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

Sparkalounger
Posts
1723
Joined
4/1/2008
Location
Minneapolis, MN, USA
1 hour ago Edited Date/Time 1 hour ago
Topher674 wrote:
Mosier Valley and Kenworthy’s. Couldn’t beat the early 2000’s GNC at Mosier or the 3 foot tall grass on the first lap of practice at the...

Mosier Valley and Kenworthy’s. Couldn’t beat the early 2000’s GNC at Mosier or the 3 foot tall grass on the first lap of practice at the the Kenworthy’s grass race! 

LoudLove wrote:

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…

I raced there in 98 and cant remember that

.. dang it.

I remember the large hill after the start, the long straight with a couple tables after that. Concrete start,  correct?

I took 2nd to Ross Dyer, RIP.

part-timer
Posts
238
Joined
5/16/2009
Location
Central, CT, USA
1 hour ago

Pepperell, Massachusetts would be my first pick.  I raced there a couple of times in 1979 or 1980 as a NESC 125 Novice on my KX125's and loved that place.....I was never a really fast racer, but I felt really good on that particular track and have great memories of it.

flamenco
Posts
113
Joined
3/16/2011
Location
Sevilla, ES
55 minutes ago
X-Track in the eastern suburbs of AtlantaICR in Macon GABlue Ridge Motocross in North GA which I think was only open a few years in the...

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. 

If Blue Ridge was that word-of-mouth track built on private land for a father's pretty-fast son, we made it there half dozen times. Great fun! Wide and long. One long, steep uphill had a rather large jump built at the base with a good run-up for a buzzy speed to hit it. All that said I never saw anyone float to the very top. Certainly not me. 

Did you ride Copperhead or Breman?

ShellyMX
Posts
1690
Joined
3/22/2026
Location
Smyrna, GA, USA
38 minutes ago
flamenco wrote:
If Blue Ridge was that word-of-mouth track built on private land for a father's pretty-fast son, we made it there half dozen times. Great fun! Wide...

If Blue Ridge was that word-of-mouth track built on private land for a father's pretty-fast son, we made it there half dozen times. Great fun! Wide and long. One long, steep uphill had a rather large jump built at the base with a good run-up for a buzzy speed to hit it. All that said I never saw anyone float to the very top. Certainly not me. 

Did you ride Copperhead or Breman?

Sounds like it may be the same track. Bremen definitely. As my off road infatuation began with King Kelly. One of the greatest humans ever.

The Shop

APLMAN99
Posts
13078
Joined
4/1/2008
Location
Tualatin, OR, USA
36 minutes ago

Daroga Park. By the time I was old enough, it had pretty much shut down with only a couple of Old Timer races sporadically held there. We used to go ride to it sometimes, but it was never in good shape after I started actually riding. You can still see a few parts of the track from the overhead pictures today, but it gets harder as time goes by. Here’s the track and a Facebook post I found from a guy who used to ride it a LOONNGG time ago! 

IMG 1090 5.jpeg?VersionId=EOvg7qOxm6sIMG 1089 7

Dave v3.0
Posts
747
Joined
7/15/2022
Location
Ozark, AL, USA
8 minutes ago
DoctorJD wrote:
As a motocross-obsessed teen growing up in Georgia in the late 70s, I dreamt of living and riding in SoCal. In my small town, no one...

As a motocross-obsessed teen growing up in Georgia in the late 70s, I dreamt of living and riding in SoCal. In my small town, no one knew or cared what motocross was except myself and a couple of buddies that I raced with. 

Carlsbad and Saddleback were mythical lands to me. I wanted so bad to be able to live and race there. 

I would love to go back to the late 70s (or early 80s because the bikes were better) and ride those two. 

flamenco wrote:
My State and era, as well! I was in SoWeGa, so FL and AL were more options for me than upstate. Raced Wasau, FL, Holiday Beach...

My State and era, as well! I was in SoWeGa, so FL and AL were more options for me than upstate. Raced Wasau, FL, Holiday Beach, GA, Ft. Rucker, AL with Teefus (I didn't know until talking with here). 

Oh, man, growing up in the boonies, any track mentioned in a magazine was exotic to me. Carlsbad, Saddleback, Indian Dunes, Lake Sugartree, Unadilla, etc, all were swirling brain dreams. Namur. One time I visited Escondido after Carlsbad had shut down, but before development, so gangbustered to the track and spent some hours walking around what was/is my young imagination's hallowed ground. 

Later on in life, my great friend and his son and I loaded up from Athens and rode Aonia Pass so much it was practically our second residence. I would put all of those days on time-travel loop.

The Tri-State area was my stomping grounds in the 70's.  Every little town in south Alabama had a racetrack it seemed.  I raced at Flying Wheels at Ft. Rucker (currently live 5 miles from the gate) and drove by Wausau just last week.  It's all grown over, but I could still picture the track heading up into those dusty pines.  Used to travel over to Iron City to race and then later to Cairo long before it was the training ground to the stars.

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

The Latest