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How cool was that? I raced my 1971 CT1C Yamaha 175 sans lights of course. Earned second place by golly!
One cat had a Monark 125, with a Sachs motor.
Another guy raced the first mono shock Yamaha (1975) OMG, everyone thought he had an unfair advantage over the whoops.
Didn't know at the time just how cool that was.
Tires were used to map out the course, which consisted of two flat landing four foot jumps, a twenty foot long section of whoops ( or "stutter bumps" as to which they were referred to back in the day ), several corners and and chicane section. All of which on a bed of nicely groomed grass.
So I say I attended the fastest high school.
Oh and around that same time there was a guy by the name of Mike Bell who lived down the street from me in Lakewood.
At another rival high school (Seminole High) Was where Kippy Pierce, Harold Buckingham and Freddy Vanwaggoner went, Karl Jordan went to Pinellas Park High, which wasnt built yet when Stevie, Joe , Rocky and I went to High school.
Me and Joe Cartier also went to Pinellas Park middle school, and about half a block down from it was where Monte Mccoy lived with his dad.
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and the bottom picture of Bill West handing out trophys, cool stuff, you showed me that picture once project and i emailed it to(hope you dont mind i did that) Joey and he was like dam where did you dig that up from, i said a friend on VitalMx.
mx400bee, i knew almost all the guys that raced for Barneys Yamaha, but dont remember Franky Johnson, but if he raced for Barneys he had to have been really good.
Plus we had PK Racing down the street from the School.
The only pro class MXer I can think of is Dan "Haystack" Whitlock.
The bottom photo of Alan that now owns the track in Hillard... we use to do a lot of riding together at the old Action Park Raceway, just north of Jacksonville. Those were some great times, Alan, along with Fred Simpson, David Shields, Philip Johns, Mark Midford, the Langfords, Alan Lucy, Wade Brown and lot of other fast North Florida racers... Most any given time, you would always see them at Action Park riding.
Alan? Alan Ashlock? Didn't he promote races at Orlando Sports Stadium?
You remember North Florida Raceway in Palm Valley? Pat Ray? Rhett Radford?
They held the first Florida Winter/Mini Olympics there in '74, I belive it was.
Also remember a big Minicycle race at Durham's Cycle Park right by the St.Johns river off Atlantic Blvd in Jacksonville around '73. Durham Parker also owned a Hodaka shop just past Seminole Blvd on Atlantic, not far from the beach.
He rented Hodaka's at the park. The Navy guys from Mayport would come out and rent them a Super Rat or Ace 90 for the day. I would hook up with a pack of them out in the trails in the park. They made for some good riding buddies.
Those guys would just thrash those old Hodie's, in their navy blue dungaries and shirts.
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