Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => General Two Stroke Talk => Topic started by: burn1986 on September 23, 2010, 02:07:20 PM
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http://www.racerxonline.com/UserFiles/Image/PDFFeatures/TheUntouchables.pdf (http://www.racerxonline.com/UserFiles/Image/PDFFeatures/TheUntouchables.pdf)
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Great article!
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There is great article on the 1981 team on RacerX online right now, but I can't get the link to work for some reason....
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I just went there and this is the "Fan of the Week". Looks like John's Niece?
(http://www.racerxonline.com/assets/fans/2010/DSC_3334_800.jpg)
USA's 10 best:
http://www.racerxonline.com/article/two-more-team-usa-10-best-09-24.aspx (http://www.racerxonline.com/article/two-more-team-usa-10-best-09-24.aspx)
When We Were Kings article (I think this is the one you are talking about.
http://www.racerxonline.com/UserFiles/image/When_We_Were_Kings.pdf (http://www.racerxonline.com/UserFiles/image/When_We_Were_Kings.pdf)
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She looks similar.... he's a photo to compare. ;D
(http://twostrokemotocross.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Stacey-TSM-1.jpg)
The funny thing about the reports on those older races is that have written more about them all these years later and there was very little information at the time.
For the 1981 race the magazines where asking for donations. No one thought that the rag-tag team of what so many considered less then our US star racers would do much of anything, it was a shock to a lot of people.
The 1986 race was beyond words... I'm a 125cc lover and to find out that O'Mara finished second behind his teammates on his 125 was the best news that you could ever hear. I know that they don't have the complete results listed with that article, but if you notice there is not another 125 in the top ten!!
Thanks for sharing, nice to re-read those articles again!
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Yeah John that,s alot more info than in 1986. I remember when it happened and was thinking if the O SHOW was so on why couldn,t he pass Ricky and David. David Thorpe sure took a bashing from mxa, for years,I don,t think that was fair and felt sorry for Thorpe who has alot of class. I went to a old school deep sand track, for my 2nd race of my life on a 1987 cr125 with a wp shock that had a blown shock seal, I broke the stock shock ripping clay whoops. The wp shock with a blown seal had about 7 inches of travel,I never rode sand before and signed up for vintage 5 yr. old bike class. There was about 30 bikes on the line,95% where on 500,s, 2-250,s and 1-125 me,alot of guys were experts. I was last on the start, then went to work on the edge of the track, pick a bunch off.Then I would pass them coming out of corners,the 500,s swamp in the braking whoops, on the 125 I,m wide open 3 gears higher and on the exit of the corner I went by them like there chain broke.haha There was alot of contact in the slower parts of the track, 1 section was a off camber then a steep 1 line drop down a hill, with a sharp rt. rut into a very steep up hill where I inched passed 500,s , because I let the rider on the off camber go, brake check the guy behind me, then rail the right corner be 4 the steep uphill and sling shot up the 1st few feet then have my butt off the back trying too hook up and get the pass.The 500,s couldn,t believe a 125 was passing them there,towards the top of the hill were only going about 10mph,so your inching past them with both engines screaming, awesome. I finished 3rd, I was pissed I wanted 1 more lap, I had the leaders in front of me and was running them down. You have to be more tactical on a 125,sometimes patient- set him up 2 corners from where your at, back off a bit use a diff. line, then carry your speed outside to inside on the 2nd corner, the 125,s corner speed is a huge advantage.
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Honda canned O'Mara after that race! I remember Thorpe's interview in Cycle News saying he was nervous about getting the ax from Honda.
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Honda seemed to love canning 125 greats, since they did the same thing with Micky Dymond.