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Ahrma_581 Added a reply to ec birt suzuki tm100

7/25/2026 9:51am
The 'ECW' stood for EC & Walker, when he was partners with a guy named Walker who was wealthy off his drywall company. This would've been 73 or 74, the shop was in Boynton Beach FL. Partnership didn't last long and EC took off for TN. When he moved to FL from LA, some of his crew moved too. Larry...

Ahrma_581 Added a reply to Smelly 2 Stroke Oil

7/6/2026 11:07am
Back in the day (and, yes, I'm old as dirt) Castrol used to recommend a tablespoon of 'R' in the tank for 'that smell'. I used straight R at 32-1 in my roadracing Yamaha RD350: the trick was to shake up the fuel jug real well and fill the tank just before heading out to the grid. Once you got...

Ahrma_581 Added a reply to Saddleback Park

7/1/2026 11:30am
Thanks for responding. Annoying thing is I saw it in a 'Funny Pictures' thread in a road racing forum a couple of months back and neglected to copy it then. Went back recently and scanned all 2300+ pages of the thread with no luck. I think whoever posted it used a link to a hosting site instead of just dropping...

Ahrma_581 Added a reply to Saddleback Park

6/28/2026 12:08pm
Long shot but looking for a photo of a friend taken at Saddleback sometime in late 60's or early 70's. It was the only time he made it into the slick magazines. One of those wet years in Southern California, the track was bottomless mud. The photo shows him stuck axle deep, and him, completely covered in mud, looking exhausted...

Ahrma_581 Added a reply to Saddleback History

6/28/2026 11:55am
Hmm. Can't see any way to edit my previous post, but I'd like to add that it was a full page picture and, I think, B&W.

Ahrma_581 Added a reply to Saddleback History

6/28/2026 11:48am
Long shot but looking for a photo of a friend taken at Saddleback sometime in late 60's or early 70's. It was the only time he made it into the slick magazines. One of those wet years in Southern California, the track was bottomless mud. The photo shows him stuck axle deep, and him, completely covered in mud, looking exhausted...