What Genaration of Mx are you??

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motomike137 2/15/2011 11:45am
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#1
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Hakan Anderson was world Champ, and I had the first XR-75, soon to be replaced with a Noguchi YZ80A.
Oh yeah, I also swung on a Harley 90 sidecar a few times.
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imo...Hannah had his best year in 76...
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From #1 forward. First race bike was the unanimously praised Suzy TM 100-1974 vintage. 14 horses, or so they claimed. I can't imagine riding one of those now....unless of course I had my Boge shocks on it. Or were they Konis? Too long ago, man, too long.

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#1 and on through the rest...
Had Honda mini trail 70 first and then a nice 80cc 1972 Hodaka tora..
First race bike was a 74 125 elsinore, with Bilstein shocks...
Holy cow some of us are getting old..
neverwasfastenuf 2/15/2011 12:41pm
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Got into dirtbikes a little before category 1. Attended Inter AMA race in 1976. Haven't been able to or tried to kick the addiction every since.
xnationalwrench 2/15/2011 12:42pm
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Way before any of that, I was at Spencer Park (out by Brea, Ca) back in the day were it was called "Rough Scrambles". Several years later at the 1st Mx race at Saddleback.
timetoridecycles 2/15/2011 12:48pm
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Started at Johnson era and got hooked with Bradshaw and Stanton .
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TeamGreen 2/15/2011 12:54pm
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Me?

I'm the Bailey-Robert-Karsmakers-DeCoster-Lackey-Zahrt-Rahier-Bailey-Smith-Flyin'-Freckle-Howerton-Hannah-MAGOO-O'SHow-Gibson-Bell-Bailey-Hansen-Johnson-Cooper-Stanton-Mac-Jeffro-Dub-Rock'o-R.C.-Reedy-Bubba-RD5-RV2-Trey Generation.

Why? Do you have a question or something?
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I think the OP left out a number on the generation scale. There should be a......

#8-The whines and bitches generation that has no respect for any of the riders.
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Joel Robert on a CZ, Torston Hallman on a Husky, and this bike was the stuff.






Anyone remember Pepperell?
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#6 or right before that...

"CHICKEN"!!
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Nearly every weekend since 67,
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#2 That's when I was racing (between 77 and 83). Lost touch with it until about 5 years ago, so my second generation is
#7. I don't race now, but still love the sport more than any other. Always will.

My time as a racer when I was young were the best memories I have of spending lots of time with my now departed father.
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The 90s,

Donny Schmit era then Everts/Albee, Everts/Bervoets, Everts/Tortelli
Chiodi on 125s
Emig/McGrath in the US RC/ Lammy on the 125s ( also tapes of the Bayle/Stanton/Bradshaw era)
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motogrady wrote:
Joel Robert on a CZ, Torston Hallman on a Husky, and this bike was the stuff. [img]http://southwestmontesa.com/images/gal_53m.jpg[/img] Anyone remember Pepperell?
Joel Robert on a CZ, Torston Hallman on a Husky, and this bike was the stuff.






Anyone remember Pepperell?
Pepperell Mass? You bet, Barry Higgen and Sonny Defeo. Remember the Ghost CZ's ?

I'm a pre 1 through 2 (very heavy) then picked up again a #6 and never looked back.

First pro race I attended was an Inter AM in '71. Bad Brad was a skinny, long haired kid on a CZ.

Williamson425 2/15/2011 3:39pm
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Ive been fasinated with dirt bikes since I saw a race on ABC wide world of sports around 1980 or so. I still am today.

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This is around when I got big into the sport.

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Tim "Beau" Hall.
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Before 1.

1970. Attended first Pro race at Unadilla in 72.
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Heikki Mikkola, I had to stand before my class in 5th grade and try to explain what kind of effort someone put into their career. I always liked motorcycles and Mikkola was the world champ.. so that is what i picked to talk about.. I am 52 but I have been addicted to mx every since
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slowvet 2/15/2011 4:39pm
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#1. I would go to the Rexall drugstore and live at the magazine rack.
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motogrady wrote:
Joel Robert on a CZ, Torston Hallman on a Husky, and this bike was the stuff. [img]http://southwestmontesa.com/images/gal_53m.jpg[/img] Anyone remember Pepperell?
Joel Robert on a CZ, Torston Hallman on a Husky, and this bike was the stuff.






Anyone remember Pepperell?
JPT wrote:
Pepperell Mass? You bet, Barry Higgen and Sonny Defeo. Remember the Ghost CZ's ? I'm a pre 1 through 2 (very heavy) then picked up again...
Pepperell Mass? You bet, Barry Higgen and Sonny Defeo. Remember the Ghost CZ's ?

I'm a pre 1 through 2 (very heavy) then picked up again a #6 and never looked back.

First pro race I attended was an Inter AM in '71. Bad Brad was a skinny, long haired kid on a CZ.

Yep.

Now thats a heck of a ticket collection guy.

I'm sure you remember The Flying Hawiian, The Jammer, doves on crossbars, and the GP's, well, they were everything.
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Wolfman wrote:
All I have to say is American Cavalcade was the shit.
Laughing Remember when paul page was announcing a cmc race on that show and he kept referring Bader Manneh as RADER Manneh. I still laugh when I think about it.


Generation 2-7
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#3...BigRed vs Yamaha vs Barny and Wardy...
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I'm a 6, but I didn't get to start riding until 2001. Before that my family was kind of broke so I never got the bike I wished for as a kid.
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what ever year "Winners Takes All" came out. i was hooked since..
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smacker 2/15/2011 7:06pm
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pre # 1 pepperell , middleboro and hooked since
" way of life "
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Bill_Carroll 2/15/2011 7:11pm
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As said “What generation of mx did you really begin to take notice and start following the sport.”

I would be a one. BMX before that. Yeah thats right ,on a Takara bike

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