Hey, heres something different......

dirtnapper
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1/10/2012 10:51pm Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 8:21am
A1 and the mayhem on Vital that followed has been the subject of most threads, but heres something moto - related for the guys that ACTUALLY race out there.

Just wondering, what # do you guys run, and is there any reason to why you have that number? Is it a good luck thing to keep running the same number or do you switch it up every year?

My first year in Novice class I ran # 270, pretty much because those were the only numbers left in our local Yamaha shop!
Since then, I have had # 717 on all my bikes that I have raced. For no real reason, other then #17 was my number in High School, and I've always like the number 17, so I just added an extra 7!

( and it has nothing to do with liking Stewy - I had 717 while he was still running 259. I've been told I must be a superfan cause I have two 7's in my number.......... Whistling )
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WillyB
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1/10/2012 10:55pm
#111

Why?

My favorite rider as a kid.
EvanR127
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1/10/2012 11:02pm
#127

It was the number that came on my first big bike (02 RM125)

Its looks pretty cool and I am a fan of 3 digits like TP199, so it just grew on me.
wildbill
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1/10/2012 11:05pm
#4 on my 97 KX-250 until some lil redheaded fucker took it from me.
yz763
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1/10/2012 11:06pm
#763

It's the last three numbers on my AMA card. I've had it my whole life and I have only seen 2-3 others running it.

The Shop

1/10/2012 11:18pm
#345

The guy that taught me how to ride when i was 8 years old ran No.45... i used to watch him at the local races and think what an absolute legend, i`m gonna be No.45 when i grow up!

Then it became 345 when i realised you had to be actual fast to run 2 digits. The "3" cause i like the look of it.
josh8811
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1/10/2012 11:29pm
My current number is 101.. I picked it from a list of what was available. I did want a 3 digit number
burba437
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1/10/2012 11:36pm
ive ran 437 my whole lifewhen we were trying to figure it out for my first year racing snocross we were gonna make a team with our friend who were 837 and 737 and i pick 437 and thats been my number ever sence and dont ever plan on changing it
GmacNw
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1/10/2012 11:53pm
#971
Larry Ward's first pro number
gharmon
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1/11/2012 12:09am
33 is my number. I grew a fan of Tony Dorsett of the Dallas Cowboys and he wore number 33. I put it on my first bike cause of him. I've just always used it since. I was like 10-12 then so give me a break. Haven't been an NFL fan since then but the number always stuck.
S.Loyer
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1/11/2012 12:15am
I run 824 in honor of Ricky James.
haggard
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1/11/2012 12:18am
643, last three digits on AMA card. Cassandra Regal,(WMX) sister of Kyle Regal and Oswald (sx) are the only others i have seen with it.
Bronson905
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1/11/2012 12:29am
Been running #905 since I rode 65's, before that I was #111 because of Langston.
seth505
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1/11/2012 1:06am
I was born on may 5th so 505. My first was 199, then pastrana blew that one up so I took 399 for a while.
twister
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1/11/2012 2:24am
My son is 163
1 is for Jean Sebastian Roy and 63 for Jolene Van Vugt.
I am 164.Born dec.1 1964
1/11/2012 2:38am
I started racing in 1995 so I ran number 95 for a while. Then when I turned pro in 2004 I added a 4 to it and I've been running number 495 ever since. Cool
jamma10
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1/11/2012 2:58am
Had a loads of numbers over the years, 509 is my current no. but for no particular reason at all. Smile
EZZA 95B
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1/11/2012 3:31am
For a few years I ran 99 but when I would fall my dad would say, " you are upside down so often you should have number 66". I no longer run that number.
1/11/2012 4:18am
11 because it is the number i got stuck with during basketball season last year and it started to grow on me so i decided to use that number for motocross as well.
Shawn142
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1/11/2012 4:29am
Currently run 115 because 1/15 is my wedding anniversary. Anything that makes the wife happy, because a happy wife lets me ride more.
mxRob
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1/11/2012 4:32am
I started with 556 and ran that for a couple of years, then last year I had to change and took 545. I think 545 looks better but 556 is more ''me''.
Mx4life320
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1/11/2012 5:09am
I started racing in 2000 using my birthday, march 20, or 320.. Then i got tired of the 3 digit number and just use 20 now.
Mx4life320
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1/11/2012 5:10am
Shawn142 wrote:
Currently run 115 because 1/15 is my wedding anniversary. Anything that makes the wife happy, because a happy wife lets me ride more.
smart!!
RACESTH639
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1/11/2012 5:11am
started with number 6 because it was my brothers number then moved out of 85 and supermini years ago and had to choose a new number because 6 was taken so i took my old number and put my fathers number at the end of it making me number 639. been that number for almost 10 years now and actually inked it on my arm. Hope that if I get a pro license I can have that same number lol
ga_pike
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1/11/2012 5:27am
I always ran 135 because that was the number assigned to me by the AMA (last 3 digists of my AMA number was the rule back then). At Loretta's over the years, I was assigned 56, 51, 33, and 31... I ran 33 a couple of times there. I liked 33 because my dad thought it was cool because it on the back of the Rolling Rock bottle. FWIW, my numbers in other sports have been 51, 33, and 15.
Kryan5
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1/11/2012 5:33am
Back in the day on mini's i was always #5. Was always my fathers number so, me always wanting to be like dad choose it too. Fast forward 15 years and i got married. Like Shawn said, keep the wife happy to ride more. Well her favorite number was 23. So now i'm 523.
Mxfreak24
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1/11/2012 5:35am
I run 24 on my 250f because that was my dad's favorite number to run when he raced back in the day and I always wanted to do everything like my dad, plus it's just a good looking number. I'm going to run 424 on my 110 because it still has 24 in it but it just looks awesome on plates.
bv
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1/11/2012 5:42am
Started racing as #69. Not for the reason you may be thinking but because when we started racing it was me, my dad, his friend perry and his friends son brad. His friend perry was 99 then when my dad started racing he needed a number for the day so he took two of his friends 9's flipped em and got 66. Brad started racing and did the same thing and ended up with 96. So that left me with 69. As I grew older I kind of realized it was a bit "goonish" plus I plan on racing till im 50 and didnt really want to look like an old perv with 69.
So then I switched it up to 941. The 9 was to kind of stay in touch with the old number the 4 was for the first number I ever had on a bike when I used to just ride in the yard as a little kid. And the 1 was because I had just one a championship at our local track.
Now I'm switching it up to 51. Kind of going back to the way I first got a racing number. My Dad has since changed his number to 105 and I wanted a two digit number so hence how I got 51.
1/11/2012 5:54am Edited Date/Time 1/11/2012 5:55am
102......Thats me and my wife's anniversary, She always likes when my orders come in from Decal works, likes them enough not to question the PRICE !!!!!!!!!!! My first number ever was 473, because those were the numbers the dealer had in stock
DoctorJD
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1/11/2012 5:57am
I used to run #32, that is, until I went to my first big AMA race in 77'. I had to add a number since 32 was already taken, so I added a "1" and ran that number (321) through 88' when I quit racing. No, I don't race, but I still carry my old number on my "professional practice bike."

Me, circa 1979:



My bike now:

1/11/2012 6:02am
Went with 727 for my daughters birthday. She runs 22 cause she is a Reed fan.

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