Guy B's riding credentials?

gnarwhip wrote:

Aside from his multiple Hell Track wins, he was teammates with Cru Jones. He also spent a few seasons on the Mongoose team with Bart Taylor...

Aside from his multiple Hell Track wins, he was teammates with Cru Jones. He also spent a few seasons on the Mongoose team with Bart Taylor and the Reynolds twins.

dsmith wrote:

i bet he's got lots of stories hangin around Stu Thomsen all the time....didn't you hang around with stu?

gsxr6 wrote:

Not a fan of the cr250 if I remember correctly. Got some hardware to prove it.....

GuyB wrote:

Well, let's just say there's a reason it's good that ML does our bike and product testing. ;) I've ridden and raced a fair amount, and...

Well, let's just say there's a reason it's good that ML does our bike and product testing.

I've ridden and raced a fair amount, and I'd say I qualify as terribly slow...on a good day. My earliest races were in the mid-70s, and most recent maybe six years ago.

I've owned everything from an XR80 (fun trail riding in the San Bernardino mountains) to a Hannah-era YZ250, and most recently an RM-Z250.

As others have mentioned, a lot of my background involved BMX, and after that, mountain biking. I was around for a lot of the formative days of both of those sports. The good news is, I get what it takes to go fast, but the bad news is that a lot of my technique is based there.

dsmith wrote:

i bet he's got lots of stories hangin around Stu Thomsen all the time....didn't you hang around with stu?

GuyB wrote:

I joined up with SE Racing after Stu left for Redline. I knew him better after I was done racing, but I can't say we hung...

I joined up with SE Racing after Stu left for Redline. I knew him better after I was done racing, but I can't say we hung out tons.

GuyB wrote:

Ha! I didn't have a problem with the bike. It was a self-inflicted deal. I screwed up. Funnier was my first job interview with TWMX. At...

Ha! I didn't have a problem with the bike. It was a self-inflicted deal. I screwed up.

Funnier was my first job interview with TWMX.

At that point I hadn't ridden for a few years. Swap invited me to come out riding with the crew at Elsinore as part of the interview process. I was handed some gear, boots, and a new YZ250F.

The first moto went fine. I was loving the bike, having fun, and really had no intention of trying to set the world on fire. I looked at it as a fun play day.

As for the second moto? I remember gearing up and kicking the bike over. After that? Nothing. I don't remember riding, the crash, ambulance ride, or X-rays. Apparently I was awake the whole time, but those memories are gone and never came back. I sort of came back online as they were wheeling me up to a room for the night. It took them a couple days to figure out that I had a fractured pelvis.

I didn't get the job that time around...though a few months later I heard from Swap again. They were looking to fill another spot, and wanted to talk to me again. But this time I didn't have to ride.

jeffro503 wrote:

Steve , did you know Monte Hill pretty well back in the day? There was also a local racer from out in my neck of the...

Steve , did you know Monte Hill pretty well back in the day? There was also a local racer from out in my neck of the woods named Bart Harrington that did quite a bit of traveling and racing. I believe Tim Judge ( from the Hutch " Judge series " frames ) was from Canby OR and was pretty well known out here too. Did you do any racing , or anything of that nature in the NW back in the day? On a side note : I think Bart is the one who started the bike gallery up here in Portland. I could be wrong on that , maybe he just raced for them. Been a long time.

jeffro503 wrote:

Steve , did you know Monte Hill pretty well back in the day? There was also a local racer from out in my neck of the...

Steve , did you know Monte Hill pretty well back in the day? There was also a local racer from out in my neck of the woods named Bart Harrington that did quite a bit of traveling and racing. I believe Tim Judge ( from the Hutch " Judge series " frames ) was from Canby OR and was pretty well known out here too. Did you do any racing , or anything of that nature in the NW back in the day? On a side note : I think Bart is the one who started the bike gallery up here in Portland. I could be wrong on that , maybe he just raced for them. Been a long time.

GuyB wrote:

From back at Josh's first pro race...I think Millville... Josh Hill (right), and his dad Monte. Back in late 1987, GuyB shot the cover photo of...

From back at Josh's first pro race...I think Millville...

Josh Hill (right), and his dad Monte. Back in late 1987, GuyB shot the cover photo of Monty, who used to be a GT-sponsored freestyler. Obviously the two-wheeled skills run in the family.



I did win a 14 & Over Open and trophy dash at a muddy ABA National in Tacoma in the late 70s, when it was pretty unheard of for a privateer to do that.

Brent Walk was on SE at the same time I was. I saw him earlier this year at (I think) Detroit.

I don't follow BMX much these days. If I do it's the old school stuff. Today's action is more like Supercross than motocross, and the paved berms and clipless pedals are pretty foreign to me.