Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
Sure there is Windham, who we all know is amazing...but he had all the chances and opportunity to win a championship and just couldn't make it happen, Robbie to me was robbed of that chance due to 1. The worst luck I have ever seen anyone endure 2. Possibly not enough Milk as a kid ? I dunno, but the dude seemed to have a body made of glass ?!
I have not been a lifelong moto fan like a DC or some others in here. But If I can pick 3 rides that most stick out in my head in my short life as a fan of moto. Ricky's "broken visor SX ride to second", Ricky flipping down the hill at Glen Helen after pulling the holey, dont even know where he got back to, just know he was hauling ass !!! And RR's ride in moto 1 at Unadilla in 98...you could see he just seemed to hit every square inch of track he wanted to..I'm just glad I got to see that one in person !!!
The Shop
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
A Story:
Robbie used to go to the line on his KX80 with his boots unbuckled... the gate would drop, everyone would take off, and Robbie would start buckling his boots up while his dad revved his bike.
Robbie would generally be in the lead by the second lap and checking out.
This was at the legendary Motorcycle Raceways, the winter track on the hill.
As a side note, I also raced Nascar's Clint Bowyer on that track every week.
Terrafirma 3 | Robbie Reynard from FoxHeadInc on Vimeo.
but I would put my money on JSR all day long if I was looking a solid season out of my rider.
Pitty he did not get the factory ride he deserved in 98 when he was the top privateer in the preimer class (not the development class)
Ow I forgot there was this guy named Damon Huffman who also beat RC hands down at Troy in 97 (both motos).
Came to the great white north for two seasons as a team mate with the same bikes as JSR and could not beat him.
Have a good day..
A high point of kevin's motocross career came in 1999. Kevin decided to race the USGP being held at Budd's Creek, MD only three days prior to the event. European Champion and motocross hero over seas Stefan Everts made a comment concerning the top US racers deciding not to race the GP, rather to focus on the US races and the time off the week end allowed. Everts said he thought the US racers were being cowards. This angered Kevin Windham greatly. Stefan Everts at the time was one of the toughest racers to beat. Kevin went on to dominate the race and left no doubt that Everts had nothing for him on that day. This race was very emotional for Kevin and it took years for Kevin to finally say he was okay with Stefan Everts. Kevin put the motorcycle he won that race on his trophy room, suspended from the ceiling.
Have a Good day,
BMan-
Robbie is one hardcore mofo!
Few facts...
No1 Everts was the World Champion...not European.
No2 The season was over in the US
No 3 Everts won the first moto, Windham won moto two... they tied on points.. Kevin did not dominate the race.. Everts beat him the next weekend in Brazil at the MXDN.
RRsis - good point about how much practice and effort it takes to ride like Robbie .. thats why I like watching Pourcel, Everts, Reynard, Windham, Ramon... it is so hard to ride that fast that perfectly...
A couple of questions:
Did RR race RC much when they were amateurs on 60's, 80's and 125's?
I am a big fan of an Australian legend called Craig Anderson (Chad Reed's cousin, who raced in the US a couple of seasons in 03, 04). He was/is extremely talented, with a stand up style, much like RR. Am I right in saying that he beat both RC and RR at Loretta Lynns in 1992? Does anyone remember this or was there?
MX4evr simply quoted what Wipedia spells out... read it...
It says that K.W. ..."dominated it" I remember the results the same way... sorry... The U.S. wasn't even there in Brazil at the MXDN... No comparison to topic...
BMan-
The same Damon Huffman that came to Canada on the Blackfoot team for two solid seasons. And JSR ( the King ) defeated him both years on the same bikes. They even let Damon ride the 450 and JSR was on the two stroke 250.
Same result JSR champion.
If JSR had that US factory ride he would have been the first Canadian to win a AMA championship after RC hung it up.
Pit Row
AMA 125 West Supercross Championship in 1996 and 1997,
2005 Motocross des Nations team championship
2nd in points for the 2008 supercross season.
1999 winner of the United States Grand Prix of Motocross held at Budd's Creek, MD
Don't count KW so short.
No, they were seperated by age by a few years and never raced in the same classes at the amateur level.
Am I right in saying that he (Anderson) beat both RC and RR at Loretta Lynns in 1992? Does anyone remember this or was there?
Hattica might be able to clarify this, but I'm 99% certain Robbie raced the Schoolboy classes in 1992 and won 6 of 6 motos (stk and mod). Matter of fact, in one of the Schoolboy motos, RR crashed BIG in the first corner. Asshole over bellybutton, you could say. It was gnarly he even got up after it. He dropped the hammer and took off after the pack (that was by now half track ahead of him). A lap later he had the lead and was running away with it. He won by well over a minute. A month later he was in Acapulco Mexico rubbing elbows and "trading paint" with Jeff Matiasavech at the 1st and only Acapulco SX by Fox and damn near won it had Matiasavech not used RR for a berm every chance he got.....and if RR had weighed more than 120 lbs.
Still waiting for that full story to get written.
The legend of Robbie Reynard (and lest we forget Robert, Liz, and Cherie too) will live on in the moto community like that of Doug Henry, McGrath, RC, Everts, Windham, Bradshaw, Lechien, Bailey, and many many more great examples of personalities and legends that makes this sport great.
John Craft photo.
Photo by me.
Anyway, Reynard is bad ass. No doubt. Carmichael had his crashes just youtube it, but somehow he stayed alive and won a hell of a lot of titles. It's just the way it goes... Look at Ezra Lusk stats and see how many SX titles and wins might have been subtracted from McGrath if not for injuries/crashes for Ezra... but it is what it is.
JSR winning in the US, no way...
Oh yea, Stewart will be back.
He did a little better when he moved up to a 250.
DC
MX Sports
I love this picture.....very fitting.
Reynard is a bad ass plain and simple, anyone that can't see that isn't looking at reality.
I remember John emailing it to me after he'd taken it.
And Cherie, very good post.
**AND FOR ALL OF YOU REYNARD SUPPORTERS...
ROBBIE OWNS HIS OWN TRACK NOW IN OKLAHOMA AND YOU ALL NEED TO COME OUT AND GIVE IT A TRY IF YOU ARE IN THE AREA.. IT IS CALLED REYNARD RACEWAY***
There are two other rides I put in this class in my mind. One was the Ronnie Lechien ride at Southwick the day after he flew in from a Prom and didn't practice and absolutely demolished them in the first moto. I don't think he made the call for the second moto. The other was a Bradshaw ride also at Southwick, where Damon worked over Stanton who was so dominant at the time. His aggression and speed that day were unreal.
These three rides are all vivid in my mind to this day, more impressive to me than any RC, Stewart or MC ride I've seen, and that's saying a lot.
Post a reply to: How good was Robbie Reynard...