Roger De Coster talks about the early days of motocross
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- Опубліковано 13 сер 2021
- Motorsports icon Roger De Coster, who has many varied accomplishments in his life, talks about the early days of Motocross. themindchampion.com
Roger is a 5 time World Motocross Champion, originally from Belgium, but living in the USA since late 1980.
He is currently Motorsports Director for KTM Group in the USA.
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Motocross could not have had a better ambassador, Roger was intelligent, likable, hardworking and fast. I always thought the world of him.
Uh, he's still around. Best of the best.
Lol I was thinking the same.
This is the man who showed us Americans how to race and win MX. Wish him all the best.
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I liked hearing how Roger helped out Lackey and LaPorte during their days competing for their World Championships in Europe.
My motocross hero growing up in the 70's
Roger DeCoster was my hero growing up in 1970s and riding motocross...had a 1974 TM 75 to start, then to an RM 125!
Yup. Started racing on a 73 TM 125 and got an RM 125 as soon as they came out. If memory serves, it had 8.5" rear travel - which was huge at the time.
This guy was a God when I first started dirt riding in '68/69... so glad to see him in one piece and alive today.
Hail to the Man! Mr. Decoster sir, you were a big influence on my racing career. Thanks for what you did for sport of motocross.🤘
I asked him for his autograph at Redbud in 1983 when he was the manager for the Honda race team. Very nice person.
Roger is the reason I started racing ! I remember the days when Roger rode Carlsbad Motor Cross Raceway in California back in the 70'S ! Always a joy to watch ride !
I drove back in the early 70’s to St Louis to watch Rodger, Joel, Brad, Marty and others. 12 hour drive only to have the race cancelled due to a deluge of rainfall making track impossible to ride and speed m places under 6” of water. These men influenced my life back then. I dreamed of being a motocross star. Regionally I did well, never competed on the national stage. Maybe if I was a Californian I would of stood a chance. Then again I don’t know just how fast these guys truly were. I love outdoor motocross. Back then tracks weren’t by design and groomed they were rough as a cob and jumps were brutally dangerous. Not like todays carefully constructed takeoff ramps.
Always great to see/hear this immortal Champion. Who could argue that he's the greatest of ALL time in the 500 class. I might only add one other name to share that eternal throne. That being his greatest rival, Mikkola.
Saw you at Wentzville Missouri along with Joel Robert and Bent Aberg and Torsten Hallman. Could not believe how fast you all were. Had to join in. Campaigned a 250 Bultaco for three years
Sure loved seeing you guys go!
Roger looks fast just sitting there, much respect for him!
I got to watch Roger race at Puyallup back in 1972. Joel Robert was the man of the day smoking everyone, landing off a big jump into a wheelie all the way to the corner. Front wheel never touching the ground. Joel was an animal!
Growing up in the 60’s and 70’s Roger was one of my heroes. I saw him race at a trans ama race in Blair Nebraska in 1974? I believe. Met him and got my picture taken with him at a super cross in 2014 at Indianapolis. Great ambassador of the sport.
Man, I could listen to this all day. Loved Roger and Cz ever since I saw him and the other Euros at the Inter-Am in 68 at my home town of Santa Cruz Ca.
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@@donpizzo8963 Yes DeLaveaga Park. A golf course now
my hero growing up
Agreed
Arguably The Greatest Moto Cross Champion Of All Time. 🏁🏆
Love this man. His quiet demeanor does not equate to his athleticism. He was a patient yet ruthless opponent!
Great interview with a legend, and a great interviewer for once who doesn't interrupt or rush and let's the interviewee speak.
What an incredible interview! I was into motocross racing in the early 70s and have met Roger and seen him race many times but I had no idea how difficult it was to race in Europe. You had to have desire!
We can easily see a bound between them. Respect 🙏
This is a great project Ryan. Keep going.
That's a great interview, never heard some of these stories.
Roger DeCoster raced at Copetown Ontario which was about 40 miles from my home I made damn sure I there.
Drove there from Michigan, us moto rats !!!😊😊😊 I remember getting to the track and it was All grass !!!! With snow fence!!! 1st practice Rodger out in coveralls just putting around stopping and looking behind for the line !!!! Later on, hauling ass on the RH370 !! camping at the track with Valerie in my 65 Chevy purple van !!! 😂😂😂 good times!!
Your volume is way too low.
I worked at a Yamaha dealer in Rochester New York in the mid-seventies and I always ran YZ motocross bikes, I am one YZ 80 and 1975 and then went on to the 77 125 with the mono shock
Rodger decoster for President
Everywhere that man went and lead for the last 60 years,---great bikes and champions followed.
Back when we had a chance, if a great MX bike would have been made in the USA, the effort would have been headed up by Roger DeCoster.
Cannondale should have hired him to lead their Heroic effort 25 years ago.
Who would win at Bowling out of these two? Us washed up moto winners love this stuff, thanks to both RD's. RD5 interview game just went up a few notches too.
Thank you!
Very interesting interview 👏
Roger is my hero....
Oh..happy just lisn and..history,ai rise my hat.
What a class guy, seems like any American that went to Europe to race always came back faster, we raced here in the states for fun the guys in Europe were doing it for work
All the Europe MX riders that came to the US thank you. That was a great interview. Roger is a legend!
I think the rest of them may be possibly coming over to the USA in the near future, because it looks like the MXGP's look to be failing. And I am sure bike sales are even lower than in the USA, so the factories may be losing interest also.
We got Motocross, Roger got corn.
: )
The views are 370 right now. That is fitting.
Likes not views ;)
You can be sure Steve McQueen paid the bill for Roger's doctor fees.
So my big question is for anyone who see's this post and is old enough to remember, what exactly is the difference between motocross and scrambling?
Scrambling doesn’t have the jumps or the rough track mostly flat but lots of turns
Like a gp but on dirt
Lenda viva. BRASIL 🇧🇷
Does the airports still require you to remove
your motocross boots through security . 😆
Rodger decoster 4 vice president Rodger and Donald would save America
Only the American people can save the USA from communism. But we don't know what freedom is anymore to embrace so we can reject communism. If we want to be smart enough to save our liberty, (and the liberty for all of mankind IMO), IMO, we have to learn the difference between communism and our natural right to liberty from people like this lady who knew the difference to the core of philosophy (the study of how man should live, but not taught correctly in colleges,---or at all really.), and expressed it pretty well. Quote: "We will get exactly what we deserve, and it all depends on how we think." Ayn Rand
American with our GUNS LOL.. ROFL . USA USA USA