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5/5/2012 1:28pm
Hey guys this is my 10th year being involved in the sport and am trying to bring back all the memories i've experienced from movies/races since i was new. Obviously I have left out a ton of memorable moments and some of these were before '01 but these are some of the things that have really stuck in my head over the time I started so ill leave it to yall to fill in the blanks. Post em up guys and ill edit the list soon! 
I remember
Kids on the couch. Ricky, Pastrana, Bubba
Terrafirma videos
Elvis. (you gotta rev that sucker!)
The King
Harts first backflip in competition
The Bubba Scrub
Windham's return on the 450
Alessi family and “the Hype”
RC’s undefeated seasons
RC’s return on a Suzuki
The Nitro Circus
The muddy Anaheim opener in 2005
Jlaw and Villopoto fight
Stewart landing on RC
The GOAT retires
The double backflip
Canard and Villopoto St. Louis 08
Justin Barcia (Who the F…?) at Glen Helen 2009
Again??? Eli Tomac sweeping season opener 2010
Dungey’s perfect year
Canard’s upset over Pourcel at Pala
I remember
Kids on the couch. Ricky, Pastrana, Bubba
Terrafirma videos
Elvis. (you gotta rev that sucker!)
The King
Harts first backflip in competition
The Bubba Scrub
Windham's return on the 450
Alessi family and “the Hype”
RC’s undefeated seasons
RC’s return on a Suzuki
The Nitro Circus
The muddy Anaheim opener in 2005
Jlaw and Villopoto fight
Stewart landing on RC
The GOAT retires
The double backflip
Canard and Villopoto St. Louis 08
Justin Barcia (Who the F…?) at Glen Helen 2009
Again??? Eli Tomac sweeping season opener 2010
Dungey’s perfect year
Canard’s upset over Pourcel at Pala
Daytona SX goes under the lights
Villopoto whips the world on a 250f
Boycott in Vegas in 95...got married same day as race...
O'show riding his dads Harley Davidson Baja 100cc
Kenny Zhart and John Desoto battling at Lions Drag Strip
Metco Pentons at Wednesday Night Ascott Park MX
Maico riding Mcgoo puting the hurt on The Hurricane AMA National at Saddleback before his Maico shut down.
Tom Halverson, Tim losey and Johnny O starring at the Mugen
Answer founder Eddie Cole in his first shop working week ends making Bultaco swingarms
Jeff Ward and Brian Myerscough battling it out
Too Tall Mike Bell Bonking at Carlsbad
Mike Bell and John Tomac racing Mtn bikes on the Carlsbad mc track.... guess who won?
John Tomac's first MX race at Perris Raceway
Seeing Vegas K-Dub Kenny Watson get taken out while flagging at Indian Dunes
Rick Johnson race mtn bike downhill at Big Bear
Bevo Punking Bob Hannah
Mike Brown ripping it up on his Monarch.
Dave Osterman be quiet
Hopetown Mx
The Shop
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
Fortunately for me I was right there!
Dough Henry's epic leap
Seth Enslow's epic leap
The birth & death of the minibike craze
Jlaw beating Dungey to a title
Paul Malin's dominating Des Nations in 94
Malin vs Tortelli at Foxhills
Trials and Motocross News
Jon Barfoot drugs scandal
Random 30 min children's TV show on schoolboy mx, featuring Stephen Sword, Billy Mac and Glen Phillips.
Jeremy McGrath Showtime VHS (Expect he's praying that doesn't surface on youtube!)
haha. A few of those might be skewed towards the Brits who rode in the 90s!
What about ryno v Doug Henry fight
Emig winning the U. S. Open
Nate Ramsey winning a 450 main
Return of the USGP
Someone needs to dig up that TV show eh and upload the bugger! Stephen Sword's mum must have a copy haha
18 year old Rick Johnson dislocating his hip, right in front of me, at a make-shift St Louis National track.
There are so many epic memories of Foxhills. The Malin - Tortelli battle obviously, also the huge crash in 91, Schmit crashing while leading Albertyn and not being able to restart his bike in... '93?. One of my favourites was Nunn's ride after losing his girlfriend in a car crash the previous year. That was incredible.
Couple of mine...
Watching Dave Thorpe at Farliegh in the 80's along with a blazing fast kid called Robbie Herring.
Supercross VHS's of Broc Glover, Rick Johnson, Jeff Ward, David Bailey etc when SX seemed like it was from another planet.
A Fox catalogue featuring some tiny, ginger haired kid named Ricky Carmichael on a kx60 at Washougal.
Guy Cooper's finish line cross ups.
Kurt Nicolls gate malfunction at Hawkstone that cost him the '92 500cc world title.
1991 Foxhill GP - blew my mind
1994 MXdN
Images/advertisments featuring Robbie Reynard frickin' everywhere when he burst onto the US scene.
My expectations of Carl Nunn starting his pro racing career at 15.
Malin & Tortelli battle at Foxhill in 96
Townley/Everts battles in 2005
The Everts/Stewart face off at 2006 MXdN - and my shared disappointment with 60,000 others that Carmichael wouldn't be racing - but also the noise and appreciation the fans showed for RC when he was introduced up on the tower before the first race. Made me proud.
Villopoto Budds Creek 2007 MXdN - incredible... but infuriating at the same time.
Watching S.Pourcel put it to Stewart at the 2008 MXdN, albeit only for half the race. (btw I don't dislike stewart, he just sets the benchmark).
Pit Row
Motocross and Motocross "Lites" (Geez, when will Feld see how stupid this still is)
Stanton's steel will
Debating who had the smoothest riding style, Bailey, JMB, or Lechien (and no side ever winning, EVER)
Bob Hannah shocking my Marty Smith worshipping buddy (and just about every body else in attendance) by beating Smith at Red Bud at the 125 National (nobody really new who the hell he was yet). (76 or 77?)
Brad Lackey and Danny Laporte becoming the first Americans to win world titles.
Rick "The Lumberjack" Burgett winning the muddiest rainiest Red Bud National I can ever remember and Team Yamaha's squad sweeping all the titles that year (78?)
Watercooled bikes.
Unadilla Hill People doing what only the Unadilla hill people know how to do!
Watching tech inspection early one morning at the Unadilla GP and noticing a big scuff on Hannah's helmet (they weighed the bikes and evidently had to approve the helmets or something too) and later finding out that the scuff got there when Hannah was laying underneath a jacked up car that he was palying bumper cars with in a gravel pit and the car fell off the jack!
Watching/ listening to RC's Pro Circuit 125 go into overdrive as he came off the ski jump grabbed a gear and went straight up into the old apple orchard area when they used to do that at Red Bud
Watching Jeremy and Fro clicking up a gear and wheelying through the ruts at the bottom of the Red Bud ski jump hill and go up into the old apple orchard area
Watching RJ triple at Pontiac back before anybody did that stuff and then watching Guy Cooper doing it and whipping the bike for the crowd
Watching RJ stomp the field at the muddy 1987 Des Nations
Doug Henry's immortal leap
and his unbelievable comeback to win again
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