November 1976, I was in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base. I have a bunch of earlier dirtbike magazine and motocross action magazines that I bought at 7-Eleven back in the early 70s. I still have most of them but not in very good shape.
Great again Tony, channel is just getting better.. Jimmy Ellis is on the Can Am Black Widow last big race Can Am ever won.. you need to read about the bike. Sue Fish is in the Hall of Fame I have met her and seen her race vintage bikes against Mercedes Gonzalez in 2008..I was standing right beside Brad Lackey and and he was screaming across the track at Chuck Sun every time Sue & Mercedes would come by that their lap times were faster than the men!! I live 80 miles south of Loretta Lynn racetracks same highway I watched Mercedes in person many years. It was absolutely amazing how fast she actually was!! She was faster than the over 3/4 of the men at the Loretta Lynn National’s.. keep up these vintage magazine reviews!!
Bob raced 125's in '77. The infamous 'Let Brock bye' dealio happened that year. He raced another season on 125's after his run in with Howerton, post broken leg. Then, of course, his triumphant desNations appearance at Unadilla. Thanks for sharing your collection!
Wow, great to see this old MXA, I went to the 125 USGP for many years, Marty was the man and still is in my heart, thank you, it's like I just looked at this yesterday, great to see again.
Thanks for this look back at an issue of MXA, sort of like watching as the pages of motocross history turn. And I bought this issue at a newsstand when, for me, the newsstand was a small building just outside the front door of the Frankfurt PX in Frankfurt, West Germany--I was a senior at Frankfurt American High School and I had an after-school job at the nearby Commissary and I happily bought all of the monthly motorcycle mags--Motocross Action, Dirt Bike, Cycle Guide, Popular Cycling, Cycle World, Cycle. And a couple of thoughts about this issue: I really appreciated the ads for BMX bikes and I actually bought a bike through one of those ads--I think it was in Dirt Bike a year earlier. I bought a CYC Stormer with Skyway Tuff-Wheels and that bad boy did me the job--and I enjoyed showing it off to my German friends at a local road bike racing club, not to mention kids on the street who didn't quite know what to make of it. And, second, about Marty Smith that year, he competed in the 125 GP series in Europe that summer, so he was out of the loop in the States for awhile and Bob Hannah snatched the 125 glory in his absence. And I am glad that Marty was over there that summer as I got to see him compete in the German GP, won by Gaston and O well, nobody wins them all. But for me, O wow, it was so unbelievably amazing to meet and chat with Marty before the race--he and his lady had a tent and he was sitting under the awning and making himself available to fans. And sure, there were fans who casually walked past but c'mon, this was Marty Smith and nobody else really seemed to appreciate that he was American Motocross Superstar Royalty--but I sure did and there he was, just like in the magazines every month. And he was as nice as any fan would hope that he would be--calm and casual and just there to be a friendly superstar. And I had my CYC Stormer with me at the track and I showed it to him--I was sort of riding it around like a pit bike--and he said it looked like what all the kids were riding back home. And it was all so cool, so surreal, a day with Marty in the middle of Europe at the height of his fame as a factory racer. And about twenty years ago, I was able to share with him, through a motocross website, a stack of photos from that race, one of which was a pic of me standing next to him. And I was told that Marty said, "Hey, I remember that guy!" And I never got around to it, but I wanted to attend his MX school, just to have some fun and get roosted by the Champ. That would have been a kick. And of course I remain heartbroken about his recent death, the dune buggy crash that claimed the lives of Marty and his wife and two of their friends. RIP Marty.
Pierre's wearing my old Honda boots, or the same style Honda boots, I should say. You rarely see them in old racing pics. I was the only person I knew that wore them. Of course, I wore them on a 1976 RM100 and 1976 RM125 and 1979 RM125, not on a Honda CR, ironically.
The bull worker! I hadn’t thought about that thing for years. My Dad had one and I remember using it in the 80’s. It had a spring inside the tube and you collapsed it by compressing it together. I didn’t realize you collection went back to the 70’s. Very cool
I'm sure I bought that magazine new. I was 14. Watched all these guys at Mid Ohio. There was nothing better than the smell of "Benol" in the morning. It was called "open" classes back then. (I think). They would race whatever made it to the open class. 125's could race in it. lol
Regarding number plate normality, you say it seemed “all over the place “ in fact it simply signified the rider’s placement from the following year and was therefore very helpful for the fans to understand whe the top riders were
@@TheMotocrossVault Thank's i have heard alot of people talk highly of that bike on fourms and such, the 1996-2001 Yamaha YZ 125 are very well liked in the Motocross community for good reason they where very good bike nearly always won the Shootout's from the magazines.
EC Birt was a bike builder who made some really fast bikes and parts. When I first started racing 125’s in 1980 in Alberta Canada, there was a kid who was dominating the 100cc Schoolboy class, Jaime Palmer. His parents bought him a super trick, full EC Birt race bike. It was based on a 1980 RM100 and was about as close to a works bike as money could buy. Olympia beer or Olympia Washington....Oly.
BINGO, tracks like where the 500 GP was held in 1976 in England : yes indeed Grass Grass and more grass, those natural tracks were what MX is all about 😁
Thank you for your great videos, 1976 works Honda forks had external springs like maico. Please research the great Adolf Weil, pronounced VILE like while but starting with a”V” you seemed to portray him as a nobody but in fact, he was a great part of the sport for many years, just ask Decoster, he was known as a lookalike to Paul Newman 😁
“ Jofa “ is pronounced like Joe - Fuh , not Jaffa . Much like Husqvarna is Either Hoos - varna Or Husk - varna but not Husk -Uh - Varna . DG went on to make very popular package racer bikes in 77-82 as the peak years.
Yes, it is short for Olympia Beer and there were radio ads with "Oly" and "Olympia" in the same ad and the slogan, "It's the water and a lot more" or something like that.
Trelleborg is still in buisiness, and Barum switched their name to Mitas somewere early 90. Chech tyres, cheaper tyres of decent quality. I have run quite a few on my enduro bikes as rear option.
My two cents on the wet t-shirt: back in the 70’s people were still normal,,, so this stuff was normal: starting in the 90’s the usa started to change into a different era in which normal became strange, ie wet t-shirts were suddenly perceived as “too sexy” I think this cultural change is the reason that it “seems” like MXA changed, MXA was just caught up in a cultural downgrade
OLY= Olympia Beer. They were the event sponsor. Keep em coming Tony. Great work as usual.
Thanks I’ve always wondered what the hell that was
Dewey B like big OLY the Baja Bronco
24 was bad brad at the 500 national, great work Tony love the vids!!!
November 1976, I was in basic training at Lackland Air Force Base. I have a bunch of earlier dirtbike magazine and motocross action magazines that I bought at 7-Eleven back in the early 70s. I still have most of them but not in very good shape.
Great again Tony, channel is just getting better.. Jimmy Ellis is on the Can Am Black Widow last big race Can Am ever won.. you need to read about the bike. Sue Fish is in the Hall of Fame I have met her and seen her race vintage bikes against Mercedes Gonzalez in 2008..I was standing right beside Brad Lackey and and he was screaming across the track at Chuck Sun every time Sue & Mercedes would come by that their lap times were faster than the men!! I live 80 miles south of Loretta Lynn racetracks same highway I watched Mercedes in person many years. It was absolutely amazing how fast she actually was!! She was faster than the over 3/4 of the men at the Loretta Lynn National’s.. keep up these vintage magazine reviews!!
Bob raced 125's in '77. The infamous 'Let Brock bye' dealio happened that year. He raced another season on 125's after his run in with Howerton, post broken leg. Then, of course, his triumphant desNations appearance at Unadilla. Thanks for sharing your collection!
Started racing in 76’ and had this issue, great times
Wow, great to see this old MXA, I went to the 125 USGP for many years, Marty was the man and still is in my heart, thank you, it's like I just looked at this yesterday, great to see again.
Thanks for this look back at an issue of MXA, sort of like watching as the pages of motocross history turn. And I bought this issue at a newsstand when, for me, the newsstand was a small building just outside the front door of the Frankfurt PX in Frankfurt, West Germany--I was a senior at Frankfurt American High School and I had an after-school job at the nearby Commissary and I happily bought all of the monthly motorcycle mags--Motocross Action, Dirt Bike, Cycle Guide, Popular Cycling, Cycle World, Cycle. And a couple of thoughts about this issue: I really appreciated the ads for BMX bikes and I actually bought a bike through one of those ads--I think it was in Dirt Bike a year earlier. I bought a CYC Stormer with Skyway Tuff-Wheels and that bad boy did me the job--and I enjoyed showing it off to my German friends at a local road bike racing club, not to mention kids on the street who didn't quite know what to make of it. And, second, about Marty Smith that year, he competed in the 125 GP series in Europe that summer, so he was out of the loop in the States for awhile and Bob Hannah snatched the 125 glory in his absence. And I am glad that Marty was over there that summer as I got to see him compete in the German GP, won by Gaston and O well, nobody wins them all. But for me, O wow, it was so unbelievably amazing to meet and chat with Marty before the race--he and his lady had a tent and he was sitting under the awning and making himself available to fans. And sure, there were fans who casually walked past but c'mon, this was Marty Smith and nobody else really seemed to appreciate that he was American Motocross Superstar Royalty--but I sure did and there he was, just like in the magazines every month. And he was as nice as any fan would hope that he would be--calm and casual and just there to be a friendly superstar. And I had my CYC Stormer with me at the track and I showed it to him--I was sort of riding it around like a pit bike--and he said it looked like what all the kids were riding back home. And it was all so cool, so surreal, a day with Marty in the middle of Europe at the height of his fame as a factory racer. And about twenty years ago, I was able to share with him, through a motocross website, a stack of photos from that race, one of which was a pic of me standing next to him. And I was told that Marty said, "Hey, I remember that guy!" And I never got around to it, but I wanted to attend his MX school, just to have some fun and get roosted by the Champ. That would have been a kick. And of course I remain heartbroken about his recent death, the dune buggy crash that claimed the lives of Marty and his wife and two of their friends. RIP Marty.
Fork boots were large because those early works cartridge forks used external springs like a 66-74 36mm Maico fork
Great review! Would love to see a deep dive into an early 80s Dirt Bike magazine. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! Will do!
Daisy high torque, wow haven’t heard that in a while. Love your vids Tony, thanks again.
Glad you enjoyed it
Enjoyed it. Keep it up.
Thanks, will do!
Pierre's wearing my old Honda boots, or the same style Honda boots, I should say. You rarely see them in old racing pics. I was the only person I knew that wore them. Of course, I wore them on a 1976 RM100 and 1976 RM125 and 1979 RM125, not on a Honda CR, ironically.
The bull worker! I hadn’t thought about that thing for years. My Dad had one and I remember using it in the 80’s. It had a spring inside the tube and you collapsed it by compressing it together. I didn’t realize you collection went back to the 70’s. Very cool
I'm sure I bought that magazine
new. I was 14. Watched all these guys at Mid Ohio. There was nothing better than the smell of "Benol" in the morning. It was called "open" classes back then. (I think). They would race whatever made it to the open class. 125's could race in it. lol
Cool review
Regarding number plate normality, you say it seemed “all over the place “ in fact it simply signified the rider’s placement from the following year and was therefore very helpful for the fans to understand whe the top riders were
I have raced Happy Ramblers too....
Nice 👍
@The Motocross Vault could you video on the 1998 Yamaha YZ 125.
Absolutely
@@TheMotocrossVault Thank's i have heard alot of people talk highly of that bike on fourms and such, the 1996-2001 Yamaha YZ 125 are very well liked in the Motocross community for good reason they where very good bike nearly always won the Shootout's from the magazines.
EC Birt was a bike builder who made some really fast bikes and parts. When I first started racing 125’s in 1980 in Alberta Canada, there was a kid who was dominating the 100cc Schoolboy class, Jaime Palmer. His parents bought him a super trick, full EC Birt race bike. It was based on a 1980 RM100 and was about as close to a works bike as money could buy.
Olympia beer or Olympia Washington....Oly.
Thanks! Mystery solved
23:58 Ah man, no one remembers Jason Anderson's supercross title in 2018 on Husky. Poor "El Hombre"... just joking.
Yea, kind of cool Husqvarna had different colors, and your pronunciation is quite good 😁
external springs
😁Marty Smith “may” have moved up to the big bikes in 1977😁😁 He won the 500 championship in 1977!!
Miller, Al Baker, Baz, Pete Maly..... good times!
I've washed in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand sidecar dirt track racing and asphalt Superbike sidecar racing.
BINGO, tracks like where the 500 GP was held in 1976 in England : yes indeed Grass Grass and more grass, those natural tracks were what MX is all about 😁
olympia beer tumwater washington
Thank you for your great videos, 1976 works Honda forks had external springs like maico. Please research the great Adolf Weil, pronounced VILE like while but starting with a”V” you seemed to portray him as a nobody but in fact, he was a great part of the sport for many years, just ask Decoster, he was known as a lookalike to Paul Newman 😁
“ Jofa “ is pronounced like Joe - Fuh , not Jaffa . Much like Husqvarna is Either Hoos - varna
Or Husk - varna but not Husk -Uh - Varna . DG went on to make very popular package racer bikes in 77-82 as the peak years.
Steve Stackable was 6, I think
I bet the "Oly" had something to do with being sponsored by Olympia Beer....
Yes, it is short for Olympia Beer and there were radio ads with "Oly" and "Olympia" in the same ad and the slogan, "It's the water and a lot more" or something like that.
Trelleborg is still in buisiness, and Barum switched their name to Mitas somewere early 90. Chech tyres, cheaper tyres of decent quality. I have run quite a few on my enduro bikes as rear option.
oly.....Olympia Beer????
My two cents on the wet t-shirt: back in the 70’s people were still normal,,, so this stuff was normal: starting in the 90’s the usa started to change into a different era in which normal became strange, ie wet t-shirts were suddenly perceived as “too sexy” I think this cultural change is the reason that it “seems” like MXA changed, MXA was just caught up in a cultural downgrade