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Those at the top will always get hate...some justified, some not, but a lot of it is rooted in hearsay, ignorance and/or jealousy...The Coombs are at the top of the sport, so...that's why they are hated. They should take it as a compliment.

Most people will tell you that there is Davey the Businessman and Davey the fan of the sport and motocrosser, there in lies the difference in people’s experience with him. I’ve had nothing but great interactions with him.

Davey is good people and he cares about the sports authenticity. He took time to call me before his daughters Volleyball game and we spoke about track safety and ways to improve the sport for about an hour. I have not seen evidence of a Drug Ring going through MX Sports or RacerX to this day.

His parents house was up the street from our Jr. High. Didn’t know the Coombs but friends and I would play basketball in their driveway. No questions and on more than one occasion someone inside the house would turn on the flood light so we could continue to play after dark. Try that nowadays. Great family.

I think there will always be contention between the folks who use motocross as their hobby/leisure time vs. the folks who make a living from the sport. The average folks who participate see/assume the cash MxSports rakes in on amateur and pro motocross and put them in the "greedy" category. I understand that thought, a race weekend at an MxSports event is shockingly expensive. And Pro Motocross tickets certainly aren't cheap these days. I personally don't think the Coombs family is accumulating Yacht-like wealth, although I'm sure they make a good living. I think the average participant underestimates the overhead...

Agree, Whenever I've seen Davey, he's always been super friendly and outgoing. Back in the early 2000's when RacerX was doing the "gas card" , I ended up getting the opportunity do get the gas card for the Indy round and our interaction with Davey then was awesome. Seems that the spat between him and TFS that brought out TFS's "octopus" theory was something that made folks think twice about what was happening with the sport in relation to the Coombs family being heavily involved. The next piece that came into play was the positive press that would be put...

Rio Bravo-1983, 125 Beginner Class. Dude on the #1, '82 RM125 rippin the holey, sportin the visorless street bike helmet, jeans and a department store t-shirt. Frikken classic! Hard to tell, but he may have been without gloves as well? Credit to my late father, who snapped this pic.

RV and GH was a thing of beauty

Submitting this under the epic cagtegory, less for the photo and more for RV . . . .

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AI but funny as f

Gear in their era was so clean

Then & Now