My first moto photo

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Edited Date/Time 1/22/2012 7:34pm
I dug this up when going through old slides. 1971, 13 years old. Shot about 4 pics with my dad's Ansco at my first MX. :D

[img:05c89]http://www.motonews.com/mototalk2/files/524641-71.jpg[/img:05c89]
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ocscottie 2/3/2006 12:29pm
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Thats awesome Michael, that pic just screams "NorCal Moto"

Good times. 8)
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FreshTopEnd 2/3/2006 12:51pm
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Joel Robert on an unsilenced works Suzuki is pretty cool, too!
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T-BOND 2/28/2006 7:40am
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That was great. You have taken some real nice photos. Do you have any more of Joel?
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I wish. I totally screwed up the photos I took the next year; nothing came out. Pity, because the '72 races were epic. Robert was there, but that was his last year to the states (at least by the late Trans AMA rounds).

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T-BOND 2/28/2006 9:30am
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[quote="FreshTopEnd":14695]I wish. I totally screwed up the photos I took the next year; nothing came out. Pity, because the '72 races were epic. Robert was there, but that was his last year to the states (at least by the late Trans AMA rounds).[/quote:14695]
Too bad. I just emailed him the one you posted. He should get a kick out of that.
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Big Lenny 3/5/2006 9:42pm
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Damn, look how wide that track is... :shock:
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[quote="Big Lenny":e5b4c]Damn, look how wide that track is... :shock:[/quote:e5b4c]

That was the first thing that I thought too!!


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FreshTopEnd 3/6/2006 10:14am
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That's where the track dropped back out to the start straight, it wasn't as wide elsewhere.

Has some enormous hills there.
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[quote="FreshTopEnd":789c2]That's where the track dropped back out to the start straight, it wasn't as wide elsewhere.

Has some enormous hills there.[/quote:789c2]
Kinda sounds like Cuhuilla MX park, the modern nirvana of old-school mx tracks.
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I've never been to Cahuilla, but the hills at Carnegie come off the valley floor forever. There are some sick hills there, and the old track ran them, and they dropped off steeper the last 100 feet or so. Made for great up hill jumps and drop offs on the way back down. Pretty amazing seeing the short travel bikes fly. mThey did hacks in '72, and that was mind blowing.
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[quote="FreshTopEnd":a6349]I've never been to Cahuilla, but the hills at Carnegie come off the valley floor forever. There are some sick hills there, and the old track ran them, and they dropped off steeper the last 100 feet or so. Made for great up hill jumps and drop offs on the way back down. Pretty amazing seeing the short travel bikes fly. mThey did hacks in '72, and that was mind blowing.[/quote:a6349]
The Hacks that raced at the USGP in Carlsbad were pretty funny to watch.

Oh and Cuhuilla is like mammoth without rocks.

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