This is too dang Cool!! I was hoping to get to go to VMD this year but my wife had health issues. I WILL BE THERE NEXT YEAR!! Thanks for sharing this great video!!
Shout out to Broc one of my favs since early 80s. He holds the distinction of commentating the only race I've ever rewatched mostly due to the entertaining commentary at Highpoint a cpl years ago. He laughed n had fun at an incredibly difficult job.
I like the way you ride. Nice to see people who still know how to ride a 2-stroke (clutch and throttle especially). That also includes yelling at the guy in front of you going into the corners. I had a guy yell at me for laps in one race, "You have a flat tire!!!". The guy had me checking tire pressure in the pits after the race. lol
Thanks for posting Watching some other videos of the event I saw that the prices on bikes of all kinds are nothing short of ridiculous. My conclusion is that it is no good for parts or bike searching , but the event itself? count me in , will try to make next year.
I think it is funny. Handlebar set up today is to rotate the bars forward, (grip ends pointing up instead of down--with the same bar), right after freestyle got big (move the bars forward for leg trick clearance), and I think the set up is terrible for entering corners. But now, the vintage bikes on display, have the same freestyle set up on display. It is a new generation of Vintage bike owners, I guess.
Do you think McCafer welding and fabrication would be interested in helping design (routing, not tuning), and manufacture small 2-stroke pipes on a production basis? I sell a lot of smaller ported/stroked 2-stroke race engines around the world, (for a living for the last 18 years), but never had time to make pipes for my porting. Top quality is a must. Doug at Earth Surfer Performance. (ESP)
Great event! But I am not a fan of the AMA anymore, as they do what the FIM tells them, (1986 production rule for the USA only, prices tripled in 5 years), who does what the EPA tells them, (over doubled the price of a bike again, due to EPA force),---and we can't afford a bike anymore. Looks like the "hand that feeds us", also "Slaps" pretty hard. Time to feed ourselves folks. Time for competition. These are not the CMC days. There is fruit to pick from now. Good fruit they let hit the ground,---like the 2-stroke 250 vs a 4-stroke 250, (both make about 45hp and fair to race each other),---by free will. Dictatorship have taken over what free people have built. It is time to take it back. We need rules for racing, but we don't need those rule makers telling us what to make and buy. We built it,---before the organizations were formed, and it was functional enough to afford. My thoughts. Waiting for censorship actually,---in today's USA.
If the pro racers would take college courses (part time, from their home/trailer), and earned a productive degree,---they would not be so lost come retirement time. Just for 2 examples: Brian Swink may still be alive and productive, and Ping would not have had to get a job for the state (a drain on production, and actually today, a factor of the growth of communism (not free enterprise), in the USA. The fact is now, because of FIM and EPA intervention in the production of the sport, bike prices are so high, comparatively in household income, none of our 70's MX Hero's would have ever raced a bike. You can pretty much erase the record books with a "modern progressive economy" that we suffer from today. Many of us did it ourselves,---as kids. Our parents did not even know what the sport was, as it didn't exist here until we bought a MXA magazine. 3 new dirt bikes I bought in 6 years, making $1.00/hr part time at my Dads highway side 3 isle gas station, (74-81). Man, I can go on and on about how the sport has been damaged for the masses. But ti takes more than just me to help fix it. Doug in Michigan
Nice riding and video but wtf is with the yelling? I raced for three years in vet class in South Cal and never yelled or had any one do it to me, I would have not been happy if the one in front save the energy n pass them idk just me!!!
1:51 Yep. Flip flops, short sleeve shirt, shorts and no helmet. It partly shows the old 2-stroke days were safer than the EPA dictated faster 4-strokes today, even with his modern "low elbow" of the 4-strokes riders today, because they don't "re-grip" the throttle anymore, as Gary Bailey taught us for better control of the bars and control the body wight from going too far forward, in case you hit a bump. :)
I love the sound and smell of two strokes! Grew up in the late 60s , early 70s
This is too dang Cool!! I was hoping to get to go to VMD this year but my wife had health issues. I WILL BE THERE NEXT YEAR!! Thanks for sharing this great video!!
Always great watching the old bikes ( and racers ) still getting it done
Shout out to Broc one of my favs since early 80s. He holds the distinction of commentating the only race I've ever rewatched mostly due to the entertaining commentary at Highpoint a cpl years ago. He laughed n had fun at an incredibly difficult job.
I like the way you ride. Nice to see people who still know how to ride a 2-stroke (clutch and throttle especially). That also includes yelling at the guy in front of you going into the corners. I had a guy yell at me for laps in one race, "You have a flat tire!!!". The guy had me checking tire pressure in the pits after the race. lol
I didn't hear anything about Flat Tracking. Ohio still holds some flat track races& Vintage flat track racing.
I was there on Saturday I have to say that we will be going back next year and camping awesome event
I used to holler jus like that. Little panic rev, little panic yell. Yep 40% of the time it works every time. 😂
Beautiful Bikes !
Great video! Wish i owned that YZ360.
Those bikes pit out waY more power than the chassis can handle
Wow.....just Wow.....
Thanks for posting
Watching some other videos of the event I saw that the prices on bikes of all kinds are nothing short of ridiculous.
My conclusion is that it is no good for parts or bike searching , but the event itself? count me in , will try to make next year.
Classic CR that's what I learned on, so loud, no suspension. Than the YZ came out with Mono shock and changed everything, we started going fast.
Race Vintage Mx in Michigan.. is a ton of fun
I think it is funny. Handlebar set up today is to rotate the bars forward, (grip ends pointing up instead of down--with the same bar), right after freestyle got big (move the bars forward for leg trick clearance), and I think the set up is terrible for entering corners. But now, the vintage bikes on display, have the same freestyle set up on display. It is a new generation of Vintage bike owners, I guess.
No way I'm gonna treat that 1975 HINDA CR125M Elsinore like that, no way. Just saying. Great video by the way.
Do you think McCafer welding and fabrication would be interested in helping design (routing, not tuning), and manufacture small 2-stroke pipes on a production basis?
I sell a lot of smaller ported/stroked 2-stroke race engines around the world, (for a living for the last 18 years), but never had time to make pipes for my porting. Top quality is a must.
Doug at Earth Surfer Performance. (ESP)
Fun
Great event! But I am not a fan of the AMA anymore, as they do what the FIM tells them, (1986 production rule for the USA only, prices tripled in 5 years), who does what the EPA tells them, (over doubled the price of a bike again, due to EPA force),---and we can't afford a bike anymore. Looks like the "hand that feeds us", also "Slaps" pretty hard.
Time to feed ourselves folks. Time for competition. These are not the CMC days. There is fruit to pick from now. Good fruit they let hit the ground,---like the 2-stroke 250 vs a 4-stroke 250, (both make about 45hp and fair to race each other),---by free will. Dictatorship have taken over what free people have built. It is time to take it back. We need rules for racing, but we don't need those rule makers telling us what to make and buy. We built it,---before the organizations were formed, and it was functional enough to afford.
My thoughts. Waiting for censorship actually,---in today's USA.
If the pro racers would take college courses (part time, from their home/trailer), and earned a productive degree,---they would not be so lost come retirement time. Just for 2 examples:
Brian Swink may still be alive and productive, and Ping would not have had to get a job for the state (a drain on production, and actually today, a factor of the growth of communism (not free enterprise), in the USA. The fact is now, because of FIM and EPA intervention in the production of the sport, bike prices are so high, comparatively in household income, none of our 70's MX Hero's would have ever raced a bike. You can pretty much erase the record books with a "modern progressive economy" that we suffer from today. Many of us did it ourselves,---as kids. Our parents did not even know what the sport was, as it didn't exist here until we bought a MXA magazine. 3 new dirt bikes I bought in 6 years, making $1.00/hr part time at my Dads highway side 3 isle gas station, (74-81). Man, I can go on and on about how the sport has been damaged for the masses. But ti takes more than just me to help fix it. Doug in Michigan
So true, except every "progressive" is really a regressive, they wreck everything they touch!!!
Blendzall
Nice riding and video but wtf is with the yelling? I raced for three years in vet class in South Cal and never yelled or had any one do it to me, I would have not been happy if the one in front save the energy n pass them idk just me!!!
That dude trying to set that 125 Elsinore was lame ....comon nobody would try to put a milk crate or plastic bucket under a bike with a down pipe
Did a close eye catch you riding a pit bike wearing flip flops?
1:51 Yep. Flip flops, short sleeve shirt, shorts and no helmet. It partly shows the old 2-stroke days were safer than the EPA dictated faster 4-strokes today, even with his modern "low elbow" of the 4-strokes riders today, because they don't "re-grip" the throttle anymore, as Gary Bailey taught us for better control of the bars and control the body wight from going too far forward, in case you hit a bump. :)
Still--he got the hole-shot. :)
2:43 All these decades, and we see the reason why this guy still sports a 3 digit number. Good ad for the masses. Wrong generation though. lol
Went every year from 95 to 2018. Went downhill after AHRMA left! Turned into organized drunken stupidity!
Hey Broc man. With our education system today, every kid should be home schooled.
Stick to what you "know".