The Year Jeremy McGrath Rode A Suzuki 

He left Honda cuz he thought their 1997 model was terrible lol!

@@jaysmokey Yeah I heard about the control Honda wanted, but never about the RC250. Crazy that they would treat their Star athlete like that, especially back then.

@@wd840mxhighlights nothing says terrible more than going from a near perfect season to winning 2 races.

@@jaysmokey yeah for honda is always bike first then rider. same with rossi. btw yamaha raced an af back in late 80's im mxgp, so maybe honda copied that on rc 250.

The bike needed more R&D an got it in later yrs......

Aluminiminium. "Tire". :)

Did you buy the bike? I was only 2 years old in 97 but my earliest memories was sittin on my dads lap watching steel roots with him. I would give anything for that rm250

McGrath is the King of Supercross ! My fave rider always. - Ohio

@@Grizzy_Moto I have an RM250F these days..great bike still..tho 4-strokes now rule the MX 🌎.

@@Davido50 4-stroke may put the power to the ground better,--but they are killing the sport with a 10 plus grand price tag. That is what happens when we let government/epa tell us what to do. Suzuki, the first jap bike in MX, will stop making MX bikes soon. More will follow. Yamaha and KTM will last, because they play the economic fascism the best. Nobody else (a new bike manufacturer), will ever compete again. That is what happens when government tells us what to do, (or picks favorites), nobody else can compete. It is no longer "free market".

jeremy never rode for "suzuki of troy" in 1997 he rode for factory suzuki in 1997

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Full Noyz great bike also !! crazy power band !

I pestered my dad for one too! He sent me back to live with my mom...

You mean you missed Marty Smith, Bob Hannah, Rick Johnson, Jeff Ward, Jeff Stanton, Damon Bradshaw, Jean Micheal Bayle, MC and just caught RC? Well, at least you caught Dungey and Villapoto,--the last 2 American MX hero's. I actually missed those guys careers, (but i saw Villapoto some the work on his 250 4-stroke at the 2007 MXofN, from holeshot to win, led ever lap of his 2 motos. Greatness. You missed a lot of greatness, but at least you probably know what it is.

That was before the FIM invaded USA shores, and made our tracks redundant and easy. Red Bud, (for example), used to scare the hell out of me when I raced it in the 80's and early 90's. Today,---it looks like a fun vet track. Of course we are all the same speed now. Of course,---nobody can be great. The FIM has hated our talent since 1981, and we were stupid enough to let them run our racing. The 2-strokes do take more talent to go fast on too. I will never agree with economic fascism, (the EPA forcing the 4-stroke on the industry, and killing it with high prices), so after 20 years of not riding (58 years old now), I picked up a 250cc 2-stroke to ride again. The damn thing is 4-stroke too tall. The sport and the world--is going commie insane. We can't figure shit out anymore. Makes me sick.

Bradshaw, even though he did not win a big bike championship, (even with the most wins), that guy was spectacular to watch. It was like he did not care what the next section was, he had it wicked open. The closest I remember him from was Red Bud, when they still had the "double double" in the infield. I was standing next to it when Damon went to test it on his 125, (on that bike, he won championships). I guess he wanted to test it to see what it felt like if he came up real short on the send double, and he landed on the face of it. He just bounced over the top and kept going,---but I had never felt the ground shake as it did that instant, (when he landed on the face), before or after at any MX race. I am amazed he did not break his ankles.

That Shift gear was awesome

@@wd840mxhighlights After Broc Glover won the Miller masters SX race wearing pink prototype JT gear, the pink craze was on for about 5 years. I bout a pair of pants from a company called "Gear race wear" that had stretchy material over the quads, that had pink and black tiger stripes on them. OK, is was gay, but I sold them after 2 seasons to a friend of mine, (while the fad was still real), and they were the most comfortable pant I ever rode in and good quality. They were cool for the time of pink in MX. :)

100%

You mean he started winning almost every race for years. With the redundant FIM tracks that they all have wired today---we will never see that greatness again. I don't want to see everybody going pretty much the same speed. I want to se somebody stand out and be great. Nothing is better for a kid to look up to. Nobody remembers a race anymore, because nobody is allowed to be great. I tell you what. If it were not for Hannah, I would have probably grown up to be a loser.

those are the kind of rides you dont hear of

Much appreciated, more to come!

Correct!

Lol : )

skip came back at round 7 of the outdoor championship

Made for a great year for team green Jeff Emig though. He had almost always been right on McGrath's heels thru 1996. Switching out to that unready Suzuki really mixed things up.

his move to suzuki was not because honda wouldnt renew his contract.

Something was weird there, (and he got on the bike only 2 weeks before the series started), because 90% of the time, if a bike company hires Roger DeCoster, it becomes a winner. Same with his riders.

Um no he rode like shit and blamed it on a bike. Emig killed that bitch and did it when McGrath was on a Honda too. McGrath owes emig for being the only person to beat him and give him competition

Well ok then he killed both those championships. Shut down McGrath. Hell a lot of riders did in 96 and 97. McGrath was a good rider indoors tho. But king of outdoors was emig and he let it show

Roger DeCoster never turned a bike into trash.

@@EarthSurferUSA I don't blame DeCoster. I blame Suzuki engineers and sales dept. That bike just wasn't up to spec with the others that year, starting with those forks. No amount of arguing on their behalf could change that view. Hence why they went back to usd forks. It is likely the biggest reason it crippled McGrath that season. But I don't blame DeCoster (and maybe the King just didn't ride his best either). But I think most agreed the Suzuki that year was trash by comparison to other big 3. Cheers!

No Problem, more to come!

Never the same? Dude racked off some Championships on Yamaha.

He was purdy good, id look into him lol!

He still holds the record for the most SX wins at 72

Nice Trolling post...lol

@@protectandswerve You know, and I don't want to make a whole big thing about it or anything, but I would like to think that I know almost everything that there is to know about Motocross which is sometimes called MX. I like to think of myself as a Student of the Sport. That includes SX (Supercross) too. I think that the McGraff guy was good but I think that J. Law messed with him and he quit ? It says that he was a typical California "Fair Weather" rider that had trouble with anything but a perfectly manicured track and 70 degree (about 20 C) weather. You know, the "Soft" California riders, that grew up eating Soy Milk and always being rewarded for their average at best efforts with beautiful Participation Trophies, found MX both Mentally and Physically challenging. They get heavy playing Video Games all day, and the Soy Protein has high levels of Estrogen. So it's not uncommon for a typical California male teen to have developed a rather impressive pair of Breasts. Anyway, I found some info on McGraff. It doesn't look like the record will stand.

@@superfly3990 LOLOLOL.

Good point. :)

@Rider_9 just a quick name for up side down forks

@@jaysmokey not only that. even if overall weighs more than conventional the actual non-suspended mass weight is less and thats very important for whoops

Yep! lots of bad luck this year

gotta love the 90s

yeah but Carmichael rode well on it (bike didn't seem to matter for him as much as some other riders) and Stewart looked better on it than he did on Yamaha, even if the results didn't show it.

TrckyMc I believe if he had more time and Decoaster could have got him more power he would have got 8 titles in a row ! Remember on the Honda he got just about every holeshot and was gone, checked out ? It was amazing but almost expected and sometimes boring he was sooo fast !

@@vikingson9000 I can remember when he’d get the hole shot in the main and people would leave their seats to beat the traffic exiting the stadium! Once JMc had the lead the race was over. To this day I’ve never witnessed total domination in supercross. Happy I got to see it!

@@trickymc9702bro, i remember that also!! that Honda was dialed and he was very confident. Most of the race was who was going to get 2nd, 3rd etc ! there was just as much talent back then as there is now, it just proves how talented he really was.

Much appreciated🤙🏻

Pontiac 1998

MC outdoors.

@@jaysmokey well 96-98 yes suzuki was garage but 99-08 suzuki rm250s are really good bikes

Hahahahahahahahahaha

MC was terrible that year. If it was not the 1993 Honda frame, (which he rode his entire Honda career), that he was so used to, he could not adapt like a normal racer. Not in 2 weeks before the series starts of course either. Roger DeCoster, (who worked for Suzuki at the time), has a entire career about making bikes, and riders, winners. MC was terrible this year. From Suzuki (in the 70's) to KTM today, Roger Decoster make them all great when he touched them. I think he knows this sport better than anybody in the world,---and he should run MX/SX for the AMA, (with full control, no FIM influence),---if we want this sport to be great again.

Yeah that was pathetic lol.

A short cable would not let the slide close all the way. The cable must have been adjusted too long, and you could not tell because the throttle barrel would hit its stop, and a long cable would not open the slide all the way. To me---that is a terrible mechanic. I would not have missed that as a kid working on my bikes. I never head anything about DeCoster chasing some woman, (or what that means), and I have heard probably every word of that show.

DeCoster did have to chase Lechien a couple times though. :)

@@EarthSurferUSA Yep pretty pathetic, MC would have probably won SX title if he had a different mechanic.

The mech was love struck.Not decoster..they were running a Honda throttle assy on the suk which didtn allow full pull