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What did you race in the 80s?



Motocross.



Likewise 77 to 84. My early heroes were Decoster, Hannah and then Dave Thorpe...



I started racing MX as an amateur seriously around 1981 and continued into the early '90s before building the Challenger.

I had a bunch of 500 GP videos from the mid-'80s and Dave Thorpe was an animal on the Euro tracks. I only got to see him ride in person once, at the 1986 USGP at Carlsbad, CA, and it just wasn't his kind of track. Ricky Johnson killed EVERYONE that day... 'cuz Carlsbad was only about an hour from where he grew up. That was his first year for American Honda and he was riding like a total mad man that season.