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o 00 O'l And then came the Hurricane ... Hannah and mechanic Bin Buchka took the country by storm in 76. winning the 125cc Championship the first time out. ships... their quick removal when the claiming rule was put to use ... Gary Bailey holding AMA Grand National Championship number 93 in 1971. the only MX rider ever to hold one... the stars of today who were minibike terrors just a few years ago... tbe musical chair game played by many of the riders at contract time... Bob Hannah receiving a Ferrari from Yamaha for his 1978 achievements ... factory riders flying to and from races while privateers flog themselves just to get to the next event ... Miss Molly Blue Papa Don jones with nothing to say Roger DeCoster's domination of the sport and his dedication to it that earned him the nickname "The Man..... ••• 14 Do you remember when shocks were mounted straight up and down ... when six inches of suspension travel was unheard of... when everyone was copying the Maico front forks ... Marty Smith being referred to as .. bionic..... Mike Goodwin. the czar of Super· cross... the Inter-Am Series... Gary Bailey teaching basketball star Bill Russell to ride MX for Wide World of Sports.. .jim Pomeroy winning the 1973 Spanish 250cc World Championship round. in his first GP ride ... Bob Hannah's 50th major AMA win (Denver. CO 6/24/79) john DeSoto. the "Flying Hawaiian riders that look more like rolling billboards than riders ... the transition from domination by European brands to those manufactured by the japanese ... Heikki Mikkola. Roger DeCoster and joel Robert all riding in the 1971 Trans-AMA ... "jarnmin' jimmy" Weinert playing his guitar and singing - sort of... Bryan Kenney. Bob Grossi and Mark Blackwell and the American MX Team e£forl. .. Bob Hannah letting Brae Glover past in the final event of the 1978 125cc National Championships so that he could win the title ... ••• Do you remember the Daytona Super. cross changing from just another part of Cycle Week to one of the premier events".65.000 screaming fans in the L.A. Coliseum ... the 4-stroke Nationals... the CCM ... Monocross. Vni·Trak and 13" travel front and rear ... riders who can barely touch the ground when sitting on a bike... Brad Lackey's decision to race in Europe and his determination to stay there because he wants to be World Champion... that living in Southern California stiJJ gives a rider a tremendous edge if he is looking for a factory ride ... watching Marty Tripes when he is really on... watching Tripes when he doesn't feel like racing and doesn't care who knows ... Dick Burleson. now six-time AMA National Championship Enduro titlist, winning the 1970 500cc National title ... Bryan Kenney scoring the first ever win by an American in international competi(7/4/71) ...jimmy Weinert's tion paddle tire psyche job ... Gunnar Lindstrom and Lars Larsson ... DeWayne and Gary jones. Marty Tripes and jimmy Weinert making up Team Yamaha... Do you remember Kenny Clark of Yamaha who is probably the mOllt influential man in MX todav ...staning gates replacing rubber band starts ... nylon MX pams and all the other trick clothing... privateer springboards to factory contracts like Moto·X Fox, ]T. DG and LOP... those riders who flashed like brilliant comets for one season and were never heard from again...Jaroslav Falta, Zdenek Velky. Vlastirnil Valek, Antonio. Baborovsky, Dave Bickers, Sylvain Geboers, Gaston Rahier, Willi Bauer. Hans Maisch. Serge Bacou, Arne Kring, Dave Nicoll. Torlief Hansen. Miroslav Halm and HakafJ Andersson ... BelI's Moto Star signature MX R'loves ... Copetown the F1M requiring renaming of a portion of Vnadilla's track from "Screw V" to "Gravity Cavity·· ... the emergence of the V.S. as a world power in MX ...our involvement and non· involvement in the prestigous Trophee and MX des ations. ••• •••