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Maintenance & Technical => KX500 Original => Topic started by: USMC 500 on March 02, 2012, 10:18:33 AM

Title: 500 two stroke day
Post by: USMC 500 on March 02, 2012, 10:18:33 AM
Where are all the KX's?!......We all need to get together and go represent!! :-D

http://youtu.be/3TpKN3I6Y-Q (http://youtu.be/3TpKN3I6Y-Q)
Title: Re: 500 two stroke day
Post by: Motorrad on March 02, 2012, 12:22:21 PM
Quote from: USMC 500 on March 02, 2012, 10:18:33 AM
Where are all the KX's?!......We all need to get together and go represent!! :-D

http://youtu.be/3TpKN3I6Y-Q (http://youtu.be/3TpKN3I6Y-Q)

Umm your 3 years too late?
Title: Re: 500 two stroke day
Post by: USMC 500 on March 03, 2012, 11:54:54 AM
 :| it was a...........joke you simple minded creature!!......I'm not that out of touch with the times!!.......by the way, did you hear that they closed Carlsbad Raceway?!......I can't believe this!! :-D
Title: Re: 500 two stroke day
Post by: 68Fastback on March 03, 2012, 06:14:07 PM
They closed Carlsbad!!!! 

















I live 5 miles away  :-D
Title: Re: 500 two stroke day
Post by: USMC 500 on March 04, 2012, 02:38:28 AM
Quote from: 68Fastback on March 03, 2012, 06:14:07 PM
They closed Carlsbad!!!! 

















I live 5 miles away  :-D

I stop by once in a while when I go to drive down to San Diego and I just stand in that parking lot overlooking whats left of the raceway.  I get emotional when I see what I see.  Back in the year I rode both the MX track and I used to drag race at the strip........R.I.P Carlsbad. :cry:
Title: Re: 500 two stroke day
Post by: 68Fastback on March 04, 2012, 07:56:21 AM
There is a motorcycle dealer in north county that had a candle light vigil every year on a little bit of the GP track that is still there.  Its not much to look at but is an original path of the track.

I grew up within hearing distance of the drag cars and can remember sitting on my porch in the evenings and hearing them thunder off in the distance.

I rode there quite a bit in the late 90's and early 00's.   I did a few of the Christmas Gran Prix (obviously the 500 class) and thoroughly enjoyed the 40 minute moto that included using the whole drag strip. 

I think it was in 99 that Marty Motes (RIP) was there and even on a older classic bike he still kicked all our butts.

Also remember Pastrana in his prime doing a 1/2 mile wheelie while weaving in and out of all the cones every 100' or so down the strip.  Was really late in the day and myself and a friend were the only ones to see it except for one guy with a camera which I later saw in the credits to a movie.

Ok, I am going to go cry in a corner now.... Memories  :lol:
Title: Re: 500 two stroke day
Post by: smithpa68 on March 07, 2012, 01:25:42 PM
Man... that is music to the ears!!!    Great vid.
Title: Re: 500 two stroke day
Post by: eddy on July 23, 2012, 03:16:05 PM
Took my son there and rode with CALVMX me on a 1976 Husky Auto and him on his modern KX100 just before it closed; as the previous posts said Memories"!