thought you guys would like to see some 1986 250r racing action(vid)

[moneypit]

found this last night heres a LINK (http://videos.streetfire.net/search/1986/2/3a547493-f0cd-44b1-9362-031d591c641c.htm)

[Creech52]

That was cool as hell....and to think I was born in 86....

[fast250r]

Notice how much the MX tracks have changed over the years. There were hardly any jumps on that whole track.

[gotwarrior]

I rode my first 250r this weekend. Man that scared me... Well it was a 310r too.:D

[C-LEIGH RACING]

Good ol day when Donnie Banks, Gary Denton, Rodeny Gentry, Don Turk, Jimmy White, Marty Hart, Steve Mendenhall, had factory rides.
Suzuki had 4 paid riders, a paid mec for each, & each rider had a LT250R & LT500R to race along with a box van full of parts.
Honda had Marty Hart & Kawasaki, team green, had Steve Mendenhall on the 3 wheelers.
Boy those were the days.
Harold Goodman & Angela Moore were just kids along that time racing the 80 mod class.
Neil

[cincy250R]

damn that's my quad i love seening old videos like that and HONDA'S rule hahahaha

-Dave

[Trx250rider86]

great vid... kinda sad to see a Suzuki hanging with a Honda tho lol

[AtvMxRider]

Very cool, too bad you couldn't hear them also

[312R1]

Originally posted by C-LEIGH RACING
Good ol day when Donnie Banks, Gary Denton, Rodeny Gentry, Don Turk, Jimmy White, Marty Hart, Steve Mendenhall, had factory rides.
Suzuki had 4 paid riders, a paid mec, & each rider had a LT250R & LT500R to race along with a box van full of parts.
Honda had Marty Hart & Kawasaki, team green, had Steve Mendenhall on the 3 wheelers.
Boy those were the days.
Harold Goodman & Angela Moore were just kids along that time racing the 80 mod class.
Neil


Your not kidding....those were the good old days..:(

[peeping TOM]

loved it , jimmy white was allmost as fast on a trike ,now;s thats a scary though ....

[cody_119]

thats was bad, they sure could corner back then. those guys looked old, thats awesome to see those old guys cornering like that. this makes my dad and dave83 look out of shape!

[TheFontMaster]

Thats awsome seeing racing from that long ago. I still wanna build up a 250r as an old school MX'er. With only parts that were made back in the 80's, and early 90's.:cool:

[Dave83]

Originally posted by cody_119
thats was bad, they sure could corner back then. those guys looked old, thats awesome to see those old guys cornering like that. this makes my dad and 8dave3 look out of shape!
Anytime you think you can hang with me on an R,you know my # grasshopper.I remember sitting in study hall with a DIRT WHEELS reading about Hart,White and the gang.Heck,I remeber when the 200X was the ride to have,maybe I am old and out of shape

[csr250r]

cool vid. pisses me off to see 250rs dieing. im glad i found one in good shape though.:D

[rebelbanshee]

i thibk the full vid of that was posted awhile back...complete with sound and comentary

[CorvetteZ06]

wow, amazing video. that brought a smile to my face. I wonder how those legends would do against todays racers? I remmeber an article I read with an interview with gary denton not too long ago, and he said his old 250R on the right track with good traction would smoke these new quads!

[wilkin250r]

Originally posted by fast250r
Notice how much the MX tracks have changed over the years. There were hardly any jumps on that whole track.

That's just a function of that particular track. Back in those days, they weren't quite as concerned about making sure they have each and every aspect included in every track, whoops, step ups, step downs, tables, timing jumps, blah blah blah. Back then, many outdoor tracks were just cut from the natural terrain and raced, with maybe only a few man-made aspects.

But they definitely had tracks with jumps, too. I remember watching races in the mid 80s on an indoor track, racing 3-wheelers and 4-wheelers. Being and indoor track, it was ALL man-made terrain, jumps and whoops, doubles and triples, and looked just like any indoor motocross track you'd see today.

[Tri-valleyracin]

Originally posted by Trx250rider86
great vid... kinda sad to see a Suzuki hanging with a Honda tho lol

all that video shows is that the suzuki's are not bad at all just forgoten. thats why i bout a suzuki instead of a honda. 1986 lt250r.