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Year 1999
How the 909 bike came about. Chris Gosselaar was one of four riders on the FMF Honda team. An unfortunate incident left him with two broken feet when his bike shut down on the face of a big jump.
Bobby was the FMF team manager at the time.
Along came Danny LaPorte who was launching the 909 range of product, Danny pitched his idea to Bob. Build a 909 bike and hit the outdoors to promote 909.
Bobby decided to roll with the idea. Goose's mechanic was gone and I was pulled in to come wrench for Bob. We used Goose's bike as a base and with time dialed it in for Bob. While his fitness was not where it should have been he nevertheless was fast.
The dream started to derail - Varner, Bobby and myself were out testing carburators one day (a few weeks out from the start of the outdoors) when Bob went down hard and injured his shoulder.
That appeared to be the end of Danny's promo.
Come Glen Helen and Bob decided to give it a go. He was on pace in practice but his shoulder was still hurting so he decided to call it a day....or season..
Then came Mount Morris...Bob wanted another shot.
Both motos he was running top five before fading. The speed was there but not the fitness.
It was fun whilst it lasted and I stand to be corrected but that was Bob's last pro race.
Sadly, pictures of the bike are rare. We did do a professional photo shoot at a studio with the bike but can't remember where or who shot the pics.
Bob Moore is a great guy and it was a privilege to be part of that deal. Awesome memories.
How the 909 bike came about. Chris Gosselaar was one of four riders on the FMF Honda team. An unfortunate incident left him with two broken feet when his bike shut down on the face of a big jump.
Bobby was the FMF team manager at the time.
Along came Danny LaPorte who was launching the 909 range of product, Danny pitched his idea to Bob. Build a 909 bike and hit the outdoors to promote 909.
Bobby decided to roll with the idea. Goose's mechanic was gone and I was pulled in to come wrench for Bob. We used Goose's bike as a base and with time dialed it in for Bob. While his fitness was not where it should have been he nevertheless was fast.
The dream started to derail - Varner, Bobby and myself were out testing carburators one day (a few weeks out from the start of the outdoors) when Bob went down hard and injured his shoulder.
That appeared to be the end of Danny's promo.
Come Glen Helen and Bob decided to give it a go. He was on pace in practice but his shoulder was still hurting so he decided to call it a day....or season..
Then came Mount Morris...Bob wanted another shot.
Both motos he was running top five before fading. The speed was there but not the fitness.
It was fun whilst it lasted and I stand to be corrected but that was Bob's last pro race.
Sadly, pictures of the bike are rare. We did do a professional photo shoot at a studio with the bike but can't remember where or who shot the pics.
Bob Moore is a great guy and it was a privilege to be part of that deal. Awesome memories.
Don’t happen to have a seat cover laying around? Im thinking of doing mine in a replica
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Moore, Vohland, Brown and others, should have cleaned up in AMA Outdoors seeing as all they did was ride/race motocross... That's what Daniel Blur would say.
*The new thing (after listening to PulpMX yesterday) is to suggest the European riders looked like goons back in the day. Nice work Blair. Dude's not too bright.
And its not like Blair was that good himself.
Think he does a great job on SX live but his take on world MX is woeful... its refreshing to hear JT$ tell it like it is over here and Weege also gets it.
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I will send him a link to this thread, he gets a kick out of it, as he doesn’t really do social media or forum boards.
On a side note, I saw him lose his cool once and it was effing funny. We all new who the guilty party was except for Bobby....and I doubt he ever found out.
One fine afternone in the Race Semi, Bobby went to the heads and found it properly blocked. He was not impressed, in his own words, " who the eff wipes their butthole 15 times" Lots of giggles went round and in one corner sat little Danny Smith with a smile on his face.
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funny that you know Bobby, I ran into him and i believe it was his dad at a desert practice track east of scottsdale AZ back in like 95/96 time frame i think it was. He had a lowered dually PU and they were high centered in a large rain rut when they tried to turn around. He comes over and asks if we can pull them out and introduced himself as bob moore and my jaw hit the floor, I asked him, your bobby moore? like former world champion bobby moore... I think he was more surprised that I knew who he was out in the middle of the ft mcdowell indian reservation on a blown out lame locals desert practice track!
Any way i’m sure he doesn’t remember that at all but i do... was a really cool memorable experience for me!
edit: i didn’t realize this was an old thread when i posted the same story as had above... at least i told it the same twice!
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