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linker48x Added a reply to RIP Jeff Smith
3/28/2026 1:19am When I was first beginning motocross in the late 1960s during college at Berkeley, I was fortunate enough to attend a presentation by Jeff Smith and Dick Mann at the Richmond Ramblers clubhouse in Richmond California. Not only was he proven to be the best motocrosser in the world, he was also very comfortable in front of a crowd of...
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linker48x Added a reply to The Dumbest thing someone has ever told you about dirt bikes
8/22/2025 2:03pm This.
linker48x Added a reply to Marc Marquez on the Ducati Desmo450 MX
7/30/2025 7:57pm I’ve done motocross, road racing, flat track, and dez. Lots of mx, rr and dez. LOL, none of it really well. But I can say this: Each one teaches you something new and makes you better. I’m surprised more mx guys don’t try rr and ft.
linker48x Added a reply to Awesome job in the booth RC
5/7/2025 11:25am I’ve gotta have my head examined to weigh in on one of the mainstays of angry Vital posters, but it seems to me the continual (and justified) Vital criticism of Supercross announcing (especially RC’s) is a complaint that the announcing doesn’t adequately communicate a sophisticated technical understanding of the art of riding and racing that many of us have and...
linker48x Added a reply to Jett Injury
2/15/2025 7:20pm Two things. FIRST—Ditto on Scott boots. If I’d known I never would have bought a pair. Main reason for my ACL. Second, I rode 8 years without an ACL. Don’t do it. Get it fixed ASAP.
linker48x Added a reply to Signs you might be an old motocrosser….
1/31/2025 11:40am Hm, like most old guys, I’m a true fan of 2 strokes. BUT, the first real mx bike I owned was a Parilla Wildcat, a hyper little Italian 250 4 stroke. About as fast as a CZ twin port in a straight line but terminally pipey and its remote float Dell’Orto carb would make it 8 stroke in turns at...
linker48x Added a reply to Signs you might be an old motocrosser….
1/29/2025 6:14pm Oh brother, I think I scored 100. Here’s a few more— you rode a “$2 ride or watch” race. You used 50 wt Castrol GP 4 stroke oil mixed 20:1 in your CZ. You got tired of replacing the needle and needle jet in your Jikov, and all its other foibles, and replaced it with the GYT Kit Mikuni for...
linker48x Added a reply to The Hurricane calls out "The Hype"
12/21/2024 9:08pm "there is absolutely no chance this story is true." Well, guess again. Yes it happened. Not only do I remember when Buckwheat raced out at Kincaid, I still have a picture down in my weight room of me and a buddy and Hannah together in the pits after. We were racing in the Over 30 race, obviously not in the...
linker48x Added a reply to Did your brand new bike come with replacement parts?
9/12/2024 9:09am Anyone here but me ever buy a new 60’s CZ? They came with boxes of spare parts, pistons, spokes, etc., and a full set of pullers, enough to get the engine completely broken down and rebuilt, just the sort of stuff you’d need to put the bike in the trunk of your Skoda and go off to race a season...
linker48x Added a reply to If BMW made a motocross bike, would you buy it?
9/8/2024 9:48pm BMW motocrosser? Didn’t BMW design its enduro bike to have a countershaft concentric with the swingarm pivot? Anybody who knows about bikes, especially dirt bikes, could see that wouldn’t work. That takes away all anti squat, and with it the ability to stiffen up the rear suspension by gassing it, such as when landing from jumps. I’ve never owned a...
profeshenal125 Liked a reply to forum topic Bob Hannah explains how he got started. Amazing story if you don't already know it!
4/6/2024 2:17pm
A 3rd in a local race & he got free bikes , box van, gas card and 800 s month. You can’t get any of that now. Not even 800 a month. I hv a pal he,s real good in sand & won pro am full gates at red Bud, Millville,etc. he went to Ca. To race , practicing he blew the bars off of Dubach and he freaked out on him. You had to b a Cal. Bro in the 80,s to get a ride .
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linker48x Added a reply to Vince riding 450 in AMA supercross.
12/29/2023 6:00pm Interesting. that'll be interesting. How long before someone punts him into the cheap seats?
linker48x Added a reply to Has anyone tried nitrogen in air forks?
12/29/2023 5:55pm Just like the old Olympia beer ad, "it's the water..." Nitrogen is the cheapest dry gas that will work for this application.
linker48x Added a reply to Props to Austin Forkner
8/20/2023 7:06pm This.
linker48x Added a reply to Tell me you're a vet rider without telling me you're a vet rider.
8/16/2023 10:57am Yamahas should be silver.
linker48x Added a reply to Tell me you're a vet rider without telling me you're a vet rider.
8/13/2023 5:49pm And along with those, I also rode Carlsbad, Lions, El Toro Speedway night mx, Bay Mare, Muntz, 395 Cycle Park, Riverside Raceway, Altamont, Salinas Sand Pit, Marysville (yes, I know they still ride there but this was in the late 60's), Carnegie, I even trail rode a bunch at Baldwin Hills off La Cienega (try that now), and I also...
linker48x Added a reply to "This isn't pressure, pressure was when my family couldn't eat"
8/13/2023 5:14pm Double Bingo
zehn Liked a reply to forum topic Ryno and Pro Circuit
8/10/2023 8:33pm
Cuttin loose with the pubes out bro no big deal
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linker48x Added a reply to Joe on modern day 250/450 bikes vs Factory Pro on 1970's works bikes
7/11/2023 5:33pm I have been doing this for a long time, so I saw some really great riders way back in the short travel days, starting with Robert, DeCoster and a ton of other Euros at an InterAm in Santa Cruz in the fall of '68, and Lackey, riding at the first race I ever rode at Marysville in 1969. Having watched...
linker48x Added a reply to When you think of Honda, what rider comes to mind?
7/11/2023 4:45pm Marty Smith, RJ, David Bailey.