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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.
59th & Douglas in Oklahoma City.
Another classic track I wish I’d been able to ride was Doddington Park nr Bristol, England, a former 500cc, 250cc and MXDN track.
Went in 1976 to watch Graham Noyce win his first ever GP race sliding his Maico around those cambered turns, off the natural steps and along the super fast straight was a sight to behold! always attracted big crowds and sunny weather.
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Plymouth first for me.
The original first track at the Hollister GP track location would be second. Sears was always fun when it wasn't summer.
I would have loved to have experienced Indian Dunes.
They held the schoolboy championship there in 1979. You’re right, Rob, it was a great track, and I’m glad I had the privilege to race it.
Different track. The one at Resaca beach was called River view. The one close to the Tennessee border that was literally right off 75 was Tunnel Hill. There’s still some remnants of it there.
I think I know he one you're talking about, I raced there once in the late '80s it was one of my very first races. There was a pro Rider there that night on a 125. They made him start backwards and gave the rest of the field like a 30 secnd head start. He still won the race. I wish I remember that rider's name.
Mid Ohio Trans-AM track 1972 or 3. I was a spectator there in my mid teens. First big time race I ever attended. Those were great times in motocross.
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That was riverview practice track, which I also rode at a lot.
Tunnel Hill was about 20 miles further north just past Dalton. 1 track on a hill under the lights.
Unadilla 87….. the dirt looked epic
The Track / Moto Byron Sawdust era.
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Cocoa Beach
That was a fun track, tucked away there in the canyon. Probably more deep sand than anywhere else in NorCal unless there's some private track in a river bottom somewhere.
Fields Hill in Slatington, PA.
I'm probably the only one on here that will know anything about that place. It was the best. Natural terrain, big hills, and everything was off camber. One lap on that track taught me more about riding than anywhere else I've ever turned a wheel. When I think about that place, I just smile.
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Like Slap, Saddleback would be number 1, followed by Escape Country then Indian Dunes Shadow Glen, then International.
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