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Mike, I attended many back in the day, a fascinating time it was. Also, not only was the money good, didn’t you sometimes add in ski vacations for the top dogs, too (?) Still friends to the day with a lot of the players, thanks for what you did and sparking these memories. Cheers and best of health, sir.

Back when Mike Kidd was the man behind the AX series and standing room only crowds the riders were really well paid, just the dash for cash when they went around collecting cash from the crowd it made for a awesome show. Mike Kidd did it right. 😎

That is an awesome bit of history. Right on, Mike!

Raced your track at Boyd in 87, Cow Palace a couple ot times in the mid 80's ... thank you for your dedication to our sport. And congratulations to Triumph!!

Dave Prater and crew give a shit, they love this sport too. Feld Ent. may be on the paycheck but the races are run by Supercross people. Yer whole spiel is fairy dust speculation. Carry on.

Mike's companion write-up is hysterical, too. Look it up on his Facebook wall. Or maybe I can copy-paste it here. Here's his first installment ....50 years ago today, on a Wednesday morning, Mike Kidd and i headed to California to ride our very first desert race in the Mojave...we spent the previous 2 days getting our bikes ready, all our gear together and loading his Dodge van for the trip... We were going out to ride the famous 180 mile 'Barstow to Vegas' desert classic that ran annually the Saturday after Thanksgiving...my cousin Linda Kirk advised us to come a...

Great story, riding 500 miles in the Desert is no joke, riding or racing. Anytime you get 300+ guys and 6-8 close friends together--there's always a race! Wrote this story on my first LA-to Barstow to Vegas 16 years ago. It was my first Dual Sport event on a XR400 and haven't looked back. Did three more on my KTM520 which was much much better. D-37 puts on this event every Thanksgiving. 👍 https://www.vitalmx.com/forums/Hall-of-Fame,25/LA-to-Barstow-to-VEGAS-o…

What an awesome post! Thanks for sharing. Sounds like a hell of a day! Hahaha. Raced it in ‘89. 160 miles was a long way through the desert! Still have and cherish my finisher pin to this day.

Sounds like my first D-37 desert race haha