IF you had a time machine, what's the first track you would go ride?

mumbles
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ksithumper wrote:

Namur.

Namur number one for sure for me. I got to go to the 85 and 86 500GP there. Most unique track I have ever been too. I loved every minute of it. Brad Lackey said it was the scariest track he ever raced. But walking it all I could do was think how cool it would be to ride it. Not race it but ride it. Here are a few shots I took those two years. 

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Danny "Magoo" Chandler on a KTM in 85
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Hakan Carlqvist in 85
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Eric Geobers in 86
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George Jobe in 85
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Dave Thorpe in 85

 

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Andrea Malherbe in 85
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Famous tarmac by the cafe where Carlqvist stopped for the beer while leading.
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Dave Thorpe in 85. One of my favorite shots I took.
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The next year  (86) with Thorpe's big number one. My best shot.
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Eric Geobers in 86
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George Jobe coming out of the pits in 85

 

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Dave Thorpe in 86
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Thorpe in muddy mornng practice in 85

 

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Hakan Carlqvist in 85 maybe 86

 

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Steiny Part-2
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One hunered percent Indian Dunes. I would love to go back to 84 and rade any of the tracks, including the GP tracks. Just riding there was fun. I would also love to go back to 2010 and ride the Catalina GP, that looks fun. 

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This is a great topic. If I had to choose just one it would be Puyallup Raceway Park and the main reason being it would be cool to spin some laps on the track that my family started racing on. My uncles all raced there in the 70s and it would have been cool to be able to do the same. We do share the Washougal experience, but Puyallup was different. 

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mx317
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I have raced Unadilla at the 1984 USGP and it was awesome. I raced Lake Whitney and it was great. I raced Red Bud, but wish I could have raced it in the 80s before the rut-o-cross prep. I raced the Florida winter series tracks and on and on................

Carlsbad is the one I would make the trip from Tennessee to ride/race if it were still around. I went there once in 1995 when I went to the SX at Anaheim, but just got to look through the gate and the road around the track. I knew it wasn't long for the world when I saw all the industry going up around it. That's the one that I regret not getting to race because it had that magical something after watching the races on Wide World of Sports when I was a pup!

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As lame as it may sound  id probably go back to our local sand pit track on my 88 kx125 with my best friend ,miss those...

As lame as it may sound  id probably go back to our local sand pit track on my 88 kx125 with my best friend ,miss those days.

Know what? Much as I'd like to go ride some of those famous SoCal tracks, I'd give almost anything to spin one more lap on that crappy "track" on the vacant land that used to be behind our house with my little brothers.

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