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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: mudguard on August 25, 2010, 08:52:04 pm
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What junior club did you start motocross racing and what year? What city / Town was it in? Is the club still going? What was your ride at the club? Did you compete with other local clubs at their tracks? We may find other members on this site that were members of the same junior club.
I started junior motocross in 1979 at Lake Macquarie Motorcycle club. It was located near Toronto on the western side of Lake Macquarie, Newcastle area. Dont know if the club is still going. My first ride was a YZ80E. Competition with other local clubs was with Cessnock, Raymond Terrace and Hunter Mini Mates at Maitland. Still remember the track layout from our club, and reminds me of a smaller version of Stanmore, Qld.
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no junior clubs around in my day started dirt track with st george mcc rode novice race for a few years till i was old enough. a member but not all the time since 1972.firts bike triumph tiger cub motor built by sid willis and ran on methenol
jim
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probably 86? at the Narangba track beside the freeway. Only rode for a year or so before i gave it away ::) another promising career cut short ;D
Puttered around in the bush and used the recently vacated track for the MX club behind the PGH brickworks at Brendale before that.
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on ya mudguard --we have had "when you where a kid" photo topic (below link) ,but not what club ??.....always good to start a new topic of back in the day. ;D
Port Hedland NW- West Aust- late 70's-early 80's
http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=2002.0
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i was a member of the,
"team up with your brother and beat the kids from town" club.
grew up on a farm and never had the access to racing or certified tracks or clubs.
it was 1978~ish......
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Wheelstanders when we lived on the southside in 72 and then North Brisbane club at the old track at Samsonvale from 73 on
Shane
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Moorabbin Mini Bike Club 1977-79 Club closed in 79' when it lost it's track, soon after club folded due to no track availability.
DMCC (Dandenong Motorcycle Club) 1979- present
first Bike the mighty XR75 K4 5 speed model. then moved up to an RM80B the next year. that was it for Mini's i got a YZ125D in 79' then it was all 250's after that.
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GVJMCC ,WAAIA circuit,started racing in 1983 on a kx80f1,then onto 125,s.Cool loamy track,the club is still going,but at a new track,the landowners claimed the land back after over 20 yrs! I,m saving my pennies to buy the track back off em & build my own vmx nirvana.
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Gold Coast Mini Bike Club in 1975 on a TM75. The site where the track was is now Broadbeach Waters about 1k from Pacific Fair.
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just up from the old drag strip!, very fond memories of the surfers dragways. 75 hey? just a young whipper snipper then!
cheers Trev
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very fond memories of the surfers dragways.
cheers Trev
Did you ever see Wally Pushkie or Wild Bill Shewsbury do a run at Surfers Worms? :o
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very fond memories of the surfers dragways.
cheers Trev
Did you ever see Wally Pushkie or Wild Bill Shewsbury do a run at Surfers Worms? :o
I reckon i saw Wild Bill at Surfers in a funny car maybe?
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May be, but not what I had in mind :)
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Found the local track in '79 at the age of 12. Stanmore mx track which is still there but sadly will be gone very soon. Typically, people move into the area then start to complain about the noise.
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I rode the very first meeting held at Stanmore in '77.. it was like a flat track then.
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I rode the very first meeting held at Stanmore in '77.. it was like a flat track then.
Always wondered how far back the track went. I still haven't learned just to ask the walking mx encyclopedia !! :D
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Found the local track in '79 at the age of 12. Stanmore mx track which is still there but sadly will be gone very soon. Typically, people move into the area then start to complain about the noise.
which is what happened to the track at Narangba despite the fact it was right beside the Bruce Highway ::)
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Hey Mike52, I worked with Wally Pushkie in 83 and 84 at Ira Berk Datsun (Nissan) in Moorooka, he was a service advisor....was as fast with the woman as he was on the V8 bike...a real character the old Wal...had some good tales to tell. ;D
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John, did you ever ride at the old Caboolture speedway? it did have a motocross track (around and through it) but was not so good.
Another good track from the 70's was the Kilcoy track on the western side of Kilcoy (not the one now) it was a textbook natural terrian track and the first track I rode as a Junior on 125's in 78.
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Hey Mike52, I worked with Wally Pushkie in 83 and 84 at Ira Berk Datsun (Nissan) in Moorooka, he was a service advisor....was as fast with the woman as he was on the V8 bike...a real character the old Wal...had some good tales to tell. ;D
Yep 350chev , no clutch , no gearbox . Put her on the axel stand , start her up and drop her. :o
Insane, but fun to watch.
Shewsberry had one too.
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Waverly Junior motor cycle club ,A subdivision next door closed the track in 83.
Hey Smed if you buy Waiaa can we come up for a ride ? Awesome track (http://)(http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb130/yzhilly/VicTitles82waaiaSepparton.jpg)
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Love them old shots with the tracks and half buried tyres (specially painted White).
As a kid was always great to turn up at a track that was like this.
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Shit yeah yzhilly,It,ll be on! Is that you on the 100j at waaia? If you have a look on my page on ning theres a couple of shots of me there in 85,ah those were the days!
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River Heads Track at Hervey Bay in 1979. Started on an RM 50. The club still going at a different venue.
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Hey Mudguard, I also started racing at Lake Macquarie in 1980. Some fast guys came from the club in that period like Kevin Curtain and Todd Wiltshire. The track's still there but it's not a junior club anymore. The track is totally different to what it once was as well, except for the berm before the main tabletop. The main tabletop appeared in about '81 I think and started life as a set of doubles. The bottom part of the current track used to be a separate short circuit track. It was just recently used for a Heaven round and has been used to host rounds for the Australian Motocross Championship. Does anyone remember when the Leyland Brothers did a story about junior motocross at the track in the mid 70's?
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Castlemaine and district minibike club, didnt actually get to race until early 1980, and also Bendigo minibike club. Castlemaine track still in existence, but a different layout. Some of the local Gun riders of the times were Peter Honebone and Simon Broad, the late Trevor Day, and several quick guys from Melbourne, Ricky Murphy, Troy Dorron(!), Glen McDonald, Glen Kambouris etc
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Hey Rodpack,
Thats what were looking for, vmx forum members from the same junior club. Wonder how many of us are out there?
Wiltshire, Curtin and another A-Grade rider Steve ? dont remember his last name, but were always the standout riders at junior level. I remember Steve rode a YZ80 and had a very modified XR80 that would smoke most of the 2 stroke 80cc, was entertaining to watch 8) They were above my grade. I think Wiltshire went on to ride speedway solo's.
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Todd Wiltshire did indeed go on to ride speedway solo and was/is an exceptional international speedway rider. he had a bad accident and did some back damage and gave it away for a few years only to come back later to the same form. a great rider to watch and a very fast starter.
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Yeah Smed thats me at Waiaa vic titles C grade 100cc 1982 .Awesome event and the track was even better the huge start straight was a buzz .
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Waverly Junior motor cycle club ,A subdivision next door closed the track in 83.
Hey Smed if you buy Waiaa can we come up for a ride ? Awesome track]
Started at Waverley in about 1972 when the track was at Tally Ho on the cnr Burwood Rd then it moved down past the old Waverley Park AFL Ground near Scorsby? lot a guys came out of that club always a lot of fun
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Hey Gazz i remember Tally Ho track right on Burwood hwy & Trail wheels nunawading next to the old tip site.... far out we're gettin old !!!
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Onehunga United motorcycle Club
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hey Ray,
trail wheels of nunawading was my first club. Rode there from 1973 to 1979 before moving on to VMBA affiliated club - Dandenong minibike club. I still have all my old local paper cuttings from trail wheels and one has a picture of a Michelle Vandenberg winning a poster competition. Sister ?
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Onehunga United motorcycle Club
Bazza, they wouldn't have a forken clue where that is ;D ;D and yes I was a member of the same club 1973 to 1980 and our club track was Jefferson's Farm
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hey Ray,
trail wheels of nunawading was my first club. Rode there from 1973 to 1979 before moving on to VMBA affiliated club - Dandenong minibike club. I still have all my old local paper cuttings from trail wheels and one has a picture of a Michelle Vandenberg winning a poster competition. Sister ?
Hey Geoff, Michelle is my cousin, Cheers Goof.
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Hey Gazz i remember Tally Ho track right on Burwood hwy & Trail wheels nunawading next to the old tip site.... far out we're gettin old !!!
Goof,
Yea that was a while ago now,we used to go there nearly every Saturday,on the SL70's hard packed clay there were skid marks on the dirt at times,
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I started racing a Gemini 50 back in 1974 at the Diamond Valley mini motorcycle club in Greensborough. I then bought a YZ 80C in 1976 and rode it there until the council took the land of the club and did nothing with it. I now live a few streets away from where that track was. When the track closed I moved over and raced at the Whittlesea and district minibike club in Epping
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Dave, did you ride on the tracks in Fyansford running from the cops with Bernie?
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No, we ride on the beach at Apollo Bay, the bikes where elsinore, maico, vr montesa, bultaco. Husky, great fun, John Herd, Greg Keady, Apollo bay Boy`s, Red, Woolly Keating, David Riordan,plus others. Plus we also rode at Alcoa around the salt flats.
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No juniors wher I lived , started on a RM125s in 76 13 yrs old straight to B grade 125 south taranaki motorcycle club (long gone) merged with Taranaki MCC .We youngsters got taught some hard riding lessons competing with adults ,wouldnt have had it any other way , you learn FAST
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Northern Suburbs Minibike Club, Melbourne somewhere in the earlier 70s ;). Track now about 10,000,000 ugly brick I got more useless rooms than you puss boxes................... Big houses and no room in the "back yard :D' for even a garden tool storage locker, let alone a very small workshop shed..
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Hey, my start was way later than most of you guys, but my passion is just as strong...Wheelstanders 1989, fast guys there back then-Matt McKenna,McFarlane brothers,Craig Anderson (Suzuki Rider).
Everytime I drive past that empty lot I get cranky...Just like Trailblazers,Pine Rivers,Redcliffe...List goes on & on. Bugger housing developments!
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Tim, I remember the Northern suburbs track it was down a back street behind the Village drive in theater in Reservoir, I did a couple of races there, it was like racing on the black market back then as they were not a VMBA affiliated club and we were "advised" not to race there but we did. All good fun....
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NBMCC (New Brighton Motocross Club) ChCh, NZ, Circa 1975
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Viper yep that was the one!!!! ;) Club later affiliated with the "Official controlling bodies" but seem to remember it folded only 14 days later.... and that black sticky mud!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Raced a honda Dax and SL70 at the Patterson Mini bike Rallies in 70,71. Didn't even need to belong to a club back then. Turned 14 in 72 and wanted to race the newly brought in sub-junior category for 14-16 yrs, before then you had to be 16 to enter an open meet as a C grader. Joined the Oaklieigh MCC as it was close to Bentleigh where I lived. Dad took me to my first meeting at an old building near the footy ground. Two meeting rooms full of men. One the OMCC the other AA, guess which one we picked. After a few minutes they probably worked out I was too young to be in AA (except for the bloke having a swig in the back corner) Oakleigh was a trials club back then except for Steve Cramer and Skppy Parsons who both rode for Athol Patterson. Eventually went to the Hartwell club, then the Speedway Motorcycle Riders Association as it was also a separate body. In the old days you also had to get a clearance from one club to join anoher. Used to practice at the sand track in Tulip St in Sandringham, or at the salt pans at Fishermans Bend or next to the VW factory in Centre Rd,Oakleigh. Much further to drive now to get a ride, except in Mackay where the MX track is righ next door to the CBD.