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767. As in Boeing. Used to be my other ride.
He was #82....no idea why.
So when I started racing, seemed natural for that to be the "family number"
Wasn't an issue until I got older and was racing my brother, then I had to be #28
Here's the crazy coincidence, '82 just so happened to be my graduation year, so once I was in high school, the number took on a new meaning
Honestly, I just like the way the number looks. My AMA number is #181 which looks fine too. But most everyone at the track recognizes me by my number so I keep the #73.
(That's at the infamous Diamondback, in Cocoa Florida)
When I moved to A class I could make 3 number requests, I asked for 45, 39 and 1
....they sent 40.
Pit Row
My dad bought me a wrung out '84 CR60 when I was 12 to go racing. My parent's had divorced and I think it was an attention getter. After a race or two I had to get a number on it. A local guy in our neighborhood, Mike Harmon, was into stock car racing and he was number 24 at the time. His numbers were red glitter like on a bass boat hull. My brother rode by his garage one day and asked about numbers and Mike had some pre-cut 2s and 4s that were about 5" tall. I didn't want to be the same number so I swapped them and was 42. I cut a PILE of those numbers out of some 3M backed sticker material we bought from a sign shop in years to come.
After about two years I was a huge Rick Johnson fan but I was racing a KX80. Jeff Ward was number 3 then and I liked the way that big fat 3 looked on his Kawasaki, so I ran 3 from about '86 to '91 or so.
I got out of racing a while for college. When I started back riding, my older brother and I both bought new '98 YZ400s when they came out. I was 24 years old at the time and he was 31. I put 24 on mine and he put 31 on his. I thought it was neat that I'd started with 42 and was now 24.
It took a couple of years before I went to the races. When I did, I kept getting the question, "so, you're a Jeff Gordon fan?" N O P E. About that time, my first son was born on September 3rd of 1999. All of the serious guys racing were using three digit numbers so I changed my number to 903. I raced with that number up until 2015 when I stopped racing.
Last year, my youngest started riding more seriously with us and it was time to put numbers on his KTM200. My oldest son and I had both been running 903 since he started riding in 2004. I couldn't ask the youngest to run his older brother's number so I left 903 on my oldest boy's bike, put 908 on my youngest boy's bike, and 912 on mine. Our birthdays are all in September. It still looks odd to me to see 912 on my bike but It works better for all of us.
69, 111, 1, 11, 88, 96, 986, etc
A few years later I decide to try my hand at racing and thought maybe a Bible verse in Matthew would make sense. I did a search and when 5:14 (You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden.) matched my daughter's birthday, figured it wasn't going to get any better than that.
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