Bob Hannah The Big Interview Episode 1
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Bob Hannah gives an exclusive video interview with Motocross The Golden Era. In his typical no-holds-barred style, Hannah gives his outspoken views on the sport that he once dominated.
Hear about the endless training, the truth about his factory bikes, the bike he'd have raced for free, and the Hannah trait that so many racers lack.
Hannah interviews are always entertaining!
Love his honesty.
Hannah is as relevant in 2024 as he was in 1984. Legend
Very true meet him two times I was a kid racing YZ 80 ,he Speaks his mind and true blue & one hell of a rider
I totally agree.
Hurricane was the reason all us Middle schoolers passed around Dirt Bike and motocross magazines. It’s great to Mr. Hannah is in good shape and sound mind. I was in grade school or kindergarten when On Any Sunday was playing at the drive-in. That was a great time to be doing it in the dirt!
I had a poster of Bob Hannah , Brock Glover and Rick Burgett on my wall when i was a kid
Hannah and Smith were my motocross heroes back in the 70s. When I rode my Honda, I wanted to be Marty, and when I rode my Yamahammer, I wanted to be Bob. I miss those days.
And they both had the coolest looking riding gear ever , particularly Marty , and Tommy.
Hannah is always objective and truthful whether you like the answer or not. One of the very best MX'ers of all time!
Genuinely honest. Hannah was and is a legend of the sport.
All time favorite racer right here.. brought a tear to my eye seeing him race
Hannah was the man !!!
It was the Late Great Doug "Wheelie King" Domokos who taught most all those racers about using the Rear Brake to adjust the bikes Attitude in the air. Around 79 he started Wheeling the Super and Motocross Tracks for Kawasaki.
Doug hung a wheelie across the Sydney Harbour bridge, for an 'Australasian Dirt Bike ' magazine articlle, back in the '80's on a Kwaka KLX 650. The guy was a legend. 🇦🇺👍
I remember reading about him in 'Motocross Action' magazine in the 80's.
@@mort8143 I think he also road a KDX 2 stroke over there too. I think it's on YT.
Awesome interview, can’t wait for part two 👏
Working on it. Should drop by Monday.
This interview is from five years ago, find it elsewhere on UA-cam.
I loved how the old tracks were different and hate how they are all the same today…!
When I was 12 yrs old there was a tv show called "Thrill of a lifetime" me and a buddy of mine wrote into the show...about how we dreamed of racing Bob Hannah....and they loved the idea....but Bob wouldn't agree for whatever reason.....40 years later...I'm still choked about it lol! He was my hero...like Bruce Lee, Bo Duke, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger! But motorbikes were my first luv!
What a majic time in MX. The Hannah years were special. I am still a big fan of everything MX but those years were special. Any race taking place in the pros could net you any one of 10 guys as the winner. It was exciting.
Thanks for the clip. Hurricane Hannah is my all time favourite rider. His throttle wide open and hang on style was pure motocross. 👍🇦🇺
Hannah for president
100 % agreed 👊🤟 !!!!!
Last thing we need is someone who supports a Republican or Democrat as President. 'Course the Republican or Democrat doesn't understand the problem.
Secretary of Defense.
@@bikersoncall Why?
@@johntomasik1555
His;
''I don't fk around'' attitude.
Mr Hannah you are one of the Motocross gods you're a legend in the sport when I was a kid I always loved it when Hannah won... Glad to hear your stories and your experiences.. God bless you and your family
Ditto from Canberra, Australia. I read great stories about him, but had to wait for videos before I could appreciate his wild style. Always my #1 rider. 🇦🇺👍
Hannah would be a great VP next to Trump.
Good honest to the point interview, Hannah pulls no punches.
This video is very informative, I wish he, the interviewer wore in microphone as well thank you, Mr. Bob Hannah thank you for doing this, sir!
Exactly, the interviewer was muffled the whole show. Us 70 year old still loyal Hannah fans can't hear that well anymore. Go Trump- Hannah.
Damn good interview. Always dug Bob's respect for Roger Decoster. He took a buddy of mine and myself to his pit after the 79 Nats at Saddleback. That was pretty cool. Got to get all up close to those OW's and look at all the trickery and wired up nuts and bolts. They gave us a bunch of stickers and signed media pictures. We were in moto heaven that day.
You lucky, lucky bastards!! 🇦🇺👍
Interesting comment about the 450cc in supercross.
KUDOS FOR THIS INTERVIEW,BOB HANNAH SPEAKS SO HONESTLY,ADMIRE HIS STRAIGHT TALKING & HIS COMPLETE ADMIRATION FOR ROGER DECOSTER WHO WAS NOT ONLY A FANTASTIC RIDER BUT DEVELOPED BIKES THAT WON CHAMPIONSHIPS
Hanna was still is one of my heroes, just behind roger, a great fast rider and says it as it is , NO BS
What a great interview, where has Bob been. What a legend !! I hope there's 12 more episodes
Bob Hannah is the greatest! Watching hm race was incredible. The original Ironman. Long live the HURRICANE!!! WFO!
Being 65 years old, seeing Bob's rise, and now hearing him talk about what was really happening in the sport, I say Bob Hannah is a genius not only in the most difficult sport ever devised by man but in human nature. His deference to Roger Decoster as being the gold standard is an accurate assessment of the sport. A failed knee reconstruction in the late 70s ended my pursuit of going pro, and I am grateful this happened. He made a slight comment about how the initial track builders were making doubles and triples with ever-varying distances and steep landings where you had to tread the needle and often flat landing, taking forces into our bodies that were beyond brutal. It is my opinion that those years of the 80s and 90s were the most brutal and dangerous times for our sport. This was the peak of difficulty and danger within our sport.
I saw the hurricane race in Herman Nebraska in the latter 70’s sometime. I was in awe of his riding!! It was epic
Hey man, you can’t say this is the first in 20 years, mxa and David pingree did a long one on whiskey throttle 2 years ago. In that Bob had fun and said there should be part 2 . Give a little credit to those guys
I can't believe anything the pummy says now. He blew it at the beginning. There are more too. All he had to do was YT search,-------like the rest of us have.
My interview with Bob was recorded two years before the Whiskey Throttle show with Hannah. Kudos to Pingree for getting Bob to sit down again and talk.
Seen Hannah a few times at the Pontiac Silverdome!
Bob Hannah and Danny Magoo ChandLer !
Wow sick man super big for the channel🤘
Thanks. Stand by for episode two of Hannah and a bunch of other interviews come ng soon.
I rode a couple of laps on the Bob Hannah track in Lancaster Sunday
we want episode 2 now!
Love Hannah honesty and give a fu*ck attitude.
Really great interview. I love this channel and I'm glad to see something like this is available. I agree with Bob on the 350, but I especially agree about how they are taming the tracks and making them freeways. It's ridiculous. Riding rough tracks is what used to separate the really good from the really great. The thing with having every track with the same distance between jumps is super lame as well. They should have a maximum distance for triples, but also add some different types of jumps at every round. The 80s Supercross tracks were nasssssty difficult and never the same ol' stuff. It's gotten to be really boring seeing the same obstacles with different lay outs. Spice it up, people.
I met Bob hannah at Yorktown Theater in Lombard, IL in early 1980. He was standing in line right behind me. What are the odds that your hero is right next to you on a Friday night in your hometown? We chatted the entire time we were in line about why he was in town and about my 1979 YZ125. He was very friendly and sincere - he was the same guy then as he is in this video. We could only hope that the MX/SX world would listen to Bob Hannah as they have Roger DeCoster over the years taking the sport to the next level.
You Sir are a very talented communicator/content creator. Entirely lit, framed and designed well. Thank you for getting Mr. Hannah to do this video with your brilliant non-flashy skills. Coffee Table Book looks nice, as well!
Thanks Edwin. It's all about the subject. Hannah doesn't need anything flashy to make him interesting.
Thanks for the kind words. We're doing it old school. No flask and dazzle, just straight up interesting content.
Gary Bailey commented about Bob Hannah during the 1985 Daytona Supercross. Bailey said that Hannah has a really good balance on a motorcycle and that he has more motivation than anyone. I though that was very interesting and watching the guy ride is incredible.
Hannah 💪
My advice to many young, aspiring elite athletes is to pick your heroes carefully. After 46 years coaching in athletics I have seen too many young athletes destroyed following them being repulsed by their heroes once they got to meet them. Most important point from this interview is that "athletes are not machines" who can be bent to the will of the machine they are riding. Athletes are human and what separates the great coaches are those capable of understanding all the physical/psycho/social issues of each individual they work with. Those coaches who understand all of this are those who's athletes are routinely on the podium.
I remember seeing him race in the Seattle Kingdome in the late seventies a few times when I was about 12-13 years old. I still remember him crashing and going from last to first.
I have his book, the Bob Hannah story on my coffee table, its been there for at least a decade now.
Craig you need my coffee table book, Motocross the golden era on that coffee table of yours.
Bob, Bob, Bob... You're a Champion, one of the best goddamn racers that has ever thrown a leg over a bike, and one of the greatest competitors to battle at any sport at any time.
But at this point in your life, and this point without his, it's time for you to grow up, man up, class up and recognize that Marty Smith was the most important person that ever touched your life. Period.
Say his name with reverence and respect. When you think of him, look up and smile, because he did more for you than anyone else.
Without Marty Smith there would be no Bob Hannah. It's that simple.
Did you answer the Bell? Yes. But there would never have been a bell to answer without Marty Smith.
If not for Marty Smith you might be sitting side-saddle on an Apple Valley feed company's float entrant in the Tournament of Roses Parade each year.
Stoked to see the Trump shirt way back in 2019. Hurricane you'll always be one of my favorite's. RJ is my fav's too, but I'm good friends with him, so its little different.
i love hannah. and his shirt
Love him or hate him, Hannah always tells it like it is.
Subed 😎
I saw hanna in a race in Massachusetts iwas in the pits got plenty of pictures 40 years ago ❤❤❤❤❤
I saw Hannah race at Anaheim one year and he was so dominating he nearly lapped the entire field in the main event. He was actually slowing down to let others catch up.
I remember when he was in his prime.. He couldn't be beaten - by anyone. I wonder how much longer he would have dominated our sport had he not broken his leg water skiing. He was one of the first Americans to take training seriously - he ran on the beach wearing combat boots! He is the epitome of "it ain't bragging if you can back it up"...
Dude still looks the same as 1983!!!!!
i wonder how recent this is ?
I'm thinking somewhere between 15 and 20 years
This video was recorded in 2019, right before Covid, while I was researching for my book.
It's a shame the leaders of the sport arn't bringing Hannah on board for his wisdom.
Speaking facts about Dilla!!! Back in the day when they laid out the course with ribbon the stakes were only 5/6 inches off the ground not 3 feet high like today! It wasn’t groomed like today’s tracks either. They laid out the ribbon and the racers beat the track in or wore the track in! Especially Unadilla ! I know because I was there!! I’m not saying the riders today aren’t great because they are great but back in the day it really was just man and machine!!! Go check out a Six day reunion and see how they lay out the grass course! The last one I attended the ribbon was basically laying on the grass so coming over a hill you couldn’t see which way the course went!!
Totally agree. The tracks today have become so unremarkable. I don't miss the dust, but I miss everything else about the great old tracks.
Hannah was so crazy bad ass my best freind radical rick and i had a ground leval 1 bedroom apt No furniture just a keg in the corner and one wall was completly covered with bob hannah posters from all the rags ( magazines) hannah was like a god to us !!! In those days we kept our dirt bikes in the living rooms so no one could steal our bikes we poured ALL our money on our bikes my 250 kx and ricks 250xz GOOD TIMES !!!!😊long live bob hannah 👊🤟!!!!
really appreciate this video. really cool man. hardcore
He is right about the great riders of yesteryear being as fast as the new generations and the bikes are so much better it makes the new riders appear better as well. For proof look at David Baikys riding technique on his 83/84 CR 500 and his smooth graceful style. Then look at Jett Lawarences .....other than the scrub and foot postion very very simuliar. Poetey in motion. Hannah was a bull in a china shop , but it worked back then . On a modern 450 .....not so much ....ask Barcia .
Why does the interviewer not have a mic.
8:09… ingredients of All Champions!!!!!!!
Hannah raced the '82 RC250 at Anaheim and at the Seattle double-header. His first race on the '83 was at the Atlanta round. I remember that because I used to buy Motocross Magazine by Hi-Torq. They covered all the US races. They covered Anaheim and Seattle in the May 1983 issue.
Hannah was still with Yamaha in 82. Honda did not pick him up until Donnie Hansen got hurt before the 83 season.
@@EarthSurferUSA Sorry. My mistake. I was talking about the '83 Anaheim and Seattle races.
Oops. 20:30 I stand corrected by a pretty good source. :)
I was actually at unadilla when Hannah and Lechien battled…..epic
Bob hannah, great american
Glad bob has respect for his older generation,says how it is, imagine bob in the booth ! 😂
Honda early work on rear disk brakes min 17:20 1984 works bike. The disk (look how small it is compared to today on stock bikes), also has the "floating hub" arm that was used on drum brakes. I bet it can still smooth out the rear braking today in places, but they never made production. It took a while got get the rear disk brake to work well, from what I understand (and see here).
Bob has not changed one bit. In fact, he may be even more intense today than back in the day. Were we (America) to teach and ingrain into our children to the mindset and competitive instinct that Bob has, we would have a great country today.
Saw him in Edmonton Alberta he gave everybody a lap, and I don’t know how many laps it took for him to lap them, and leave them in the dust. It was impressive because he wasn’t young then was great epic
I think it says 2019, not sure, but how can you not write the year? It’s mandatory.
He is correct about 450 being to much for supercross, the ama backed themselves into a corner, letting 400 fourstroke in 250 supercross class, so now its all fourstroke, which i believe the purchase cost and mantainece costs are hurting the sport at grass root level.
Actually, it was the government force of a dictatorship called the EPA that forced the 4-stroke engines on the industry, and kill the "dirty 2-stroke", (The 2-stroke is still alive because it is actually hard for communism to kill free enterprise in a mixed economy, as free enterprise is our lives.). The FIM is the boss of the AMA (learned that during the 2001 SX promoter scandal, between Clear Channel, Jam Sports, and the AMA, that opened the door for the FIM to get more involved in USA racing). The only thing 'better" about the 4-stroke is the fact that they hook up to the ground better, so they can use more power, (Try to ride a 70hp CR500 and stay in control. A 70hp 450 4-stroke makes it easier.). So the FIM, kissing the butt of the EPA as the factories had to, (again, force is used), eventually filled up the starting gates with 4-stroke (took 8 years since Doug Henry, 1997, to do so actually). Now---that the bikes are faster, pull a gear much longer,---the tracks got faster. Here comes the multiple injuries, and even deaths on the tracks, (which was very rare when the sport was 10 times bigger than today.).
Guess who we can't sue for all this cost and dysfunction that is killing the sport for the masses? The dictatorship called the EPA.
This is a prime example of a government taking over or directing (by force every time), our free enterprise.
This is how communism works in the USA today.
At 7:10, consider that Hannah is discussing a carboard cut-out of Roger DeCoster that motivated him. That shows how deep motocross goes. He's not talking about technique or technology-- it's about passion to be a champion.
Bob Hannah's first video interview in over 20 years? What is the matter with you? My goodness.
Ohh, I may be realizing this is a old interview.
Hannah comment about tracks is spot on🎉 cookie cutter tracks. So honest with what ever he is asked.
You finally get an interview with Bob Hannah, and you use second rate equipment? Congratulations and thank you for this, but you blew it! I can barely hear the questions that you ask him.
You must be listening to it on second rate equipment.😅
@@motocrossthegoldenera I assure you it is not my equipment when I can hear Hannah perfectly, yet the interviewer sound like he is in another room.
Mark, this was never intended to be a a broadcast video. It was only intended as a reference for writing the book. That's why I was not miked up. All we were recording was Hannah. However, now three years later, many people have asked to see the full interview. So here it is, with the only audio we have. I think most people are happy with it.
Ok that makes more sense then.
Good interview on Bob's side but the interviewer blew it with the audio.
(1) Bob Badass
they have 250fs now making damn near 50HP at factory level, in 2004 I believe they were 32HP while a 125 was high 20s....most factory 450s are detuned for supercross......way way too much bike for a small track........
development of the 4 stroke in last 20 years has been insane to say the least.....they have dropped well over 20lbs off the bike.....with electric start as well
look at what DeCoster has done to every brand he worked for.....Took KTM from laughing stock of MX to the bike every Japanese Mnfctr tries to emulate....with 3 brands spread across its platform......and he is still pretty humble!
DeCoster is a straight legend!.......Suzuki (twice), Honda, and KTM, cant think of another man who has changed the sport or brands to the degree he has
You are absolutely right. 4-strokw technology has gone crazy and few people can safely ride a 450. It will be interesting to see what happens when 80hp electric bikes hit the mainstream.
Using a mic would sure have made the questions easier to hear.
Interview is from 2024, 1999?
Bad Bob, still being Bad Bob. He tells it like it or was, no sugar coating it. I find mx and sx a snore compared to what it used to be. Billy Bolt and Super Enduro and Hard Enduro get my interest now.
This is an old interview. I mean, it shows the date on the slate.
Trump/Hannah 2024
Maybe Hannah/Trump, not Trump Hannah?
who'd think he'd be for Trump? haha
Anyone who cares about this country, has some intelligence, and the balls to say it.@@ljc0177
Hannah Trumped a few riders in his day. Trumped em good!!,
Fucking A Right
Hannah is example of what makes America's great attitude if you are going to do something give it your all or dont do like trump never half ass it
"never half ass it." Like your punctuation and sentence structure so people can understand what you are saying.
Dude, I almost failed HS English in a public rural school around 1979,-----------------------------------and I am correcting people today??????!!!!!!!!!
You guys need to sue your schools. No offense to you personally, but seriously. We need to know what we are saying to each other.
Bikes aside, much respect for the Reno racing. But as much as he hated the '81 Yam, it did win the World MX Championship title.
Hannah💯💯💯👌🏻
The FIM SX tracks are designed to keep everybody the same speed as much as possible. That is why we see the top 8 guys on the same second for their fast lap, why the top "futures" kids could quality for a main, and why the most talented, (Roczen, Eli and Chase for examples), start having mental breakdowns.
You can win any race you enter, but you are . 5 seconds off the pace, and running 6th. Do that a couple time as a super talent, and it break down your confidence.
Tracks that everybody has wired,---comes from the philosophies of socialism/communism. The FIM. just about everything we do comes from some kind of philosophy.
I was at sears point 77 to and I met him in the pits cool dude
I don't know much about Super Cross,
and just slightly more about Motocross,
but I agree that the promotors and track
designers seem to want to get to the point
where someone dies each season.
Bob focused on the use of 450's being the
cause of the injuries, which makes sense
but I think the track designs and similarly with
Hard Enduro designs of today , instead of
just letting the best riders win, they keep
making things more dangerous.
Maybe the carnage is a big part of what sells tickets.
Nice interview, but fire your sound editor.
We should be able to hear the interviewer
as well as Hannah , or not at all.
I wish I could say, I have no regrets.
What's Hannah's view on barcia ?
Hurricane Hannah, my childhood hero! This guy rode the crap out of a literal board compared to today's standards/hardware! The TRUMP badge on his shirt cements the fact that I really made the right choice for a hero!
Imagine from a mushroom spore to a champignon😂
Bob was 100% right about Unadilla. It was a SIN the first time they groomed that track.
My hero
Great interview but why didn't you get yourself a mic mr interviewer SO WE COULD HEAR YOU!!!
Airspeed, the original recording was never intended to air to the public. It was recorded as reference material for my book. So many people asked to see and hear the interviews that I finally decided to air them. Sorry for the audio disaster on my side.
@@MotocrossTheGoldenEraBook got it - thanks for the explanation....i apprecaite it.
0:43 If Honda made 10,000 of those bikes (1983-85 works bikes), would you want to buy one?
I knew I always love this guy. TRUMP!!
As started, "motocros" was natural terrain.....Supercross is synthetic to only "Pack 'em in" and charge more......No more track view points up in a tree, like Unadilla. No more cruising the pits to actually say hello and the Boyz.....
23:53 Hannah let's the bird fly.
Hah. I didn't even see it.
He’s right about the same length jumps and geometry on jumps. It’s boring
Badass! 💪🏻🇺🇸
I got ricky carmiecal started by giving him a dander up attitude an he ran with it but he had plenty of fire an will already i told Omara to keep an eye on RC....just to keep him in check ..johnny was at every race.
Who was his hero JOHNNY OMARA...DB...ROGER
Supercross is like a circus now.
Bob was always an animated guy but thats part of what made him and some others great. Hurricane was always cocky and confident and thats what drove him to win. Now it seems these young guys aren't allowed to have a personality. Its like theyre all robots.