most awesomest riding pic ever of you...

[mxracernumber1]

Don't get me wrong, I love those old MX pics. I think they are awesome. I started my love affair with motorcycles on bikes from that era, but I just noticed that one of those pics was from Oct. '74. My mom was pregnant during that time...with me.


Sorry, couldn'tresist giving a fellow dirtfiend a poke.

 

[Fast1]

Those old-school pics are awesome! Have any of you airing it out back then?

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Only one I have scanned...

others misc...

 

[mxracernumber1]

Man this is some great stuff. How far have bikes come since those days? Still, there's just something about an old dirt bike that is romantic to me. I bet that Honda was tops back in the day. How did you fare on the podium back then? By the way that was a pretty fancy bike trailer for back then. Hell, it's better than what I'm using now. Did you guys camp out in that thing at the track or just use it to hual the bikes?

 

[mrkartoom]

Great, I had to go look up deguerreotype

Learn something new everyday

hehe I wondered if that would get a response.

 

[WoodsChick]

Man this is some great stuff. How far have bikes come since those days? Still, there's just something about an old dirt bike that is romantic to me. I bet that Honda was tops back in the day. How did you fare on the podium back then? By the way that was a pretty fancy bike trailer for back then. Hell, it's better than what I'm using now. Did you guys camp out in that thing at the track or just use it to hual the bikes?

I'll say! I love it! Down to the home-made numbers, going "commando" with no gloves and riding across the street from houses, to the ahead-of-its-time custom toyhauler/trailer! Keep `em comin' Fast1!

I'd post a vintage photo of me riding, but it was only 1989


WoodsChick

 

[Motosportz]

Very cool oldies.

 

[rajobigguy]

Looks like you are waiting to get a question answered.

I've seen Tim ride. The question is probably "What happened to all the guys following me up that hill ?"

No kidding, the guy is a handlebar gladitor on the vertical incline. He just draws a line up the hill and splits the pack like Mosses parting the Red Sea.

Great pic Tim

 

[Motosportz]

Me "railing" the whoops at Washougal just days before Ricky and the boys do it

And my old school shot, me (on the left) "carving" on the next big thing, we called them skateboards. I lived on an island called Kwajalein (look it up) for 8 years as a kid...

 

[Motosportz]

Fast1 That's AWESOME. I remember the days fondly when you could ride right out the garage and into the nearest field. Good times.

 

[HuskyT]

Those old-school pics are awesome! Have any of you airing it out back then?

By the way, I wasn't digging potatoes. I was 18 and the chicks were diggng the LTR. It got me mucho amor back in the day. Those teen-aged chicks used to dig 4 wheels. Now, I don't care what they dig and besides, that corn field is now full of trailers and drug-dealers. Never seen a cornfield? It was the closest thing we had to miles of rolling white-sand dunes. Not close, but the closest we had. Ah...the good ol'days.

Sorry man.... just giving you a dig about the potatoes..... ( no pun intended) with all that dirt flying out it looked like it was part roto-tiller..... Corn fields??? I was born in Kansas.... wheat fields bud! as far as you can frickin see...... good pic nonetheless......

 

[Fast1]

Man this is some great stuff. How far have bikes come since those days? Still, there's just something about an old dirt bike that is romantic to me. I bet that Honda was tops back in the day. How did you fare on the podium back then? By the way that was a pretty fancy bike trailer for back then. Hell, it's better than what I'm using now. Did you guys camp out in that thing at the track or just use it to hual the bikes?

Bikes have come ALONG way since the late 60's and early 70's.

My Elsinore in the photos had maybe 7'' front and 4" back suspension travel. Honda had really just entered the European dominated motocross market and all my friends had CZ's, Bultacos, Maicos, Husky's, Rupps and Hodakas.

In fact my best friends Rupp 125 was in the trailer (number 811) behind me during the trophy shot I posted earlier.
Here he is in the #2 spot behind me after the hole shot and coming up to the fisrt turn.. wearing a red shirt. That Rupp had more top end speed than my Elsinore. It was my brother's old bike which he had sold and we spent plenty time drag racing each other so I knew he could reel me in if he clicked the gears right.

I also raced 80cc Indian motorclces in 1972/1973. They dominated the CA circuit and where unheard of in the midwest. They were built here in the US but had a Italian Minarelli engine.


Most, if not all the tracks in MN and WI that I raced are still in existance but the level of jumping has increased. We allways had problems with breaking the footpeg mounts off the frame from jumping. LOL.. I even broke them off my YFZ450 in Glamis a few years back...

We only used the trailer for transporting, not only my MX bike but snowmobiles and when hunting we used it to haul game. My uncle, who was a shop teacher, built it.

As for my results back when I was 16.. lets just say I won or placed in the top three for every race I entered starting with a mini bike, then to the 80cc class and then AMA 125CC MX racing. My nickname of Fast1, was given to me by the annoucers during the results since no one could pronounce my last name. I still use it for memories of the good times.
I can still remember the first MX race I entered with the Elsinore at Cambridge MN. I was 4th out of the first corner and 3/4's around, first lap, a guy I was passing lost control in the whoops and hit my front tire causing me to go down hard. Got up, tank was dented from my knee and bars bent.. was pissed and now in last place. At the end of the moto I had passed almost everyone and took 3rd. Next moto I ran away from the entire field and placed #1 taking the combined #1 spot for the final.

I'll say! I love it! Down to the home-made numbers, going "commando" with no gloves and riding across the street from houses, to the ahead-of-its-time custom toyhauler/trailer! Keep `em comin' Fast1!

I'd post a vintage photo of me riding, but it was only 1989


WoodsChick

I wish I had more photos scanned since I have some really great shots of many races and even 8MM films.

Actually that dirt road cut thru one of the corners of my track that I built. If you look close you can see part of the curve before the dirt road and I was just exiting the corner and showing off with a cross-up wheelie for my brother who was taking the photo. It is amazing that all those home owners put up with the noise.. since at times we would have 5 or 6 of us running that 1/2 mile track..

Besides the trailer being ahead of its time.. so was my high school sweetheart with her Husqvarna red/white colors!!

My brother and I would port our own engines at 14/16 years of age with sandpaper, files and bits on a drill in addition to raising the compression by flat filing the heads.. Since I was young and purchased the Honda with all my money (still remember it was $850) I had to improvise with taped numbers, work boots, jeans, no armor and my traditional white race (sweatshirt) jersey. None of the local Honda dealers would sponsor me since their sons were racing 125 and they never placed in front of or near me, regardless of the equipment or top end modifcations..

Here is what the 78 Elsinore looked like.. My younger brother posing on his new toy just home from the dealer.. Even only 4 years later, this bike was light years ahead of the initial 74 Elsinore.

Now if someone could just tell me how to regain those skills I had at 16 on two wheels????

I'd post a vintage photo of me riding, but it was only 1989


WoodsChick

Post it up!
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[Coffee]

Absolutely incredible Fast1.

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I wish I had more photos scanned since I have some really great shots of many races and even 8MM films....

A while ago I took all the 8mm films and had a place put them on VHS tape (I did say a while ago). Later transferred them to a digital miniDV camcorder using analog outputs from the vcr to the analog inputs to the camcorder.

Forever captured in digital format in tape, of course the that tape can/will degrade over time but as long as it is readable it will be as clear as when it was first captured.

Then using the miniDV camcorder firewire output captured them to the computers hard disk. Using Microsoft Movie Maker I can single step through the frames and capture some incredibly awesome pics.

Just in case you are interested on a cold Minnesota winter night.

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[timefighter]

Hi Guys,

New to the site and to the husky world just thought I'd say hi and make a post with some pics

learning the whip

Having fun with the new found cornering abilities of a husky

testing the suspension

 

[WoodsChick]

Post it up!
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Ok...It might have been `88, or maybe `89...those days are a little hazy for some reason These aren't the "awesomest" just the oldest. I wish I could find the one of me getting pulled over for speeding on an RM80...

Uh, I'm the one on the Yamaha

This one was taken the year before, a no-footer on my new `87 CR125

WoodsChick

 

[WoodsChick]

These aren't the "awesomest" photos of me riding, but they are some of my favorites...

On my way to a 1st place finish at a 4-hour GP in WA...

Coming into gas at the Jackhammer Enduro

Cistern Canyon, San Rafael Swell in UT...I love this photo!

Keyhole Canyon in White Wash, San Rafael Swell in UT...

Preparing to clean the Chute in Five Miles Of Hell, San Rafael Swell, UT (I was the only one that made it up unassissted, thankyouverymuch!)

The Dusy Ershim Trail, Sierra NF, CA

WoodsChick

 

[HuskyDude]

Here's an old one I found from 1976...at least it's colored. Hell my boots arn't even done up.

 

[Michael Lueders]

I remember the days fondly when you could ride right out the garage and into the nearest field. Good times.

Me too!

It's NEVER too late to have a second childhood!

 

[honard]

This is what happens when your girlfriend knows Photoshop.

 

[Joe Chod]

this happened at the NE Husky ride...........really...........I swear!

 

[Joe Chod]

Then I saw this jack-hole so I gave him a good NY salute