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swv3 Started a new thread What's your best old school story?
10/31/2012 11:52am In 1976 I was 13 and had been racing around southern CA for a couple years. I was riding a new YZ80C but was starting to grow and felt like I had done my time on the 80s and was hounding dad to move up to a 100. Dad finally conceded and told me we were going to meet a...
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swv3 Started a new thread Southern CA racing 1974-1976?
1/27/2012 8:52am Hello everyone. I lived and raced (yz80) in the 70s at Edwards AFB. We had our own track and club (Desert wheels MX club). A J whiting was a regular and the one to beat in the 80 class. I can only remember a few other riders from the base, Terry Ducker and Craig Osborne. The Ward bothers came out...
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5/10/2011 6:30pm Hey Senorjumper82, I just noticed you are in Dothan. Do you every go to SMXA at Mossey Head, it is just northeast of Crestview? Couldnt be more than 45 minutes from Dothan.
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5/10/2011 6:22pm Let me share my experience with you. I assume by your screen name, your no youngster. I raced in the mid 70s before guiting because of two bad wrecks and several broken bones with months of rehab. It was 31 years and I was 46 (2009) when I got the bug again. I had always rode 2 strokes but everyone...
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5/4/2011 8:48pm How about cantilevered fox shocks on dad's Maico 400. Or A J Whiting's Snake pipe on his YZ80. Guys today are spoiled. I go to the track and they complain about the track not being prepped to perfection. In '75 prep meant the water truck made a round to keep the dust down and hopefully it didnt get stuck in...
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5/4/2011 5:10am Hi Mark, It was the Wades, Butch rode a kawasaki and there dad replaced my clutch once. I stopped riding in 76, Broke two bones in my foot, came back from that and within a month wrecked again, messed my shoulder up, required 6 months rehab and didnt get on a nother dirt bike for 33 yrs, started riding again...