Your biggest Moto accomplishment??

Scotty
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8/5/2008 8:46pm Edited Date/Time 8/19/2015 9:35am
What is the race or event that you are most proud of? Could be anything from racing moto to enduro or what ever.. I raced alot of moto over the years, but my favorite would have to be winning our class at the 06 Baja 500. It was just one of those days, the one where everything just goes perfect. Nothing was going to stop us. Haven't had a race like that since! Smile What was your favorite time?
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CR250Rider
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8/5/2008 9:18pm
10th in the stump jumpers desert 100, but that was like 18 years ago, lol
bhawkce
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8/5/2008 9:47pm
Punting my soon-to-be ex husband over a berm in a race in upstate NY. Yep that is my finest accomplishment!
Slow ~ Pro
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8/5/2008 9:55pm
Winning the "2003 World Endurance Title", beating factory Honda, Yamaha, and KTM
(no Kawasaki, or Suzuki, team) six, 12, and 24 Hour GP series.

Jason Abbott, a Vital member, and Cycle news test rider, was part of the team.

Won the 125 Expert class in the 1999, 24 hour GP on a Stock XR100
Won the 40 Expert class, in the 2004, 24 hour GP

teggers
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8/5/2008 10:01pm
Took a moto from The Bomber at a local race around '02. Best single moto I ever rode. Still smile about that.

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crowe176
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8/5/2008 10:19pm
Pre-running the entire Moose Run with Bill Gussie following me with a helmet cam, then watching the video of him laughing at me for 5 hours.
Slow ~ Pro
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8/5/2008 10:36pm
crowe176 wrote:
Pre-running the entire Moose Run with Bill Gussie following me with a helmet cam, then watching the video of him laughing at me for 5 hours.
Pre-running the entire Moose Run with Bill Gussie following me with a helmet cam, then watching the video of him laughing at me for 5 hours.
That's good shit, right there !!!
8/5/2008 11:28pm
Getting a 5th at a Mike Kidd pro arenacross Fri night, and backing it up on Sat night when I almost didn't ride Sat because my back was so sore from the night before.

I think it was in '98.
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8/6/2008 12:19am
Holeshot and led a lap in my first ever B race....against a gate full of really quick A's and B's...on a bone stock Elsie with no tires to speak of.
teggers
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8/6/2008 12:27am
Good stuff....completely pointless (myself included), but fun reading!
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8/6/2008 12:53am
Holeshot and lead the reigning Japan 125 National champ when he came to our local race. (total hometrack advantage but that don't matter !! hehe) Led almost the whole moto until my brake pedal fell off. I check it religiously ever since. He's now one of HRC's top riders. Kazumasa Masuda I was the A class champion for our region of Japan for a few years at the time.

Held off Albertyn for 1 lap during a ride day at Unadilla. Yeah, it was after he retired, and yeah, he was cruising and I was at the 120% ragged edge... but still it is what it is! hehe

Every once in a while I can steal a moto from DrMArk who is one of the smoothest riding ex-pros you'll ever see. Has to be one of the fastest +50 riders in the country.

Holeshot and went wire to wire both motos in the 125C class at Sleepy Hollow, PA back in the day. I know, no big deal. But it was unreal to me at the time. Those C class races were mass carnage back then. And my girlfriend was there and I have it on video!

But really, my biggest accomplishments are not the results, but the cool places I've been and cool people I've got to ride with. And most of all, that fact that I've been doing this about 30 years and still love it and get to do it!

70sSuperstar
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8/6/2008 2:18am Edited Date/Time 8/6/2008 2:19am
that would be 34 seasons without any life threatning injuries.
perumx
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8/6/2008 3:52am
superstar, thats the best acomplishment right there.
For me it was to be peruvian 125 champion in 1980.
Also third in south america in 1978.
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8/6/2008 4:03am
I got 2nd at Unadilla in the novice class my first yr racing at 24 yrs old . There was qualifiers and everything, there was like 90 people for the 125 c class, and I thought I would be lucky to qualify.

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8/6/2008 4:45am
The first time I ever holeshot.......everything just came together, I rode smooth and won the moto by 20 seconds. I was a C rider at the time but it was a great feeling.
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8/6/2008 5:09am
Good reading guys and gals. Have a great day!
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8/6/2008 5:21am
I've only actually won a total of 2 motos in my illustrious moto career, but some of my favorite races were some pretty sweet come from behind rides, some where you know if you got a better start you would have smoked everyone. Either that or my first holeshot, led the first 3 laps, crashed, then they red flagged it after someone ate shit. Restart, holeshot, led 4 laps, then crashed. Nothing like that feeling of coming over the first jump, nobody in front of you.
jndmx
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8/6/2008 5:27am
Watching my son take his first holeshot and the huge smile that was on his face after the race.
That far outstrips anything I have ever done on a bike.
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8/6/2008 5:45am Edited Date/Time 8/6/2008 5:32pm
My was the first race on 2 wheels was at Gateback ,I let the line go them I went 1 guy on the other side of the starter box that I did't see hit the gate so he was late off. He slam me in the first turn. I was going so slow the I was talking to the flager and they would talk to me .. I won the atv national in 1988 and my son won the atv national and LL in 1989
MXDAD140
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8/6/2008 5:50am
Winning the 80cc class at the nma grand national championship event in 1976 in springfield missouri.
bogdan912
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8/6/2008 5:51am
Made three AX Mains this past season, 2 lites and 1 AX class.
jay_547
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8/6/2008 6:06am
several of my friends are woods riders but i've always been a motocrosser. about once or twice a year, i would go ride woods with them but never really cared much for it. their club holds an annual qualifier-format enduro. one year, most of them were working it but they talked me into competing. i told the sign-up people that i had been racing mx for fifteen years but had never raced off-road. i asked what class to run and they said run 40+c. it turned out to be the biggest class of the day.

i had no idea what i was doing. i stuck some plastic handguards on my bike and rode it with the wide bars and mx gearing and suspension. i was the only bike on my row so i didn't have anyone to pace. i just pretended like i was riding with my friends and rode that pace.

after the race was completed, i went up to the scoring tent to see how i'd finished. i felt like i did okay, never crashed or stalled, no real problems. they had the score cards listed in order of finish. i started looking at about mid-pack but couldn't find my name. i looked back to last place but it wasn't there either. i thought maybe they lost my sheet. i finally found it. i had won! my times were good enough that i would've finished third in 40+b. i was really surprised. i never expected that. when they were handing out the awards, they said, "first place, jay bissell. the motocrosser."

that was in '01. to this day, that was the only official off-road race i've ever done.
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8/6/2008 6:14am
jndmx wrote:
Watching my son take his first holeshot and the huge smile that was on his face after the race. That far outstrips anything I have ever...
Watching my son take his first holeshot and the huge smile that was on his face after the race.
That far outstrips anything I have ever done on a bike.
Well put!
motogrady
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1990 or 91, just squeaked top 10 in Dist 7 40plus.
BMSOB
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8/6/2008 6:23am Edited Date/Time 8/6/2008 6:23am
Got lapped twice in the rain by Torsten Hallman at the Willseyville enduro 66'.Laughing
8/6/2008 6:56am
Beating a local hero at a local track in front of all my friends who always told me I'd never be able to beat him. Truth be told, he was actually faster than I was (I rode 125, he rode 250) but he was laying back until the last lap. He cut underneath me in the final turn tyring to take me out but after the dust settled, he was the one on the ground and I grabbed the win.

I also met my wife of 13 years at that race.

Another one I'll always remember is practice day before the Pro Shootout in Tyler. KW just signed his Yamaha contract and was riding his new stock Yamis. He passed me and I passed him back in the next corner. We spent the rest of practice showing each other different lines around the track. I finally ran out of tear-offs and pulled off to clear my goggles. KW rode up to the top of the hill, looked back and gave me a thumbs up. He was definately faster but just the fact that he thought I was fast enough to play with was pretty cool.
8/6/2008 7:07am
My older brother has always been faster then me on a bike, on trails and tracks he always kills me. We went to a track with his at the time soon-to-be wife was videotaping, I passed him in a corner and completely ran away from him. There was no way you could wipe the smile off my face that day, and the fact that I got it on tape makes it that much sweeter.
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8/6/2008 7:09am
I've had at least a dozen top 5 overall finishes in the yearly regional points standings, from Beginner all the way to Pro.

I've raced for ten years and never had a serious injury.
8/6/2008 7:11am Edited Date/Time 8/6/2008 7:12am
1999, or was it 2000... cant remember.... I think 1999, cause my YZ400 was new... Anyways, that season, I won Most sportsmanlike rider, most outstaning rider, and got third overall in the 250expert class, in our local series. And, I recieved a broken back two races from the end of the series, as well as tore my pelvis cartilige in two. That hurt. Still got third, even with missing a couple races though. Gooooooood times. Man, I miss those days.

Oh, and I ended up first overall in 30+ vet expert, what ever you want to call it.

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