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Now that is awesome!! Very interesting. Great memories. Too bad you couldn't ride Waterboro. That was one hell of a track!! Thank You for sharing
I lived a few miles from the Ossipee track. Loved that place. That looks like Joe Collins standing off to the side of team south..
I believe there were also NESC match races against the Canadiens in the 70s, maybe even earlier.
Nice Camino, was that a big block standard?
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I begged my parents for a Z50 cause all the cool kids on the block had them. Parents hated the idea of me doing anything other than school and playing a musical instrument like piano. My grades weren't ever great so they made me a deal if I got no less than B avg for a solid year they would get the Z50. I barely accomplished it and got the Mini Trail. 1 year later they bought my younger brother a Yamaha Mini Enduro 60 that he never asked for or cared about. Just to piss me off I suppose. He only wanted to surf, and I ended up riding the Mini more than him.
Anybody remember these?
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How did i miss that??? 🤔
Mine came from Yamaha of Doraville. I remember the square edge on the crank chipping the skin off my ankle a lot. Still have the scars. Also remember the left crank arm having a little play in it. I remember how heavy they were. I had the less common orange colored moto-bike. I was about 8 years old and somehow managed to break the frame right at the neck.
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Just tell 'em, "I still got a washboard... there's just a little laundry on top of it, that's all". 😁
Yeah, that was my memory of the weather too. It was brutally hot and Florida humid. Got to everyone that day.
Yep, that's Joe. He was one of our loaner riders to even out the numbers that day.
Ossipee was a really fun track. I remember the uphill section that was almost straight up and was a 1st gear climb out of a tight turn and then the downhill that lead to the sandwash with Millville style sand rollers. We had a free day to test and tune before Sunday's race out there so we all got in quite a bit of time riding the track. It was actually cold that weekend (end of June) which surprised us all and then a few days later at Southwick it was around 100 and humid😳
Excellent form even on a BMX bike.👍
No worries, I’ve done the same many times.😎
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That's funny. I wanted a Z50 (KO) first year 1968 when they came out. Like the Sting Ray I never got, I didn't get a Z50 either. There again 40 plus years later I got one. Paid way too much for it off eBay. Restored it and then sold it right before I retired. As usual I should have kept it. I wish I could of kept a lot of stuff.
Nice job on the resto! Shame on you for letting that little jewel go!🤦♂️
My younger brother & I were BMX crazy too in the 70’s! Not the best shot (what ya expect when your 12 year old brother uses mom’s instamatic to document our 70’s awesomeness!) but this was me launching my freshly purchased 1978 Mongoose (with my first job $$$!) in the folks backyard! We’d race down the sidewalk beside the house into the yard and launch Evel Knievel style off a set of Dad’s construction saw horses & walkboards onto the homemade plywood pingpong table Dear ol’ Dad made for us as a landing ramp!
Man those were the BEST of times! 😎 👍❗️
My younger brother (RIP Lil’ Bud! 🥹) in the folks backyard on his 1971 (2?) Honda 50!
The folks bought it for us when we were 5 & 7, and Dad told us WHEN we could start it without assistance, we could ride it!
He demonstrated the starting drill once & left us to it…my brother & I crawled that thing like a couple of monkey’s on a football until we figured it out & could start it on our own!
We wore the ground down to bare dirt riding tanks of gas out of it in the same backyard!
The 70’s were a magical time! 😎 👍❗️
Here is a pic of me in a nesc 100 cc novice class race at Pepperell, MA. in 78'
Then a little later that year at Southwick in the 100 cc Amatuer class.
I think you had to have a zero in front of your number or the letter j after your number in the 100 cc novice and amatuer class in nesc back in the late 70's.
Yes my first number was 085 but when I turned expert it changed to 85. In 125/250/ open I ran #115. I aways ran a 250 in the open class.
A friend got one just like this. I wasn't sure what to say when he asked if I wanted to ride it -- a motorcycle? I don't know how to ride a motorcycle.
About 18 months later I hectored my parents into letting me get my own Z50 (blue) with my paper route money, and that started some 50 years of motorcycling for me.
I’m right there with ya wwdiii!
Born & raised right here in the land 0’ the Redneck, & have spent every day of my 60 years here!
59th & Douglas was my where my brother & I did the vast majority of our racing!
I am crazy thankful that my son got to ride/race there too & it was our weekly jam until the day it closed in 2006!
Tinker AFB declined to renew the lease after a maintenance hanger was built on the EAST side of Douglas Blvd & they felt the track was too close to the B1’s & other kick-ass USAF aircraft that were in for overhaul!
The day 59th & Douglass closed was a HUGE loss to Okla Moto & I miss that track to this DAY!
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Kurt - what model is the Yamaha?
And way to pull the chicks early in life! 😄👍👏
Too funny, Mumbles same as me. Wanted the Schwinn stingray, but parents bought me a Sears Spyder. Wanted the Honda 50, but Dad found a used square tube Gratton "Hot Dog" (smaller engine than the "Hound Dog"). After begging for a 250 Maico at 15 (thanks to Dirt Bike magazine), we went to Al Fox in Burbank, CA to look at one... Dad decided what I really needed was an AJS Stormer (370cc!). Too much bike for this skinny teenager : ). I think he was secretly happy when I took a hiatus to be a SFV surfer. As most have stated, sure wish I had all of these bikes back!!!!
My dad told me the same thing. I would wait for my dad to get home to ride my 50. But after I figured out how to get’r fired it was on. I had 20 acres to ride on. Some of the best days of my life.
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