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

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. 

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. 

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. 

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!

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.

I'd love to go back to the 70's and ride the original Rio Bravo Motocross Park in Houston, TX. I rode my first race ever there, and pretty much cut my teeth on it for almost ten years until I moved to the DFW area. Great...and tough track for those days. I watched a lot of Texas pros (Steve Stackable, Kent Howerton, Wyman Priddy...many more) there, and got to fanboy the factory team guys (US and Euro) when they got together at the Trans-AM & Trans-USA races held there. Good times & great memories! 

Do we have to ride period correct machines? Can they be works bikes from the time? 

No matter. If I could be 16 again and go back to my first race in Elkin NC, in 1977 on a used up '74 Yamaha MX 175,,, I'd be so happy. Even with the same results. 2 mechanical DNF's....

1. Southwick, with the frog pond included
2. Carlsbad
3. Kenworthy

The British Championship ran at a place called Barfield nr Bootle on the West coast of Cumbria. Was by far the best natural terrain track in the country.

Also got to spin a few laps around Saddleback and Indian Dunes in 1980, two great tracks, sadly gone.

I'll add Zaca Station to the list as I didn't think of it before I posted. Place was heaven on earth for moto. 

Indian Dunes

I only raced there one time, Trans Cal race in 1984. 

Over 40 years later I can still vividly recall every part of that track in my head. I was just in the 125 INT class, but felt like I was going so fast because the track was so incredible. But it must have been even more incredible for about 15 other guys in that class who beat me that day... 

Carlsbad. But I want my current KTM 4 stroke so I can finally hook up and get some drive on the afternoon hardpack.. 

The KX500s I was riding when I raced there made it virtually impossible to get any traction. 

L.A. Coliseum 

Your last sentence just cracked me up. 🤣

It resonated too.     The memories are what matters...getting spanked or taking a checker didn't really matter that much. 

BTW - I would only want to travel back in time if I could be in my age appropriate body for that era. 😁

X-Track in the eastern suburbs of Atlanta

ICR in Macon GA

Blue Ridge Motocross in North GA which I think was only open a few years in the early 00s.. massive up & downhill sections, primo dirt. 

I’d go have a day at Piru mx with a few of my buddy’s that are no longer with us

Lame nothing!!!!! That is about as real as it is ever going to get!!!!!

Been lucky enough to race Unadilla , which i know used to be impossible, but coming form the UK, it was doubly so. 

But one place that always made me go 'wow' back in early issues of Dirt Bike and MXA  was Sears Point.  Looked the best natural terrain and just grass to start.  Missed the chance to race Supermoto there back a few years.  

Without a doubt, Namur, The Citadel. How cool was that place?!!!!

I rode Saddleback as a kid. Some fond memories riding with my Dad in the hills and racing the short track on my 80 getting chased (and passed often) by Gary and Hank Scott.  Never rode Indian Dunes though. But given anywhere I would go with

1. Namur (just looks so unique and incredible) 
2. Unadilla (when it was grass in the morning)

3. Indian Dunes as it sounds even better than Saddleback with the variety. 

   Honorable mention goes to DeAnza. Where else could you ride some motos in the am and then go do some hill climbs right next to the freeway hahaha

Zaca station.  Moved to Ca. and at 6 months I got hurt and it took me out for a year.  Shortly after I returned to riding, Zaca closed and only going from what I hear from everyone in So Cal Indian Dunes was the place to be so yeah,  I'd like to spin some laps there as I have covered everything South of Glen Helen in my last 9 ish years here.  Good Times and looking forward to getting up to LACR once they re open.

Oops,  one other for sure as I was just a toddler peeking through the picket fence at the famous "New Orleans National" in Waggaman, La.

With a true Time machine at my disposal. I would go to this crappy little hidden track up in the hills above my house and ride and hang out with my buddies that are no longer with us. To sit on the tailgate of my 1980 Toyota pick and BS would be glorious!!!!