I’m With ya on That Buddy🦾

Respect.

57 this summer, oh to go back about 45 yrs

KS 125 modified, not a KX 125?? My best in 1970 was a Baby Green Streak 100 Kawi fully modified for flat track. Had several Kawi enduro's also. I have Yamaha 400 & Kawi 350 Big Horn's now I ride them on my land, in Utah.

Castrol 2 stroke special aroma stoke!

@@bikeva1557 Yes. Somebody should make an alarm clock, (not that I used one anymore), that wakes you up with a crisp MX 2-stroke sound, and give off a puff of Castrol R smoke. But if you want to wake up from 3 senses at the same time, (I have a theory you will wake up with more energy, the more senses you get involved.), you can make something to throw a bit of dirt in your face. :) I do think the alarm clock would sell in a big way, from old to new. I want royalties.

Bel Ray, Castrol, Golden Spectro burning up in those 2 strokes is a smell that you never forget!

​@@EarthSurferUSAwherever my wife is when l call her cell phone , her self & anyone in hearing distance hear's a very crisp 2 stroke MX engine whackin its throttle twice before going thru all 6 wfo then signing off with another whack or 2 .

I simply agree.

Progress and Lawyers Oh and the Gov.

Interesting when Marty Smith said, This is going to be bigger the baseball and football pretty quick. I agreed at the time and during my years in the early 80’s. Disappointing.. but I’m grateful I was there!

You got that right, my friend!

@@davidbailey6343 Wern't you about 12 then in a 125 Bultaco?

@@bwedmorewhat could go wrong

I get ya David. I lost all my riding land to developments but I also lost my youth there. if only those days could have stayed. Now I am an older man searching for places to ride😂

I was at Lake Sugar Tree, Axton, VA, and it was miserably hot and humid. Jammin' Jimmy stripped down to his skivvies between motos (I snuck into the pits).

It was great to live through the early development when the Japanese got involved, (I missed all the earlier Euro development of course, so I am just a kid, haha). That was much more free market stuff. Japan helped greatly in the development of the stroke, (and the rest of the functional bike), that replaced the 4- strokes, , now get this, and "made the bikes less expensive"! It was the 1986 production rule and the EPA forced 4-stroke that has put bike prices so far out of reach,---if back in this day, only Weinert would be racing, (His dad had a bike dealership). But the bike development from about 72 to 85,---was a race in itself. It was super exciting to see, (and eventually modify), the bike development, basically from a street bike with knobbies, to the Honda Works bikes of 83-85. The sport sure created a lot of opportunity business wise also. After working in many machine shops myself, and earning 2 engineering degrees, I finally got myself out of poverty with porting little 2-stroke engines and selling them all over the world. Kids today have to have somebody buy the bike, and not even MXA can do much more then spin the suspension clickers. I am with Dave Wise above. I thought it would last forever, (The USA), but the results show regression, not progress.

The factory format was to increase the r&d rapidly through real race testing. The guys that won were simply testing the most. Moder ergs, seat/tank angle, subames as well as current cone valve tech from forks to swingarm were all figured out years ago. That's why today every major bike feels great to any experienced rider..

I lost respect for rolf when i read a news account of a race that he accused the winners of cheating. It impressed me as a tremendous show of poor sportsmanship. I was at the race, the ‘75 mint 400 desert race and i observed no evidence of cheating .we followed the leaders around the course to the remote pits and were keeping track of the riders elapsed time. As great as rolf was he and teammate mitch mayes were outride by a local team Las vegas team that 12:01 had a hot hand….id be dubious of anything he’d have to say …

Apparently Bob Hannah went to watch a national mx race before he raced one and thought the riders "were OK, not fast though",

Rolf was referring to European MX, where the tracks were longer and typically more technical. Look at Brad Lackey's long road to winning the world MX title as an example.

@@kombikevo i might have read that..in his full year out with a works bike and the proper support he knocked mart smith off and captured the 125cc crown. From then it was on. He was the most prolific mx’r of the late ‘79’s. Had it not been for the waterskiing kerfuffle he’d have certainly wracked up titles to finish the decade and would’ve won through the 80’s with little to no challenge. I cant say that I was a staunch hannah fan in his prime. No as an adult if 67 years I’ve come to realize just how good he was . He was a great champion, sportsman who knew the value of his fans. He’d sign after the races until the last dog was hung. Not many guys if his status did that. When the race was over Marty smith wanted to get back home that he’d go to the airport in his mx costume. Johnny ‘0 Mara was another rider who gave back very little to his fans. Bob would make it a point to congratulate a rider winning their 1st sx. I saw him make a point to go to the winners circle and compliment Jeff ward for the win. He got it..

Hannah spent some time on the tracks before that. Overnight success is rarely that, the public just don't witness the graft beforehand.

The movie never saw the light of day until it was released on cassette and DVD later--both long out of print. This was a DVD rip borrowed from a guy, who like me, was at the Axton, VA race in August, 1975, that I just happened to bump into in a bar.

@@kyleinman6929 In a bar. Small world huh. I am all for property rights and intellectual property, but I can also entertain the idea of there being a time past where entertainment is not published and sold, then anybody could do it, so it stays alive. Thanks again. Looks like this may have been my "One chance to watch", so I am going to play it again. :) I turned 12 in 76, in a rural area for 2 years full of Yamaha mini-enduro 60's and others, just bought my first dirt bike making $1.00/hr part time, (1976 Kawasaki KD125) for $800.00 new. Neither myself or my parents had any idea the opportunity that came with it. But it was there.

And I have also ported more 2-stroke engines than anybody in the world,---starting/learning with this sport in the days my Father told me I was wasting my money on dirt bikes. :)

@@EarthSurferUSA wow

@@samwittstruck.6685 this guy's been around got more stories than anyone. He can talk a dog off a pork chop. 👍

You don't HAVE TO YELL ! This was way before Hannah, no Bob in this video so what's your point ?

There is this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/i9WSmcJ9x9Oce4U.html Not what you are looking for. I think what you are looking for is on the "extra's" of the "Bob Hannah Motocross files" DVD. I have it. It was a meeting to help promote this movie, with Hannah cracking jokes at the lectern.

The Spoof absolutely hilarious

I believe you.

me too!! the issue with the houston astrodome SX, jammer was on the cover. Dragged it from study hall and classes read it about a million times, still have the scraps somewhere.

Bob Harris was an upstate NY pro racer. He taught a MX class at the Broome Tioga track in 1980 and then went out and holeshot the open expert class moto that Sunday and led the moto for 3 or 4 laps before his age started show.

Bob Harris' name is a lot of results back then. He was a great racer!

Indeed, evolution from the CR to the YZ and beyond was amazing. Red Hondas were also team only as the dealer bikes were still silver.

I was skateboarding in '75, and then mountain biking in '89, both activities at the dawn of 10 years of free innovation and wild creativity. Oh, and fell in love with MX in '70, all good times to be alive and in that spot.

Hang loose

Mathew McConaughey

@@kyleinman6929 Mt. Bike example with me. I was the machinist at Nike Proof industries in 94-95 who got his hubs to stop breaking, and I developed a stiff axle Fork hub called the "Atom Bomb". Later, (about 2 decades later), I got into porting little 30cc 2-stroke engines for Go-Ped racing and got hooked up with a great distributor. I worked with him for 3 years (still do) before the 1/5 scale RC cars came out using the same engine, and my business took off like it had a life of its own. I have been doing that for a living ever since, and it was an advantage to get my name and product out there first. I think I may be the first guy in the world to port 2-stroke cylinders on a production basis, (that was new), with a CNC mill. Mt. Bikes back then,---anybody who loved bikes and had a CNC machine/welder, was getting into the free market fun. Many of the first guys still doing it too. It is our free enterprise system, and I demand that communism give it back to it rightful owners. :)

Nuke Proof

Also, 45 minute motos in those days (40 minutes plus two laps). Brutal.

Louisiana in the summer will do that to you, just sitting in a chair, let alone being on a twinshock open class beast!

Hot, perhaps. Axton sure was!

🤷‍♂