Thanks, been doing this for many years. Every time I was out with one of my riders I most always had my camera. Never know what you are going to get. 13 years with Travis. Good to go back and see detail.
@@milesdufourny3783 wasnt that called. Maxima "Caster 927" i feel in all honesty caster 927 was all around better for your clutches but i dont know how anyone could say it smelled better then Klotz Benol. Mmmmmmmmmmm. It just sa dang good!
Don't forget the value of cross training!! Trials bikes, singletrack, and even stand up jet skis. Standup jet skis are a great FUN way to stay in shape. Works similar muscle groups. Helps you get "smooth". And youre always getting a good workout swimming back to the ski every time you crash. No track fees, they dont eat tires/chains/pistons, and low injury risk! Hope he does well. 125 days are pivotal and fun times
Travis is still one of the most naturally gifted riders to ever live....I don’t follow his other endeavors much these days, but when he was racing, I was obsessed with that #199...he was/is my idol
To me, going fast on a race track is always more impressive than any tricks or flips. I always wondered how fast Travis could have been had he committed himself to it long term. We'll never know.
Don't think he has the attention span to buckle down to training for racing. Seems like his mind is best going in a million different directions, he's made a pretty good living of it.
Imagine if all his achievements in freestyle motocross never happened. I agree that seeing his full potential in racing would have been very interesting but this man had so much more of an impact on fmx that racing never could. Can you ever imagine the double backflip being landed for the first time and it not be him? I can't!
@@abracing199I agree but he also said he wasn’t willing to be an asshole. If he had friends that raced with him, he wanted to remain friends on the track. He wasn’t willing to do whatever it took to win. His quote was something like “Ricky Carmichael was willing to be an asshole and I wasn’t.” Essentially, he’s too nice. He felt bad if someone went down because of him. He wanted to be the nice guy and unfortunately nice guys finish last. He was a hell of a racer though. I feel like people took advantage of him being the “kid” of his era and would bully him around and he just got sick of it.
TP199 said during his very very very lengthy Whiskey Throttle Show that we actually saw him probably as good as he could ever be, that he actually tried really hard but that he wasn't "that good"
Been to your school over 5 times growing up at Byron il .. I went on and got myself a top ten at Loretta’s .. them were the good old days .. nice video , thanks...
Darrin Hill I first experienced Byron in the spring of '74 on an XR-75 "Moto Mike" was the first to run Motosports Park (before Joe) He would sit on top of the sign in shack and read off riders meeting with a bullhorn He then moved on and ran Tipton Iowa And for the record, it wasn't saw dust rather wood chips in the back section ( the early 90's) That back berm was fuckin legendary (Byrons version of original Southwick) I loved watching Jim Veugeler, Bob Behrens, Jr. Jackson, Breck Powers DESTROY it That group were the only ones doubling the huge triple As for the Gary's school, I totally remember the "smack the hands" thing I also remember David being at the school in 1980 (#45 Kawasaki) and Gary having him lay his bike on the face of the uphill (trying to block the fast line) and the students would have to negotiate around his bike (find a fresh line) Here's one for the wayback machine - remember Maplehurst?
SlimJimmy he needs to get a custom goggle strap that matches the picture on the custom painted helmet perfectly when it is in the right place...that's how a real savage does it
Something most of us consider a serious failure when it comes to moto style. The mechanic (or even Gary Bailey filming, who had a son with more style than nearly everyone else) must have received a death threat (after all his pants weren't on fire) just prior, to have let that slip. Probably the poor mechanic still can't stand being reminded, or maybe he's now that old guy you see at the local track whose goggles hang down and always have.
Thank-you Professor Gary Bailey for posting this video. You are helping us all get geared up for the MX Des Nations in Michigan. I hope to see you there! I think David Bailey represented the USA at one of the MX Des Nations, didn't he?
Man, TP had really good throttle control in the corners and got insanely good as his career progressed. Sure his freestyle was great, but I think Pastrana had some of the best cornering technique I’ve ever seen. Very underrated discipline and skill.
@@ryanlynch2259 it was all in the roost deflector flappy thingy things lol!!! He was using them before they were even cool. Thats his secret to success lmfao
Good ole days...him..Mr rob and Ms Debbie are great people. I spent many weekends racing with him and having fun at his RV at night with the Pastranas brings back great track memories even though he used to destroy us once the gate dropped lol
Wow is this THE GARY BAILEY????? I CAN'T BELIEVE I CAME ACROSS YOUR CHANNEL. I WENT TO YOUR RACE SCHOOL IN DANVILLE VIRGINIA WHEN I WAS ABOUT 16 WITH MY KX80!!!! YOUR WERE A GOD TO ME AND STILL ARE!!! YOUR TRACK WAS AMAZING!!! AND THE KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNIQUE THAT YOU TAUGHT WAS AND STILL IS EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL!!!! DO YOU STILL RIDE?? IS YOUR SCHOOL STILL BEING HELD?? I HAVE A 5 YEAR OLD SON AND WOULD LOVE FOR HIM TO PARTAKE IN THIS AMAZING EXPERIENCE!!!
Thanks for sharing this! My body tensed up like it was my own kid. I had a hard time breathing correctly. Lol. Not to take away from tedesco, but man was u pulling for Travis.
Wow......... Incredible footage..... Pastrana... Probably the most exciting but most inconsistent riders of all time...... He cud come first or dead last on the same day..... Incredible rider... Just a loonatic!!
Pastrana is definitely earned the name wonder boy. I'm not sure who he's chasing in the 1 spot but Travis is about 6 inch taller than him and probably 60lbs heavier. Travis was always in great shape for racing. He will forever be my favorite, first it was Rick Johnson and then Pastrana.
Ben riddle was the man to beat around here in ky....his lap times at dbmx in London ky were light yrs ahead of everyone else....got the holeshot in his first supercross....I remember it well...fell in the oxycontin hole I recon and ruined it all
bens dad was a dickhead. i remember a buddy knocking his ass out at muddy creek for stealing the water line to wash bens bike in the middle of someone else washing theres. cocky elitist asshat.
conventional 97/98 twin chamber cartridge forks.. i only saw his front end get loose once .im sure it was on the last lap. got me 3 pairs of those. the inverted's are replaced with 98 rm forks every new bike i get..love to here travs report on those forks
You’re telling me Ivan Tedesco was fast enough in 1997 to lead golden boy Pastrana through most of a Loretta Lynn’s 125A moto, but didn’t get a popular run in the _lites_ division until after two-stroke motorcycles had been forced outta the picture in professional racing & after Travis had long since stopped racing Motocross & Supercross... by the time Tedesco was a top level pro, Pastrana had already moved past WRC Rally Racing & was well into Lyn-Z & _Nitro Circus..._
Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while and forgot all about. I think it was him way way back that got into some type of underground or cage fighting or something like that for a bit when his max career wasn’t going as planned.
Saw him at Kenworthy's and yeah he was fast as hell, beat Brock Sellards that day I think. Travis, Metzger, Deegan were all fast, hell I saw Mike Jones get the holeshot at Indy Supercross before once haha.
@@Purefunkx , Mr Funk not only did Mad Mike pull the hole shot, If I remember correctly he led a lap or 3, good times there !!! I saw Travis there too, watched Randy throw a clutch in Jeremy's Mazda Chapparal YZ , haven't been back since RC, he ruined it for me !!
it is possible they change a little every year when being rebuilt. you know as the bikes get better and the riders little better they make a bigger they make challenges a little bigger.
