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Chuck Lantz Added a reply to DeLaveaga Park - Santa Cruz 1st Inter-am Race 1968
7/11/2019 7:12pm ]HOLY FREAKING WOW! ...OK, please give me a few minutes to catch my breath. I'd totally forgotten that Torsten Hallman was there, which is crazy since he was the Big Attraction back then. All of us mere mortals only got our information from a few magazines and Cycle News, plus a few first-hand tales from guys who'd seen them race...
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Chuck Lantz Added a reply to DeLaveaga Park - Santa Cruz 1st Inter-am Race 1968
7/11/2019 12:48pm Hiya, Fresh. I can't recall knowing Bruce Bradshaw. When I was there, Souza, Mann, Karl and Karl's son were there. I was an ex-road-racer, and scrambles rider, still learning the ropes on dirt. Dick got me into the Richmond Ramblers, and talked me into going pro. He and Lawill wrote a waiver letter to the AMA, which allowed me to...
FreshTopEnd Liked a reply to forum topic DeLaveaga Park - Santa Cruz 1st Inter-am Race 1968
7/11/2019 12:34pm
Karls' Motors . . . made my mom drive over from Kennedy High Friday afternoons to get Cycle News. You'd have known Bruce Bradshaw (lost a leg along the way in a logging accident), lived a few houses down the block from ours in El Cerrito. Great time and place to discovery bikes. Highsider, this one was before my time. My folks were not into bikes, and I didn't really catch the bug until my buddies introduced me in 69-70, making it to my first race in 71 at the Carnegie Trans AMA.
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Chuck Lantz Added a reply to DeLaveaga Park - Santa Cruz 1st Inter-am Race 1968
7/11/2019 8:13am I was there. The event was run by Edison Dye, who was trying to promote international moto-cross in the USA. A bunch of the MX super stars were there, as mentioned in other comments. The course was laid-out on an existing golf course that was scheduled to be demolished after the event. The plan at the time was to build...