*NSFW* Loudon Pics from the '80s

[scottieducati]

Inspiration for my 'Rex!!! I'm diggin the swingarm....

[Kitt]

anyone ever see the movie "the brown bunny"?

[Doc]

anyone ever see the movie "the brown bunny"?

I saw it :

[Kitt]

I saw it :

recognize anybody from the opening scene?

[PPS26]

rick doucette was in that movie

[lrrs699]

lets bring back "Animal Hill" I feel left out because of my youth...this sucks

[Kitt]

rick doucette was in that movie

what #? or did he play a part? lol

[CBR929RE]

what #? or did he play a part? lol

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330099/fullcredits#cast

Featured Racer (uncredited)

he's a movie star. also played "Man in BMW" in Eddie and Paul.

[Johnny B]

I won a race running NODUOL on my RD400 once. Talk about dangerous! The "runoff" at the exit of T10 (to the right of the grandstands) was the pit wall! Not that the haybale-lined grandstand wall was much better when running it the normal way. Although the wall was far enough away from where most crashes occurred that the haybales worked all right. I fell there in the rain once and never made it to the wall. (Of course, I was going fairly slow at the time.)

We brought Tim Barclay's younger brother Keith to the track one year. He had his ratty GPz550 with a rusty chain on it. They were running Noduol with the start/finish line at the regular line. (One time the line was at the phone pole at pit lane straight. Talk about your Supercross style starts into Turn 8!) Keith got the hole shot and went too hot into 10, so he stood it up and cruised through pit lane, rejoining the race at the rear. He eventually retook the lead, then stretched it out by 10-20 seconds while we furiously signaled him to ease the pace a little. Tim walked up to his after he won and said, "If you hadn't won the race, I'd of beat the crap out of you, you dumb fuck!" Then he looked down and saw that the racing boots that he had loaned his brother were destroyed. Keith never raced again after that weekend.

[Johnny B]

anyone ever see the movie "the brown bunny"?

Only the first five minutes. The rest is crap.

Back in the day, John Owens would shoot on Saturday and circulate around the paddock on Sunday,
selling 8x10 B&W Glossies. I still have all of the pics I bought of my riders.

[Ken C]

I have my own early AAMRR photo by John. I treasure it to this day.

[Doc]

Mad Respect...

[teemstah]

I finally scanned a bunch of pics from assorted years, '83 to '90. Them's was different times, that's for sure. We had some great times.......

My buddy had a log cabin in Meredith. Here's some of our bikes parked along the edge of Meredith Neck Road.(mine was the red & white CB1100F)


Some action shots:










And of course, fun and games in the camping area and parking lots:











Hope these pics stir up some good memories.
Cheers to you all from a much younger teemstah.......

["Dangerous" Dan K]

http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/l...990/MCW002.jpg

They may not have stirred up memories, but they sure as shit stirred up some ideas!

[Ken C]

NICE! I have some similar photos somewhere. That was the second season I was racing up there. Good times.

[ZX11D]

First off, I got those pictures years ago through the USCRA. I sent them to Dean Adams and he said that he probably wouldn't post them. Somebody else sent him the same pictures a year or two later and he posted them. Dean has issues with people taking his stuff. I sent him three emails explaining that the photographer who took the pictures was Gary Remal. That error was never fixed!

AMA #53 is Nick Richichi, who won the Classic in 1981. Look at the guy behind the bike with the 'fro and the glasses. That's LRRS Asst. Race Director Alan Hathway.

Here's another:



The guy with the beard in the white pants holding the real Johnny B's bike is Jerry Wood.

The link to my page with the pictures and correct info. http://resthome.50megs.com/photo6.html

Link to a slide show of all 73 pictures shot by Gary Remal that weekend. http://www.race-uscra.com/Other/Loudon1980s/

Good pic of when they ran the opposite way around the old Louden.

[BrianC]

Gary Stas is a good friend of mine... lives down the street and I used to work w/him framing houses. He has to be one of the funniest guys ever... so the other day I ran into him and told him I was going racing this year and then came the onslaught of stories complete w/animation and motorcycle noises! Good to see he wasn't telling fish stories... he may be coming up to be something of a mentor for me... and I was also trying to get him to race again...
Thanks for the pics and stories... I'll have to show Stas this thread.

Any pictures in the paddock with huge piles of dirt are from 1989!

1988. That was the year we showed up with Gary Stas and handed Kevin Erion his first defeat in the BOTT Modified Production class. We were a late entry, so Gary was gridded 45th. He was up to 6th place at the end of the first lap. He eventually reeled Erion in. After dicing for a while, Kevin looked back to see where Gary was while coming into Turn 6. He missed his braking point and tossed it away, giving Gary an easy win.
Here's a picture of me with the winning bike, taken at a Robinson's Cycle Craft track day two months before the national. RCC would later become Bay Area Cycles. (I think that was the actual livery at the 1988 national) That's where I first met Chuck Giacchetto, who worked for us that year. We went belly up at the end of 1989, and Tom Fournier took over the Ducati franchise for the area.

[7470racer]

Any more? I could look at these all day.

I was a little too young. Compared to today - it looks a lot more laid-back and fun. My kind of spectatoring (is that a word?).

[Stoneman]

Any more? I could look at these all day.

I was a little too young. Compared to today - it looks a lot more laid-back and fun. My kind of spectatoring (is that a word?).

It's a word now!

I love these too. A lot of these are from a time when I was transitioning from going with my Dad to reaching out on my own with friends...

[Johnny B]

so the other day I ran into him and told him I was going racing this year and then came the onslaught of stories complete w/animation and motorcycle noises! Good to see he wasn't telling fish stories... he may be coming up to be something of a mentor for me... and I was also trying to get him to race again...

Sometimes his motorcycle noises sounded more like Bruce Lee about to deliver some whoopass!

[Marc]

Jerry Wood's assortment of bikes

[7470racer]

That first pic of Jerry. Is it me or is he minus a shield and/ or goggles? That is nuts! Who knew you could hang a KZ550 like that? Guess he can. That too, is nuts!!

[FirstLightning]

Superbike Planet ran some photos yesterday of Loudon from 1984.

http://superbikeplanet.com/image/arc...84/1/index.htm

http://superbikeplanet.com/image/arc...ideo/index.htm

[Johnny B]

Superbike Planet ran some photos yesterday of Loudon from 1984.

Here's the cover to the 1985 Loudon Classic program with the photo of Dale's pass of Fred Merkel in the 1984 Superbike race.

[Johnny B]

I remember this crash. It was during the endurance race in either '86 or '87. There was a sequence of photos of the incident somewhere (In the program, I think) and our rider is seen riding through the flames and/or smoke because it happened right in front of him.