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Steve Schmitz was super fast, thought he was gonna make it.
Tim Locey 6 in the 500 nationals one year.
Juan Benevidaz
Then you had the local Indian Dunes wild man, Bobby Kline, he was super fast on a friday night and was horribly scary to pass.
Jimmy King
Kenny Keylon
Don Kuldowski
Karl Jordan
Kippy Pierce
Kurt McMillan
Rob McCullough
Eric Reily
The Shop
Chad Ward
Also, here's some good reading about Carsten from The Weege.
I found this while looking for the above image...
. http://www.pulpmx.com/content/wisdom-weege
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Small excerpt if you don't want to click above link...
With the world primed and ready for a new hero, the Barr dog, Barry Carsten, was ready to strike.
And strike he did, landing 5th in the 1987 125 Eastern Region Supercross tour. He followed that up with a 4th in the 1989 rankings. Then, using his championship-honed experience, Barry came out with a consistent run at the East/West opener at Houston in 1990 (yes, back then the East and West regions met up several times each year). Barry finished 5th in the Houston race, and since the top four riders were all from the West, he left Texas as the EAST POINTS LEADER!!!
He finished the year solidly in 4th.
After that, Carsten went on to live through the Suzuki contingency program. It has been rumored that Suzuki would have a car that outsells the Toyota Camry today had Barry not eaten up so much of the R&D budget through his contingency exploits. Over in Japan, he is heralded for his longevity, and in his honor, when Barry declared that he will not race the AMA Nationals for 2009, Suzuki pulled its contingency program. It was basically only there for him anyway.
Barry held an AMA National number from 1987 through 2005. In ’05, he got ripped off because Suzuki didn’t have a 450 yet for anyone except RC, so Barry was left like three points short of a number when saddled with an RM250. To shove it in everyone’s face, he came back on a 450 in 2006 to earn number 93. If it weren’t for that John Dowd guy, Barry would hold the record for national-number longevity. Kind of like Thriller outselling Born in the USA. Bastard!
I think Kenny Keylon might of had a Honda ride at one point also.
Are you by any chance from Oklahoma lol???
Just curious, what type of crash did Robbie Smith have at Dallas in 05??? I remember he use to whoop ass on bmx bikes back in the day...
Johnny Marley is the first person I thought of when I read this title.
I know Johnny's story, but what do you believe prevented Charlie Bogard from making it? Did a few defeats from RC just destroy him mentally, or did he have some non-motocross things going on in his life that prevented his success???
I traveled with him and another guy from Co named Chad Walston.
The guys I remember were Casey Johnson, Rusty Holland, Butch Smith, Trevor Meager, Pat Bennett, Jon Nelson, Pat Gomm the list just goes on and on...
Some it's the first beer.
Others the first hit of weed.
And others their first piece of ass.
And for others their driver license in search of some ass.
And for still others, deep down they were lazy, could only whoop ass on the weak.
Pit Row
Adding Hayden Richards, Stevie Childress
Jo Jo Keller
Joel Dengler (did pretty well for Husqvarna in the woods)
Bob Burfield (could haul ass on the 500 when he was a teenager)
Dave Kratz (rode in Europe in the 125 class for KTM Germany one year, too many major injuries)
Good peewee and sixty rider.
At the end of the day, I think his dad could've applied a little more finesse in dealing with the business end of things. A lot of people think he made some poor "talent management" decisions. Plus Charley had some pretty serious injuries (lacerated liver being the worst) that I think finally took out of the top tier.
He was an incredible talent. He'd jump anything. Watching helplessly as he blew by you in practice (twice, every four or five laps) was completely deflating to the ego. He still races. Been doing some TCCRA events recently from what I hear from an XC buddy of mine. And he usually rides things like the Pro Challenge (which he won several times).
Andy Stacy
Shawn Clark
another rider that is up and coming but not getting the attention he deserves is Jace Owen
Some more east of the mississippi names.
Kenny Adams (NJ)
Kenny Briggs (PA)
Tommy Watts (KY)
Dave McClain (CT)
Joe Waddington (MA)
Chris Coleman (NY)
Troy Bradshaw (NY) may have been mentioned already
I remember the article said "in the future, the world will have a talent pool they won't believe." They were right, but unfortunately, he wasn't around to show it.
Back then I thought Pat Bennett was blazing fast... Until Lamson and McGrath showed up and laid waste to the locals... Watching Lamson and Mcgrath take the rythmn section 4 at a time was a thing of beauty. This was in 1990 when Lammy had the Suz with the pink RM logo... and MC was 125 on the KX.
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