Best Vintage Dirt Bikes at Langston Bike Show

Check out some awesome footage from the 2023 Langstons Motorsports bike show. Some awesome bikes and even cooler people.
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[@wsl5585]

Indeed awesome footage. The bikes are so sano. Makes me regret selling some of the bikes I had back then. Thank you for sharing.

[@talon0863]

Bultaco Pursang!! As a child, I used to gaze longingly at these. Wow

[@EarthSurferUSA]

5:55 Gary Jones, the inventor of the YZ. You know the big guys. No wonder why you have a really good channel. :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Look at the smile on his Grandson's face while sitting on that bike. Isn't that wonderful?

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Notice how some semi vintage bikes, like the #1 Honda here (3:46), have a modern ape hanger/freestyle, set up as today's racers use, (for some reason unknown to me). Not even Bradshaw rode with his bars that high in 1990. I also notice amateurs could corner faster in the 80's and 90's. I see the go-pro vids. :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

And nobody rode with their levers so "level", with the high bars, because it is about 3 times as hard to keep your elbows up, and a level brake lever made it hard to re-grip the throttle for a corner exit, (so you elbow did not drop on the exit, like they do today). But to acknowledge the change in our philosophies, functional or not, with the change in our times,-------------------------good thing the tracks are not bumpy today. Because if you got caught with your elbows down, you often found yourself on the ground. That was MX. A lot less like road racing.

[@Joe-pb3lx]

thanks for making this vid......i had a lot of those bikes......im a dummy and sold them after about 2 years of owning them

[@Marts1499]

Love some old bikes!!!

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Man, how do you pick "best bike" out of that gathering? Absolutely wonderful display of great days of dreams made into reality. I especially liked the tricked out Elsinore in the back of a pick up truck, (both in fantastic trick condition),----just like we used to do it.

[@LBrawn]

Easy it's always a Maico 490

[@dannyrfair]

2:39 1979 KX250 is beautiful!! I have one I’m trying to get back to riding on. I can’t find a good replacement carb

[@EarthSurferUSA]

1:04 Man, if your buddy in 76 had a bike like that, you would be hanging around at his home as you figured out how to buy one yourself, and it didn't take very long.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I am talking of about the age of 15 in 1976. Not 60 year old guys vintage racing, who barely make the money also to do it. :) Yes,---they were better days.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I like this guy. We would be good friends if we were neighbors. :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Grant Langston! Smart guy or just intuition to leave jab crazy NBC and Ping the Ding? I say both. :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I have an air compressor, twin cylinder, that has a head that looks a lot like a mid 1970's CR 125-250 head, (fin shape). Even the head shape of a CR125 is copied in china for a air compressor. lol

[@EarthSurferUSA]

2:08 I hate the modern 4-stoke MX engine because it was forced on the industry by a dictatorship called the EPA, but that is one sweet (pre-dictatorship) free market bike! :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Too bad we do not understand the difference of philosophies that make our bikes today compared to that bike, and what we now live under.

[@LBrawn]

​@@EarthSurferUSAI don't have to comment very often on the MX channels. Because you are so often saying what I am thinking. I just recently started commenting on you tube, but have been watching/reading for 15 years.

[@LBrawn]

​@@EarthSurferUSAI am with your opinion 95% of the time.

[@tonn333]

Some of the older bikes seem very lightweight.... I'm sure you could build a lighter bike nowadays, so it's probably an optical illusion.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Research the weights. My memory is getting a bit fuzzy at times, but I think I remember some early works RM's racing at about 170lbs, (with the help of a young DeCoster). That was before jumps. :)

[@AnzaValley]

More Bikes We want Bikes not some guy asking asking the same question.

[@Joe-pb3lx]

ask me if im having fun at the bike show......NO i wasnt there

[@EarthSurferUSA]

I was not at the 1893 Chicago world fair, (we don't have those anymore, and I know why), when George Westinghouse lit it up with AC light bulbs, (pissing off Thomas Edison, the DC guy). Can you imagine seeing light in the darkness for the first time, and all the possibilities for electricity in the future? That was just before the progressive movement came to the USA because we started making money. Wanna talk about a show we have not been to? You see one bike show, you have seen them all.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

In fact, this show was at every national 30-40 years ago. :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Opps,--up to 60 years old,---like me. :)

[@Joe-pb3lx]

didnt say i wanted to go to every show.....id probably go to one and be satisfied, you time traveler you@@EarthSurferUSA