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thanks,guys for the responses.i thought of a few more.joey dee,doug nicol,paul emerson,bobby sullivan.how about minicycle magazine test riders like john rudder,mike mcatee,billy keffer?also,those 80cc bikes were pretty short back then,why did so many guys ride them at 15-16 yrs old? what about the full size 100 cc bikes?who were the top guys on them?
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Johnson, Burnworth at the NMA nationals.
Paul Denis was another that was thought to have a future, rode a few Pro races SoCal...poof; gone outta thin air.
How about eddie warren?
Cantaloupi was a 100cc machine. My best friend Steve Parker used to get frustrated that Donnie would beat him and he'd be second most all the time.
I asked Spoor but he didn't remember norcal Team Green Tim Aston that was slated for full factory 125 until his street bike accident like in '82 or 3. Unfortunately, Dean Matson's dad George told me he passed away in 2005. Any you oldies remember Tim, he was smooth and ungodly fast. Remember seeing him in mid to later 80's on the clear/cream it seemed; he was soo huge; arms like tree trunks. God speed Tim.
Wasnt there a mini kid named Vlatch thinking on YZ's that was another?
Remember when E st had Golden State and both Holland/Kehoe on fact. RMs. Think George rode 125/Eric 250 that day.
cant forget hollywood holley.
Being part 2; all may have been mentioned.
Too bad about Denis; he was wiping everyones a$$ as an amateur mini; just never seemed the same against big bikes even though he had his share of wins.
Watch for that Jesse Vanderpool kid currently........He is that good.
I saw him in an Italian SX recently. How old is he now? 40?
I saw him in an Italian SX recently. How old is he now? 40?[/quote:1m7tvjdl]
He'd tried earlier in year to Q for National Mains; didn't make any. I thought just under 40..
I just "love" the way they do National Q now on time trials......sucks especially since you know someone will get in your way eventually. That time trials stuff was old dirt track stuff my cousin Rusty Rogers used to do......MX ain't dirt track...and trying to combine what Europe does with US National MX.....something is smelling funny like a takeover of somesort. My head is still up a$$......Did even this yrs Hangtown purse make it to 40,000K?
Let 'em race their way into the program; oops hold their hand into the program instead...I got issues with how big the sport is and the ones that still get the boot up their...is the 30-40 place guys, even though purse money by now should have increased tenfold but with AMA, Promoters Group and whoever does SX, it's a travesty. Don't even think a win is more than 3-5 grand per moto. Wanna get more riders, real riders; purses should be 100,000K; no less.
Sorry to get off base.
Runs his dads quail farm in S.C. KW 859 used to wax him. Moree would pull up in his motorhome and Walker in their pick up and Moree would be sucking hind tit.
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I think he went to Australian after his Kawasaki ride.
Pit Row
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I think he went to Australian after his Kawasaki ride.[/quote:mvxy9y3l]
yea he did. I think that KTM ride ruined him.
What about Troy Blake Dominated 80x class for two years then dominate INTs and local pros then ridews for factory Yamaha for one year then gone.
I saw him in an Italian SX recently. How old is he now? 40?[/quote:2ef70loc]
Bader lives in italy now and he has been an FMI(italian AMA) coach years ago.He does some test for KTM on production bikes and also follow some italian young riders.He is still fast and races MX3 gps,italian nationals and sx.He speaks italian very well and I think 50% of italian motocrossers meet him!!!
Doesn't Hendricksen's dad run the cash cow?
I saw him in an Italian SX recently. How old is he now? 40?[/quote:11v0vp48]
Bader lives in italy now and he has been an FMI(italian AMA) coach years ago.He does some test for KTM on production bikes and also follow some italian young riders.He is still fast and races MX3 gps,italian nationals and sx.He speaks italian very well and I think 50% of italian motocrossers meet him!!![/quote:11v0vp48]
We met him when I was wrenching for Scott Davis (#85 in '00) at Phoenix SX in later '90s; and Scott went to Italy on an invite from him for a local race and kind of jumping contest-we watch the video Davis got from someone shooting there. He appreciated the invite and Bader treated him like a kind of rock star. Good dude;good rider- man how some of these guys can just keep going and going and going.......Prob the 50% of them he teaches MX schools. Some good bucks there.
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I think he went to Australian after his Kawasaki ride.[/quote:1exq0r0d]
yea he did. I think that KTM ride ruined him.
What about Troy Blake Dominated 80x class for two years then dominate INTs and local pros then ridews for factory Yamaha for one year then gone.[/quote:1exq0r0d]
Unfortunately, the story with most.....Take Rick Reynard or even Damon Bradshaw; win every amateur national thing; Reynard wins first National he enters, but can't put full season together. Bradshaw, who I really thought was going to be dominating like RC was wins first one or two; breaks ankle. Then next year or following yr, only has to finish like 3rd and he like had that year he could start dead last and almost win; he decides to try park Chicken in Vegas(?) and takes himself out then chokes in LA to Stanton......Neither were riders that could stand the fire when they needed most. Bradshaw especially and when McG spanks him, babies out and quits. I was glad Bradshaw did win one more national on that Honda in '97; only race he wanted so bad IMO. Too bad couldn't do earlier at LA SX.
To me on national level, most gifted rider w/Reynard to be up front every race and nothing except maybe those lower level 125 SX championship. When it counted, you could've made a bundle on betting against. Wonder if any sports books take SX/MX bets.
Terry Bostard real fast mini. Got hurt couple times; No other comments.
Gene McKay......wow, remember that...Wardy was suppose to be sooo invincible... Gotta give him credit for the SuperMoto stuff, but now the dirt trackers like Burkhart will IMO will start dominating since most ride trails/mx in off-season, not sx. Wardy drives Indy and almost wins, wins AMA championships, X-games and AMA SM champ. He's had a pretty full life.
Pastrana like Ricky Johnson pro at 12, gone from SX/MX mostly by 19, 20. But dude knows how to live and live life to fullest while I'm sitting here wasting energy vital to not take permanent dirtnap.
Swinkster another that came outta mini/amateur ranks with all the promise of a McGrath. Seems he won a main;maybe no.
I always thought Bradshaw would be the man. He had the speed, but like JS, a crasher.
Untapped potential so many had, it is too bad and kind of sad.
Yeah, Daft, Richardson and Hoenshell; Clay I think did the best. Remember those three, even here from Cali.; they were fast; no doubt.
Andy Medin
just over a year till 50+ class
oh hell Im gettin old....
Yeah, Bader's good guy; he invited my rider several years ago to ride in Italy....He paid for him coming over and had a decent bike as his ride; he talks highly of him and had a great time.
Andy Moto
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