Whoa!!! Was that for real? From 1977? He predicted Wayne Gretzky would break records, score 90 goals and 200 points, and play in Los Angeles. Gretzky did all of that. He also talked about black uniforms, just like the Kings have now. He also predicted the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team would win gold, and they did. Also, was that a Batman comic book? He said that maybe someday it would be a movie.
Just as an aside... I've been a motorcycle nut my whole life, my father owned a Honda and Bultaco dealership in southern California and I idolized guys like Dave Aldana. Fast forward to last week, June 10th, 2024... I had moved way across the country to a little town of less than 20,000 people called Fayetteville, Georgia. I went to a neighborhood meeting of conerned homeowners who are trying to stop the installation of a powerline through our backyards... I recognized one man in the audience.. hmmm who is it? I went up and asked.. IT'S DAVE ALDANA!!! REALLY!!! We now live only 2 miles apart... Weird, small world!!!
I was there- AMAZING race- Yoshimura was there waiting with a contract to sign Kevin before any other manufacturer had a chance including team Honda - he signed the contract 5 minutes after the race was over, and the rest in history
Insanely beautiful! I had 2 buddies who owned the 250cc model of that same model year CZ and those bikes rocked and looked gorgeous! Lucky you, Gary! Well done!
Don’t get too emotional. I had a 1972 380 and they handled unpredictably due to swingarm flex which wasn’t nearly so obvious on the 250. They were powerful and reliable The 380 CZ was the screamer of the 500 class. They were all steel and very heavy but the CG was low so the bike was quite manageable. The swing arm flex caused the rear to “step out” left and right under full power and just might put the rider on the ground. Not good…. The swing arm was redesigned to be much stronger when the red frame CZs were introduced a couple of years later. An aftermarket swingarm was mandatory for anybody planning on going fast.
Earl Roloff was the man back then. Took all the contingency money from Kawasaki from the new 250 Ninja class, 600ss on a bike no one else was even racing, all the way up to the Terminator 1000 ninja which somehow could beat the new GSXR1100. I was just starting out at that time but I raced in the Willow Springs Road Racing Association instead of AFM to start. IN 89 I bought the Vance and Hines '88 600ss Honda Hurricane and we won the overall (open class included) endurance championship that year, 90 we switched to WERA (and Yamaha )and did their national endurance series (we won a few races that year and got 4th at the grand national finals at Road Atlanta with a borrowed showroom stock bike) and 91 the AMA endurance series on a showroom stock + just an exhaust Kawasaki ZX-6 (that no one else was racing . . contingency money! . . . . except Michael Barnes was just starting out on a Muzzy prepared ZX-6, we learned how to over ride in the corners at Brainard that day to keep him in sight)..
Gary, looks like there was only one class in this race. Sounds like some in-line 4's so that means GSXR 750's. What class was this? What was the eventual finishing order? This looks similar to another vid you posted of Jimmy at Willow a while back from the same year, I believe. . Guessing it's a different race.
Хороший был аппарат.Руки ломило.Единственный недостаток бензобаке.Надо было перед тем как соревноваться положить яйца на бензобак и выбить киянкой углубление под них.
@@socaltjet good luck with that one it looks nice. I’d like to find one with upper fairings, a radiator shroud, a lower cowl, a tachometer, and an engine guard.
@@baldilocks1914 I’ve found that they are pretty rare with all the extras, the number 400 keeps coming up when asking about total import numbers. Two strokes were on the way out in 1990.
Thanks to the camera man, I just listened to Kevin talk about this race weekend a week ago, the beginning of an outstanding racing career. I know he raced in motocross and road endurance before this but I think this was his start with Yoshimura.
My 2nd novice race. Called my name when I was in 7th. Red flag when I was in 4th. Could have been a podium but, oh well. This was my 2nd novice race and since I did well and it was cut short by the red flag, they let me run the 600 MP expert class later in the day. I went from 32nd to 14th so I felt on top of the world for a rookie on a stock bike.
I wish I could find the 7/19/87 600 Novice race as it was my first race ever. I started 27th and finished 7th. So cool to hear all the familiar names in these videos.
