A treat for you..story of the 1978 Superbowl of MX...

Awesome thanks for posting!

Nice!
Do you have footage of that night's qualifiers too?

That was the first or one of the first races with the new backward falling gates. I remember a few riders getting caught behind them. I was sitting by the infamous mud hole. I'll never forget seeing the brightest smile ever on Mike Bell as he rode by after taking the checkers.

These are great, when are you going to start doing some from the late 80s and 90s?

Thanks for posting.
Just sent the link to my Mom.
She and my step dad took me.
Fully addicted to MX after that night.

Great! Thanks for posting!

That was some great footage, and a joy to watch!

Thanks for the post, and, oh yeah, I was indeed there that night.

Way cool, Todd. I was at that one, and it was every bit as exciting as the story here.

I remember reading about it.. nice story to see on film.. thx

Cool...thanks for sharing! Merry Christmas!

Cool documentary. Thanks for some great memories. These have been hanging in the old keep sake room for years.

That was cool. You can see from races like that why Bob Hannah is a legend. And the crowd was huge! And totally into it. And I thought they were going pretty damn fast down that peristyle for riding old dinosaurs!

On a sidenote, Bell, Hannah and Semics sure look like they've taken care of themselves over the years.

Good stuff, thanks!

Thank you for preserving our MX history.

I liked it too Todd!!
Thx

Todd, thank you for posting that. What an awesome Christmas Eve gift. We're wrapping, waiting for a small window when kids get to sleep so we can play Santa. Mine are the ones that fall asleep at nine on Christmas Eve, only to wake up every hour from midnight until 7am. That's when they decide 7am won't get them told no if they wake us up. This just killed 20 minutes (I've watched twice) for me, though. Thank you!!

This is my first-ever SX. I was 6 1/2 and I remember this being the day my pops turned into my idol. I knew he was the manager at Indian Dunes, but when I saw people I thought were important and top riders going out of their way to say hi to him, that made pops a lot taller lol. Then, when I was able to go down to the track, I thought my dad was the coolest dad on earth. I remember to this day almost every lap of this race too. I liked Hannah, but Mike Bell gave me one of his jersey before the race, so he was my new favorite. I wore the Bell jersey to bed that night. Dude was tall, that jersey hit my ankles. Haha.. From that day on Bell was my favorite rider. I met a good deal of the top guys at one time or another in late 70's 80's at Indian Dunes, but Bell stood out as the coolest to talk to as a kid. Just wish I still had the jersey. .

See Todd, you have me and probably many more with our heads back in 1978 this Christmas Eve.

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Thanks Todd, very much appreciated.