I was there, raced 250 and 500's in the 70's. It was a much more physically demanding sport back then, with natural terrain tracks, and real two-stroke motocross bikes and 45 minute motos, 40 plus 2. It was a hard sport to compete in, you had to be in shape, and it was the best sport and form of racing! Todays rider are outstanding riders, I think they would enjoy racing the old school way much better... The sport has become like everything else, too commercialized.
I was at this race. Sears Point was a rough track with hard clay that took out riders and bikes alike. Me and my friends rode our dirt bikes there many times.
There is no pro motocrosser today that would even ride that track, or know how, plus they'd just bitch about it. Men were men back then and moto was moto:-)
Big Hannah fan myself !!! 1978 I watched Hannah ' dog ' DeCoster at Unadilla Trans AMA . Hannah would rub DeCosters leg with his front wheel in several turns. DeCoster finally had enough & dropped Hannah in the turn just before Gravity Cavity ! Bent Hannah's pipe & his pride. The Man was still The Man that day !!!
I was there that day. I remember it happening in that stretch right after the screw u just before the downhill Left off camber turn before the finish line. I can remember seeing Hannaha's red Scott boots flying through the air. I think he went on to finish but DeCoster sure F--#ed him up.
Be careful when you refer to a 79 YZ as an "F".....I'm surprised no one has accused you of smoking weed when you left your comment ...nowadays "F" = sounds like a pig farting four stroke😁
Lackey takes out the crowd on the corner, that’s racing, loved it when crowds had freedom and riders raced fair but hard it wasn’t about the money that came if the results came now it’s all about the money, control and no wonder it’s harder and harder to attract people only the sport and to spectate, this was a mates day out friends family for the masses not the elites
The problem isn't the money that got into the sport. The problem is that nobody puts any effort into saving our places to ride. They try to grow the sport from the top down, and that just doesn't work. Used to be I could fire off my little KV75 in my driveway and ride out to the corn fields where we had those tracks. Those days are gone, big time.
What do you mean when crowds had freedom....the reason there are barriers is to keep the so called freedom assholes in the crowd from crossing the track during a race. I remember in 1972 when I was 12 being at the trans ama at Carlsbad with my dad and being at the bottom of the "Carlsbad Freeway" aka the downhill when a couple of jerk offs were trying to out chicken each other by running across the track in front of the riders. I remember Bengt Aberg almost getting waded up up in the snow fence trying to avoid crashing into him. It's not the government taking away our freedoms it's the small percentage thug behaviour in our society than affects the rest of us.....geeze
Sears point wow that look like one those nearly Euro GP tracks,the ones look like wash out mountain trail I used to ride on you never know what gonna git ,trails like a box a chocolate,no grip and pogo the whole time,in between the narly ,more like survival...than racing .
I like looking at older riding videos because there was a different technique with those suspension setups or the weight of the bike or something its like a bucking bronco always a spring back
Yes that is true, hannah wasn't afraid of any riders of that time. The only race where hannah got beat really bad was the 1978 des natons hiekki mikkola kicked hannahs ass on both moto's on the 500s.
Heikki was the reason Hannah never wanted to do the European GP or MXDN.As for Lackey,he should have put Hannah in his place,....face down on the ground for that little maneuver.
You couldn't hear the bikes because the Super-8 camera they used didn't have sound. Only professional grade cameras had sound capability in 1977. What you just watched was a fan made video, and the average fan used a camera that literally could not record sound. The fact that you're complaining about the music tells me you were born sometime after 1990, and didn't know how cameras worked in the 1970s.
Back when MX was held on MX tracks and went real fast on wrenched bikes with welded frames and clapped out shocks. They say theres no sence living in the past ,I kinda disagree.
thats a real motocross natural Terran track, not the custom made roller coaster slick smooth tracks we have today that i never bother watching , the 70s and 80s had the largest biggest crowds at MX events, now its just crap big jumps, roller coaster style tracks, best track was namuar mx gp track through a Forrest , it was awesome
70's suspension, air cooled smokers, those god-awful shitty drum brakes, and that trashed track to ice the cake. Yet, we still had a blast. Us dirt bikers just ain't that smart.....lol....
