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Dressed my teddy bear up as Roger Decoster to take to the Trans-Am race at Honda Hills (bear stayed in the station wagon).
71 CT 70 handed down to me (after my brother got a SL100 and took the lights off).
Attended Trans-Am at Mid-Ohio (not the race car course) when track originally ran counter-clockwise (later clock-wise).
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you might be old school if:
you ever held an NML license
your first race was on a converted enduro bike, number plates held on with plumbers brackets, orange kmart full face and cheese goggles, linemans boots and blue jeans.
hondaline leathers, jofa mouthpiece, jofama jersey
modern cycling posters on the wall
seeing jawas, cz's, can-ams, maicos, bultacos, ossas, hodakas all over the place
amatuer classes include 100 cc, 125, 175, 200, 250 and open
there were only 2 mini classes ... jr and sr
usgp boots, jofa shoulder pads, hallman chest protector
gunner gasser, lectron carberaturs, barum tire, cross up swingarm, yamalube oil, make it sano with miller mano, jeff ward racing products, aj whiting racing, ec birt,
jeff ward racing the mini o's which was called the winternationals which was held in jacksonville
jeff ward racing the nma qualifiers in tuscaloosa
watching david baileys first 250 am race at 14 years old at indian mound during the nml winter series, got third in the mud.
You laid down the shock AND extended the damper rods on said CR125
You wore leather boots, leather pants, leather gloves, cotton jerseys, open face helmets with a snap on visor.
baja acres michigan !
pontiac supercross-amature day, back when the pro's raced sat. and sun.
Great bikes, and rare even back then.
At one point your favorite rider was Pierre Karsmakers.
Wore a Vizor-Vu
Wore gaiters like Johnny O
When the Carlsbad USGP was the biggest race of the year
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Lots of good memories at all of those tracks though.. some bad too. Broke my collarbone in two spots at SIR (right in front of the stands), and I broke my femur at Jolly Roger's. Messed up part about when I broke my femur is that I was dialing in a new bike with my friend Travis (TBT), and even with the broken femur I wouldn't let him drive my truck home.. LOL. Apparently it was my baby. It was just he and I there (we had a key), that kinda sucked. I actually moved from Kent 2 years ago.. We used to have a house in The Lakes facing where Jolly Roger's was.
Fremont...good times!
Thanks for reminding me.
-The stories of the vomit coloured Toyota Dirt bike Magazine truck.
- How Andre Malherbe won the 500 world championship. He knocked Brad Lacky down to do it.
-The Unadilla hill people.
-Dangerous Darrel Shultz wearing a halo neck brace and still racing.
-Ross Pederson winning everything here in Canada.
-Black and whit tv. You had to get off your lazy ass, walk over to the tv to change the chanal. We only had two chanals
- watched Marty moats win the USGP at Carlsbad in 1980 live on Wide world of sports.
-Sue fish was the ladies champion. Speaking of her, does anyone know what she's up to these day's.
You rode a bike that was 1 up 4 down at Escape Country while dodging hang gliders.
I had a 1980 CR125R for years that was exactly like the 250 above and I honestly can't conjure any memories or recollections of what it was like to start a bike with the kickstarter on the left side. ...and that wasn't the only bike I have ridden like that.
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