Your favorite era

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FroDiddy 6/13/2018 3:15am
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90s. It was fun. It was my childhood. The sport had way more personality then.

Not to mention the Terrafirmas, Crusty's, Disturbing the Peace and other VHS classics.

A fantastic era!
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pkiczuk 6/13/2018 3:26am
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born in 86, started watching moto when I was about 5-6, so right when Showtime was breaking onto the scene and it was absolutely mesmerizing watching him race. seeing a knack knack was incredible at the time haha. Soon after, Jeffro on a kawasaki became my favorite rider, and I've been a Kawi ever since. Any bike I bought, still to this day, had to be team green.

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PRM31 6/13/2018 3:49am
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Hannah, Smith, Barnett, Bailey, Glover, Howerton, Sun, Ward, Hansen, O’Mara, Johnson. 1978-1983ish were the years I most closely followed the racing. Bikes evolved more in those few years than in the next 20+ years. Fond memories.
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roninho 6/13/2018 5:16am
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Second half of the 80's. I was a young kid but old enough to remember, and as a kid things have a much bigger impact compared to when you get older. It was an era were MX was way more popular over here, we had a dutch world champ in 86, 87 and 88, 20k visitors at gps, and races were shown on sunday evening on the national tv network. Add in that the 500cc class was great with Malherbe, Thorpe, Jobe, Geboers and Carlqvist. My family took me to gp's in the UK, Belgium and obviously the Netherlands.

My dad and uncle lost interest at the end of the 80s and i was to young to go by myself so i eventually lost interest as well in the early 90s. I must say that is the great thing of the internet today, its so easy to watch any event nowadays. Back then i went to the bookstore and read the american mag's untill the store threw me out
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Drtbykr 6/13/2018 7:18am
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I never thought I would forget my first, The Hurricane but;

JS7, especially on green.

He and that “slow” gritty guy were their own worse enemies after a while. Entertaining and frustrating as it gets.
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ATKpilot99 6/13/2018 8:07am
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I also liked the 90s for the gps. Still 3 classes and you had the big 4 strokes against the 2 strokes in the open class.
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jeffro503 6/13/2018 8:15am
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Bailey , Ward , RJ , Barnett , Omara , Glover , Lechien......yeah , for me , that era was the coolest thing ever.
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Radman66 6/14/2018 5:24pm
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Radman66 wrote:
2000-2005. RC elevated the sport, Stewart brought in a super exciting style that changed the sport forever. Then came the 4 strokes. 2005 sticks out in...
2000-2005. RC elevated the sport, Stewart brought in a super exciting style that changed the sport forever. Then came the 4 strokes. 2005 sticks out in my mind, with James on a kx250 bangin bars with the 450's. exciting stuff
Ericrob7 wrote:
What year did JS7 get the 450? I was @ RedBud and remember him chasing around RC on the 2 stroke Kawi. Was that the year...
What year did JS7 get the 450? I was @ RedBud and remember him chasing around RC on the 2 stroke Kawi. Was that the year before RC retired?
James rode his rookie season in the big boy class on a kx250 in 2005. He was on a 450 starting with the 2006 sx season. You must've been at Red Bud in 05, in which I believe was the year James got into it with Windham and the crowd booed him badly. Damn time flies, crazy to think that was 13 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. I think RC retired after the 06 season, and did his farewell tour in '07 with limited stops on the sx tour.
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Ericrob7 6/14/2018 5:28pm
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Radman66 wrote:
2000-2005. RC elevated the sport, Stewart brought in a super exciting style that changed the sport forever. Then came the 4 strokes. 2005 sticks out in...
2000-2005. RC elevated the sport, Stewart brought in a super exciting style that changed the sport forever. Then came the 4 strokes. 2005 sticks out in my mind, with James on a kx250 bangin bars with the 450's. exciting stuff
Ericrob7 wrote:
What year did JS7 get the 450? I was @ RedBud and remember him chasing around RC on the 2 stroke Kawi. Was that the year...
What year did JS7 get the 450? I was @ RedBud and remember him chasing around RC on the 2 stroke Kawi. Was that the year before RC retired?
Radman66 wrote:
James rode his rookie season in the big boy class on a kx250 in 2005. He was on a 450 starting with the 2006 sx season...
James rode his rookie season in the big boy class on a kx250 in 2005. He was on a 450 starting with the 2006 sx season. You must've been at Red Bud in 05, in which I believe was the year James got into it with Windham and the crowd booed him badly. Damn time flies, crazy to think that was 13 years ago and I remember it like it was yesterday. I think RC retired after the 06 season, and did his farewell tour in '07 with limited stops on the sx tour.
Thats right!!! I completely forgot about that incident, thanks for the reminder. Making me feel old now!!! I think Townley won that 250 race, but maybe im wrong. thanks bro
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drt410 6/14/2018 5:36pm
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BobPA wrote:
I do not like watching anything pre Stewart. The old riding style reminds me of today's squids...Even though they were hauling the freight.
So true lol. Especially the 80s. God forbid someone did a boner air off a double the announcer would go nuts. Every time I watch I wonder if I could beat them. It has to be 2000s on. Id say from Mike Brown on his pro circuit 125 until now is when modern mx took form and those races still watch like modern ones do. Watching Jeremy is great but his comp was ass outside top 5 so hes really the only one worth watching. Even then there were no scrubs so it watches different. From early 200s on the track designs are modern but tbh James Stewart created modern mx so anything after him is when real modern mx started. Now everyone scrubs all the time including GP guys. Before him people werent doing that so from him on is when real modern mx started.
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loftyair 6/14/2018 5:42pm
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Hannah, Glover, Barnett, Ward, Magoo, Bailey, Omara, Lechien. When Johnson, then Stanton took over....it was over. They were end of top-ten when all others got hurt/retired.
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Flip109 6/14/2018 6:23pm
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I just wish the sport had not turned fourstroke so fast for Stewart. We were in for some absolutely epic racing. Then they all got on 450s and it just wasn’t as wide open anymore. It was good but can you imagine RC and Stew matched up outdoors on 250 smokers! Watching stew carry momentum around a track ringing the life out his two strokes was the shizzzznit

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