Older MXA back issues

It's always fun to look back at time capsules like this and realize that it's actually from another planet, not just another time.

Can you imagine a publication today using the word "yurpeans" (pg. 3) or a headline like, "If you've got the cash and the nads, Yamaha's got the bike"? (pg. 49) 😄 The PC police would be slapping the cuffs on someone.

And what are the chances of the moto-fashionista bling-kings of today being caught dead with fork guards fashioned from wood and duct tape? (pg. 51) 🤣

Thanks for posting that. I thought I'd read it over lunch like I do nowadays when a new MXA shows up in the mail box. What I didn't realize was that there was more editorial content back then in one issue than a whole year now. Even the bike tests would take a while to get through. Very cool to compare the prices of things and the styles over the eras too. We haven't really changed that much

Thanks, good stuff there and you can download the whole pdf!

Great page...thanks for the link!  

This url will take you to just the mxa and dirtbike stuff on that site...over a hundred magazines.

https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Hi-Torque+Publications+Inc.%22

Yeah there was more editorial content in the older issues of mxa, dirt bike and dirt rider. Some funny articles and dirt biking adventures. Made for some fun reading.

It was a much better magazine in its early days, different publisher and editorial crew.    

I wish I still had my physical copies from the mid 90s and up. I literally had hundreds per pile, no joke... MXA, Racer X, DBR (an old British publication), Motocrcross Journal, Dirt Bike, Dirt Rider etc etc - I'd read them at my various jobs during my lunch break over and over (in a time when phones were just phones and offered no entertainment value).

Then like an idiot I decided to one day to have a clear out and chucked them all... 

My 15 minutes of fame...my first and only MXA cover shot... the Oct 1977 issue.  New Orleans SX was earlier that summer at the then somewhat new Superdome. 

just add a tooth in the rear 

I’d love to be able to download all these minicycle magazines. Used to drool over them as a kid

Are you the jammer or the photographer?

If it’s any consolation? You have company in yer misery on that my friend!

I graduated high school in 1983 & I had started buying/reading MXA/Dirt Bike/MOTO-X/Crash & Burn etc in junior high in the late 70’s and had archived/saved them for years! When we bought another house & started the family (without any demand from the wife!) I took it upon myself to unload all those printed copies! 
To THIS day…the memory of loading that archive into the race van, driving them to one of the old paper recycling bins (they used to be posted around cities to put newspaper/mags etc into!) and completing the actual physical act of disposing of those cherished printed magazines into a recycle bin is a bitter/disgusted image/act that haunts me even now, all these years later! 
The kids are grown & gone, but the 1983 YZ vintage bike remains… those old mags would look GREAT stacked on the shelf in the garage right where they belong, with the ability to quickly access the race setup recommended by MXA back then…up to and including their venerable “go up one tooth in the rear”! 🤪 👍❗️

Just the lowly 19 year old (at the time) Moto Photographer trying to get a fancy shot of Weinert.

I'm lucky to have every issue from the 70's in pristine condition. Bring back the Baz

I have a bunch of my old MXA issues. Missing a few issues from '78-91 or so.

Kept all my motocross illustrated.

I sure do wish they would put out a book with all the "jody's Box" columns from mid 70's to now. I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Youngsters rag on Jody but damn he is core and I have loved his stuff since I read the first one in the mid 70;s.

Not really moto, but I have 2 of the "duct tape" books by ed hertfelder.  My mom found an ad for it when she was vacuuming my room and ordered it for christmas.

He offered a discount if you ordered it signed. Ed sent it and autographed it "maybe now you'll clean your damn room!".

they go for about $240, and have seen them go for more 

Unfortunately he passed about 2 years ago.

Edward Hertfelder Obituary - Tucson, AZ

Over about a 5 year period, about 10-15 years ago, I bought every issue of MXA, Motocross, Minicycle, some cycle news, and a few other misc publications on Ebay. I have all the MXA from 1980 through 1988. And every Motocross for the few years it was published.

It was amazing to read them again, having not seen them in 25-30 years, but still able to recall every article, picture, and ad like it was yesterday. 

I have every issue from the 80s and 90s.