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It's nice to see that same attitude in some of today's current riders, like Andrew Short and Weston Peick.
when i was racing in norcal i put the hurt on richter at argyle park. i really thought i was cool beating richter straight up and clean and i was acting like a big shot. my dad told me to stfu..."when you beat dick mann straight then you can brag". two weeks later back at dixon again i beat bugsy straight up...my dad looked at me and said "stfu son" and smiled. sure i was 16 and mann was 66...big deal.
one of the greatest motorcycle racers (ALL KINDS OF MOTORCYCLES) the world has ever seen or will ever see imho.
We should remember that prophetic statement every time we start asking why motocross isn't like NASCAR.
The most fun I ever had on two wheels came years later when I discovered what The Mann had known back on that day.Your victories come only in participation..
Anyway, this day Dick Mann put on a riding clinic. Riding one of his Mann framed TT500s, he just schooled the open expert class. Taking lines nobody else even saw, feet on the pegs, carving smooth arcs through the turns. IIRC, I was pitted just along the straightaway after the first turn, the one that led you into the sand pit (where Lance Burgess (RIP) broke his foot a month or so before.) There was a little hook to the right, just at the end, before you dropped into the pit. Well, this straight was nice and smooth throughout practice, but it didn't last long. By the second set of motos it was huck-a-buck city. Mann came through there smooth as silk, never got out of shape, didn't look that fast but he was running away with it. Outside to inside, inside to outside, never really shutting off, looked like a ballroom dancer chased by a bunch of pogo-heads.
After he took the checkered flag, he rode his bike back to the line, where they'd held the gate, er, rubber band, for him, and did the same thing again! I can't remember what class this would have been, over 30 maybe? I don't remember him changing bikes, but it was a long time ago now.
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