Just think all those stunning girls are now Grandmothers,& we`re Granddads !!!!!!!!!

@@dfiglide oh please lets not think about that, atleast while we enjoy these videos!

Don't forget corn dogs!

@@johnnyx9892 Just like model airplane fuel.

@@dfiglide Haha! With the right amount of Lip Gloss, I'd still hit them #MILFs . I once popped a wheelie (on my '72 *Yamaha* 250 Enduro) right by a fav Dame's house then crash at the end of her Cul-de-Sac .

All through the 80s the tech was amazing, both dirt and street bike!

The Type 2 1976?? My favorite works bike of all time!!!!

@@kurtvonfricken6829 think so. I was 16. funny that Mikkola won on a pretty stock Husky I believe.

@@vintagemxer9165 The type 2 works Hondas copied the husquavarna’s frame geometry.

it's almost magical the difference from say mid 60s to mid 1980s there is just no comparison

I rode in the 125 support class in the Mr. Pibb National in 82 ' Great fun in St. Pete !

Same, I let CanAms go, mid 80’s CR’s etc. but shit happens, boy does it happen 💩

@@deborahchesser7375 those mid eighties CR's go for upward of $10,000 on the market today. That's the price of a brand new big boy and probably 15x what they cost new. If kick myself to but that's life, we live, we learn

Glad to know there were guys like me back then. Maybe I’m not so different

Yep sure wish I kept my CZ 360 twin port and 1973 RH250, the both of them were really fast .

S. Thompson ha ha good one-' chariots of the gods'. It is true!

Aye, I raced a Suzuki Cyclone that tried to kill me every time I rode it let alone raced it.

I remember waiting for the new Motocross magazine's to come out and get glimpse of the new factory works bikes.i have to say Honda with Marty Smith r.i.p. and Tommy Croft speed and style I had to go out and buy a thorsten Holman face protector for my bell star, memories .

Bultaco Cemoto!

You must be around 70 years old. Drop me a line

@@kevinquinn3763 LOL ...maybe I should've said "some of those bikes"

Ditto!

timm white You’re welcome!

R.I.P . Marty

Gray Sinclair You’re welcome!

Hello Mike! I am 18, i own 3 bikes and some most terrfied ones too.. May you know anyhow 1971 "Cyclone" 74 TM250 (Bored 0.40 over) and a Husky CR250 i might have a lead on a 77 AMF Harley 250. only 109 left in the world.

so very true...

Mike Thompson - District 7 #1 EAST COAST

Mike Thompson Thanks!

Bikes are way better but much less cool. I used to look at works motocross bikes with awe: all the different brands, colors, and ideas to make the fast. Very exciting times.

Mike, Check out my video on the Trans-AMA in Plano. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/guBkn9xly86WkZ8.html Shots of RD in there. If you Google Rabbit Run MX and Plano, TX, there are people talking about where it was located. It seems like there is some type of mass transit station there now. If I remember the discussions correctly. It was a big flat field in 1977!

I was also there it was my first Nathinal event and I will never forget that first 250 moto if I remember correctly Hannah had Howerton in his sights at the flag still have that ticket stub.

Thanks! I enjoyed shooting them way back and editing them now.

I am 53 now, and was a young kid when these great bikes were the latest thing. I was amazed how the factories were producing better bikes every year, and I became a manufacturing expert because of this era. Production or poverty is our real choice, and the kids who laugh, have no idea how to make one part of any bike (or anything else). I now modify little 2 strokes engines for a living, and make a better living than most employees in the world. I could not have done that without this era of MX, (when a kid could afford a dirt bike on his own) , and my dreams of making things. This era of MX is an example of how the entirety of mankind in Western Culture built our way out of poverty, (and had fun doing it), and the people who laugh, have no idea how we got here, and thus, will have no idea how to keep it. This era, or their future, I will take this era any second.

EarthSurferUSA , I used have my nose pressed against the window of John Bryant Honda-Yamaha in North Olmsted, Ohio, wondering how to raise $638 for a 1977 CR-250M. About a year later I managed to scrape up $1100 for a H-D MX-250 , which I still have today. Over the years, I studied anything to do with Aermacchi, and one motorcycle magazine stated that some of the blame for their demise lies with the Harley dealers themselves. I find this statement believable because my dealer support sucked. They never stocked so much as a spark plug, and the MX-250 needed a lot of them; to say nothing of all the other parts it needed. She is an expensive motorcycle to operate, now more than ever. When the factory closed, there was ZERO parts on the dealer's shelves nationwide. No service help, either. The first time the connecting rod went, I drove all over northern Ohio trying find someone to split the cases and install a new rod kit, which I was providing. No one would touch it. That is how I got started in the motorcycle business, through forced necessity. Today, she is running with a Wiesco pin and big-end bearing in the original rod, and haven't had any more trouble. I can finally wear out a few pistons before the rod goes.

Whatcha talkin' about? 38 is a young guy! Ha Ha Ha... I remember when the Europeans would show up with their bikes in the trunks of rental cars. No workbenches, canopies, generators or paved parking lots in those days. No CDI, reed cages, plastic fenders or long travel suspension either :-O

mikerafone music Thanks! Check out my video on works bikes from the early 80s. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mNKRnbyTmZ7UfYk.html

mikerafone music got that right ! Out of high school 1971 racing mx in Michigan! First serious bike Husky 250 cr , bought a new YZ 360B. What a monster ! Also raced a YZ. 125 . my last mx was a red engine CR. 250 HONDA great bikes great fun

DUDE!!! Have you checked out his channel?. DAMN!!! He's got tons of 70's and 80's MX stuff. Later. I got shit to do, lol.

Then after that? You'd have to pay one to wink at you...

Bill Smith You’re welcome!

Those shots were at the race headquarters hotel. They held tech inspection there the day before the race. It was a great opportunity to see the bikes, riders and mechanics.

Roy Mcalister Did you watch my video of that race? kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtOeoMxksajdkaM.html

Roy Mcalister Another video, this 8 mm film. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9eSlK6om9XIiYk.html

I haven't but will. I drove down and slept at the track in the back of our suburban. Simple times. Saw Chuck Sun nail a tree.

I wasn't old enough to be driving around to nationals and taking photos in the early 70's.

I believe I have read somewhere about a race team hiding a piece of chain in the airbox of a bike, to add weight in order to get to the minimum weight requirement

Richard Key Hopefully a few remain with collectors/museums.

I actually thought the claiming rule was fair and made it so the factories would think twice about building a super expensive bike. The guy that won tripes bike did it with such a fluke the factories all would put in counterclaims so by odds and probability one of them would get it was way higher than the privateer then they would give it back to its original owner. As soon as the privateer won tripes bike the ended the claiming rule!!!

Dean Sikorski Yeah, I didn’t have any shots of the Can-Ams. I was pretty young then and wasn’t traveling to nationals.

they never, ever mention the CAN AM'S I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW SUCH GREAT CHAMPIONS ARE ALWAYS IGNORED