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Always great to hear stories of those days, especially from those who were the people at the top during those years.
We are making old school progress, I know of Scott Brown, Paul Denis, Larry Brooks (off and on), and now Doug Harrington that post on here (at least those that do not hide who they really are). I am sure there are numerous others that lurk in the shadows or hide under generic user names?
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I need to figure out how to make the pictures bigger.
Cadiz, KY?
All these old school guys are coming out lately.
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Are you be sarcastic or what with your reply to this post?
A funny story: We were all waiting at the line to pick our spots and someone asks Paul where he was going to line up. His reply, "I'm the chief so I will line up wherever I want to" and then says "I'm the chief" a few more times. I still remember that.
Larry, I had never met Bruce or even talked to him but I sure knew who he was. After the last race that year Bruce and I were walking across the starting line heading back to where we were pitted. I asked Bruce who won the race, because I finished pretty far behind him.........His reply, "Denis the Dick" Of course a couple hours later that terrible tragedy happened.
Paul, I'm sure you can find some humor in that.
This post by Paul was a response to Charlie O, who basically stated that PD did not really accomplish much back in the day. At least it got Paul to jump into the forum and share some memories of the past. The one Scott B posted was about the Harry's party and Charlie's response about coming to the event. Scott came to the Harry's party and hung out with all the guys. I had not seen him for 25 years and he had changed just a little bit like you said. LOL
Good to see you are doing well.
Post some of those pictures from the 80's when you get some time.
When i first moved to Tn from Fla, in 84 i raced at B and J mx 4-5 times, and also the Cadiz , Ky track, and i became friends with Johns son, after i got my bike stolen , i still wanted to be involved in mx so i would go and work at B and J , did every thing from being a flagger to working the start gate etc, they had a Lorrettas regional there one year, i remember Sean Kalos, came in his bus all the way from AZ, he didnt have much luck as in his first motos he broke his wrist, also Mike Brown was there in the sr mini class i think.
I went in the US Navy in 1987 until 1991 so didnt know much about it then, and by that time the track was still there, but they didnt race there any more, but i had got another bike while i was in the Navy and loved to go practice there on weekends, well one weekend some guy crashed pretty hard, and dinged his neck, we said you should go have that checked out, he didnt and decided to ride some more, well he crashed again landed on his head broke his neck and it paralyzed him, so later he tried to sue the landowner, who was rich as hell, it didnt work, but they put up a fence so no one else could ever ride there again, and now theres apartments built on the land,
as far as Cadiz, ky track john also ran and promoted it, it was at the county baseball/ softball park,i raced there a few times after i got out of the navy, then in 94/95 i think the county shut it down.
This will show you who this is; Paul and I in are days battling were racing a Ponca qualifier at Barona Oaks (I think is was a qualifier) and I holeshoted the 2nd moto and crashed. My bike hit the ground and the throttle pulled off the bars and the bike was wide open. I had hit my head pretty hard and ran to my bike and picked it up at the exact same time that Paul was coming by and when I picked it up the bike took off, flying out of my hands. My bike shot right into Paul and took him out hard, breaking his arm. Next thing I knew Jack (Paul's Dad) ran up to me and started screaming at me that I had done this on purpose. I was just a little kid and I couldn't have done this on purpose, even if I tried. This all happened the before all of us 80 Experts were suppose to race during intermission at the San Diego Supercross. I wasn't able to race because I had a concussion and obviously Paul couldn't race because he had a broken arm. Anyway, this hung over my head for years, because I felt so bad about being the reason another rider broke his arm (even if Paul and I didn't get along very well) and have Jack yelling at me that I had done this on purpose.
So if this doesn't prove who I am, then I'll answer your question about were I grew up. I actually lived in two different places during these years, Alhambra and South Pasadena. Oh and another thing don't any of you guys ever call me Charlies Osterday. We all know Osterday and I don't think you guys would ever want someone to say that you him. LOL.
Are we good now?
Trust me, I wasn't pumped that you spanked all of our asses that year at Ponca, but dam, you did. I had the #1 plate and you were the last one that I wanted to win, but you killed it that year and I had nothing for you. But no one did, so what can I say. I know I was the biggest dick ever back then, but like I said I've grown up a lot.
How about when you guys (Kawasaki) protested Bruce's, Rick's and my stock bikes that year at Ponca and then Rudy (Suzuki) protested every Kawasaki that crossed the finish line in the final. I was just looking at a picture at my Mom's house with all those bike in that fenced in area. What sucked about all this, was this was were all of us were when Bruce, Rick and Kyle were killed. That day was the worst day of my life.
You want to hear some funny shit? Jimmy Button married my wife sister, so now me and Jimmy are "Brothers". Now how is that? Funny yea?? Jimmy is actually a really cool guy and I get to talk MX at Christmas, Thanksgiving and all the holidays.
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