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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.
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.
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.
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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!
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.
Saddleback was so much fun, Lots of off track riding and the big hill climb out back. I only rode Escape Country twice and Can't even remember the track. I can still visualize most of the main Saddleback track.
Good old days for sure, brother!
Did thousands of laps around Carlsbad, but one more day would be awesome.
Never rode Saddleback, so that would be cool to ride.
But I think like mentioned above, the local “illegal” riding areas of my youth would probably be the most nostalgic. The Palm Avenues, or Central, or just the local “Foxdale” trails in Oceanside off the 78 that was turned into a Walmart in the mid 90s. My dad and his friends built it in the 70s when they were kids, and I was lucky enough to ride there on mini bikes. For several years it was a weekly after work session until it got dark. My dad having a beverage, the dogs running and me doing laps on the put together sand track. Never realized the last day was the last day until the earth movers moved on.
So many memories of local riding areas that used to exist in Southern California and why at one point it was the center of the talent that was at the top of the sport. The Flower Fields off Palomar Airport road, Calveras, Oceanside Blvd track, Poinsettia, LeVante, Sorrento Valley, Commando track on Camp Pendleton were the MPs would chase you down. So many memories of illegal riding areas.
We tried to make it to Breman, never did, but somehow through my buddy fell in a bit with the DMXS boys and brought them to Athens and had a great time. They invited us to the pre- Atlanta SX radio show, and shenanigans tagged along. There was a naked pit bike ride through the studio by an "well-unknown" shenaninger, and things got teary when my friend's 10-ish y/o son played the most affirming, chill game of ping-pong with David Bailey. Nobody's crying here.
Yeah, Blue Ridge long roller section cracked my sacroiliac and Copperhead crumpled my clavicle. Blessed to have such a great abundance of walking memories. We might have ridden together without knowing it.
Ft. Rucker is an amazing memory. So much heat in the summer in all these places, some shade like Wausau, some most decidedly not like Ft. Rucker. I loved the big central hill/ridge with the track serpentined up and then berming back down. Felt like an upside-down surf wave.
I'm so glad to hear Wausau is still visible. My greatest triumph anywhere was a full gate holeshot both motos on that right-hand first corner. Greatest oops... Practice, we're talkin' practice ... came together after the start right, then sweeping left, with someone over the next downhill single, flopped off the bike and got landed on by the entirety of North Florida. My Yamaha racing stripe jersey had matching knobby marks in a vertical complement. Very stylish.
I think we are all talking about the same place. Never seen a track built on the side of a mountain like that probably never will again
I race Copperhead once back when I was just starting out a 250. On my sighting lap I wasn't aware of the long whoop section and went for it out of the corner. I skimmed about half the whoops by acident, then started hucking and bucking and pulled off the track and rode around the rest of them 😂
Bremen was the best. I didn't list that track but it should be on my list for sure
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