Signs you might be an old motocrosser….

If you’ve ever said “upside down forks”

You listened to Blue Oyster Cult to and from the track on 8 track.

When your first new bike was a air cooled KTM 125 and your second one was the first  production water cooled Yamaha 250…

When you go on Facebook and talk about 45 minute motos and great the 80s were and how todays tracks are garbage and todays riders are pussies. 

You used a 2x6 for a loading ramp.

I added a stainless plate on the end of that 2x6 for a seamless transition to the tailgate (factory model)....  I still use it !  its from 1997....and there may or may not be a band of duct tape or two holding the wood together 😆 

and a milk crate for a stand... 

Even your second bike was air-cooled and had 6.8 inches of travel. 

That reminds me.  I used one until I bought the flexible piece of crap aluminum one I'm using now, that I despise.

I may need to make a trip to Home Depot!

Hm, like most old guys, I’m a true fan of 2 strokes.  BUT, the first real mx bike I owned was a Parilla Wildcat, a hyper little Italian 250 4 stroke.   About as fast as a CZ twin port in a straight line but terminally pipey and its remote float Dell’Orto carb would make it 8 stroke in turns at the drop of a hat.   Also raced my dad’s BSA Gold Star Catalina, like #11 up above, a big ol’ British 500 4 stroke single.  Smooth power, like buttah, but very heavy, and still surprisingly good handling. Yes, as somebody else mentioned, tickle them til gas squirts out, then start them with the spark advance retarded then full advance to race. We’re talking mid to late 60’s. At first, MX was still called “scrambles.”

Oh yeah, mid engine Dodge race van. Then VW van. Then ‘64 El Camino with a nice $29 Earl Scheib paint job😀

When you realise the last time title contenders rode two strokes was 20 years ago.

Wow, that's a name you don't hear much (Parilla Wildcat). My first bike was a Triumph Tiger Cub. Not sure what year but late 50s I believe. It was stripped down for desert riding and had I think a Parilla gas tank on it.

You know who "Super Hunky" is.

Sounds like when the wife comes home and opens the dishwasher that is full of MX parts because I forgot to remove them before she got home. 😬 

I know someone who raced the Parilla back in the day and he still rides in his mid 70s.  He loved that bike! I also know of a guy in Colorado Springs area who has one of those (project).

Another sign that I am an older motocrosser: I was driving around today with a 1975 Can-Am 250 MX-2 in the back of the truck today. 

When you cut your DT-1 frame to lower the engine 2 inches???

You remember racing 3 motos. 

You had an Electro helmet.

You had a High School motocross team. 

You wore linesman boots at some point.

You were lucky enough to race Carlsbad and Saddleback on the regular.

Cool thread btw 👍

             When you had the first Honda CR 125 lined up at Kings Rook Cycles in Beverly, Ma, but your buddy found a place selling Rickman Zundapp 125’s only 30 miles away and you went to look at it . While there a local NESC expert bought the Honda. Derailed my whole sure to be illustrious career, as I was already a slow novice, and that Elsinore would have surely catapulted me to a mid pack novice in one fell swoop. 

These are all great memories guys, thanks for sharing...

...When your "orange" MX socks are folded over your boots and your Webco head made you faster.

Fuq’n awesome!

Bitchin, Like a Camaro.  THAT is oldschool

I had the Debruzer cross bar pad, Roost Boost and EZ clutch. But apparently, am not that old at all and need to quit my bitching.

You know who Lovely Louella is.

I had hang ten socks in lime green toppers, full bore boots. Manchester Honda was selling 125s for 499 with a helmet in 74

If you you've ever had a bike with "laid down shocks", or a bike prior to that that didn't have "laid down shocks".

Bonus if you upgraded your laid down shocks to Mulholland.

69 Camaro with bumper racks for my 73 Suzuki TM250. I thought I was pretty cool. HaHa...

GET OFF MY LAWN….. I mean track, you hooligans!

If you recognize this Factory Honda part.

When u know how to adjust points.Or at least you used to know.  I will admit that I learned at 14 on an old Honda 90 three wheeler . Prob a 76. I bought it and gave it paint job and sold it for 100$ profit in 83.