found this old pic. Me on a YZ465 in about 83, on a MX track, my girl watching, full face helmet, levis, hoodie, in the air wooohooo funny stuff.
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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
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Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
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back in the day
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Coffee;134934 said:You were shaped differently back then.
Still am on the inside
55 yrs. old and I'm still in perfect shape.....
Round is a shape isn't it?
Round is a shape isn't it?
Daniel508s
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Awesome photo. Man, bike's have come a long ways over the last 27 years. 465's were scarey bikes.
Daniel508s;134949 said:
Went from a Honda XL 175 my dad gave to this YZ465, that was a BIG learning curve.
robertaccio
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a head of its time Motosportz proto-type neck safety brace.....ah no thats your hoodie.....great shot!!!
Daniel508s
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Motosportz;134950 said:Went from a Honda XL 175 my dad gave to this YZ465, that was a BIG learning curve.
is right! nice, sweet mellow XL175 to hold on tight, hit ya in the groin power of the YZ465 (forget about traction). Awesome bike! 
Motosportz;134950 said:Went from a Honda XL 175 my dad gave to this YZ465, that was a BIG learning curve.
That really is a pretty big leap but from the looks of the photo you made the transition pretty well.
Daniel508s
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rajobigguy;134959 said:That really is a pretty big leap but from the looks of the photo you made the transition pretty well.
I was going to say the same thing. Looks like you really flyin'
Nothing wrong with open face helmets. I raced in them for years and still like to wear them, although it's hard to find any dirt oriented open face helmets these days.
Usually sported a weepul on the peak or the top of the helmet, like in this picture in 1976. Got my Jofa mouth guard and my Carrera goggles.
I raced in them for years and still like to wear them, although it's hard to find any dirt oriented open face helmets these days. Usually sported a weepul on the peak or the top of the helmet, like in this picture in 1976. Got my Jofa mouth guard and my Carrera goggles.
demi;134965 said:
Hard to see but i had these "killer" gloves too...
And to top it off I wore Levis with leather sewn on the thy area. My mom sewed in on there because i could wear out a set of Levis in a week slinging bails onto a flatbed. That was hard work, with many 12-14 hour days of it and I was in awesome shape. Those were the days.
demi;134977 said:
I always wanted the "Bitchin" metalflake painted ones.
Buddy of mine that was there the day this pic was taken and also on a YZ465 (but much nicer than mine) and I were just talking the other day about how simple dirtbike riding used to be. Get an old bike, toss some gas in it, find a helmet that kind fit and go have a great day. I spend more now on a helmet or boots than I did on the entire bike and setup back then