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RC, Robbie Reynard, Kevin Windham, Casey Johnson, Craig Decker, Jeff Dement, Tommy Clowers, Buddy Antunez, Ezra Lusk, Alessi...all on 80s/85s at Ponca City...Great memories...
Pro things i've seen
Damon Bradshaw take out Chicken in Vegas
Bradshaw's yz 250 leaned up against a dumpster outside Indianapolis in 1992
Stewarts last National Win
Dungey's last supercross win
When ricky lapped the field
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6p5QRyzDQ
Visiting the Kawasaki rig in 2001 and seeing James just kind of hanging out taking in the sights, the year before he turned pro. He was wearing those over the top of the head Oakley sunglasses and was just kind of milling around alone while people were getting autographs from RC. My dad calls over to him and goes, “hey Bubba, we can’t wait to see you race here next year” and James just smiled, didn’t say anything, just nodded his head, pulled out a stack of stickers made by Oakley that just had his name on them, signed some and gave them to our family. He was super shy but had a huge smile on his face the entire time he was there.
The Shop
Watching RV win his first 450 race in Seattle in 2009 after watching him grow up racing here locally. Also it was one of his first if not the first race back since injury.
I was also out at Indian Dunes one day when the Jones family and their motorhome were there practicing. Gary was riding a Maico around the International track in a t-shirt, while his dad was on a 501 doing wheelies LOL
Talking to Gary later in the day he referred to the Shadow Glen track as shitty glen. I was very young and thought that was the funniest thing I had ever heard.
The first Superbowl of Motocross at the LA Coliseum in 1972.
I was at Carlsbad for Marty Moates historic GP win.
The Saddleback Massacre National when Bob Hannah was on a heavyweight pig YZ and Howerton was on a far superior Works Suzuki. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone ride so hard for two 45 min motos as Hannah did that day. He was on the edge and using every bit of the track and then some to beat Howerton. At one point he knocked Kent on his ass and afterwards I believe he said he tried to break his leg. I was around 20 years old back then and some of the crowd were running from one part of the track to the other to watch those two go at it.
Saw bubba cartwheel his bike at high point Lotta great races i ve been lucky enough to see in person
**Washougal 1990: JMB going OTB and breaking his arm (not a good experience but a historic one)
**Hangtown 2004: Roncada giving the 259 as much trouble as I had seen anyone give him to that point
**Hangtown 2008: JLaw's practice antics with RV. I saw JLaw jacking with RV and figured there'd be fireworks but not
like that. I was standing by where the big triple is today so I got a pretty good view of them wrastlin'.
**Glen Helen 2004: JS' first professional race on a four-stroke to end the terror campaign known as his 125 career
**Hangtown 1998: MC's last outdoor motocross win
**Glen Helen 2004: RC's last use of the number one plate
**Glen Helen 2005: Watched Alessi t-bone Tedesco then proceed to "delay" Ivan's remount.
**MX des Nations 2007: RC's last professional race coupled with RV's smoke show
**Budds Creek 2005: RC and JS trading paint and yelling at each other in practice with RC ending up with stitches
**I saw several first career wins with Hangtown being round 1 many times. ET, comes to mind but others are
escaping me
**San Diego SX 1994: Emig kicks Larocco in the head. Also, Ronnie Lechien's last SX.
**Seattle SX 1991: JMB simply walks away in the 250's and MC does the same on his 125. Legends
I'm sure I have more...
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Pit Row
And Chad Reeds last race in Melbourne. Seeing Reed retire had the whole stadium in Tears and then for him to pass on the torch the same night and be there for Jetts first ever pro race was cray and had so much meaning to it for us aussie fans. Wild night.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuKQc2elA8k
Saddleback. 1981...Golden State Series...
Danny Magoo Chandler.
On his YZ125.
There was the HUGE down-hill, Bonzai, I think?
...it was the left turn at the end of the long National Track start hill and...
DOWN you went. It was AWESOME!
Danny would SAIL down that thing like NO ONE ELSE! He'd fly down to the bottom as he ran away from EVERYBODY.
He'd do the same thing on his Maico in the 250(?) class, too.
Things like that weren't "Normal"...yet.
Yup. I was there for that. I think you Trans AM "reach back in time" took me back to those days. Thanks for that. Those days were amazing.
1987 MXdesNations honorable mention.
1. Las Vegas Supercross where ZO16 blocked passed Joey for the SX title. The Sam Boyd was rocking!!!!!
2. KROC's first race on the CRF 450R. MEC 2016
3. Hangtown MX 2015.... ET3 went on a terror.
4. Las Vegas Supercross: 1992 Bradshaw loses his shit and T Bones Chicken. If he just passed him, he wins the title (I know there's also Indy).
Can’t even really remember when that was, ‘18 or ‘19?
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