How did he get that "Fluid"? He did not train, (just rode). When he got tired, he knew he was doing something wrong,---and he corrected it. There have been several guys like that, (but not as successful), like Lechien, Windham and others, and they all seem to be tall.

It makes me sad. Knowing this time is gone.

Nothing compares to early '70s motocross.

2 stroke races were so much better !

Hell Yeah man. I was at the track this morning with my 1998 yz125 I bought new from cutting and hustling a shit ton of yard work. I do have to say there were more 2 smokers than the 4strokes🏁

Dustin me too but I was 32

Great analogy.

@@davem145mxr me too. i was 27. remember the tickets were like $18 and you could pick your seats? I always sat at the triple jump. it was great! Orlando was great too. they had that second level and you could get the first row, so nobody in front of you

dave harding art eckman did it better

@@levisouthern4869 both a hell of alot better then now

Same here! also made a point to see this group of guys at the outdoor courses! back when the top racers were awesome indoors and outdoors!

True story bro, sadly... 😔

I've been a fan as long as you , what am I missing here? Just another JMB win. He was the most talented rider of all time if that's what you're so excited about.

TU!

Na that one wow she’s real hot

😂

And have more plastic than a dirt bike.

Yeah, but that one can one hand the board lol

Don't be sexist. It's refreshing seeing a board girl clearly comfortable with her fuller figure.

Joe Antolak it’s the 2 strokes that’s why

I was lucky to ride trials bikes with Guy in Sapulpa okla in a spillway from the lake there. He is a very nice person. This was around 1995.

Fantastic. Hopefully you were at your peak, because I know none of us would like the ride if I were there today. :) 20 years off. I have some work to do, some weight to lose. Figured that out on my old whooped out trails ending with some ribs to heal. Now I have not ridden in 20 years, and have not been hurt on a bike for 25 years. 60 now and weird, the pain makes me feel young again. :)

I miss cigarettes and beer.

And MD CBD

Not really doing them as well as Bubba, (on his 125,) today either. I have seen a few good ones today, but the 4-stroke made a hard move even harder. Saw a fairly recent vid of James saying he didn't like to do them, and "I had to do it out of necessity".

I think Ward retired the year before, #3 was MX kid.

@@mbriggs4627 yes MX Kied another champion.

@@mbriggs4627 he retired this year! He ran #6 this year and was hurt quite a bit

Ward is the real GOAT 👍

@@markme4 yeah but i say RJ is the real GOAT. i 👍 JW.

NO JEREMY MCGRATH IS THE BEST SUPERCROSS RIDER EVER. BAYLE WAS ONE OF THE SMOOTHEST AND FASTEST RIDERS WHEN HE WAS RACING MOTOCROSS AND SUPERCROSS. AND MCGRATH MAY NOT HAVE WON AS MANY SUPERCROSS RACES IF BAYLE WOULD HAVE STAYED RACING DIRT BIKES INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE STREET BIKES. BUT, POINT IS THAT JEREMY GOT SUPERCROSS DOWNPAT BETTER AND WAS JUST THE BEST AT THE TIMING AND KEEPING HIS BIKE LOWER OFF THE JUMPS TO GET HIS WHEELS BACK ON THE GROUND. AND DONE IT CONSISTENTLY FOR YEARS. NOBODY, NOT EVEN CARMICHAEL EVER GOT THE TIMING DOWN AS GOOD AS JEREMY WHEN IT CAME TO SUPERCROSS. HE IS AND WILL ALWAYS BE THE GOAT WHEN IT COMES TO SUPERCROSS

Whoops looked bigger than today!

And the track separated the talent, so we could see who actually had the most. 12 guys on the same 1.5 second/lap range are because the tracks are designed to keep everybody the same speed. So what we will see now, as the racers now only have to make less mistakes, is they will, and we will see very little to no passing after lap 10 with the top 10 ore even more guys,---just like last week. This vid is a race. Today's races are a fast parade after lap 10.

Damn effin' right!! No black wheels, great graphics and everyone had custom painted helmets!!

Yeah. I even painted my own. Bell open face. Good ole days. Damn I miss em. Be well brother.

There was multiple races in the 92 season that had a runaway victory where the race was boring but you wanna compare the best race of that season to one random race in the modern day? That wouldn’t be fair lol. Sure, maybe the close racing isn’t as consistent today as it was back then but every era has its pros and cons. Give the modern day more credit, it’s still entertaining.

@@jundadog9604 I love "run away victories" like the amazing Jett did 2023, (which I never thought I would see again on these modern tracks of equality.). I would rather see 2 or 3 guys battling for the lead, but I want to see "greatness" raise the bar for others to chase, and not just settle for a fast average. The stuff on the tracks today can be circulated by most pros that all have the tracks pretty much wired. The faster 4-strokes made the tracks faster too, a lot faster. Like 30% indoor and out. RC said recently (only once is allowed) that the bikes are too fast today. I give the racers great credit still. They race what they have to race. But until Jett showed up, I really did not know who has the most talent because 8 guys are on the same second. Now that is not racing. That is a parade, (or NASCAR). My point is, in the 2-stroke days and the first 4-stroke days in Europe before 68, the track was made to separate the talent so we can see who has the most. Today, the tracks are made (by socialism, the FIM, believe it or not), to make everybody the same speed as much as possible. That is not racing. I do think the faster 4-strokes kind of forced the tracks to get faster and less technical. Now a 80hp electric bike will do the same, it looks to be. The sport was totally different before the 1986 production rule and the EPA forced 4-stroke. It was much more free and offered opportunity to more people in the entire industry. Bottom line? We gotta tell organizations and government to get out of our industries. We created them. They belong to us. If we did that, we would be on 4 grand 2-strokes today, (like my 2019 YZ250), and the market share would be at least double what it is today, which is more opportunity for the rest of us. Doug in Michigan

Long rant that made absolutely no sense.

Tracks were made by eye with crude Machinery. Dirt wasn't blended mixed and milled. Design wasn't engineered on 3D auto cad. Riders then and riders now work with what they got. Watching this makes me tense. Watching today's Supercross feels more relaxing.

Tracks are 1926301 times harder today what kind of crack did you smoke before making this comment

@@moodyshooty Tracks today are built for modern suspension. More dangerous yes, less room for error certainly, sexier, absolutely but harder? I don’t think you have ever rode a pre 1980 bike. Those tracks were light years more difficult on the bikes of the day. The kids now bitch about ruts, those tracks were just whoops and ruts on a pogo stick suspended steel framed POS. Pass the pipe.

When living our damn lives was legal.

It's not that they wouldnt think of doing that now . Pros today get paid a bonus to crash because any publicity is good publicity.

But I am here to see Bayle just hang back, and pass into the lead near the end. Ya know, RC is and always will be the GOAT, but Bayle was a was a man who made a hard job look easy. I will say, he is probably the most talented, (and probably sharpest), man to ever throw a leg over a MX bike, ---after DeCoster.

Don't forget that technology really dictated what could be safely done back then. You couldn't have 75-foot triples because the bikes wouldn't have the power, weight, or suspension that would allow them to land them and not break in half. Technology is what made/makes the difference in tracks.

@@reverendjimjones9061 Yes, they are -- and that's primarily because of the advances in technology. You can plainly see that, as the bikes and suspensions improved, jumps got bigger and bigger -- all for the simple reason that they COULD. Tech had EVERYTHING to do with it, end of story.

@@anthonydavis9662 finally someone with some common sense in the comment section.

Um.....no, not really...I agree that two-strokes ROOOL, but attendance numbers are consistent with motorcycle racing today. The demographics of motorcycle racing are far more sustainable than NASCAR'S aging population, and its youth participation programs nationwide assure a constant supply of new, fresh racers who can still economically compete at the amateur level. Can't do that whatsoever in NASCAR.

That's been dictated by technology. I guarantee you that if the suspension units back then could have handled the tracks of today, you would have seen them. But they built what the bikes could handle back then, and advanced technology has helped to make the tracks what they are today.

1986 Anaheim was good but Atlanta 1990 was better. Multiple guys going back n forth who had a shot at winning the race instead of just two.

who cares about cost, if it's something you love doing you'll find a way to afford to do it

@@bleachinuri exactly

@@bleachinuri Who cares about cost? The guy with a mortgage and 3 kids to feed but would still like to race every once in a while dumbass

Two strokes for supercross, four strokes outdoors

@@bleachinuri Actually, "cost" figured into my decision to quit racing. When the first four-strokes hit the market, they got their power from super-short pistons which wore out twice as fast. That meant two top end changes per year. Twice the cost. Then they got so fancy with fuel injection and various changes that it was harder to do your own work on them. A lot of my fellow offroad riders were skipping races or not play-riding as much to keep down wear-n-tear, or would ride on roached tires. I had taken a Small Engine Repair course to help me keep costs down on my two-stroke Enduro bike, which I maintained myself at a considerable expense when racing 2-hour+ Hare Scrambles or 5 hour Enduros every week. I kept that poor bike running way beyond its competitive life, but with the economic crash, a lack of health insurance, and after considering the price of a new four-stroke and associated maintenance costs, I had to make the smart decision to stop racing or just go broke. I miss it like a drowning man misses oxygen, but the cost of racing is just prohibitive for too many privateers.

Said no one that’s ever ridden at a high level ever 😂

Better bikes better suspension. And you think they won’t be able to. Lmao some of y’all need wake up and smell the coffee.

@@kerontucker4488 yeah today they get one whoop out of shape they go the crying and whining. After blitzing a 1987 whoop section they'd go strait to the hospital. They'd be limping through just like rick johnson did.

Whoops are bigger now. Guys now are more fluid also.

Not.

Bet I could smoke you on one of these bikes.

Trump, still lying.

@@gleanerman2195 dont be sad.

Actually a super nice dude. Just comes across that way

Back when a new bike was 4 grand. Funny huh.

@@EarthSurferUSA it's crazy how much of a price difference

Just a wild guess. Your first era of MX/SX? :)

He was riding the Team Peak, Pro Circuit Honda which was blue and white.

Not even remotely close

It wasn't easy to find coverage of motocross before cable TV. Most of the times, a moto-race was pre-empted by some stupid stick-and-ball sports. Motocross was really more of an outside sport back then, and not often seen. I think the announcers reflect their own excitement at the relative scarcity of it all.