Grew up in Du Quoin in the 70s and 80s. Lived right by gate 3 and went to every flat track race. Parker, Moorehead, Springsteen, Carr made it exciting and always was some great racing
@@PatrickTowers No, I was only 2 when he retired..lol. It was 1975 when I started going to all the magic mile events. But I wish I could have seen him race. He was great
Best time of my life still to this day !!thanks for the memories and the happy tears ! Luv all yu guys and girls that made my dreams an memories come bak ! Cya !!
Man, I had fun in the 70's....great aspirations of maybe winning a race....ya' could dream big, and just maybe...ride your bike to glory...I loved flat track racing and whole inner circle. My mentor was Bob Vaughn of Sunny Valley in Southern Oregon...he was awesome, won races all the time on his Black & Orange Triumph 500....So incredibly smooth on the track, ---- he never let me feel sorry for myself if I lost. Good times for sure! Great time to be a young man who was fascinated with flat trackin'!!!
I new Randy Cleek when he was just about 4 years old. He was always around at his father's motorcycle shop.(B&M cycle) in Shawnee okla. He use to ride a little mini bike out back of the shop. The mini bike had no brakes so when he wanted to stop he would just run into someone's leg. 😂😂🤣🤣😆😆 He was very ornery. We were just 13 years old then. Got to see him grow up and develope into a fine young man and racer. Terrible when we lost him. R I P Randy!!!! Nice video.
@@fromtheflattrackwayback When I was riding at Ascot a Junior rider named John Sperry was riding a Trackmaster Suzuki 500 twin tuned by one of the guys at U.S. Suzuki. He did pretty well on it considering what he was up against. The Water Buffalos were too heavy. I always thought a Kawasaki triple with re-phased 'Big Bang' crank might've worked better than the Kanemoto bikes, but re-phasing the cranks on those things might've opened a whole 'nother can of worms. Thanks for all the great photos.
👍👍. The stand's were packed. It's too fancy for me now, million dollar haulers etc. Blah. I did get to see the last race at scioto downs mile horse track in Columbus Ohio 2010 anyway, it was great. Thanks.
I never raced, but back in the seventies I had some friends that did. I went to Gary Nixon’s shop in Timonium MD, with R Reeves to get parts for his bike, and when we walked in, Gary was talking to Richard like they were buddies. A kind of brotherhood I guess. There was a leather racing suit that Gary had crashed in hanging on the wall in his shop. I was amazed at how much punishment those leather’s had absorbed. I used to read his Cycle-News mags all the time, so all these names are familiar. Nice pictures you have here, the seventies were a blast !
