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Remember when... the best riders in the world were on CZs, wore
Martini jerseys, pudding-bowl helmets and the bikes had un-muffled
expansion chambers. Classic Roger DeCoster in the late 60s at the Santa
Cruz Inter-Am. |
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Remember when ... Ronny Nelson was the fastest American on a
Montesa. Santa Cruz Inter-Am.
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Remember when ... the starting line was
full of Honda Scramblers and Bultaco Banditos in the Open Class?
Right around 1969, this was what it looked like at Corriganville.
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Remember when
... Roger DeCoster shocked the world with the weird Ribi
front end on his works Suzuki. The year was 1979.
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Remember when & riders used to put their numbers
on with electrician. s tape? |
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Remember & dead engine
starts and the big Maicos always pulling the hole
shots? |
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Remember when ... riders wore leg protection
like this? Good
old football knee and shin pads were
common until the early . 70s. |
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Remember when ... Huskies used to utterly
dominate in the desert? At the start of the
Mint 400 in 1970, a pair of 400 8-speeds get
under way. Check out the genuine leathers. |
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Remember when ... plastic fenders were
so new that people did this to them all
the time? This plastic was on the first
CAN-AM released to the public in 1973. |
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Remember when ... Preston Petty
used to race 125s in all the Baja
events and nearly get the overall
win? After riding this Deek in 1972,
he switched to a 125 Elsinore the
next year. |
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Remember when ... riding
gloves cost about six bucks a
pair? The glove of choice in the
late . 60s was Webco, but by the
mid 70s, even Honda was
private-labeling their own
version of the classic Webcos. |
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Remember when ... Jimmy
Weinert used to brag about
beating everyone before a
race, and then went out and
backed it up with a win? He.
s astride a big-bore factory
Kawasaki in this 1973 mud
event. |
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Remember when ... open
face helmets without
visors were the norm?
This bedraggled rider
blinks away the eyeball
grit at the finish line
of the 1974 Barstow to
Vegas desert classic. |
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Remember when ...
Tony Bell used to
draw those great
Motocross Cat
cartoons in Cycle
News? That . hippy.
on the left is Bill
Kasson, who owns a
shop in Texas and
still races. |
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Remember
when ...
teen-ager Marty
Tripes won the
first Super Bowl
of Motocross at
the Coliseum?
He beat
Torleif Hansen
in the
International
class, via a
three-moto
format back in
1972. |
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Remember
when ...
European
bikes used
to dominate
the 250
class? At
the 1973 US
GP in
Carlsbad, in
the first
turn, from
left to
right: CZ,
Bultaco,
Ossa, Husky,
Maico and
another Bul. |