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Just listened to it last night start to finish, I usually don't do that. It's an excellent listen with a very talented man, he happens to be very humble too. I remember seeing him in the pages of MXA all the time. I've always been a fan of his, even more after I listened to him for an hour. Give it a listen, well worth the time.
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I was living in Phoenix in 1980 and I was 23. My brother-in-law and I drove to So Cal with our bikes to go to the Carlsbad GP (that's another great story). We left a day early so we could go ride at Saddleback on the Friday before the GP. When we got there about 8:00 in the morning there was nobody there. We parked and went out and rode the track by ourselves. When we came back in after a couple quick rides, we were sitting there and I saw a truck coming into the park. When it got closer I realized it was a Suzuki factory box van. They pulled up 100 or so feet from us. I was so excited as I didn't know who it was. Finally they got out and it was Brian Myerscough and his mechanic Chris Haines. When they opened up the box van we went over to look. Chris rolled out a brand knew Suzuki RH250 Full Floater. It was the first time for Brian to ride the bike as he was a 125 specialist. We introduced ourselves and talked for a little bit while Chris prepped the bike and Brian got dressed. He spun a few laps (Saddleback was dry, hard, slick and bumpy). After a few rides he had a big crash. We ran over to him and lucky he was ok just had a raspberry from his wrist to his elbow. It was gnarly. Brian was there getting the bike set up for him as he was going to ride the 250 support class at the GP. As you know the GP was amazing with Marty Moats winning both motos in the 500 GP and becoming the first American to do so. But what was also really cool for me was that Brian won the support class on that factory Suzuki. It was probably the best weekend of my life.
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It was great to hear him tell his side of the story and like many others I knew of his sickness but did not realize it was caused by overtraining back then.
He was such a natural talent and was smooth as butter his gear was always top notch and him and Jeff Jennings were style Kings in Southern Cal.
I dig that picture above check out his wrist it's just pegged WFO!
Not many youngsters might not know this but Suzuki once ruled the Motocross World and those two Riders were part of that era.
I was at that 1986 Hollister race where Brian and Micky Diamond were going at it on 125's. On the last lap just before the finish Diamond jumped into this elevator shaft jump and flew from the top all the way to the bottom of it and hit hard going after Brian. I've never seen anyone do that before or since. It's a big G out if you do what Micky did. Brian help him off though!
Fun to listen to...
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As he said in the podcast he went by some real fast European Riders, caught and passed David Bailey. He was gapping him when he hit the proverbial wall with two laps to go but he still managed to be on the podium.
He did this on a Team Tamm Honda support ride as he was no longer a factory rider.
How different things might have been for his career if he would have held on to that lead....
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