Signs you might be an old motocrosser….

JAFO92
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1/29/2025 6:15am
mumbles wrote:

When Carrera goggles and a Jofa was the hottest thing to have.

I had Barrufauldis and a duckbill with duct tape.

Dont forget them trick Oakley cam grips ! 

😁

 

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JAFO92
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1/29/2025 6:16am
kmc140 wrote:

When you looked at the monoshock and thought "...pfffft that'll never work... "

When I got my MX400B all my friends thought it was the shit back in '77 !

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Falcon
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1/29/2025 6:39am

When you are still trying to decide if you should have gone with the orange or the green DMC sticker on your visor. 

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wwdiii
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1/29/2025 6:50am
H4L wrote:

When you’re no longer hitting the big jumps & risking it. 
As the younger generation says now “sending it”.

You beat me to it!

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wwdiii
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Signs you might be an old motocrosser.  When you try on a new pair of TLD MX pants and realize the first MX pants you raced in were leather!

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Mudd801
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1/29/2025 6:54am

You know what blendzall smells like.

and adding a cap-full of Blendzall Gold label into every gas-powered piece of equiptment on your property... 

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JAFO92
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wwdiii wrote:
Signs you might be an old motocrosser.  When you try on a new pair of TLD MX pants and realize the first MX pants you raced...

Signs you might be an old motocrosser.  When you try on a new pair of TLD MX pants and realize the first MX pants you raced in were leather!

And your first set of gloves were goat-skin and the ink would turn your hands red when you took 'em off at the end of the day.  😁

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Philo Beddoe
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1/29/2025 7:10am

You’re worried how you’ll ever replace your No Dive if it breaks one day.

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MotoCoUSA
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1/29/2025 7:12am

When youre taking ibuprofen on the way to the track.

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maicocd
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1/29/2025 7:14am

When you remember being a kid on the East Coast and anxiously waiting for your Cycle News to arrive find to out who won the Anahiem Supercoss two Saturday nights prior as well as being oblivious as to who had won the next Supercross race that had also already transpired in the meantime...!!!

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dnf736
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1/29/2025 7:16am
CPR wrote:

If you ever wore a kidney belt.

If you even know what a kidney belt is...

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SEEMEFIRST
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1/29/2025 7:19am

You sprain your ankle just looking at your 84 CR500 kick starter.

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Scott920
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1/29/2025 7:19am

You ordered a Velcro wallet that said "motocross action" on it out of the back of an MXA magazine and waited 10 weeks for it arrive. 

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FWYT
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1/29/2025 7:19am
CPR wrote:

If you ever wore a kidney belt.

dnf736 wrote:

If you even know what a kidney belt is...

Still wear one!!!!! Yeesh.

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wreckitrandy
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1/29/2025 7:22am

I spotted an old mx'er at a restaurant a while back. The tell was a Wiseco t-shirt older than DaddyDeegs. 

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Infamous
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1/29/2025 7:26am

When you get arm pump putting your boots on...

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crmx105
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1/29/2025 7:27am

If you rode a Yamaha in the dirt before there was a YZ.

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cmotodad
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1/29/2025 7:36am Edited Date/Time 1/29/2025 7:37am

If you feel bitchn hitting that big double, 15ft. wide, till a kid on a 50 goes by making it a triple.

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PRM31
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1/29/2025 7:43am

 You started on an XR-75 when 4-strokes were cool.

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1/29/2025 8:38am

If you still wear a kidney belt--only now to hold your muffin top in!

 

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1/29/2025 8:45am

You know what blendzall smells like.

Mudd801 wrote:

and adding a cap-full of Blendzall Gold label into every gas-powered piece of equiptment on your property... 

Now that's what I call a "must situation".

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Presley155
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1/29/2025 8:47am

I'm only 47 but I just had my right knee replaced 2 weeks ago. I've been riding since I was 5 years old. As Indiana Jones said "It's not the years, it's the mileage" 

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pummel
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1/29/2025 9:11am Edited Date/Time 1/29/2025 9:11am

If your buddies' kids you remember being born are riding the vet class.

If you fondly remember the King Dome, the Astrodome and or the Oakland Coliseum.

If you still reach down looking to check your petcock (That's not there) on the starting line.

If your heroes growing up were only known by nicknames. Hurricane, Magoo, O-Show, Dogger, Chicken, The Man.

If you grew practicing at a sand pit (Rainier Beach) rock pit or back yard instead of a compound. 

 

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Magoofan
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1/29/2025 9:13am

You hurt the feelings of the delicate generation every time you post on Vital....

tenor-3179274008

 

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DUCati227
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1/29/2025 9:44am

When you need new plastic and the first name that pops in your head is Preston Petty.

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bonseff
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1/29/2025 9:47am

You can still hear it pop.

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dadofagun
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1/29/2025 9:54am

My signs?

My first race bike was an Italjet, my first gear set contained pants by JT that had a solid yellow leather stripe down each leg.  Plus my boots were by Full Bore, and my open face helmet was an Electro.  Oh, and entry fee was 5 bucks.....

 

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PRM31
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1/29/2025 10:00am

When your leathers were leather.

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wreckitrandy
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1/29/2025 10:08am

When your buddy says something about a 'tickler' and your mind doesn't go in the gutter, you're pretty old.

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