:33am
Back in 1986, I had both grips come off during a race. Not at the same time, but within a couple of laps of one another. First the clutch side then the throttle side. I had picked up a used bike a few days before the race and didn't have time to go over it thoroughly. I could feel the grips start turning slightly on the bars before actually coming off so I had fair warning. To make matters worse, it started raining and by the last lap I couldn't turn the throttle tube because my gloves were soaked and my right glove was muddy from a low speed crash (caused by me not being able to turn the throttle). The tip over happened right in front of the stands and I couldn't re-start the bike.... Embarrassing, and a generally crappy day overall.
suzukirm12594 12/21/2009 9:46am
12/21/2009 9:46am
So I'm the first practice of the day; 125 Intermediate. I take off once once the guy clears me to leave. Rolled the first table top and right at the landing I feel my rear end start to sink...Then my bike stops right at the second corner. I look back and Ohhhh shit my fender is touching the tire! Boy was I glad I didn't hit that table but then I turn around only to find a mess of riders waiting for me to get out of the way and a possible chance of a huge pile up ready to happen if someone were to get landed on. I was stuck there trying to push the bike off the track for a good 3 minutes. Longest 3 minutes of my life. Turns out I lost the linkage bolt thus sending the shock right through the swingarm. Rolling the bike back to the pits, my mechanic saw me and saved the day once again. His whole mini bike crew was there to race that day and just so happened to have a bolt and nut off one of the china knock off linkage bikes. Even though things didn't turn out as planned, I'm glad they turned out the way they did cus it could have been a lot worse.
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Rupert X 12/21/2009 9:53am
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suzukirm12594 wrote:
So I'm the first practice of the day; 125 Intermediate. I take off once once the guy clears me to leave. Rolled the first table top...
So I'm the first practice of the day; 125 Intermediate. I take off once once the guy clears me to leave. Rolled the first table top and right at the landing I feel my rear end start to sink...Then my bike stops right at the second corner. I look back and Ohhhh shit my fender is touching the tire! Boy was I glad I didn't hit that table but then I turn around only to find a mess of riders waiting for me to get out of the way and a possible chance of a huge pile up ready to happen if someone were to get landed on. I was stuck there trying to push the bike off the track for a good 3 minutes. Longest 3 minutes of my life. Turns out I lost the linkage bolt thus sending the shock right through the swingarm. Rolling the bike back to the pits, my mechanic saw me and saved the day once again. His whole mini bike crew was there to race that day and just so happened to have a bolt and nut off one of the china knock off linkage bikes. Even though things didn't turn out as planned, I'm glad they turned out the way they did cus it could have been a lot worse.


I Forget the track now, but that actually happened to JEFF STANTON aboard his

TEAM HONDA CR 2 Fiddy at some track - I forget where. He took the parade lap

- felt something just not right and the mechanics fixed it before the moto.

Bolt on the linkage.

I really can't remember if it was on TV, or if I was there live - or I dreamed it,

but I'm pretty sure it went down like that.

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Moto_Geek 12/21/2009 10:11am
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Going commando in jeans in the morning to have breakfast and read the paper and was planning on changing afterward and got sidetracked and then got invited to go ride and forgot I was commando, loaded up and went to the track and not til the moment I started changing into my gear pants I realized it was quite a bit more breezy. I rode the day commando hoping not to crash.
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augiedog 12/21/2009 10:18am
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Used to be into riding commando. Did it at Loretta's one year and had my entire ass hanging out for half the moto. Mom was not...
Used to be into riding commando. Did it at Loretta's one year and had my entire ass hanging out for half the moto. Mom was not impressed.



Sight lap at a supermoto race in Dallas a few years back. Forgot to wait for the heat to build up in my tires. Went hot into a corner and lost it in front of a shit load of people.





Thought I recognized you out at Berthod!

Just kidding Charlie. That is too funny.
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bt260 12/21/2009 10:32am
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One of my most embarassing comes from long before I started racing and even before I had my own bike. Every summer I used to spend a week on my uncle's farm. I must have been 10 or 12 years old. I would go just because he'd let me ride the Suzuki scooter he had for getting back and forth to the farm, about a mile from the house. I rode the wheels off that thing. So one day I'm thinking about how easy it is to ride, easy enough that I bet I could ride it with my eyes closed. So I close my eyes, throttle wide open, going almost thirty miles per hour and get off into the loose gravel on the side of the road. I open my eyes to some vicious headshake from which I don't recover and wad myself into the five foot deep ditch on the side of the road. I layed there with the wind knocked out of me for a bit. I finall y make my way out of the ditch and flag down one of my uncle's hired hands. We had to use a bucket loader to get the thing out of the ditch. Now of course I have to make up some story so my uncle doesn't think I'm a complete idiot so I blame on the draft of a passing milk truck. Every morning the rest of the week I had to deal with harassment from my cousin, who at the time held national number 50 on the AMA dirt track circiut. To this day, I never told either of them the real reason I crashed.
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ayearinmx 12/21/2009 10:39am
12/21/2009 10:39am
don't ask me why i kept this pic but i think it may just have been for a thread like this.... sorry rup, had to do it to you....

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CCMX 12/21/2009 10:52am
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1981: brand new E.C. Birt YZ 60 wr -3. just broke it in next to our house in the field, as i was probably 4th gear pinned, out stepped the labrador which i nailed. as i lay there with a broken arm, the dog comes up and starts licking me.
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Crash82 12/21/2009 11:06am
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Rupert X wrote:
Were you the guy that walked in on the gramma in the port-a-potty ? Did you line up with the Schoolboys on the gate thinking it...

Were you the guy that walked in on the gramma in the port-a-potty ?

Did you line up with the Schoolboys on the gate thinking it was 40+ ?

Did you remember everything - yet somehow forget to bring your helmet ?

Did you get into a fight after pulling off the track and decide it would be smart

to remove your helmet ?

Run out of gas during the first lap of practice ?

Hand the ol-lady at sign-up a condom instead of your AMA card ?

C'mon, let it go........we won't laugh.




I got tangled up with a rider and when he picked his bike up and started it i was still under it, the kick starter was hitting my helmet, then he spun out on my chest. A friend of mine was seriously pissed so he picks up a tire and is going to take the rider down on the next lap, gets him right around the handle bar on the next lap and tackles him....unfortunately it was the wrong rider, he tackled our friend Buddy Welch...Buddy was cool about it Smile I think we got clicked for life from the track or something.
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Rupert X 12/21/2009 12:48pm
12/21/2009 12:48pm
ayearinmx wrote:
don't ask me why i kept this pic but i think it may just have been for a thread like this.... sorry rup, had to do...
don't ask me why i kept this pic but i think it may just have been for a thread like this.... sorry rup, had to do it to you....



Thanks David - props to Michigan's Greg Bixby for that ferocious pic. 'Twas a pitbike race

at RED BUD 's night-track. Good times. Apologize again to TOM Z for wadding his

ultra-trick machine. 2006 ?

I was wrecking forever, the crowd seemed to enjoy it.

I did hear that CHAD REED was in the tower and witnessed the entire carnage.

Likened it to a sick kangaroo screwing a motor-home at a rap-concert.
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jmc2 12/21/2009 12:48pm
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Regis wrote:
SD SX 1999- Thor delivered some new gear in the morning and while getting ready in the pits for the main I went to put on...
SD SX 1999- Thor delivered some new gear in the morning and while getting ready in the pits for the main I went to put on the new pants. They were a size too big. My mechanic and I took the sides up, folded them over and put a hole through them so we could zip ty each side. I had a running $100 my mechanic would PAY ME if I got the holeshot in the main. I went ripping into the first turn only to collide with Chiodi. Crashed, In the melee my chestprotector came undone on both sides and my zip ties busted. For 14 laps (yes 14, I was lapped) I was fighting a chestrpotector that was flapping a jersey untucked and a couple times over the triple I felt air where cool air wasn't supposed to reach. Not only the full moon was out but the taint was being cooled my pants were so far down in the back.

that, AND my bike catching on fire in 2001 in Phoenix 1st heat race. The picture was in Dirt Bike or something and NO I wasn't running from the bike, I was turning to try to find a handfull of dirt to throw on it in the "heat" of the moment! LOL.

AND- leading the night 125cc heat race (again in Phoenix) in 1999 and two turns from he finish actually thinking about getting to talk on the microphane and thank sponsors and then subsequently blowing a easy double after the whoops sending me to the edge of the track and allowing Casey Johnson and Isiah Johnson by me only to cross in third. This one still hurts because I think this is the first time I have publicly let anyone know why I went off the track!
I remember the bike catching fire...I was sitting a few rows up from there...
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jammin76tx 12/21/2009 3:43pm
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Rupert X wrote:
I Forget the track now, but that actually happened to JEFF STANTON aboard his TEAM HONDA CR 2 Fiddy at some track - I forget where...


I Forget the track now, but that actually happened to JEFF STANTON aboard his

TEAM HONDA CR 2 Fiddy at some track - I forget where. He took the parade lap

- felt something just not right and the mechanics fixed it before the moto.

Bolt on the linkage.

I really can't remember if it was on TV, or if I was there live - or I dreamed it,

but I'm pretty sure it went down like that.
Wasn't that Daytona 1993?

Riesenberg448 12/21/2009 4:39pm
12/21/2009 4:39pm
... waiting for Pingree to come along and post how embarrassing it is to have your bike break in half.
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zookrider62! 12/21/2009 6:02pm
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I was at a night race, it was pretty cold. My gas can was on the fritz so it leaked a bit when I would pour it, because of this I would wear gloves when filling up at my bike. After getting my bike filled up I started it and put my glove beind the exhaust to warm my hands up and stretch the gloves. I forgot about the glove being soaked in gas, and also forgot about my poorly jetted 250F shooting out a small flame. Together they made one big blue fireball. It didnt hurt but it spooked me pretty badly
Riesenberg448 12/21/2009 6:45pm
12/21/2009 6:45pm
zook's reference to a night race brought me back to another one...

Local fair race, not a ton of riders so they were racing the A and B classes together. My brother was in the A class and I was in B. Off the start he holeshot and I was in 4th or 5th. I passed the 2 or 3 A riders between us and somehow ran him down. Instead of being content winning my class, I decided i was going to beat him for the first time ever. It was a humid night and I was riding 3 classes, so my gloves were soaked in sweat. There was a poorly built whoop section everyone was jumping through because they were peaky. Well, 2 laps to go, I'm still right behind my brother and he's always sucked at whoops and i've always been good at them so somehow I convinced myself I could blitz the whoops. I remember getting my front tire even with his rear end when I entered, and I remember my wet glove slipping off the grip about the third whoop. Next thing I remember was telling the medic I was fine and my dad that I had gotten knocked out. Embarrassing because I had an easy win, but more embarrassing having to fess up to the older brother that i wasn't quite ready to beat him...yet!
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MX45 12/21/2009 7:07pm
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Hey Riesneberg, how bout that time you crashed at the top of a dune, then rolled all the way down Smile
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swizcore 12/21/2009 7:28pm
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MX45 wrote:
These are just dumb, but I rode a practice session with straight gas (2stroke). Bike ran like a bat out of hell. Never blew either. Also...
These are just dumb, but I rode a practice session with straight gas (2stroke). Bike ran like a bat out of hell. Never blew either.

Also did a break in on a fresh top end with no coolant.
Similar to mine.
My '98 RM125, I had cleaned the air filter and forgot to oil it before practice at the sandiest track in my district. Made it about two laps.Blush

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mxchickalltheway 12/21/2009 11:23pm
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mxchickalltheway wrote:
was at a supercross and after i got my trophy i refused to hand off the trophy i wanted to do a victory lap and i...
was at a supercross and after i got my trophy i refused to hand off the trophy i wanted to do a victory lap and i hit a hole and crashed in front of 70,000 people. that was also shown on the jumbo tron.
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Was this at the X games? I don't remember women racing the AMA Supercross races, but then again I don't remember a lot of things. With...
Was this at the X games? I don't remember women racing the AMA Supercross races, but then again I don't remember a lot of things. With 70,000 people it would have to be one of them though.
mteg - pee wee halftime show in the 90s


and yes women have raced in supercross in 74 superbowl of motocross and 78, 81, 82, 84, 86, and a full blown supercross and truck series in 1995. and in 83 dorene payne qualified to race supercross in the mens 250 class at san diego. she was in qualifying possition in the heat race and on the last lap, she crashed in the whoops and broke her femur.

here is a picture of the womens stadium cross team in 95
http://rides.webshots.com/photo/1002985128014783642hVsSVniyGT
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wilcom121 12/22/2009 3:18am
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I ran out of gas 5 feet out of the gate one time... another my dad left left a plastic bag on the air filter so I never even got started.

I also NEVER ride my bike up a ramp to put it in my truck. I've seen too many idiots eat it trying to. I saw one guy completely miss the ramp and run straight into the back of his truck. I saw another hauling ass up to the ramp and when he went to hit the front brake the front tire got stuck on a triangle. He hit the front of the bed so hard he went over the bars, onto the roof of his truck, before sliding down the windshield onto the hood. I nearly pissed myself watching them. I will push it up the ramp.
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bogdan912 12/22/2009 6:05am
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After a day of riding it started to rain as I was loading up. I put my stand out as a step and my ramp like normal... I start pushing pretty fast to get the bike in the truck easier and as soon as I hit the stand my foot slips right off and I slammed right into the tailgate. The bike made it into the truck, but fell to the side and the clutch lever scratched the shit out of the side of my bed. Now when it's raining I get someone to help...
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DDub8 12/22/2009 8:29am
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Rupert X wrote:
Were you the guy that walked in on the gramma in the port-a-potty ? Did you line up with the Schoolboys on the gate thinking it...

Were you the guy that walked in on the gramma in the port-a-potty ?

Did you line up with the Schoolboys on the gate thinking it was 40+ ?

Did you remember everything - yet somehow forget to bring your helmet ?

Did you get into a fight after pulling off the track and decide it would be smart

to remove your helmet ?

Run out of gas during the first lap of practice ?

Hand the ol-lady at sign-up a condom instead of your AMA card ?

C'mon, let it go........we won't laugh.




I hope the guy wasn't hurt because I was laughing the whole time. It wasn't me but I had that exact thing happen in a race once. I came around to a yellow flag and never saw a rider down... until I looked over the berm and saw someone had launched over the berm, cleared the fence and landed perfectly in the back of a truck.

As for embarrassing, I've run out of gas in more races than I care to remember. It has become my specialty.

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