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Just as fast as my feet can fly
Come away, come away, if you're going
Leave the sinking ship behind
We're going up around the bend
Ooh!
Ordered stickers from Stick 'Em Up. You cut out the ad and circled the ones you wanted
"Turn the gas on dummy"
I saw John Forgerty last summer and he is awesome as ever.
I am so old I would like to be just old!
Okay, how about you had to adjust the timing (Bar Mounted control) when starting. Then set to advanced for the race....
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We went to the short track race's at the Lodi cycle bowl and my van took a shit. We were "stuck in Lodi again".
HA! Are we talking motocross or board tracks?! You may be the winner!
Still use it
When you have a giant azz NO FEAR sticker on the windshield of your brand new 2WD single cab 1995 ranger pickup with a smokin hot brand new YZ125 with full North County Yamaha graphics. Of course, decked out in the Extreme NCY sponsored jersey and pants, along with AXO helmet and boots. Oh damn, that was how it used to be. Now i just walk around after my "HOT Lap" at the track telling everyone how 2T's were awesome and race gas was the ultimate pheromone.
Must haves; Answer Roost Boost Plus electronics, Boost Bottle. Remember Yamaha had them Boost Bottle stock on their bikes called Yamaha Energy Induction System (YEIS)
Loaded the bikes up the other day to go ride, a couple of surron kids rode by and asked where I was going. Told them pala and they didn't know what I was talking about, then one kid asked if I ever ride fox raceway. These kids makin me feel real old.
Great thread - memory lane. Keep them coming.
What about B.A.S.S. …1985 YZs…? I remember the 1st time I saw it…I think it was on a TZ?
Banke Snake pipes.
If you had an aftermarket plastic tank that sat over the frame on a hunk of foam and was held on with hose clamps and bungee cords
A Tweaky Bar was a fork brace, not a bar where meth heads hang out
If you ever "Modified" a Yamaha mini enduro 80 by shortening the piston skirt and drilling lubrication holes in the side of the piston because you heard that was the trick set up, and laid down shocks of course
Drops the rear when you step on the back brake... looked good on paper ! lol
Right - The good thing about B.A.S.S. was that it worked!
The bad thing about it was that it worked!
Being able to buy a 1974 Elsinore with money saved from working a paper route for a year..
Seemed Ike a lot of money back then, now wouldn't be enough to rebuild a top end on a modern 4 stroke.
Actually didn't drop the rear, it reduced the compression damping in the shock when braking. Theory was that it would help the rear stay planted in braking bumps.
Pit Row
I know that is a forward falling gate, but seeing that guy leaning on the plywood reminded me of something a saw once at a race with a rubber band start.
For those not familiar with a rubber band start, surgical tubing would be anchored in two places, one of them parallel with the start line, the other out in front of the gate10' - 20'. Then there would be a ring in the center of it to make a triangle to the pin that released the band.
Ideally the band would be pulled in front of and away from the riders so that they would not snag the band.
Now keep in mind that band is going to be tight to move fast. on a long gate it would take somebody pretty stout to pull that ring to the pin.
Then when the pin is pulled that washer, or whatever they have in the center goes rocketing across. Usually they had a piece of plywood or some kind of wooden structure for it to hit.
It was not unusual for it to knock holes in a piece of wood, so then they would just untie the plywood and slide it a foot and let it hit an undamaged area until it required attention again.
So now imagine somebody decides the band is not tight enough and shortens the band a couple of feet. and the center ring is anchored so the band can't center itself.
First race of the day and a guy is standing partially behind the plywood. Pin is pulled and the dude gets absolutely nailed in the upper thigh about where the bottom of a pocket is, by a piece of tow chain link that then ricochets grazing his junk.
had a bruise the size of a volleyball on his thigh, but damn, 2 or 3 inches over and they might have been looking for his nuts.
When I started racing in 1972 they only used one rubber band or tube. Tied at the right and the starter would just hold it until it was time then let it go. You better make sure you got to the line first so you could get as close to the starter as possible. Outside had no chance of a good start. Wish I had a good picture.
This is the only pic I have. It was really foggy that day. You can see the band lying on the ground in front of me. I was on the wrong side of this start.
Still do
When you still refer to them as 60s and 80s. Back in the day if you called them 65 or 8 you were a total poser, now it’s the norm?
I got the rubber band starting gate tee shirt also!
Never saw a rubber band start in person but the thought of that fucker somehow snapping into me was enough to keep me away.
Disabling the auto injection on my dt90, so a could premix my gas, and be cool like the kids that had a yz80. Have a paper route in Santa Ana so I could buy a brand new 77 elsinore 125 as a leftover in 79, and glad I didn't have a 23inch front wheel but wished I had an up pipe. Ditch high school and ride saddle back and wonder why all those guys had painted vans, obviously I figured out they were pros after a while
rode Gaylon Mosiers practice bike Maico in trubucco canyon, think it was there. Rode Victorville before it was developed. Cried when the cancelled the Bardstow to Vegas, stuck a phantom duck sticker on my dad's dodge D50. Yep think that covers the 70s for me
You never lined up on the pull end, only on the release end. That band was deadly. Before band starts were clutch hand on the helmet neutral starts. All the dorks would sit straight up but the fast starters got that hand as close to the bars as possible.
Annealing a copper Elsinore head gasket to save the $2.25 a new one cost. For the fourth time. And listening to mom yelling about how her stove isn’t for bike part cooking..
You said "Bitchin"! You're one of the cool kids
I still use Gookinaid sometimes. It's now called Vitalyte.
This thread is" totally Bitchin"!
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