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Feel like I MAYBE “nailed it” once on an 80. Maybe a couple times on a 125. If I remember correctly the landings were super short and steep. Watching the big names go through it I knew I didn’t look anything like that!
The long straight with the two tables and the table that went along the start straight were always fun.
Also back in the pitbike craze and there would be a couple makeshift pitbike tracks set up around people’s pits.
Growing up in San Diego, I’d love to go watch a classic race at Carlsbad or Saddleback, but as far as riding goes, I totally agree with you…I’d absolutely love to go back to Palm Ave. or Marty Smith’s track in Sorrento Valley again.
The Escape Country DG National motocross track in 1978 in Trabuco Canyon, Orange County, Southern California.
The most epic natural terrain track staked out in green grass on the side of a hill unridden until morning practice.
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Mammoth Bar is an OHV park near sacramento. It used to sit on a large sand bar along the river in the mountains, but after getting flooded in 06 enviromentalists slapped regulations on it pulling the track away from the river and cutting off almost half of it. it was shut down a few years after and was closed for a number of years. It got rebuilt not to long ago but it sits even further away from the river where all the sand is and is now mostly on red clay.
So the place still exists but the track is nothing what it used to be. it used to be a track big enough you could hold a race but its closer to a backyard track.
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The two tracks I always wanted to ride were Carlsbad and Saddleback.
Ah, great memories of Copperhead. Glad you saved it!
They had an (apparently rare) open practice one weekend, and 948,637,214 people showed up. I made half a lap.
Re Blue Ridge: Sounds like we are talking of the same track. On the side of a mountain, great description. Like a fevered dream, fully formed beauty in a forest, then poof gone.
Hmmm, my time machine would only go back to 2001 and it would put me at West Milton Florida. That was the best track I ever rode - groomed beautifully, not too sketchy difficult, and amazing sandy but not too sandy soil. My YZ426 could be opened up to eat and holy shit it got rough.
The next most favorite would be the 2001-2002 era San Jacinto MX in Houston. So many good layouts and fun but not scary jumps.
Tunnel Hill Motocross in Georgia.
no particular order.....Carlsbad, Saddleback, and as someone mentioned earlier the original Unadilla
That was one off 75 near Resaca right? I missed racing there but rode years later when it was an open ride area. There was a smaller MX track away from what I think used to be the main track. I doubled a 25' actual double jump there, it was one of my first ever doing a hump to hump type jump. I felt so pumped after.
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