Where Were You In 92'

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Pretty cool article on RacerX about national numbers from 1992. So many good memories from those years. Before you read the article, who is the rider on the Kawi at the end with the Fox gear?

http://www.racerxonline.com/2011/04/08/where-are-they-now-1992-national…

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I think 28 is Gene Naumec.
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Jeff Matiasevich? from the nose it looks like it.
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So I remembered correctly, it was Naumec. My dad worked with Gene's uncle Charlie and we were supposed to stop at Gene's place in Brooksville on the way back home from a FL winter series race and ride his track. It turned out it was a full on SX course and Gene and Ryan Hughes were out motoing on the track. At the time I was a scrawny 17 year old who had just moved up to a 250 so I wisely left my bike on the trailer and watched them ride instead of getting in over my head. This should have been back in 1991 or 1992.
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And does anybody remember this guy on the left? I watched him win Tampa SX in the pouring rain in 97 I believe.

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I got my first new motocross bike for christmas 91 so 92 was the beginning of my prime racing days. A 92 CR80. Probably the first SX we went to was 92. I quit all other sports for MX in 92. I raced a couple races in 91 but 92 is when we started racing every weekend.
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jasonv43 wrote:
And does anybody remember this guy on the left? I watched him win Tampa SX in the pouring rain in 97 I believe. [img]http://www.cyclenews.com/files/news_articles/supercross/1104texas/4.jpg[/img]
And does anybody remember this guy on the left? I watched him win Tampa SX in the pouring rain in 97 I believe.

BigBird Larry Ward PS guy on the right is Mike or Tom Webb, always get em confused.
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jasonv43 wrote:
And does anybody remember this guy on the left? I watched him win Tampa SX in the pouring rain in 97 I believe. [img]http://www.cyclenews.com/files/news_articles/supercross/1104texas/4.jpg[/img]
And does anybody remember this guy on the left? I watched him win Tampa SX in the pouring rain in 97 I believe.

Larry ward.. what did I win?
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jasonv43 wrote:
Pretty cool article on RacerX about national numbers from 1992. So many good memories from those years. Before you read the article, who is the rider...
Pretty cool article on RacerX about national numbers from 1992. So many good memories from those years. Before you read the article, who is the rider on the Kawi at the end with the Fox gear?

http://www.racerxonline.com/2011/04/08/where-are-they-now-1992-national…

BTW... we were ditching school riding BMX! Wish I had a time machine! Plus went to to some Supercrosses and watched that monster truck driver Dominate.
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I got my first new motocross bike for christmas 91 so 92 was the beginning of my prime racing days. A 92 CR80. Probably the first...
I got my first new motocross bike for christmas 91 so 92 was the beginning of my prime racing days. A 92 CR80. Probably the first SX we went to was 92. I quit all other sports for MX in 92. I raced a couple races in 91 but 92 is when we started racing every weekend.
First supercross was the Coliseum in 91' with my buddy Lopez whoe posts on here. I remember riding in the back of his dad's truck freezing our asses off in sleeping bags on the way down there. That was the year Bradshaw went inside of Bayle wide up in the peristyle and almost lost it coming to the finish line. And then we went the next year in 92' after the Los Angeles Riots!!! That was of course the year Bradshaw choked and couldn't pass Cooper for 4th.
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jasonv43 wrote:
Pretty cool article on RacerX about national numbers from 1992. So many good memories from those years. Before you read the article, who is the rider...
Pretty cool article on RacerX about national numbers from 1992. So many good memories from those years. Before you read the article, who is the rider on the Kawi at the end with the Fox gear?

http://www.racerxonline.com/2011/04/08/where-are-they-now-1992-national…

lopez130 wrote:
BTW... we were ditching school riding BMX! Wish I had a time machine! Plus went to to some Supercrosses and watched that monster truck driver Dominate.
Your aren't supposed to say that on here.

Stay in school kids.
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jasonv43 wrote:
Pretty cool article on RacerX about national numbers from 1992. So many good memories from those years. Before you read the article, who is the rider...
Pretty cool article on RacerX about national numbers from 1992. So many good memories from those years. Before you read the article, who is the rider on the Kawi at the end with the Fox gear?

http://www.racerxonline.com/2011/04/08/where-are-they-now-1992-national…

lopez130 wrote:
BTW... we were ditching school riding BMX! Wish I had a time machine! Plus went to to some Supercrosses and watched that monster truck driver Dominate.
jasonv43 wrote:
Your aren't supposed to say that on here.

Stay in school kids.
Technically we weren't ditching, it was too foggy for the bus to drive! It wasn't our fault we lived in BFE! Stay in school kids.
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jasonv43 wrote:
First supercross was the Coliseum in 91' with my buddy Lopez whoe posts on here. I remember riding in the back of his dad's truck freezing...
First supercross was the Coliseum in 91' with my buddy Lopez whoe posts on here. I remember riding in the back of his dad's truck freezing our asses off in sleeping bags on the way down there. That was the year Bradshaw went inside of Bayle wide up in the peristyle and almost lost it coming to the finish line. And then we went the next year in 92' after the Los Angeles Riots!!! That was of course the year Bradshaw choked and couldn't pass Cooper for 4th.
Mine was in the old Astrodome.
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lopez130 wrote:
BTW... we were ditching school riding BMX! Wish I had a time machine! Plus went to to some Supercrosses and watched that monster truck driver Dominate.
jasonv43 wrote:
Your aren't supposed to say that on here.

Stay in school kids.
lopez130 wrote:
Technically we weren't ditching, it was too foggy for the bus to drive! It wasn't our fault we lived in BFE! Stay in school kids.
Good point. I wish I would have ditched work today and stayed at home and just rode BMX all day.
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Ross (Rollerball ) Pederson only managed a #80. Must have only made it to one race.
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Mean Gene was a pretty bad dude. He and Swink caused all sorts of mischief down in the Brooksville / Ocala area back in the mid '90's.

Last I heard he was selling used cars in Alabama or something. His father owned a Ford dealer in CT, so that was the family business, or so I recall.
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#28 is Ray Sommo I believe. Aloe Up Kawasaki
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Matthes wrote:
#28 is Ray Sommo I believe. Aloe Up Kawasaki
So Steve, where were you in 92?
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#28 is Ray Sommo I believe. Aloe Up Kawasaki
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So Steve, where were you in 92?
He was dreaming about a pair of Pedersons sweaty goggles

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jasonv43 wrote:
So Steve, where were you in 92?
I think he was riding a CR500 around at the Millville national, but I am not certain!
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i didn't even know what motorcrossing was in '92.

but by '95 i had an open face helmet, JT chest pro, and a 1983 cr 80. the rest is history, yo.
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peelout wrote:
i didn't even know what motorcrossing was in '92. but by '95 i had an open face helmet, JT chest pro, and a 1983 cr 80...
i didn't even know what motorcrossing was in '92.

but by '95 i had an open face helmet, JT chest pro, and a 1983 cr 80. the rest is history, yo.
Is motocrossing like some sort of underground trend that never caught on?

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similar...

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jasonv43 wrote:
So Steve, where were you in 92?
mxnick wrote:
I think he was riding a CR500 around at the Millville national, but I am not certain!
I think maybe 89 or 90. Smile
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In 92 I was a back of the pack c rider ....Smile
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I remember so many of the guys as privateering it. I think it was 92 when I wrenched for Steve Herman
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Wasn't 92 the year Factories started using Semi's as Team Trucks??
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lopez130 wrote:
Wasn't 92 the year Factories started using Semi's as Team Trucks??
Let it go bro.
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In '92 I was just getting back from some fun in the desert in the Saudi Arabia/Iraq/Kuwait area.
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lopez130 wrote:
Wasn't 92 the year Factories started using Semi's as Team Trucks??
It was! Kawasaki was the first one to switch to a transporter.
Here's a bit of trivia for you.....Who was Kawasaki's first transporter/semi driver? (hint:his son rode a Kawi that year)
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lopez130 wrote:
Wasn't 92 the year Factories started using Semi's as Team Trucks??
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It was! Kawasaki was the first one to switch to a transporter. Here's a bit of trivia for you.....Who was Kawasaki's first transporter/semi driver? (hint:his son...
It was! Kawasaki was the first one to switch to a transporter.
Here's a bit of trivia for you.....Who was Kawasaki's first transporter/semi driver? (hint:his son rode a Kawi that year)
LaRocco?

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