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I’ll keep riding until I can’t anymore…but by the time I’m in my 60’s-70’s I’m not sure if combustion dirtbikes will be a thing anymore, EV Bikes will the common thing. and I’m not sure if that would be as fun to me at that point.
I’ll probably just be the old guy at the track clinging on to my 2022 yz250f that will have been rebuilt 15 times , complaining how the old days used to be!!
Do you clean boots?
My own yea,
66 here. Race Moto approx 15-20 weekends per year. Several years back was thinking about quitting, hucking those 70-90’ booters to be competitive was definitely not in my plans. But then I got introduced to Vintage MX and was the best thing I’ve ever done. Super fun and very competitive ,but a little bit safer for old bodies , but still get to line up against guys like Trampas Parker, Trey Jorski, Tom Benolkin ,Joe Gretchen , Denny Schwartz and a bunch of other fast dudes and Legends from my era . Also was lucky enough to win both the AHRMA and AMA National Championships in 2024 , so there’s that😁 !!! Planning on sticking around till I hit the +70 class
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No one has found a way to stop the future from coming! So inpreperation I now have a E-Pure Trials bike and also a Dust EV Bike do to arrive next year some time. I've ridden a Stark and it was quite nice, just to heavy!!
That Husky is bad ass !
Yeah VMX was my salvation for a couple decades too. Right up through the Marty Tripes 100CC Vintage Revenge period that sadly petered out maybe 2014-15. SoCal VMX is just a hollow shell now with very limited participation on weekly/monthly basis. My last attempt racing was 2017 at the Scott Burnworth (RIP) SoCal Vintage MX Classic. We moved to CO July 4th weekend 2017 and the few VMX races that used to be held here died shortly after 😞 Luckily we do have plentiful forest, state parks, and open space riding areas available when the weather and aging body cooperate at the same time 🤕
41, been at it almost 35 years.
There is a growing list of reasons to stop, all of which fall away the minute I click the bike into gear.
I wouldn't count on EV motorcycles being more than a fringe passing fancy for just the early adopters of every new technology. For us purists that grew up riding in the 1960's and 70's Stark type rides aren't even on the radar. What we had was special... but dying as us old guys age out. Technology will be the death of riding, not the salvation.
Luckily AHRMA VMX is alive ,growing and kicking ass in our Mid Atlantic region. We have an 11 round series and routinely pull 200+ entries and a couple of them clock in at over 300 . The NorthEast region also has a very active series as does the SouthEast and South Central , It does seem that most of our competitors at the Nationals are based East of the Mississippi , not sure why the West is flatlining, could be because of the greater distances needed to drive to events , all 11 of our Regional MX race venues are located within 4-5 hours from us (Pittsburgh) and we can typically hit 5 Nationals within a 10 hour drive . The Western guys schedules don't appear to be that accessible .
Thanks Vet -- that one is my 74 that I won my Championships on. It is a very cool piece. I have a matching 82 that I run in the PV +60 Expert as well
66 here and still going at it 2x a week.Decided to hang up the MX gloves and stick with off-road. When I grow up I’m going to buy a street bike and maybe a SXS!
In 2000 I turned 28 and quit because I thought I was too old and it was time to grow up. I came back from Iraq in 2004 with a new appreciation for how short and precious life can be, and questioned why I had ever bought into that bullshit mentality. (Which is sort of poetic, since "scrambles" really took off when WWII vets came back and needed an outlet). So I bought another bike and got back to racing in the +30 class, and it turned out to be WAY more fun than I had ever had in my "prime." Pretty soon I found myself looking forward to +40 class. Then I found myself looking forward to +50 class. And at 53, I have every intention of keeping at it into the +60 class. I added vintage in about 10 years ago, and at some point will probably transition to just vintage and maybe a modern 125. Thanks to my military relocations, I was fortunate to race all across the country, and now I'm on a bit of a scavenger hunt to hit cool events and hopefully add a few more states to my resume.
Time will tell, but I'm never putting an arbitrary end date on motocross again. With any luck I'll be out there at 77 still racing the 89 YZ 125 that I have now, which is exactly like the one raced when I was 17!!
I sold my last motocross bike including the vintage 87 KX250 I had. Only have a KTM dual sport right now, not a huge desire to dip my toes back into moto, honestly too busy. Still actively follow the sport and watch all the races.
btw Ceet can still make those custom seat covers they offfered back in the day. I had them make one for my '07 KX250 restoration a few years ago
Oh wow!!! That’s great to know, thanks!
I'm 68, fat and slow. I don't have a boat, Harley, snowboard, jet ski, classic car or a side chick so it's moto till I can't. I don't see an end in sight. I ride with a friend that is 64 and an incomplete quadriplegic. He was injured at an amateur San Diego SX. He leans his KTM 350 on a tree or fence, has a Rekluse and a left hand rear brake. Shuffles on a walker. I have to help him on and off the bike like my kids when they were small. Unload and load his bike. I can't quit until he does and he doesn't ever mention it.
63 and ride at least once a week, sometimes more with about 6-8 races a year.. Although my speed is average at best - I still love it. I also bought a 83 RM 250 and will start doing some vintage racing next year. Goal is to ride till about 70 and see how I feel.
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okay I now need to see the 82 CR, that was a very god bike in 82
Turned 69 in October. Been riding since the mid 1960s. Been through the 4 stroke era in the 60s then the 2 stroke era in the 70s to the water cooled single shock of the 80s and back to the 4 strokes of the 2000s. It's been a fantastic ride. Blew my knee out in 1982. Never fully got my range of motion back but still kept riding. Had it finally replaced in 2016. I had so much scare tissue that I couldn't even get what range of motion I had before back in it. I can only bend it just past 90 degrees. I can still ride but have to be careful on left turns not to dab it.
I retired 3 1/2 years ago and moved from Huntington Beach, Ca to Perry, Ga. Not much riding here but there are a couple tracks within an hour. I just don't like how tracks have to have big jumps. I can still ride pretty good but don't have confidence and commitment it takes to jump all the jumps. So this summer I bought 3 acres of land and I'm working a small track the way I want it. Hopefully at some point I will have a shop and house built on it but for now at least I have a place where I can ride any time I want and change the track any way I want. My current bikes are a 21012 KTM SXF 350 and a 1973 CZ 250. Hopefully now that I have a place to ride I can get more comfortable on the CZ and race some AHRMA races next year. At least that's the plan. Just had my property cleared. This shot was a week a couple weeks ago. The first day I put wheels on the ground there.
On the issue of age, I rode a AHRMA race the end of 2024 at Barber Motorsports track (great facility by the way). I met a guy that parked next to me named Henry Gref. He was 83 and he and his son Jay rode a CZ and early 2000 Honda CR250. In practice Henry blew by me and I tried to keep up but couldn't. After practice I went and talked to him and got his story. It was an amazing story. I guess Henry is a legend around AHRMA. He knows all there is to know about CZs. I left there with inspiration that hopefully I can ride as long as he has.
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Correct-- Henry IS a legend . He has many, many great stories to tell about his early life back in CZ land being a Factory racer AND mechanic. Its widely known in the Vintage world, that if you want the strongest ,fastest Chay-Zed , its gotta be a Henry Gref -built one. Great guy !!!
I quit from my mid 20s to my mid 30s after riding from age 4 and while at the time it seemed smart, I now know it was just wasted time. Thinking I was giving up something to improve another area of my life didn't work. I tried to get my kids into racing, they didn't love it, so I never pushed them harder, but my love stayed and now I am riding tracks 2x a week again, my health is better both mentally and physically, and my joy is back. I've met friends and community again. My dad never quit riding and now when we see each other for visits we ride again together.
There are just too many benefits to riding that I'll never stop again out of my own volition.
I never quit and I started in 1976. 66 now. I live behind a world class training facility that my wife contracts out her services too. I have my own track right behind my house and my own trails as well as the facilities tracks if I want to ride there(which I don't much lately). My wife, and I still race. Sometimes when I go north I can get my youngest ( He lives up there) to race an event or two every year. I don't know anything else, I have no hobbies. I have modern bikes and vintage bikes and like the vintage scene the most up in the Mid-Atlantic area. Down south that type of participation doesn't exhist. Too be honest, the Northeast has many, many more vintage and older modern riders than anywhere else that I have found. The South is somewhat dead compared to the Northeast unless I head to Florida to the Sunshine State series. Lots of good guys there.
I'll probably ride till I'm dead. I don't really have anything else I do besides raising livestock and working to pass the time. I like my newest YZ 125 more than all my other bikes, but still sometimes race my 450. The 125 is just the perfect bike for me except for the starts. It's kind of dangerous with 450's on the line to be honest. But after that, its so cool to race
Awesome bike!
62 and no plans to stop. You can time me with a sun dial now but I don't care. Got into vintage racing in 90's and love it. Took my brother to track when he was very close to the end and the smile on his face just being at the track around friends said it all. He said "Bro, ride and enjoy every minute you can cause the clock is ticking" Really wish he could have done one last lap but was just to ill and weak to do it.
Till death do us part.. come spring it will be 50 years of riding.
that's so trick !
61 years young for me and I have every intention of using every last bit of life the good Lord has blessed me with and to continue enjoying this sport for as long as my balance, vision, strength & dexterity allow me to continue riding without endangering others.
When its all said and done and they put me in the ground I hope I've used up all 9 of my lives....used up every last "close call".....every last jolt of adrenaline.....and to give my guardian angel a very much deserved and hard earned break from the full time job he has had trying to keep me in one piece.
Its a little embarrassing and some may think it's outright corny but hopefully a few others might enjoy this short moto video I put together about living life to its fullest.
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