The 70’s

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Launching the Kawi BMXer off our back porch
Lycoming2
My bro at Lycoming in PA
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Also Lycoming, just a little less muddy
Roband JeffMoto
My bro and I 
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My parents bought one just like this for 3 of us to share. Poor thing got destroyed
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The start of it all in my family
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Throwing this in there for everyone that says that ScrewU is the big downhill/uphill and NOT what is now called Gravity Cavity. 

 

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mumbles wrote:
I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

1976 Roger DeCoster Standard

I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

That is a classic 70’s BMX’r !😎

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Shredder wrote:
  

 

RetroAirBungaBMX.jpg?VersionId=itDwefxY
Launching the Kawi BMXer off our back porch
Lycoming2
My bro at Lycoming in PA
Lycoming1.jpg?VersionId=lHcOS1zBjS4mHfXZm
Also Lycoming, just a little less muddy
Roband JeffMoto
My bro and I 
SMV.jpg?VersionId=jGTDRNdZKY
My parents bought one just like this for 3 of us to share. Poor thing got destroyed
Ruppster.jpg?VersionId=FoNlw
The start of it all in my family
ScrewU.jpg?VersionId=ha1uxPjxzNds QdICLmR.nwagfYdvE
Throwing this in there for everyone that says that ScrewU is the big downhill/uphill and NOT what is now called Gravity Cavity. 

 

Great pics! I had a red SL 70 too!

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Evel stayed at the Radisson Hotel near my house a lot. I rode my bike down there and hung out in the lobby and met him...


Evel stayed at the Radisson Hotel near my house a lot. I rode my bike down there and hung out in the lobby and met him when I was about 10 years old.   

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He was one of my heroes growing up. 

I wonder how many of us had the 'Cycle Jumpers' book with Evel and Gary Wells...?

Incredibly, I still have it. Cover is missing, but here it is in all it's glory.

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1973 Hodaka Combat Wombat, my first "real" dirt bike:

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Dad and me washing the bikes after a trail ride, his was a Honda SL125:

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After a ride, open face, rubber boots, jeans and a flannel shirt jacket...that's pretty old school (International Scout, my school driver):

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DJS721 wrote:
1973 Hodaka Combat Wombat, my first "real" dirt bike:Dad and me washing the bikes after a trail ride, his was a Honda SL125:After a ride, open...

1973 Hodaka Combat Wombat, my first "real" dirt bike:

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Dad and me washing the bikes after a trail ride, his was a Honda SL125:

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After a ride, open face, rubber boots, jeans and a flannel shirt jacket...that's pretty old school (International Scout, my school driver):

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Thanks for sharing those DJ.

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mumbles wrote:
I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

1976 Roger DeCoster Standard

I always wanted to find one of these late 70s DeCoster BMX bikes. Hard to find a good one and they are pricey. 

When those Mag wheels came out and we found out they were guaranteed for life we had to have them. We put them on and rode down to the grocery store loading docks . They dropped off about 6 feet onto concrete and it took us about an hour to break those Mag wheels. We took them back and got some new ones!

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When those Mag wheels came out and we found out they were guaranteed for life we had to have them. We put them on and rode...

When those Mag wheels came out and we found out they were guaranteed for life we had to have them. We put them on and rode down to the grocery store loading docks . They dropped off about 6 feet onto concrete and it took us about an hour to break those Mag wheels. We took them back and got some new ones!

Didn’t Pierre have a house in Mission Viejo at one point?

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This bike has all the parts from my Stingray bmx’er swapped over to the Webco frame I got for Christmas.  I remember these tuff wheels flexed way too much. Looking at this pic I can remember how it felt  

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Built this bike from a banana seat bike.  Before there were available BMX bikes!

 

bmx old

 

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Stay in line!  

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Really cool pic. Back then you removed the lights and maybe put on some  knobbies and number plates and loaded her up!😎

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At the End of the 70’s

By the end of the 70’s I had finally gotten a good camera and lenses to take motocross pictures.  A Canon AE-1 with a 135 telephoto is what I took to the races with me.  In Montana the beginners, intermediates, and mini bike classes ran in the morning and the experts raced in the afternoon for money.  I was an intermediate at that time so I would race in the morning, get cleaned up, changed, and then grab the camera and take shots of the “Spurts”. The files names of the following pictures, (scanned from slides), will tell the date and locations in Montana.

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My new 79 CR125R just after putting it together from the crate.  I never mounted the stock side panels, I had to have the D&G FIM legal side panel number plates from the start.
1979 03 17 Corvallis Practice 02
Pre-season practice in Corvallis MT.  Nice warm weather on Saturday March 17th that year.  We drove ~160 miles down from Kalispell MT to practice at the best track in the state that day.
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And of course for the first race of the year the weather was crap.  I had loaded my bike the day before at my mom’s house and woke up to find this. Look at that long ass truck bed, ah, the good old days!
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At the first race of the 1979 Montana MX season in Ronan.
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Reese95w wrote:
At the End of the 70’sBy the end of the 70’s I had finally gotten a good camera and lenses to take motocross pictures.  A Canon...

At the End of the 70’s

By the end of the 70’s I had finally gotten a good camera and lenses to take motocross pictures.  A Canon AE-1 with a 135 telephoto is what I took to the races with me.  In Montana the beginners, intermediates, and mini bike classes ran in the morning and the experts raced in the afternoon for money.  I was an intermediate at that time so I would race in the morning, get cleaned up, changed, and then grab the camera and take shots of the “Spurts”. The files names of the following pictures, (scanned from slides), will tell the date and locations in Montana.

1979 03 01 Kalispell.jpg?VersionId=BHgwW
My new 79 CR125R just after putting it together from the crate.  I never mounted the stock side panels, I had to have the D&G FIM legal side panel number plates from the start.
1979 03 17 Corvallis Practice 02
Pre-season practice in Corvallis MT.  Nice warm weather on Saturday March 17th that year.  We drove ~160 miles down from Kalispell MT to practice at the best track in the state that day.
1979 04 01 Ronan 01 0.jpg?VersionId=FjhwYn5VbG92nd981likNd ki2
And of course for the first race of the year the weather was crap.  I had loaded my bike the day before at my mom’s house and woke up to find this. Look at that long ass truck bed, ah, the good old days!
1979 04 01 Ronan 02.jpg?VersionId=4o9Gro1NsuQkBbnpAAE
At the first race of the 1979 Montana MX season in Ronan.
1979 04 22 Butte 05.jpg?VersionId=sXvPz2EcNEyFkli.0H91979 05 06 Missoula 031979 06 03 Billings 01A1979 06 24 Livingston 25.jpg?VersionId=AS5g11SsFabmFFXWOaxf1979 06 24 Livingston 041979 07 08 White Sulphur 18 0.jpg?VersionId=zK8.U1979 07 15 Dillon 061979 08 12 Corvallis 03.jpg?VersionId=qINN5H

Awesome pictures Reese!🏁😎

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Awesome pictures Reese!🏁😎

 I would agree. That CR 125 looks amazing.

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DG hat, hush puppies, aviator glasses and some body english

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Kenny Banyan 1971 first year racing.

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G-man wrote:

WoW you were the man back then, Kenny!

I begged my pops for a Honda 50. He would not give in to my requests...... 😬😥

My dad bought that mini trail for 160 dollars brand new, he got an extra $15 off ,cause it had a small tear in the seat...

My dad bought that mini trail for 160 dollars brand new, he got an extra $15 off ,cause it had a small tear in the seat. A few days later, my older sister told kids at school, a neighbor kid (Donnie) overheard, that lived about a 1/2 mile away, he  had a Briggs & Stratton mini bike and said he would smoke me. So a couple days later my sister told my dad. So my dad asked me if I wanted to race him, of course I said yes. So it got arranged and the kid came over with his mini. When he saw my 50 he said…… “That’s a motorcycle!!!” Anyway we went across the street in a pasture and had a race. I had only been riding for a few days. But my dad coached me up and I smoked him. Bout 2 months later he had a mini trail 50 too. Then several other neighbor kids got them and man did we have a blast. Donnie was over all the time , but he was a few years older than me , got interested in girls and quit coming around, eventually it ran its course but I kept riding. Eventually we moved.Sure was fun while it lasted.

Excellent story! Interestingly, I had a Rupp minibike with a 5 HP lawnmower engine. I used to beat a kid who lived on my block and had a Honda 50. I think my dad may have added a tooth or two to the rear sprocket of the Rupp 😎

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Back in the 70’s a half pipe was a half pipe. Transitions weren’t invented yet 🤣. The ramp got twice as wide before the cops made us take it down because of the noise. All you had to do was donate wood to ride , construction sites didn’t like us. We weren’t getting air , but the Dog Town Boys were , I happened to be at school that day 😢

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Rawly wrote:
Back in the 70’s a half pipe was a half pipe. Transitions weren’t invented yet 🤣. The ramp got twice as wide before the cops made...

Back in the 70’s a half pipe was a half pipe. Transitions weren’t invented yet 🤣. The ramp got twice as wide before the cops made us take it down because of the noise. All you had to do was donate wood to ride , construction sites didn’t like us. We weren’t getting air , but the Dog Town Boys were , I happened to be at school that day 😢

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That’s cool. I like the ride admission too , great idea.👍🏻😎

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