The original open bikes

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What is this; The original open bikes...?



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JRT812 8/7/2017 3:39am
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Have no idea but some cool pics. Maybe a name of a club?
RichardLoots 8/7/2017 6:02am
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5.) The biggest changes in the event’s history come in 1985, when the Motocross, Trophee, and Coupe des Nations are combined into a single event, still called Motocross des Nations. For the first time, 125s, 250s, and 500s race against each other in the same motos at the same time, with all three classes competing in all three motos. With twenty-one nations entered at the race in Gaildorf, Germany, sixty-three riders are on the track at the same time! The winners are Team USA: Jeff Ward, David Bailey, and Ron Lechien.

6.) The format is tweaked again for ’86, with each moto pared down to just two classes; 125s and Open bikes raced moto one, then 250s and 125s in moto two, and 250s and Open in moto three. This is the same basic format used today, though there have been changes back and forth since.

1985 last year they used 500 class , year after it was called the open class ..
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sandman768 8/7/2017 9:55am
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" The Original Open bikes" may have been a club or group from upstate/western NY....I was at all the old Unadilla GP"s and although I was younger, I remember a lot of rowdiness fueled by copious amounts of alcohol!

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Stoneface 8/7/2017 10:13am
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I was at the Unadilla 250 USGP in 1986, and the MXDN in 1987. I remember those big banners (actually painted wooden signs) near the scoring tower. Big groups of exuberant fans around them. Big Hannah fans. I think someone from that group would play The Scorpions "Rock You Like A Hurricane " through speakers or a megaphone . Great, great times!


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Vet57 8/7/2017 10:17am
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Better yet...the original and much better Unadilla!
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Stoneface wrote:
I was at the Unadilla 250 USGP in 1986, and the MXDN in 1987. I remember those big banners (actually painted wooden signs) near the scoring...
I was at the Unadilla 250 USGP in 1986, and the MXDN in 1987. I remember those big banners (actually painted wooden signs) near the scoring tower. Big groups of exuberant fans around them. Big Hannah fans. I think someone from that group would play The Scorpions "Rock You Like A Hurricane " through speakers or a megaphone . Great, great times!


Would you look at that track!! A beauty of a bygone era! sigh...
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sandman768 8/7/2017 11:58am
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Yep....when the dirt was epic & not ripped deep so only conga line ruts form....great photo btw....
Aceofspades 8/7/2017 12:04pm
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That's the name of a"club" of spectators that attended Unadilla back in the day. They were the unofficial Bob Hannah fan club at Unadilla as well.
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Stoneface wrote:
I was at the Unadilla 250 USGP in 1986, and the MXDN in 1987. I remember those big banners (actually painted wooden signs) near the scoring...
I was at the Unadilla 250 USGP in 1986, and the MXDN in 1987. I remember those big banners (actually painted wooden signs) near the scoring tower. Big groups of exuberant fans around them. Big Hannah fans. I think someone from that group would play The Scorpions "Rock You Like A Hurricane " through speakers or a megaphone . Great, great times!


Gotta be one of the best photos of all time, you can "hear" it
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DoctorJD 8/7/2017 12:07pm
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Vet57 wrote:
Better yet...the original and much better Unadilla!
Yes.
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Stoneface 8/7/2017 12:15pm
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JW381 wrote:
Gotta be one of the best photos of all time, you can "hear" it
Anybody know the photographer? Great photo should get a credit! I just snagged it off Google Images

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ruy 8/8/2017 2:28am
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Ok, it's a club, a curious name for a club and more if it's a fan club, but they will know.
I also think that Unadilla should put back that same rise and eliminate some leap, there are things that have been improved and in others made worse.
Also in the podiums is diferent now and before


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JW381 wrote:
Gotta be one of the best photos of all time, you can "hear" it
Stoneface wrote:
Anybody know the photographer? Great photo should get a credit! I just snagged it off Google Images[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2017/08/07/208689/s1200_IMG_1631.jpg[/img]
Anybody know the photographer? Great photo should get a credit! I just snagged it off Google Images

Holy fucking epicness. That is so badass right there!
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the night before that race we were i the same hotel as Hannah, got him to autograph my van, said he never autographed a van before, it was three feet long and cool as crap
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Stoneface wrote:
I was at the Unadilla 250 USGP in 1986, and the MXDN in 1987. I remember those big banners (actually painted wooden signs) near the scoring...
I was at the Unadilla 250 USGP in 1986, and the MXDN in 1987. I remember those big banners (actually painted wooden signs) near the scoring tower. Big groups of exuberant fans around them. Big Hannah fans. I think someone from that group would play The Scorpions "Rock You Like A Hurricane " through speakers or a megaphone . Great, great times!


That chopped up grassy hill....

All rough, no ruts.

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wpark89 8/8/2017 11:14am
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JW381 wrote:
Gotta be one of the best photos of all time, you can "hear" it
Stoneface wrote:
Anybody know the photographer? Great photo should get a credit! I just snagged it off Google Images[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2017/08/07/208689/s1200_IMG_1631.jpg[/img]
Anybody know the photographer? Great photo should get a credit! I just snagged it off Google Images

This photo was in MXA in 86. I have the issue somewhere. Not sure who did the race report but it was the year O'Mara ran out of gas and gave Bob the win.

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