Honda/Yamaha of Troy through the years

motomike137 wrote:

Curious as to why Jeremy would "NOT" have been "able" to race without the 250k?

The Rock wrote:

Thank you Tony. 93 Kehoe #22 Bike picture is Andre Licon's beautiful replica bike shown at Hangtown in 2010 and 2012 94 Brown #26 (might have...

Thank you Tony.

93 Kehoe #22 Bike picture is Andre Licon's beautiful replica bike shown at Hangtown in 2010 and 2012
94 Brown #26 (might have been DeHoop but 99% it was Brownie’s)
95 Dobb #16 I bought his 250 SX bike that he raced when he wasn’t doing the 125 SX class.
96 Craig #17 Stingray holeshot his first moto on a HoT 250 at Washougal (94 or 95) after he was dropped from factory Yamaha over the infamous twisted knee tripping over his Doc Martens. Phil told him it was a race motor but in reality it was bone stock with a PC pipe. You did NOT want to be in front of Craig in a rental car....or Kehoe for that matter. One year Hertz or Avis blackballed all HoT employees after tiring of paying claims race after race.
97 Kiedrowski #100 Kehoe believed in him big time and was the driving force in his hiring.
98 Craig #13 Stingray breaking his femur at Budds Creek that year was UGLY! When he stopped rolling his foot was next to his head and he reached up and brought his snapped leg back into position. First doctor screwed up and placed too small of rod and after a few months Craig had to go through a second surgery. Bummer.
99 Fonseca #100
2000 Fonseca #1 Can’t remember if it was that year or the next when Roncada also won a 125 SX title on the YoT machine.
2001 Buckelew #38
2002 Reed #103
2003 Unknown #93
2004 Sellards #18
2005 Metcalf #123
2006 McFarland #124
2007 Lawrence #338
2008 Lawrence #1

2010 Durham #36

Honda of Troy would run the bitchin’ all blue graphics on white plastic at Kenworthy’s every year.

Hando-Thanks for the nice words about Phil. I'm in Dayton now visiting my mom and am continually reminded about him. I will never forget when he called me the year before Yamaha came out with the 250F. Phil said "Rock you can't tell anyone but next year we will have FOUR STROKE 250s!" Phil relayed that Yamaha told him the bikes were so good the riders would have to sand bag or risk getting DQ'd.

Yamaha also introduced (or re introduced) the fork starting mechanism but I can't remember the year.

The Rock wrote:

Thank you Tony. 93 Kehoe #22 Bike picture is Andre Licon's beautiful replica bike shown at Hangtown in 2010 and 2012 94 Brown #26 (might have...

Thank you Tony.

93 Kehoe #22 Bike picture is Andre Licon's beautiful replica bike shown at Hangtown in 2010 and 2012
94 Brown #26 (might have been DeHoop but 99% it was Brownie’s)
95 Dobb #16 I bought his 250 SX bike that he raced when he wasn’t doing the 125 SX class.
96 Craig #17 Stingray holeshot his first moto on a HoT 250 at Washougal (94 or 95) after he was dropped from factory Yamaha over the infamous twisted knee tripping over his Doc Martens. Phil told him it was a race motor but in reality it was bone stock with a PC pipe. You did NOT want to be in front of Craig in a rental car....or Kehoe for that matter. One year Hertz or Avis blackballed all HoT employees after tiring of paying claims race after race.
97 Kiedrowski #100 Kehoe believed in him big time and was the driving force in his hiring.
98 Craig #13 Stingray breaking his femur at Budds Creek that year was UGLY! When he stopped rolling his foot was next to his head and he reached up and brought his snapped leg back into position. First doctor screwed up and placed too small of rod and after a few months Craig had to go through a second surgery. Bummer.
99 Fonseca #100
2000 Fonseca #1 Can’t remember if it was that year or the next when Roncada also won a 125 SX title on the YoT machine.
2001 Buckelew #38
2002 Reed #103
2003 Unknown #93
2004 Sellards #18
2005 Metcalf #123
2006 McFarland #124
2007 Lawrence #338
2008 Lawrence #1

2010 Durham #36

Honda of Troy would run the bitchin’ all blue graphics on white plastic at Kenworthy’s every year.

Hando-Thanks for the nice words about Phil. I'm in Dayton now visiting my mom and am continually reminded about him. I will never forget when he called me the year before Yamaha came out with the 250F. Phil said "Rock you can't tell anyone but next year we will have FOUR STROKE 250s!" Phil relayed that Yamaha told him the bikes were so good the riders would have to sand bag or risk getting DQ'd.

Yamaha also introduced (or re introduced) the fork starting mechanism but I can't remember the year.

Sr_Vet_Rider wrote:

I bought a '95 and a '96 Honda from Kehoe. One was DeHoop's bike and one was Dobb's bike. I can't remember who the '95 belonged...

I bought a '95 and a '96 Honda from Kehoe. One was DeHoop's bike and one was Dobb's bike. I can't remember who the '95 belonged to, but it was stupid fast and as so hard to ride. I sold it and bought a stock bike and put bars and a pipe on it. The '96 was a lot more mellow and had all the bells and whistles, with the exception of the A-Kit stuff.


Phil lived with a good friend of mine and had a kid with a young girl that lived close to me. He had a lot of ups and downs, but he had a big heart. He was loyal, almost to a fault, which put him in the hot seat @ YOT. I didn't spend a whole lot of time around him, but he had a ton of friends and people that cared about him. HOT/YOT was close by my house. I believe they originally brought the team out hear to make it easy for Kehoe and some of the riders over the years ended up living here or moved here after joining the team. The good old days.... Good times

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kawboy388 wrote:

He has his Texas boy's mixed up. Cunningham went to YoT, Lemoine went to Star, in their rookie season's of 2007.

The Rock wrote:

Thank you Tony. 93 Kehoe #22 Bike picture is Andre Licon's beautiful replica bike shown at Hangtown in 2010 and 2012 94 Brown #26 (might have...

Thank you Tony.

93 Kehoe #22 Bike picture is Andre Licon's beautiful replica bike shown at Hangtown in 2010 and 2012
94 Brown #26 (might have been DeHoop but 99% it was Brownie’s)
95 Dobb #16 I bought his 250 SX bike that he raced when he wasn’t doing the 125 SX class.
96 Craig #17 Stingray holeshot his first moto on a HoT 250 at Washougal (94 or 95) after he was dropped from factory Yamaha over the infamous twisted knee tripping over his Doc Martens. Phil told him it was a race motor but in reality it was bone stock with a PC pipe. You did NOT want to be in front of Craig in a rental car....or Kehoe for that matter. One year Hertz or Avis blackballed all HoT employees after tiring of paying claims race after race.
97 Kiedrowski #100 Kehoe believed in him big time and was the driving force in his hiring.
98 Craig #13 Stingray breaking his femur at Budds Creek that year was UGLY! When he stopped rolling his foot was next to his head and he reached up and brought his snapped leg back into position. First doctor screwed up and placed too small of rod and after a few months Craig had to go through a second surgery. Bummer.
99 Fonseca #100
2000 Fonseca #1 Can’t remember if it was that year or the next when Roncada also won a 125 SX title on the YoT machine.
2001 Buckelew #38
2002 Reed #103
2003 Unknown #93
2004 Sellards #18
2005 Metcalf #123
2006 McFarland #124
2007 Lawrence #338
2008 Lawrence #1

2010 Durham #36

Honda of Troy would run the bitchin’ all blue graphics on white plastic at Kenworthy’s every year.

Hando-Thanks for the nice words about Phil. I'm in Dayton now visiting my mom and am continually reminded about him. I will never forget when he called me the year before Yamaha came out with the 250F. Phil said "Rock you can't tell anyone but next year we will have FOUR STROKE 250s!" Phil relayed that Yamaha told him the bikes were so good the riders would have to sand bag or risk getting DQ'd.

Yamaha also introduced (or re introduced) the fork starting mechanism but I can't remember the year.

Sr_Vet_Rider wrote:

I bought a '95 and a '96 Honda from Kehoe. One was DeHoop's bike and one was Dobb's bike. I can't remember who the '95 belonged...

I bought a '95 and a '96 Honda from Kehoe. One was DeHoop's bike and one was Dobb's bike. I can't remember who the '95 belonged to, but it was stupid fast and as so hard to ride. I sold it and bought a stock bike and put bars and a pipe on it. The '96 was a lot more mellow and had all the bells and whistles, with the exception of the A-Kit stuff.


Phil lived with a good friend of mine and had a kid with a young girl that lived close to me. He had a lot of ups and downs, but he had a big heart. He was loyal, almost to a fault, which put him in the hot seat @ YOT. I didn't spend a whole lot of time around him, but he had a ton of friends and people that cared about him. HOT/YOT was close by my house. I believe they originally brought the team out hear to make it easy for Kehoe and some of the riders over the years ended up living here or moved here after joining the team. The good old days.... Good times

The Rock wrote:

I bought Dobb's 95 250 SX bike which was ridden at a handful of 250 SX races since Dobb and Brown were both 125 SX specialists...

I bought Dobb's 95 250 SX bike which was ridden at a handful of 250 SX races since Dobb and Brown were both 125 SX specialists. Craig would have had an an outdoor 250 as he joined the team mid year I think at Washougal. Stingray holeshot the first moto on a box stock motor with a PC pipe. Phil had told him it was a full PC motor.

Thanks for the nice words about Phil. He actually married the young woman and had a child Presley with her. Presley is 16 now and a real brainiac. Phil's bachelor party was in the fall of 97 on a Saturday night when DST ended. I raced at Carlsbad came back to Hermosa Beach then Bob Sullivan picked me up for our trip to N Style for the bachelor party. Fun times. Bob drove me back home from Valencia then I got up appreciating the extra hour's sleep and raced at Perris with the OTHG. I had been to 20 out of 28 professional vents that year doing the HoT web site content so I was making up for lost time. I raced 14 or 15 times in 12 straight weekends but I digress.

In my experience there were a ton of "friends" that cared about Phil when he was in top and he was styling everybody and their brother out. After his fall from grace Phil found out who his true friends were since a lot of these other "friends" vanished.

Regarding the location of the team it have moved to CA in the mid 90s as I recall in a building Rob Healy owned. They stayed there until their move to Corona in the back of Bill's Pipes in the early 2000s. Phil came out circa 2003 to CA and ran operation from the west coast in 2004 with Jeff "Iron" Montgomery as Team Manager. Iron was one of Phil's biggest supporters and was there for Phil after his fall.

The Rock wrote:

Don't believe Goerke or Lemoine ever rode for YoT but I've been wrong before once or twice.

The Rock wrote:

Phil talked about Briles but never met him. He is the helicopter pilot yes? Phil and Scott Paul made a great team but neither one had...

Phil talked about Briles but never met him. He is the helicopter pilot yes?

Phil and Scott Paul made a great team but neither one had the skills to do it alone . 2004 was the beginning of the end in retrospect.

The Rock wrote:

Don't believe Goerke or Lemoine ever rode for YoT but I've been wrong before once or twice.

look out below wrote:

Goerke did, got the poster on my wall.

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Madmax31 wrote:

McGrath fired one of his mechanics midway thru the year, forget his name. I was on some motorcycle message board that year, and some guy was...

McGrath fired one of his mechanics midway thru the year, forget his name. I was on some motorcycle message board that year, and some guy was advertising actual parts off McGraths bike. He said that Jeremy had owed him money and told him he could sell the parts to make up the difference. I went ahead and sent him a check thinking my chances of getting scammed were pretty good. Well about a week later I got the PC pipe/silencer, and Ti Footpegs.

Once I found out they were legit I sent him a message to buy the cylinder, frame, head and subframe, but he had already sold them. I was so bummed!

However the parts I got were super trick. The foot pegs were so lite and sharp that they wore thru a new pair of Alpiestars to the metal plate in about a month! The pins for the pegs were even made out of ti.

The PC exhaust had notched in the exhaust port area flange, and it appeared a little fatter in the mid section compared to a regular PC pipe. It made the biggest difference than any exhaust ever made on a bike. People swore I was running a cheater bike. Wish I still had that bike!!!!

Flatliner wrote:

Wyatt seals. Pretty much became a tire changer for the rest of the year.

The Rock wrote:

Steel City 125 National 2000 final? Roncada lost the title that year not at the last race of the season but at Kenworthy's. Don't remember if...

Steel City 125 National 2000 final? Roncada lost the title that year not at the last race of the season but at Kenworthy's. Don't remember if Stephane was sick but he finished in the teens both motos and lost a ton of points. He had a four race win streak if memory serves correct but came up short.

Phil Alderton told Stephane he made a huge error becoming friends with Pastrana that season. Nothing against TP199 but regardless Phil thought you needed to keep your distance from your main rival. To Phil's point later Stephane was quoted as saying (I'm paraphrasing} "well things worked out I won the 125 SX title and Travis won the outdoor title."

Would love to get ron ron's 411 on this epic season in Troy Racing's history and one very disappointing day in PA.

tblazier wrote:

This one was a lot tougher to scrape together than the PC one was. There seem to be a lot less pics of their guy's bikes...

This one was a lot tougher to scrape together than the PC one was. There seem to be a lot less pics of their guy's bikes over the years for obvious reasons. If I got any years wrong or if you have any better pics please feel free to add them.



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