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Old Race Photos

Back to some old bikes & racers, Spencer on the 2-stroke triple and Honda's 4-stroke AMA Racer (RCB1000?)

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Unobtainable street bikes, 1980's style... although the CB1100R belonged to a friend of mine. He also had a Hailwood Replica that was truly awesome.

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What!?? This Thread cannot be complete without some John Kozinski pics..He was DA MAN in 88' on that 250!
 
Looks like a Mystery Nip, thanks for the mammaries. :teeth

Is that Budman wearing the bell bottoms in the background?

Johndicezx9 said:
Craig Vetter & his Mystery Ship, 1980

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these are great! you got my mojo for starting this out w/ some great photos!
 
One more I meant to post.

I have boxes of this stuff, and anyone will who knows me will tell you I'm not exactly the most organized person, so I'll dig around some more and see what I can find.

I missed a couple GP's ('89 I was in Europe, but I did see it on TV there, '91 a cousin had the audacity to get married the same day as the GP, & they didn't have one in 92) when they were here, figuring they'll have many, many more. WON'T make that mistake again!

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ILOAD2 said:
What!?? This Thread cannot be complete without some John Kozinski pics..He was DA MAN in 88' on that 250!
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Ask and you shall receive... but i don't know what I was doing with the camera setting, but it looks kinda cool.

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Wayne Gradner never had good luck at Laguna, and 1990 was a particularly bad year for crashes, the race was red flagged at least once, maybe twice.

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But Magee had the worst of it. This red flagged the race, and feared the worst when we saw it, but I think he was relatively ok when he came to. This again was in 1990. I think he was also the rider that hit Bubba Shobert and ended his career in '89.

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Cool pic of Gardner...busted his leg up pretty good from what I remember.. and The Bubba deal was a tradgedy.. :sad

The track has a lot more run off in turn 6 now.. turn two used to be a wicked fast lefty with a hillside right there..:wow

I have ridden the track in all of the configurations..and the current is the safefest by far..but I think the MotoGP guys who have never seen it will be freaked..a little and think it is not safe..we'll see.

MORE!

And no Rick those are not my bell bottoms..:laughing

Here is my son and I at the first GP..tired guy he was..and it was blazing hot too..

:smoking

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Johndicezx9 said:
Unobtainable street bikes, 1980's style... although the CB1100R belonged to a friend of mine. He also had a Hailwood Replica that was truly awesome.

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Hold the phone... what bikes are the ones in the top photo, there? RZ500's?
 
Deacon, yes, but I think these 2 were the even rarer aluminum framed RZ-R's.

Budman, I e-mailed you.

Roberts came out of retirement for one last ride in front of the home crowd in 1985. I went out to the races on crutches because I broke my leg in a bicycle accident just before graduating from UCSB, so this was really the best I could do.

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