What hooked you?

motomike137
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5/7/2020 5:51am Edited Date/Time 5/7/2020 5:52am
Early seventies my buddy and his older brother got 125 and 250 elsinores. I liked motorsports and stick and ball sports equally as a kid. As soon I saw those bikes being ridden I realized that motocross was the coolest thing I'd ever seen and I had to get a bike!
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5/7/2020 5:54am

A local driving school with a bit of land next to it that was renting PWs, PW80s, QRs, quads, ATC. (what should do every driving schools)

I saw my father and brothers trying it when i was 3, got with them on a ATC a few times, then started on a PW at 3 and half. Rode almost 3 times 2 hours a week like that until i was 8, ended up kicked out of the school because i was riding too fast and scaring newbies, then moved up at almost 9 to a 80CR and was quite fast after only a few months on it.
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5/7/2020 6:06am
My dad bought a 1968 Honda 350 scrambler for himself and a 1968 Mini trail 50 for me, both were red and we rode them all over the mountain I live on. I used it on my paper route, it was a race every morning. I was hooked and when I was old enough to bag groceries I got a job and bought a TM 125. But, I was just like everybody else in my neighborhood, we all had dirt bikes and rode all over this mountain.
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RM Mike
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5/7/2020 6:07am
My first ride on a real bike on a real track. In 1977.

Madera Lakes on a friends 1977 RM125B.

Scared and thrilled.

The Shop

5/7/2020 6:27am
Spending countless hours drooling over late 90s 80cc bikes magazines....then hooning my 85 yz80 up and down the street (poor family 😂). Watching stretched out crustys 1 and 2 and all the Gary Semics VHS.his voice is still imprinted in my brain 😅
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5/7/2020 6:41am
12 years old. Flipping through the channels and came across the '97 Los Angeles supercross. Absolutely awestruck. Had no idea this "supercross/motocross" was even a thing. Dad loved motorcycles, but until that point had had showed little interest. He got me an XR200 shortly after and the love affair began, until I got my 98 YZ 125...then it turned to obsession
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5/7/2020 6:49am
I was born into the obsession. Youngest memory I have is my dad taking me around the back yard on his ‘89 or ‘90 rm125 and I told him to pop a wheelie. I was probably around 2 when that happened and it scared the crap out of me but I was hooked! Hooked enough that later on that summer I was spinning the back wheel on one of his bikes and decided my finger needed to go for a ride with the chain around the rear sprocket. that Christmas 1994 I got a Suzuki Jr50 and I was told the rule was I had to ride my pedal bike without training wheels before I could ride the dirt bike. Training wheels came off instantly!
TyRod
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5/7/2020 6:56am Edited Date/Time 5/7/2020 6:59am
Watching the "Wide World of Sports" broadcasts from the MX races at Carlsbad, CA, in the mid 70's!
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Teej317
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5/7/2020 7:01am
My 2000 yamaha ttr 90 was the hook for me as a 10 year old kid. I rode the wheels off that thing nonstop (even snapped the rear axle in half from jumping). So many great memories of coming home from school every day and just burning through countless tanks of gas.
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5/7/2020 8:31am
I'm still somewhat of a newbie to this whole sport but the 2018 Supercross Season. I was dating my ex at the time and he had been racing since he was little and his whole family rode dirt bikes/raced so safe to say, I was immersed into the sport quickly and that's what hooked me, especially once I went to Daytona SX that year.
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vet323
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5/7/2020 9:05am
When I was a toddler, my dad had a Trail 90 he used to give us kids rides on. Soon enough, I discovered that ABC Sports would show Evel Kenievel jumps once or twice a year on TV. I loved Evel and began to do jumps on my bicycle (I broke an axle every other week).
The neighbor kid got a clapped-out Arctic Cat mini bike and we rode the wheels off that thing. When I was 12, my dad bought a cheap at-1 Yamaha at an auction and I started riding that. I saw some kind of TV profile of Marty Smith (this was before cable, I don't know what show it was on) and there were mx racing clips. It was so awesome looking! I started buying Motocross Action and Dirt Bike mags and became obsessed.
My sister started dating my future brother-in-law and he was into bikes. His friend made me a deal I could afford on a 77 CR125 and it was all over! I still have that Elsinore to this day.
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davistld01
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5/7/2020 12:49pm Edited Date/Time 5/7/2020 12:50pm
I was hooked on dirt bikes the very first time I ever rode one. Period. Once I started racing, I began to live it, breathe it, and be totally absorbed with it.
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Chance1216
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5/7/2020 2:34pm
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/05/07/425778/s1200_397DA690_ECEE_46AB_BFC8_1406226E5C30.jpg[/img]

Been there. I pinch my barbs now so I can pull the hook out and avoid anymore Dr visits.
EngIceDave
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5/7/2020 2:39pm
My Uncle David, "The Unc"


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5/7/2020 2:42pm
EngIceDave wrote:
My Uncle David, "The Unc" [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/05/07/425823/s1200_IMG_1474.jpg[/img]
My Uncle David, "The Unc"


Everything about that shot is sick, but he really needed a beer in his hand.
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5/7/2020 2:43pm
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2020/05/07/425778/s1200_397DA690_ECEE_46AB_BFC8_1406226E5C30.jpg[/img]

Chance1216 wrote:
Been there. I pinch my barbs now so I can pull the hook out and avoid anymore Dr visits.
I was waiting for the fish hook...I think we have all been there before, at least once....
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burnside
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5/7/2020 2:51pm
Watching Terminator II
I wanted to be John O Conner so bad haha....
That film changed my life, well, at 12 years old, it gave my life direction.




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HuskyEd
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5/8/2020 11:25am
On Any Sunday. Sat through 2 showings of that movie. Then my first copy of Dirt Bike magazine.


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WCRider
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5/8/2020 12:36pm
Chips episode

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ama530
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5/8/2020 1:16pm
In 1973, my neighbor got a new Honda QA50 for his birthday. I was 6. I fell in love with the sound and watching him ride. He never let anyone ride it but that made the desire in me increase to get my own. I was fascinated by dirt bikes then and almost 50 years later, I am still in love with the sport. It is in our blood and it has become a brotherhood.
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TeamGreen
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5/8/2020 1:28pm
The Webb family lived a few doors down. Carabellas, Maicos, CZs, Zundaps, Monarchs, the earliest of Elsinores...

Yup, it's entirely their fault.

I couldn't possibly ever thank them enough.
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Nairb#70
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5/8/2020 1:36pm
Dad brought home an issue of Trail Rider magazine, a publication of NETRA (new england tral rider assoc.) around 1974. It covered the Berkshire ISDE and the pics of Ossa's, Fantic's, Hercules, DKW bikes and the story of the event really blew this 5 year old mind.
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Nairb#70
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5/8/2020 1:37pm
Dad brought home an issue of Trail Rider magazine, a publication of NETRA (new england tral rider assoc.) around 1974. It covered the Berkshire ISDE and the pics of Ossa's, Fantic's, Hercules, DKW bikes and the story of the event really blew this 5 year olds mind. Instantly hooked.
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