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TooOldToPlay
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TooOldToPlay 4/6/2014 12:25pm
4/6/2014 12:25pm Edited Date/Time 4/6/2014 12:31pm
if you recall DeCoster riding a Yamaha........well for a lap or two anyway...!!

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captmoto 4/6/2014 12:31pm
4/6/2014 12:31pm
Offroad guy wrote:
If you know what THOR stands for. If you wore JT V 2000 shoulder pads. If you had a double leading shoe front brake.
I still have a DLS front brake.
Wandell
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Wandell 4/6/2014 1:52pm
4/6/2014 1:52pm
Heck, my first MX bike had a single leading shoe front brake! (82 RM125).

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philG
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philG 4/6/2014 2:08pm
4/6/2014 2:08pm
You can remember the guy who you beat in a last turn dust up in a moto in 1982 when you see him for the first time in 32 years, in the supermarket, but can't find your car when you go outside.....
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Tbteam 4/6/2014 2:08pm
4/6/2014 2:08pm
You ever stripped the lights off a 72 XL250 and threw some knobbiet on it for the local 250 class.
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elsinore 4/6/2014 2:23pm
4/6/2014 2:23pm
You still think that after all of these years the succulent smell of Castrol R is the sweetest smell that you have ever known...... or at least rivals that of your wife when she is sporting some serious foo foo juice in the midnight hour!
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elsinore 4/6/2014 2:26pm
4/6/2014 2:26pm
You thought that bumping up to pay for airplane gas was too expensive, so you went with the Amoco "white gas" to mix with the Bel Ray!
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slowvet 4/6/2014 3:50pm
4/6/2014 3:50pm
dkg wrote:
You remember this . . . [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2014/04/06/50277/s1200_image.jpg[/img]
You remember this . . .
slowvet wrote:
Cookie.
Spartacus wrote:
Didn't he spell it Kookie?

I had carpet just like that in my van, although not as nice…..
You're absolutely right Spartacus. The name came to me immediately but forgot the correct spelling.
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loftyair 4/6/2014 4:10pm
4/6/2014 4:10pm
Looking at the color of the CRC sticker on the front #plate told of how fast the bike went!
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loftyair 4/6/2014 4:11pm
4/6/2014 4:11pm
M22 and m23 were the best rubber around.
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loftyair 4/6/2014 4:13pm
4/6/2014 4:13pm
Pink jt gear on a white yami winning 100k in a ten lapper, glover.
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loftyair 4/6/2014 4:16pm
4/6/2014 4:16pm
Amateur day on the same sx track the day after at Anaheim stadium. I won!
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loftyair 4/6/2014 4:23pm
4/6/2014 4:23pm
Watching a slightly overweight kid on a kx80 do some spanking, nights on the international track. Surratt and Indian dunes. Those little bikes would 'pop' when over revved, sounded so cool!
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endurox 4/6/2014 4:58pm
4/6/2014 4:58pm
you had to adjust your points
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maicocd 4/6/2014 6:50pm
4/6/2014 6:50pm
You learned how to read by flipping through Dad's stack of Dirt Bike and Motocross Action Magazines.

Later on--- you thought you were "cutting edge" with a Cycle News East subscription.
Now,you were able to have your finger on the pulse of moto-happenings. You knew who had won a national MX at the light speed time of nearly two weeks after it happened.

You stayed up to 1,2, or even 3am in the early 90's to record a one week old supercross race because you didn't trust the timer on the VCR , nor did you trust ESPN to actually air it when it was supposed to air in the wee hours of the morning...

You never in your wild dreams thought you'd watch live MX on TV, or follow it live on some crazy thing called the Internet...
JOHN CHOATE
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JOHN CHOATE 4/6/2014 6:57pm
4/6/2014 6:57pm
You actually watched "On Any Sunday" for the first time in a theater.

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Coyote
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Coyote 4/6/2014 6:58pm
4/6/2014 6:58pm
maicocd wrote:
You learned how to read by flipping through Dad's stack of Dirt Bike and Motocross Action Magazines. Later on--- you thought you were "cutting edge" with...
You learned how to read by flipping through Dad's stack of Dirt Bike and Motocross Action Magazines.

Later on--- you thought you were "cutting edge" with a Cycle News East subscription.
Now,you were able to have your finger on the pulse of moto-happenings. You knew who had won a national MX at the light speed time of nearly two weeks after it happened.

You stayed up to 1,2, or even 3am in the early 90's to record a one week old supercross race because you didn't trust the timer on the VCR , nor did you trust ESPN to actually air it when it was supposed to air in the wee hours of the morning...

You never in your wild dreams thought you'd watch live MX on TV, or follow it live on some crazy thing called the Internet...
U went to Fremont Raceway on Friday nights, Sac Raceway on Saturday nights and Helvetia on Sunday!!
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jim598 4/6/2014 7:13pm
4/6/2014 7:13pm
your firist race was on a rope start 3.5 hp minibike
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smoothies862 4/6/2014 7:37pm
4/6/2014 7:37pm Edited Date/Time 4/6/2014 7:38pm
gas tank rusted
there were places to ride
had to get to the track early to beat all the riders in sign up
dreaming of owning an open face like wards
1 handers = cool
no handers= super cool
genie arm cross like rj= fmx pro
get gas for dads truck("better be enough in it for me to get to work tomm.") and bike for less than 10 bucksWoohoo
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stantdm 4/6/2014 7:52pm
4/6/2014 7:52pm
You called a 1-900 number on Monday to get the MX results so you didn't have to wait for Cycle News to arrive.
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loftyair 4/6/2014 8:00pm
4/6/2014 8:00pm
You witnessed the coolest show ever on TV, motoworld!
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TerryK 4/6/2014 8:26pm
4/6/2014 8:26pm Edited Date/Time 4/6/2014 8:57pm
Your brand new 1978 CR250r cost $1199.00

You had to drill holes in your new helmet to mount a Sinisalo face mask.

You used a milk crate as a race stand.

You know what a Barum wrap around is.

You know what DeHandlers are

When you lined up, there were more than 5 brands lined up with you. A LOT more. Honda, Kawasaki, Suzuki, Yamaha, KTM, Husqavarna, Can-Am, CZ, OSSA, Bultaco, Carabella, Hodaka, Maico, Monark, Montesa, Puch, Harley Davidson, Greeves, AMMEX, Yankee and more could all be seen on the line in the 70s and into the eighties, with many more brands before that.
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TerryK 4/6/2014 8:28pm
4/6/2014 8:28pm
slowvet wrote:
Cookie.
Spartacus wrote:
Didn't he spell it Kookie?

I had carpet just like that in my van, although not as nice…..
slowvet wrote:
You're absolutely right Spartacus. The name came to me immediately but forgot the correct spelling.
I believe there were 3 incarnations of Kookie the Wonder Dog.
JohnnyOfast 4/6/2014 10:39pm
4/6/2014 10:39pm
The first corner for the "killer B's" always looked like this.

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JPT 4/7/2014 12:37am
4/7/2014 12:37am
JOHN CHOATE wrote:
You actually watched "On Any Sunday" for the first time in a theater.
Drove 3 hrs to do it.Cool
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Vet57 4/7/2014 4:23am
4/7/2014 4:23am Edited Date/Time 4/7/2014 4:23am
you came across this during your ride....

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