A few old pics of my racing days

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Zeke27G 1/31/2012 5:48pm
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Verry cool pics, I was just a few years behind you, but I had a lot of the same gear.
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Stooperbike 2/6/2012 8:40am
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Very cool, its neat to see you when you were a kid on a 60 then progress up to a 250. I like how you kept the same number.

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wpark89 2/7/2012 10:42am
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Awesome man. We must be close to the same age.

RM 80's from '87 until '91? Looks like big bikes about '92. That '93 RM 250 was scary.

Was the '89 or '90 the first year for the powervalve on the 80?

I raced a '90 then in '92 I got a new '93 RM 80. I raced it for half of '93 and then my dad got me a used '92 RM 125.

That winter we picked up an almost new '93 RM 125 and 250 that I raced for '94. Weird that I ended up racing every size of '93 RM. Finished 3rd at the first RM Cup in '95. Suzuki was great....good contingency....free Tony D School. They did the Good Scholar program and gave kids $500 Savings Bonds if you maintained a 3.0 gpa.
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2/8/2012 9:26am Edited Date/Time 2/8/2012 9:29am
wpark89 wrote:
Awesome man. We must be close to the same age. RM 80's from '87 until '91? Looks like big bikes about '92. That '93 RM 250...
Awesome man. We must be close to the same age.

RM 80's from '87 until '91? Looks like big bikes about '92. That '93 RM 250 was scary.

Was the '89 or '90 the first year for the powervalve on the 80?

I raced a '90 then in '92 I got a new '93 RM 80. I raced it for half of '93 and then my dad got me a used '92 RM 125.

That winter we picked up an almost new '93 RM 125 and 250 that I raced for '94. Weird that I ended up racing every size of '93 RM. Finished 3rd at the first RM Cup in '95. Suzuki was great....good contingency....free Tony D School. They did the Good Scholar program and gave kids $500 Savings Bonds if you maintained a 3.0 gpa.
Ha! We actually just cashed in all the Suzuki bonds I had from those years. I also spent a lot of time with Tony D. Went to my first school on 60's at Steel City and eventually got to spend 6 weeks travelling with him one summer for schools. That was one of my highlights because I got to see a bunch of places I'd never been. He used to give me crap for not wearing Malcom Smith stuff, but I had a support deal with AXO.

I always used 135 because that was what I understood was my # per the AMA (last 3 of your AMA number). So the #12 was before I got my AMA membership.

I feel very blessed to have been as fortunate as I was throughout my racing days. I grew up in what I considered a hotbed of MX with Big Dave Coombs and family as close friends. You can see Big Dave in the picture on the High Point starting line in the top right wearing all blue with his hands on his hips. The guy in short jeans shorts yelling is Mike Sweat (Josh Sweat's R.I.P. father). We moved to Georgia when I was in 8th grade and I got to ride with Matt Walker, Shea Bentley, and Ricky Carmichael on a regular basis. RC and I both rode at a track in Monticello, FL that was private. We had some really fun "block pass" games out there!

And WPARk... I love that old Simisalo gear!
I haven't had a bike since I left for college in 1996. Being 34 now, I'm really getting the itch again and just started coaching a kid here locally. They have a great track about 10 minutes away from my house so I'm gonna start looking for an early 2000's RM 250 so I can go have some fun.
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