So I did what all amateur detectives do these days: got on Facebook and started looking around for Ken or Kenny or Kenneth Blissett. And there he was, still in Indiana. The event was taking place entirely within the borders of Saudi Arabia. He settled in Barre, Massachusetts, and set up a workshop at his home from which he made specialized parts for racers from all over the country. He was 63. But there were times during the summer when there was no snow on the mountain, so in 1968, McCoy added another reason for people to visit Mammoth Mountain: a motocross track. His first off-road motorcycle was a Triumph 500cc that he purchased from friend and stunt man Ekins. That has nothing to do with the thousands of riders though out the United States and the world who had to have DG parts on their bikes, decals on the helmets, trucks, tool boxes and some for some folks even on their boots.". Now they want to start over again. Brett Smith of WeWentFast.com described Deleo's existence at his family business, the Corona Clay Company, established in 1948, as The Old Man and the Clay., "In the supercross world, anybody that is somebody knows him, yet the octogenarian hasnt been to a race since Jeff Ward retired in 1992," explained Smith in his feature. "We all worked as long as we could but there was nothing we could do," wrote Price later. And it probably goes without saying that it was just the way Jane Akin, 74, would have wanted to go. Jimmy Gibson was one of the fastest riders to ever come out of Virginia. On an outdated motorcycle with no experience on British race tracks, Rayborn won three of the six races. He also let me ride quads. Miller himself had a shop on LaPalma Avenue in Anaheim and made everything from custom Hodakas to custom Whizzers. Sellards was also a talented dozer operator. It happened just outside of Hemet, near Burtness' home in Menifee, California. "I helped assist carrying him to the helicopter as it was the right thing to do. Kenny's youngest son, Brock, would go on to a fine professional career, winning multiple 125 Nationals and 125 AMA Supercross main events for a wide variety of teams, including Red Bull KTM, FMF Honda, Yamaha of Troy, Pro Circuit Kawasaki, and more. This record still stands today. Bruce followed in his fathers footsteps and became a good speedway racer on the SoCal circuit, until he got bit by the announcing bug and quit racing in 1974 to become the announcer at Lions Drag Strip. He was always happiest when he was in his shop, said his son, Brent Bolger. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . Pulley even moved to California for a time in order to work at Motoworld of El Cajon. Published by on June 29, 2022. "Before Bercy there were no international titles for French riders, not even one world championship, let alone a win at the Motocross des Nations," explained Auduoard of the race's influence. Chandler was inducted into the American Motorcyclist Association Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. He also tells of how Deleo's daughter met one of the riders at the Kawasaki track in the late eighties and ending up marrying him just a few years later in 1991. Fellow riders and track personnel did their best to help him, but Ow's injuries were fatal. He worked as a tool-and-die maker as well as an elementary school basketball coach. There are many riders and families who were introduced to the Bible by Del Sepkovic and comforted by him in their times of need and sorrow. Over the years more than 100 riders have lost their lives in fatal crashes during the MotoGP races. In fact, he seemed to instead steer himself away from the limelight, going mostly quiet on social media. Capes even said he had a network TV deal lined up for his next world-record jump, but it never quite worked out, andCapes never got close to the record again. "Our hearts and thoughts go out to Mikes family and friends in this difficult time. When Prahm died in late June due to a medical condition, he was in California, not Texas, where he often passed the afternoons on his family's ranch fishing, smoking meats, and enjoying the beauty of the place. The Trans-Atlantic Match Races pitted the best British riders against the top American road racers. His love of family and motorcycles was above exceptional. In its final stages, the Indian's displacement was 950cc (as built it was 600cc) and was driven by a triple chain drive system. At the tip of the spear was Jean-Michel Bayle, who embarked on a quest to conquer the AMA Supercross Series in 1989. ). And when he wasn't in his shop tinkering, Joe Bolger found time to be a contributing editor forCycle Worldmagazine, as well as New England-basedCycle Sport. He was from Richland, Indiana, and he raced a Steen minicycle in both flat track and motocross. Dead at age 33, the British-born Dan Wheldon was, at the time he was killed, one of Indy's top drivers, having won the Indianapolis 500 race two times. And when the Lucas Oil AMA Pro Motocross Championship finally started back up on August 15 at Loretta Lynn's Ranch, his friends and coworkers held a small memorial for Michael Mars behind the starting gate, under the AMA tent, where he was always smiling as he worked with the riders and mechanics during tech inspection. This past September, Pulleywas in another street-riding accident, this one much worse, as it proved to be fatal for the 35-year-old rider. Harlow and Hangsleben also surrounded themselves in the shop with promising young industry go-getters like Ken Boyko. Please logout and login again. He later met another woman who loved him and understood that he wanted to be anti-social. He grew up in a motorcycling familyhis father, Cecil, was the lead mechanic for Cycle Sport Yamaha and rode for them as an amateur, battling the likes of AMA Amateur National Champions David Bailey, Ferrell McCollough, and Jeff Callihan. Ti Ph Printing l n v hng u v dch v cung cp my in vn phng, mc my in. Eight of them are within sight of each other.". After World War II, Munro and his wife divorced, after which he gave up work to reside in a lock-up garage.Munro's Indian Scout was very early off the production line, being only the 627th Scout to leave the American factory. There are countless photographs of this legend at the peak of his career, but its this photo, shot by an unidentified person on the infield of Hangtown in April of 1976, and shared after the passing of Nancy and Marty Smith, that really says it all. Part artist, part engineer, Miller was at the forefront of motocross exotica. Here is a video of Danny Erdeljac describing his passion for Rio Bravo MX. Just like that, he was done racing motorcycles. He was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2003. In fact, one of the first racers Sante Mazzarolo sponsored was a young up-and-coming Belgian motocrosser named Roger De Coster. After that, his plan was to go past 400 feet, maybe even 500, especially after his record was shattered by Alex Harvill's launch of 425 feet in 2012. Last year Kerry Williams was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer and told he had three months left on this earth. He was only half-kidding. I was diagnosed with Pneumonia and a few other things. Fortunately, Bolger was a self-taught mechanical engineer, and he held patents on many motorcycle-related inventions and tools. Mike was a doting husband and father to six wonderful children. Dan Wheldon. Sante Mazzarolo made his mark on motorsports and much, much more. Despite the best efforts of the medical team on site and in the local ER, Riley passed away later that night. Hangsleben left the business shortly after it started to become the FMF distributor in the Midwest. He was inducted in the Off-road Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1978. Deleo was introduced as The Factory Landlord in aRacer X magazineprofile by Eric Johnson. In 1987, Pomeroy was a passenger in a vehicle that was involved in a crash that left him with permanent damage to his back. After months of failed attempts to cap the spill, Erdeljac came up with a solutiona capping device concept that he said was inspired by the taper-fit countershaft sprockets on older Husqvarna motorcycles like the ones he used to race. Two years later he called upon those same engineering instinctsin a much bigger crisis that made him something of a national engineering hero: Erdeljac was the man who figured out a way to cap the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill coming from a broken pipe in the Gulf of Mexico. Although I had posters of professionals on my bedroom walls it was Jimmy who was my true hero. Rayborn was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999. Born and raised in San Diego, California, Rayborn began riding motorcycles at an early age. National Motocross champion Walker Brightwell was nearly ready to realize his longtime dream: A track where he could share his love of off-road motorcycle ra. In the 1970 12 Hours of Sebring race, Peter Revson and McQueen (driving with a cast on his left foot from a motorcycle accident two weeks before) won with a Porsche 908/02 in the 3 litre class and missed winning overall by 23 seconds to Mario Andretti/Ignazio Giunti/Nino Vaccarella in a 5 litre Ferrari 512S. That was the year we went to Saddleback Park for the NMA Grand Nationals, and I won first place in both of my classes, he recalled. His smile would light up a room. He will be missed by many, but he will never be forgotten.". The same Porsche 908 was entered by his production company Solar Productions as a camera car for Le Mans in the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans later that year. He also loved riding hisHarley-Davison, something he did right up to the point where he physically couldn't do itbut not for lack of trying. One of his fellow riders said of him, "Kerry was one of the happiest and nicest guys at the track. By the end of 1991, Bayle was the AMA Supercross Champion, as well as the 250 Pro Motocross and 500 Pro Motocross Champion. McQueen was an avid motorcycle and racecar enthusiast. ", A tribute to the 47-year-old Arnbrister read, "If you knew Aaron, you loved Aaron. North Carolina's Pulley wasa longtime racer who also worked in numerous motorcycle dealerships,including Matthews Fun Machines, Charlotte Motorsports, and, most recently, Freedom Cycles in Charlotte. He was Indy car royalty, but that didn't prevent racing phenomenon Dan Wheldon from dying tragically in 2011 at a Las Vegas Indy 300 series race. Motorcycle deaths accounted for 14 percent of all motor vehicle crash deaths in 2020 and were more than double the number of motorcyclist deaths in 1997. But he made a career for himself in Hollywood playing an outsized, sometimes gentle giant. If you needed something fabricated, something unique built, something off the wall or an unobtainable part made, Dave was your manOther people will be able to make things, but they wont be Dave Miller. Along the way he would win multiple titles in both MX and supercross, and soon ventured into off-road racing, winning national enduro titles even while still competing in MX/SX. ", Connor Riley was not only a motocross rider but an excellent inline skater, and like practically all teenagers today, he was very active and connected on social media. May 7, 2018. These two realizations happened at once for everyone. In Italy, however, the FastCross was not what made Giorgio Saporiti famous. Nixon was also known for his partnership with legendary tuner Erv Kanemoto when they won the 1973 U.S. National Road Racing Championship for Kawasaki. Tommy Lister was 62 years old. Pulley's friends and fellow riders had a Poker Run fundraiser in his honor and raised more than $5,500. I will never forget him digging a rut out for me on the starting line at Ohio International Raceway in the early '90s. I was wondering why they kept them covered up with wet towels!. These are the 5 most famous female celebrity bikers: He was a factory Suzuki Australia rider and formed his own motocross team and company, JPI Industries. Grand National Championship, a series which encompassed events in four distinctive dirt track disciplines plus road racing. Which the first generation of American motocross enthusiasts were in the 1970s: Marty Smith fans, one and all. It drove my mom nuts and they separated. This was in the pre-Loretta Lynn's era, and while Gibson was often in the lead mix, he never quite reached the top, nor did he enjoy a professional career. I started riding when I was nine years old, trail riding with my mom and dad, said Blissett. Trips via train to the port at Invercargill were a rare source of excitement, and the arrival of cars, motorcycles and aircraft added to Burt's eagerness to join the world outside of his farm. Motocross legend Marty Smith has died. Said Tom Mueller, When I started at Cycle News East in 1979, I was 100% motocross. They literally lived in a secluded house in the woods. His motocross friends will always fondly remember A-Aron, #206, as a valiant competitor, a trusted friend and a gentleman. He molded motorcycles with his hands out of raw metal and saw potential in a design none of us could ever imagine. McQueen considered becoming a professional race car driver. The "Munro Special," as Munro called his bike, is now owned by a motorcycle enthusiast in New Zealand's South Island, and is on display at E Hayes & Sons, Invercargill. The first rider to win his debut World GP MX race (Spain 1973), The first American to lead the World MX Championship (Spain 1973), The first rider to win a World MX GP on a Spanish MX bike (Bultaco), The first American to win a moto at the U.S. 500cc GP race (Carlsbad 1977), The first non-world champion to win the Trophies des-Nations event (1974), 1974 250cc Motocross World Championship - 14th (, 1975 250cc Motocross World Championship - 7th (, 1976 250cc Motocross World Championship - 4th (, 1978 250cc Motocross U.S. Championship - 5th (, In 1962, he set a world record of 288km/h (178.95mph) with his engine bored out to 850cc (52 cubic inches), In 1966, he set a world record of 270.476km/h (168.066mph). Pinning the throttle for a parking lot, he was up to reached 85 mph when he took off from the ramp. Dave Miller was one of the most celebrated, interesting, and unique minds motocross has probably ever known. DG Performance was a Southern California race shop that became a powerhouse on the 1970s motocross scene. His fellow riders who came upon him immediately stopped and tried to aid him as they awaited medical helicopters; Stefan Svitko and Toby Price, the 2019 Dakar winner, performed CPR, as the fallen Goncalves was in cardiac arrest. The re-publishing of the articles and subsequent passing of Breton triggered JMB to send a text to Auduoard about how the CCA inspired him and changed his whole life. More specific details surrounding. In the early 1950s he borrowed $135,000 to build the first ski lift. Smith explained in his feature how exactly Deleo got into the business of renting land and equipment to various supercross teams, beginning with Kawasakithe only visible from Interstate 15as a way to compete with Team Honda's HondaLand concept in the early 1980s. "We are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of our team member Mike Daro," Chaparral Motosports wrote on their social media (Daro was a longtime service tech). He was a longtime member of Boise Ridge Riders, DIRT Inc., the Harley-Davidson Owners Group, and the American Motorcycle Association. I had a great life.". He was a regular at races big and small all around his region: Maryland, Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey. I got this you guys! McQueen also competed in off-road motorcycle racing. His love for dirt bikes was only surpassed by his love for his family. She was an avid hunter and fisher. He has been and will remain a big piece of Rekluse and the powersports industry. Motocross star Rene Hofer has died at the age of just 19. And while Marcus didn't quite make it at the professional level, he did help manage his younger brother's career. Yet there is Marty Smith, the very picture of grace under pressure, marching his broken bike through it all like a proud prizefighter following an unexpected knockout, defiantly up off the canvas, his unsnapped red Jofa hanging down from his hand-painted Electro helmet, parting an adoring crowd in that signature red-white-and-blue gear, the fans then following him like they were his entourage. It was the last thing he ever posted. 'It's good, brave riders on their flying machines.'. Mangus also worked with a very long list of aspiring motorcycle racing journalists at some point in their careers, including the Charlie Morey, Jim Gianatsis, Jody Weisel, the late Henny Ray Abrams, Mark Karyia, Kit Palmer, Ken Faught, Donn Maeda, Nate Rauba, and many more. He became the 250 National Champion of Canada in 1959, then the New England Sports Committee's 250 and 500 champion in 1964. It worked, and the leak was finally plugged in late September of that same year using Erdeljac's solution. Brian Joseph Weigandt was the father of our own Jason Weigandt. Brian Deegan Games Austin athlete Brian Deegan attends the X Games Austin Kick-Off Press Conference at the Velocity Lounge at COTA on 3 June 2015 in Austin, Texas. "If supercross ever had an unheralded benefactor, its this old man. Photo: Rick Kern Source: Getty Images With a nod to theNew York Timesannual requiem about the lives others lived, we offer our thoughts and condolences to all of those who lost someone special in 2020. In 1995 he got his big break playing Deebo, the neighborhood bully in the Ice Cube classicFriday, where he rode a stolen bicycle around Compton (Lister's hometown) threatening and shaking down the other characters. He was also a former winner of the Daytona 200 motorcycle race on a 500cc Triumph, claiming a victory in the 1967 event. It wasn't long before he was back on the bike, and within two years he opened his own motocross clinic, 765 MX School. His real stardom followed with much meaner characters that made Lister a cult-movie favorite, especially given his sheer size and the angry staresthat he gave, as he was blind in his right eye. I was first at his side and wanted to be the last to leave", Paulo Gonalves was 40 years old. His twin sister died at birth and Munro grew up on a farm in Edendale, east of Invercargill. "Danny was one of the nicest guys one could ever meet, and did an amazing job at bringing Rio Bravo MX back to life," said Shand Garcia after Erdeljac passed in July after a two-year fight against leukemia. In 2008 he went even farther, jumping 391 feet on a Kawasaki KX 450F, hitting 102 mph when he launched off his takeoff ramp. Friday morning I got the test results back from Covid and unfortunately I am POSITIVE. Giorgio Saporiti was a highly respected motocross promoter from Italy. It was a tragic accident. "He sat in the cubicle next to mine, and his cigarette smoke would waft over all day long. "Frank had a big heart; he was generous and kind and would help anyone in need," wrote one of those friends upon Frank's passing in September at the age of 62 following a six-year struggle with cancer. They told me my cancer came back after 6 months, 17 Chemotherapy treatments and 35 radiation treatments. A competitive skier, he had been working as a hydrographer (someone who maps and measures water) for the City of Los Angeles when he used that expertise to figure out the best spot in the Sierra Nevadas for skiing. In a year of extraordinary loss to the coronavirus, Michael Mars may have been thefirst person many in the motocross world knew who succumbed to COVID-19. He was busy with the delayed The Sand Pebbles, though. His son Frankie raced, and that meant traveling all over the country for big events, which Lettieri loved doing, as he made friends everywhere he went. They both used the platform that DG provided to move up to the Yamaha factory team and immediately win AMA 125 National Championships. On top of that, his love and devotion for Edwina knew no bounds." To qualify he made a one-way run of 305.89km/h (190.07mph), the fastest-ever officially-recorded speed on an Indian. He was also a gymnast who was talented enough on a trampoline that he was once invited to the Olympics for an exhibition. Instead, it was his work in his studio. The great Philosopher Homer Simpson once said You tried and you failed. DG Performance was an early adaptor of the in-house" race team, which they used to promote their name and products. When he passed in June due to melanoma, his friends and coworkers at Reklusewrote, "This is a great loss for us all. So, as much as SX helped U.S. riders to dominate the world for decades, SX helped the French riders to become their main competitors, both on home soil and internationally., When asked about his friend and cohort, Auduoard said, "I guess there is only one person in the world who interviewed the likes of Mick Jagger and Lou Reed, as well as the likes of Kenny Roberts and Valentino Rossi, and the likes of Ricky Johnson and Stefan Everts and Jeremy McGrath, and that man was Eric Breton, journalist extraordinaire. Not enough energy to go. Patrick was a bright light in the world. He was just a super nice guy, really smart guy. Besides her own family, Jane was also part of the broaderRedBud and Dutch Sport Park family, where she worked alongside the Ritchies and others and helped guide several generations and countless motocross families around the races. With that in mind, his fiance, Heather Battle, put together a GoFundMe to help the family get Brandon back to Texas so he could be laid to rest with his family. Its not a perfect photo by any technical standardsgrainy, busy, flat, blurryyet it's the most perfect picture to illustrate what made Marty Smith our first motocross idol, and forever an American motocross icon. Frankenheimer was ahead in schedule anyway, and the McQueen/Sturges project was called off. It was Erdeljac who in 2008 stepped in to save the once-prominent Rio Bravo track (established 1972) from going away forever after he was able to use his own engineering skills to convince county engineers of the site's importance to their flood management schemes. Deaths by year. He passed over the Christmas holiday at his home in New Jersey. He went to work as a union pipe-fi tter, a job he held for nearly 40 years. They had a contract with the German Nrburgring, and after John Frankenheimer shot scenes there for Grand Prix, the reels had to be turned over to Sturges. Kerry Williams was one of those rank-and-file regular riders who just loved the sport. Home; About. And if you raced in the late 1970s it was the team that you wanted to be part of. Always willing to lend a hand and help anyone even if it was a complete stranger. Gonalves began his motorcycle racing career on the national motocross circuit of his native Portugal. In 1974 he created a linked, rising-rate, long-travel suspension system that was put into production and became known as the Ossa BLT (Bolger Long Travel). During his ten visits to the salt flats, he set three speed records, one of which still stands today. She put the needs of others ahead of her own. If you attended national championship amateur or professional races in the eighties and nineties, chances are you saw Doc Medsker. Grand National Championship in 1967 and 1968. He landed hard and somehow stayed on the bike, but he was out of control and slammed into the casino's cement wheel, breaking both legs, racking his pelvis, and severing his aorta. Doctors performed surgery on him the next day, and he began a long recovery. Already a two-time AMA 125 National Champion, he was Team Honda's #1 rider and everyone's favorite to dominate yet another season on his exotic Type II Honda RC125 prototype works bike. Chandler began his professional motocross career with the Maico factory racing team in 1979. In January 2020, Paulo entered his 13th Dakar, riding for Hero, a motorcycle brand from India. She had a very kind and generous heart." He was 63. Wells was riding a Honda "red rocket" and outfitted himself in a matching red tuxedo for the stunt. Start your day off right, with a Dayspring Coffee. He passed on the last day of March 2020. 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