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Fast Freddie Vertucci was right there with them and the battles Gurga and Vertucci (Thunder Ridge??) had on some local tracks were epic...
on his 250 4 stroke....I vote Jammer and i prefer 2 strokes.
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Dont forget Richy Coons Factory Honda won the Southwick National. with a broken collarbone caught and past Barnett
maroney by far was the most exciting rider to watch Team PDQ the White Night on a 465 at Unadilla not to mention the paddle tire on his Fox Suzuki
and at a local level remember pitting next to him a the old Monticello track that guy was amazing he had to flat tires and still spanked everyone, I remember him at Claverack he had such a lead pulled over took his face mask down drank a few sips of a beer let the 2nd place rider go buy waited and then took off passed him back it was just funny stuff.
Dont forget Richy Coons Factory Honda won the Southwick National. with a broken collarbone caught and past Barnett
maroney by far was the most exciting rider to watch Team PDQ the White Night on a 465 at Unadilla not to mention the paddle tire on his Fox Suzuki
and at a local level remember pitting next to him a the old Monticello track that guy was amazing he had to flat tires and still spanked everyone, I remember him at Claverack he had such a lead pulled over took his face mask down drank a few sips of a beer let the 2nd place rider go buy waited and then took off passed him back it was just funny stuff.
Dont forget Richy Coons Factory Honda won the Southwick National. with a broken collarbone caught and past Barnett
maroney by far was the most exciting rider to watch Team PDQ the White Night on a 465 at Unadilla not to mention the paddle tire on his Fox Suzuki
and at a local level remember pitting next to him a the old Monticello track that guy was amazing he had to flat tires and still spanked everyone, I remember him at Claverack he had such a lead pulled over took his face mask down drank a few sips of a beer let the 2nd place rider go buy waited and then took off passed him back it was just funny stuff.
friends with him and ride (try too lol) with him often!
and dont forget Charles Ellis! lol
New Yorkers winning AMA Nationals are Weinert (7), Defeo (2) and Higgins (2) Justin Barcia (1) and Scott Sheak (1). Weinert won 4 Supercross races and Justin Barcia has won 2. Sonny finished 9th overall in the 1975 Supercross Series 250 class and Barry Higgins finished 4th overall Supercross Series 500 Class in 1975. For example Paul Carpenters highest finishes ever on the National Scene is a 5th place and 6th place. I am sure he names being talked about on this post are good guy and outstanding riders. However, comparing all these younger guys on the with Jimmy Weinert is ridiculous. We know the numberes 3 National Titles and the first American to win a Inter Am Race against the Europeans. Sonny and Barry won and finished top ten multilple times in Supercorss, AMA National Motocross and Inter AMA. So how can people vote for these other guys who can't shine the shoes of Weinert, Defeo, Higgins and the Stacy brothers. I rode with Sonny and Barry and was at the Florida Inter-Am in 1971 with Weingert, Higgins and Defeo. Big timers. All three great guys. The numbers don't lie.
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He was killed while bicycle training on the road in Rochester NY before a Unadilla race.
First you can't compare because the bikes today are about 100% better. So who can say Barcia, is faster then Weinert, Higgins, DeFeo of Bob ( Mongoose) Ismalouf?
In the early days of scrambles, Bob and I traveled to Montocello, N.Y. a place called Holiday Mt., a ski resort. This course was up one side of the mountain and down the other side. I believe this is the first time we experienced motocross, but didn't know it. So Bob riding a Sacks 80cc, with leading link, real cool back then and me on my super cool Honda 160, how do you say ouch!
That day Bob was a winner beating many bikes much more powerful. Fast forward and Bob shows up a upstate scrambles with the first CZ 360. In that era all open class bikes were 4 strokes, hehe. Well when Bob beat the field, they crier foul! It was clearly the start of a new era, the motocross era.
So if I had to pick the fastest of that era, it would have to be Barry Higgins. At Pepperal, each year they had the East/West shootout. They came from all over the east and west coast, even Johnny Lee from Florida. Riders like Gary Bailey, John DeSoto, and so many more. But on the rough Pepperal course no one was better than Barry Higgins.
See 'My History of American Motocross" www.pinterest.com/yorkt
And I forgive anyone who didn't pick Jimmy Weinert in this thread. Sorry you're too young to remember the legend.
Barcia is a jersey boy
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