Old Motocross Home Video..... 1978-80 'ish

[@TimGuitarcouk]

Happy days. I was a schoolboy scrambler from 78 to 80. The best times.

[@XRakkgruntX]

I was 13 in 79, my mom bought me a brand new 79 RM100, that bike taught me a lot. It also helped me donate some skin and blood here and there and I wouldn’t change a thing. Best of times

[@vintagemxer9165]

Rough, natural terrain, hard-packed, rocky, dusty. When kidney belts were needed. Rear ends kicking. The sport sure has evolved. I would love to see them race on a natural terrain track again. Grass with markers. No machinery. Like Unadilla used to be. Thanks for the memories.

[@groovymusic8910]

WOW!!!! This is when I was racing motocross also - '72 - '79. Roger DeCoster was my hero. I actually had dinner with him once in Carlsbad during the 1975 FIM campaign. I love the old tracks, especially compared to today's over-manicured, rut-filled boring tracks. I have photos of my racing exploits, but no video. Thanks for sharing!!!

[@martinmiles11]

Ahh, back when it wasn't death defying, just fun. Much missed

[@rogerstrudwick5820]

Cant believe you captured my first ever meeting at Piddingworth, and my first holeshot at Winterpick. loved Amberly Mount specially in the wet...

[@davidbacon9351]

@@rogerstrudwick5820 Amberley in the wet always seemed sketchy to me, especially that downhill through the trees😳🤣

[@volksdeutschewaffenss9670]

best mx and natural Terran tracks, thanks

[@TimGuitarcouk]

Are you familiar with Elsworth in Cambridgeshire? That used to be a lovely natural grassland circuit before Andy Lee turned it into an outdoor super cross track

[@davidbacon9351]

@@TimGuitarcouk seen it on videos, never went there. Bit too far north for me🤣 Did race near Banbury once but that was a one off!!

[@patriciacopling7908]

My husband Paul found this on KZbin a few nights ago & couldn't believe it.. he was so excited to watch it as just for a quick second he noticed his dad & green ford escort car they used for racing.. Paul knew you very well& enjoyed lots of meetings with you over several years!!..he got back mid 80's gave up for several years but has been back on the bike since 2009 & luvs every bit of it . Noticed rob Wiseman& Paul knew tony Robinson very well.. happy days

[@davidbacon9351]

@@patriciacopling7908 oh wow!! Yes I remember Paul well! How’s he doing? Are you still living in the area? I’m still very much in touch with Robert he’s in the USA now) and Tony on Facebook

[@eddielee3766]

Awesome footage, Thanks for sharing!

[@adriaticbatman]

This makes me remember my days racing my YZ125F.......two strokes are still the best MX bikes... Also, number 58 in the video, a 74 KX125 with down-pipe...raced one of those as well...

[@take5th]

Thanks-rare type of footage. I raced I in those days, still ride off-road, but was so much simpler then. And tracks were….safer! Suspensions were 3-5 undamped inches. Doing a “Cross-up” was high art. Good times indeed.

[@ianbarber6463]

I appear at 23.02 and 24.22 at Amberley #154 on the 250 Husky 😀 Yellow PJ1 race shirt. Happy days. It was 1982 my first year in adults.

[@patricktennyson4293]

Nice video. Like the number 58 the year I was born. Brings me back to when we used to have fun races in the big hay field out the back of our house in the seventies on bultacos and anything that had two wheels basically. Great craic as they say here in Ireland.

[@Rbplastering21]

Those Days on my Technamoto 50zr and Kx 80 , were the Best days ever79 /82

[@Fogman5678]

Boomer here. Remember when the Smell of Belray premix was unfortunately not a Cologne. Jofa,and Bell Grill Gaurds where 😎 Cool. Days when a "Tank Slapper" on a Metal Tank had your Voice hitting Octives that would break "Glass". 😂

[@CHRISTOMC69]

I remember you David - We were the Salisbury Meats Racing Team - there were 4 of us - any videos of our racing days ..

[@martiniv8924]

Kevin reed was a well known schoolboy racer , brings back fond memories of the same period for me in the midlands AMCA until a badly broken arm put paid to the fun for a few years , thanks for sharing 👍🏻

[@jamespolucha8790]

Great times back then, natural Mx tracks no sky jumps just fast who has more guts to hold it open racing

[@groovymusic8910]

EXACTLY!!!

[@robtroman7917]

I was a member of the Wyre Forest Schoolboy Motocross Club and the West Midland Schoolboy Club back in the late seventies. Happy days.

[@heathamies]

Ditto

[@craiggiles8156]

Me too. Would love to have a few laps of Wilden lane (as it was)

[@heathamies]

@@craiggiles8156 small or big wilden lane,big one has been houses for years and the small one that west Mercia used now has horses and equestrian facility on it, that's how brother and myself got into racing the track was in the field next to my grandparents house

[@craiggiles8156]

@@heathamies the one where you would jump down the hill through the trees, had a water treatment plant across from it.

[@heathamies]

@@craiggiles8156 the big track then

[@lyntonryan4766]

Very good footage , and it definitely got faster towards the end with the introduction of mono shock , i remember watching the development and introduction of mono shock on "Tomorrow's World" and thinking "that's a game changer" , also very well done to the camera person !

[@robertbarth1362]

Ah yes,back in them good ol' days of mud,sweat💦 & gears⚙.I remember back in the mid 70's when I was about 10 🧒my mom would take me out to a local racetrack way out in the sticks🏜north of Alamogordo N.M. On Saturday nights 🌛there was 1/4 mile dirt track🏍 racing & sometimes motocross at La Luz (Spanish for the light💡 ) Speedway. I used to see the riders walking🚶 in the pits with a big steel plate on their left 🥾. Now in the 21st century I still go to the Supercross🏁 every year here in Phoenix.

[@WayneMaher-v3s]

The first track is Piddinghoe in Brighton, i raced there a few times, it was a British championship track back in the day, i watched Noyce race around there and all the Beamish Suzuki guys, right on my door step..

[@torco1963]

Lol..KawaSuckies i just found my old 72 MX250 and restoring it for next years vintage series here in Michigan

[@66clausy]

.many thanks 💪👍

[@chriswood7165]

wow i had a yz250E and race in Norfolk and Suffolk and ride free in Thetford forest with my mates ,

[@clintperry799]

The smell of bean oil 🙂

[@vintagemxer9165]

The Honda that got the holeshot and got squirrely @4:35 obviously didn't save it.

[@mxrx3786]

Ah Yes, I remember those days well When Men were Men and bikes were junk

[@EarthSurferUSA]

The history I lived though shows this race to be 1979. A few bikes have the new FIM mandated "extended side panels", (one of the few good decisions from the FIM, for easier scoring), that was mandated in 1979. Some bikes are from as early as (that I see), 1976. By 1979, all the new bikes had the FIM side number plates, accept for Honda I believe, (I see aftermarket FIM panels on some Honda's here), but did in 1980. My best bet is this would be possibly 1978, but more likely IMO to be 1979. It is close, but it is one of those two years.

[@EarthSurferUSA]

On second thought, not sure if anybody ran those FIM side number plates in 1978, and I would see most every bike have them in 1979. I see the Honda's only with aftermarket side panels. I am switching back to 1978 Alex. :)

[@EarthSurferUSA]

Opps, I always do that. Post before i watch the entire vid. I thought this was one track on one day. If the last segment is the latest,--It has to be 1981 (no way 82 with no water cooling), as I see the Suzuki full floater suspension that came out in 81. I know the Honda CR250 was water cooled in 1981, (I think I saw one, not sure), and several 125's. This was fun. :) Thanks. Doug in Michigan

[@WayneMaher-v3s]

Do we know who the riders are ?

[@davidbacon9351]

I put in the description the riders I remember. Obviously most of it’s of me, on my Kawasaki and then Cotton EMX. The section near the end of Amberley I filmed and the 3 Suzuki featured riders are Kevin Reed, no. 12, Greg Scutt, nos. 81 /74 and Tony Robinson nos. 106/62

[@WayneMaher-v3s]

@@davidbacon9351 Great video 👍

[@user-wz8vg3mc2k]

見ても楽しい、乗っても楽しいオフロードバイクの素晴らしい映像ですね。