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

Rode Carlsbad, and Saddleback back in the day. (Though 125's had a ride around on Banzai hill)

The old grass covered Unadilla would be the obvious choice. 

(My buddies and I always fantasized about a moto attack on the Carlton oaks golf course in Santee.)

Rio Bravo. Hands down. Escape Country is a close second. 

And, more so than Saddleback, Carlsbad, or Indian Dunes—which I also rode. 

I had mentioned Carlsbad in an earlier post because I never rode there. 

A local track I used to ride that is gone that I would love to ride again is Indian Creek MX in Cullman Alabama. Lots of memories from that track!

I'd heard that the owner had serious health issues and the track was a bucket list item. 

Nothing legendary...but I'd like to have another go at the old Boy Scout operated track at Longview TX.  Loved that place. 1975 or so.

Namur and I’m bringing the best photo and video guy I can find. 

Back when I was young and dumb, I always fantasized about sending out flyers anonymously for a race at our golf course here in town, staking out a track in the middle of the night and see what happened. 

Back in the 60’s a local guy parked a VW bug there in the middle of the night and covered it with aluminum foil. People thought a UFO landed there!

Some might say Namur, and it was indeed awesome. But personally, I’d want to go back to some of the little schoolboy tracks I raced in my first year. Nobody will know them, but they hold a lot of nice memories for me. 

2nd on Moiser Valley. Go back to ‘98 and finally nail the timing on the infield rhythm section. I got that thing right maybe once…

Sorry to hear that. They were very nice people. I think they had some wolf hybrids on the property that were really cute.

Wasn’t it simply called “The Ridge” sometimes? They had some uphill doubles that were so much fun.

Rio Bravo is still open and not much has changed. You could ride it any time.

I'm from the Houston area and there were a lot of great tracks at one time. Most have closed. I'd love to go back and ride some of them. 

Highlands MX in Crosby

Cowboy Badlands in Beaumont

Cornerstone MX on the NW side

Well said.

There are numerous incredible big name, famous tracks....but the ones that are forever etched into the ol noodle are the unknown ones.   Those memories are better than any video or picture can provide. 

Yeah I believe it was the ridge, it's been so long ago.

Wild Wilderness or Scenic Highlands in Ohio.  These two tracks were the pinnacle tracks in Ohio around 2004 and 2005, imo.  

Very cool! I’m only about 1,500 miles away! 😁

There was a small track outside Glyndon, MN called Buffalo River MX. I wish that track was still there, I didn't know how good it was to have a track an hour away. Most are 2-4hrs now. 

Also, a horse arena that was 10min away from my house used to have a winter SX series put on by Motokazie that I'd love to go back to. Any indoor winter riding is 4hrs away.

Shotover Park for the Vale of the White Horse 2 day National was an absolutely epic track & location 

As was Creech Hill ( Maggot Farm ) for the Mid Somerset 2 day National. 

Those two stand out for me. I’d love to go back to the early ‘80’s and rip around those two again. 

Here is another shot from infamous Indian Dunes. My previous one was on the international track. This is the Shadow Glen track on my 77RM125. Anybody that rode there will remember these cool rolling jumps through the trees. 

There's certain things in your life that you remember vividly, even though I can't remember what I did last week. 😂

51 years ago I was racing my first beginner class on my 75 RM125. Back then, they had three motos. In the first moto my throttle cable broke and I thought I was done for the day. So as a young SoCal teenager of course we had beers and I might have had a few. 

Anyway, one of my friends came up with a brilliant idea of borrowing a throttle cable from one of our buddies bikes. So we started scrambling and proceeded to make the swap and got my bike running, and I barely made it to the start.

Wouldn't you know I got my first ever holeshot and won the moto with my buddies hanging over the fence, cheering me on! 😲

But what stood out to me as I was going over those roller jumps first lap was a leaf had fallen from a tree and I clearly remember it as I approached it as it was directly in my path and everything was quiet, just the bike and I.

And for some reason, it kept me calm for the whole moto. 

One of those things you never forget in Life. 😎

Ok I don't know who you are but I just about hit the floor seeing this !! 

Was wondering if anyone remembered that race. I was there as it was on the property my dad leased, had the oval put in in '70. I would've been 8 at the time.

Damn that brings back memories. Thank you. 

Unadilla and 1985 Carlsbad.

Late 80's/early 90's Lake Whitney

This is a loaded question! So many places! Growing up in the 80s in Florida, I have a few all over the place!
- Croom MX in Florida, if i want to experience pain. Roughest track ever. But so damn fun. Listening to Eric Yarnell and Ronnie Tichenor on the throttle the entire lap was amazing. And then to ride it myself was such a cool experience.
-Namur, The Citadel- Picture of that place were always amazing! And was it Carlquist that had such a big lead one year, he stopped to drink a beer? Epic!

-tie with Indian Dunes and Saddleback. One summer, me and Tichenor spent a summer in Cali riding with Surratt, and Frankie Brundage and others. Such an epic summer. Being from the Florida sands, we got our asses kicked in races. And riding during the week was just amazing! Indian Dunes was so massive and nothing we even had close to that in Florida. Croom was an afterthought after experiencing that place! And saddleback.... I distinctly remember riding there on my 80cc the week before the World Mini Grand Prix. My dad and i worked on clearing the famous Magoo double, and i never could clear it totally clean. Cased it a thousand times it felt like. Then the race weekend comes, and they didn't even include it on the course! Looking back, that is such a great memory of that place. 

I am sure i can think of others, as there are so many!

The old four corners track in Ramona.

First time I saw Marty Smith.

First time I saw a red Honda. 

Then there was the old south bay speedway night races in national city.

There was also an impromptu track about a mile out past the end of strathmore drive in santee. 

Only had one outlaw race.

But we rode the shit out of that place afterwards. 

Mid-Lake Raceway in Tallahassee.  Saw my first race there in 1971.  Got to race there twice before it closed in 1975.  It was called "The Unadilla of the South".  Joel Robert and Roger had a hand in the layout.

lake whitney, late 90's - early 00's version.