'MERICA! 🏁

The motorcycle world needs another Hodaka now. Teenagers can't afford a 12k dirt bike...

Michael Schumacher is a synonym for Formula 1 racing. Valentino Rossi is a synonym for MotoGP racing.

17:05 excellent discussion of why regulations and rules are necessary.

15:12 total deaths doesn’t mean much without the context of total number people riding quads A doubling of deaths sounds bad but if there was also a 8x increase in the number of riders then it would actually be more an indication they became safer for example. That’s the problem with stats, they are easily used to misinform. Not saying that was your purpose. Nonetheless it’s the reality.

Had a Combat Wombat, Wish I still had her....

I believe Doug was coming back after breaking his back no manufacture would give him a ride Yamaha was working on a four stroke Henry took it and won on it

I was a little young for crusty demons, but a VHS tape called “And they Cheated Death” changed my life.

I’ll never forget watching these videos after school and then the night before going riding on the weekends. Free riding videos were idolized by my brothers and I when we were kids.

I have a 93 Yamaha warrior 350 it tops out at 70 mph and it's fun as hell

1897... The year fun started! 1:51... Safety first! Look at the couple about to roll off the cliff hahah. The first quad I owned was the Tecate 4. I remember the Lt500s when they came out some people returned them. Just too crazy. I have no idea who had the sack to race them.. I ride a Raptor to this day. I think another contributing factor to the ATV deaths being so high in WV is that is where the Hatfield McCoy trail system is. You get a strange mix of both newcomers with over powered SxS and old schoolers on pure sport quads. Somethings got to give.

"It's always the rider's fault" is true, but misleading. Riders are humans, humans do stupid things like considering helmets uncool, and then someone has to mop a kid's brain off the pavement. The premise of "rider's fault" doesn't work because there is effectively no rider without fault. It's always the same, people wagging fingers about not being stupid and wearing helmets, and then admitting to being stupid and not wearing helmets themselves. That said, I'm not advocating banning quads. People will always find ways to compete for Darwin's awards. Just saying that blaming the riders is in large part a non-argument.

Yamaha didn't "start it all." The AMA setup the rules so that 4-strokes would have an undeniable advantage and kill the "dirty" 2-stroke. The AMA could bring back the 2-stroke in a second by simply changing the rules and giving 2-strokes the advantage. This was the worst decision ever by the f*cking AMA.

He his the evil of are time and will go down in history as such! Nobody will ever be better till the next generations evil!

Funny story, the largest in sales volume of all Hodakas was located just a few miles from me in Owensville MO! In the 7s and 80s there were Hodakas everywhere around here...not many now but there is a 74 Dirt Squirt in my garage!

I had a Bridgestone 90, which was good, but more a street bike. I envied my friends with Hodakas. Good memories and a very good video. Thanks

Late to the comment party here but I really think the unicorn adv bike will be discovered once battery technology improves. If I could get an 80+ HP with roughly 450-500 miles of range on one charge that would be the unicorn of ADV/Dual Sport bikes. unfortunately that type of range is nowhere near possible. But within a decade from now with higher EV consumption maybe the technology or infrastructure to support it will be more available.

SKIP the 1st 1:00.

I can almost taste the sweet smell of the premix exhaust and feel the vibration pounding through the grips. All the adventures with the bikes I had the good fortune to experience in the 70's came flooding back. What a great time it was to be a kid! Thank you sir for stirring all those faded memories to life again with a great story.

Yeah if someone calls you a wombat it's an insult

I'm somewhat ignorant on motocross bikes and can't see the benefits of 4 stroke over 2 stroke. Also, why are street bikes generally all 4 stroke? I use a lot of landscape maintenance tools, all 2 stroke.

Dude your videos are awesome 👌 👏

He is the champion of dirty racers. If you look at almost every pass in the turns, he stuffs his rear wheel into every rider he passed. No such thing as a clean pass with that man.

Had a combat wombat in the 80’s

Correction, Roger DeCoster was the greatest and will always be the greatest motocrosser of all times.

I'm just a Motor crosser from the seventies Very awesome documentary It took me back, thank you. I still watch supercross and motorcross today. Went to the sixth day in durham intelsa in ninety three. Which are anybody talks about. Keep it w f o

I have the suzuki 125. Dad bought it for the kids back in 1986. Still runs to this day.

20 minutes long stream of suggestive BS without a single argument

I had an 01 banshee and I regret ever selling it

Before KTM took over Husaberg they were one of the winningest spikes around now a Husaberg is not a Husaberg they switched it now it's a glorified KTM

First mountain bike was a penny farthing.

Racing in early 00's-KTM 520's were all over the start line

One group of brothers in my neighborhood had a 125 Hodaka and a 90 if memory serves. That 125 was a lot of fun.

They didn't kill it. You can buy a brand new one today. So, what the hell are you talking about?

Had a 125 combat wombat from Castro Valley Hokaka.....the last bike(dirt) I owned was a 250 thunderdog....the street version was so de tuned....... the dirt version , well, in 78, in Oroville, Kenny Robert's rode my bike at a freinds event. He said " nice 500", and was amazed when he was told displacement. He even developed a flat track frame....too bad how it all ended

Had an Ace 90. Then graduated to a 125 SuperCombat! Loved both! Never got the ThunderDog I wanted though! Still looking out for an SL 175 or 250!!!

Bro thank you so much. As a kid I always got half the story or some bologna. This was amazing. Substcibe

I carried my Hodaka on a bike rack behind my 73 Vega. God, I’m old. Had a blast with the bike.

One of my uncles was the first to buy a dozen of those 3 wheelers atv’s and to rent them to tourist to race on his field. He had to put a stop to it after a few years due to too much accidents and injuries.

One snowy winter morning this kid, Jeff didn’t get on the school bus but then a mile up the road he passed the bus sideways on a brand new Quadzilla. Everyone on the bus lost their minds! Legend.

Not true...he was 100% the greatest in the USA, however he never won a motocross world championship and was therefore never a "World champion" sadly only one American has won a World championship and that was Brad Lackey in the early 80's, after a long hard 10 year battle to get there. Sorry but facts are facts

#vstromination

ppl did not go to see moto gp they went to see rossi at play. true

It was only dangerous for idiots. 💯

Flipped a trike in High School. Not a fun experience. Buddy of mine flipped a quad a few years ago. He put his shoulder blade out his back. Like, as in, *out his back*. Not a fun experience.

Wolsink came back to Maico in 82 ? And hated it so much he left it on the Carlsbad track and walked back to the truck...

Jesus this brought tears to my eyes, especially at the end when you said that was fun while it lasted. I always rode a Honda from a 69 mini Trail 50 to a CR125 in 73. Back in the 70s, we had this little motorcycle shop in the middle of town where he sold Bultaco, Maico, the Indian enduro bike, and Hodaka. When they came out with the Rat bikes he could not keep them in stock a lot of my friends bought them and they were nice-looking bikes but like you said the CR125 eventually put that little shop out of business and it's a shame because even though he usually only had 4 or 5 new bikes in at a time they were all the sought after european ones people look for now but those Hodakas were real eye candy with their marketing.

The suzuki one twenty five was probably one of the most dangerous four Wheelers that I had ever ridden. They were so under powered and overweight.

Rossi's first race on the Yamaha still gives me goosebumps when I see or hear about it. If he wasn't a legend already, then that race 100% confirmed it. I still don't know how he did it and I think Biaggi realised that day that Rossi was in a different league

Indeed he did, he is an iconic legend who elevated MotoGP in all classes to monumental heights, when he retired it has not been the same since.