favourite rider

[firko]

Best all rounder is a good addition. As versatile as little Gaston was, he doesn't hold a candle to Dick Mann. Check this out.
* He won 24 AMA Nationals, the second most ever.
* He was the first rider to complete the Grand Slam, winning in all forms of AMA Grand National Championship racing:mile,  half-mile, short track, TT and road racing.
*He won the Daytona 200 road race twice
*Won a bronze medal at the ISDE and was on a sure gold until bike problems slowed him.
*Was a pro class motocrosser.
*Represented the USA in the Trans Atlantic road races
He is an expert class trials rider, still an expert class motocrosser.

On top of all of that he introduced vintage motocross to the USA, co founded the AHRMA and prior to coming down with throat cancer, a hard charging vintage motocrosser well into his seventies.

[Lozza]

Dick Mann does deserve a special place in history.

My fav all rounder is Jean Michel Bayle
Fav mx rider De Coster
Fav road racer ...........Freddie Spencer, Kenny Roberts, Barry Sheene and Casey Stoner.
Favourite all time Harold Ekerold the last true privateer to win a world championship

[DJRacing]

New Zealand - Peter Ploen, Murray Anderson, Craig Coleman

Australia       - Craig Dack, Jeff Leisk, Brad Van Barrelo

Japan          -  Akira Watanabe Tarao Suzuki, Hideaki Suzuki

England       - Neil Hudson, Graham Noyce

Europe        - Heikki Mikkola, Harry Everts, Joel Roberts

USA           - Bob Hannah, Chuck Sun, Jimmy Weinert, Mike Bell, Steve Stackable, Tommy Croft

[090]

Early days it was Gally then Leisk in oz.
Early days it was Heiki Mikola then i didn't care too much for euro riders.
Heaps of U.S riders. Top of the heap is David Bailey, Johnson , Ward ,Barnett. Geez they were cool in the eighties.
The more i watch old footage of Magoo Chandler , the cooler he is getting in my book. Super fast and i liked his riding style, especially running an open face as well with the long peak.

Australia       - Craig Dack, Jeff Leisk, Brad Van Barrelo

WTF  The third guy is a legend in his own lunch box!

[oldfart]

Malcolm Smith ....enduro ace

[crs-and-rms]

its gally for my vote

[VMX Andrew]

australia....  jeff leisk, glen bell and gally
euro... joel smets
usa....jeremy mcgrath,jeff emig,john dowd,rick johnson and david bailey.....

[NSR]

Geoff Ballard.........Legend
Paul Edmondson.....4WECs
Steve Gall............What can ya say
Jeff Leisk.............Yep    
JMB....................He stuck it up the Yanks
Andrew Norris.......At a 12Hr enduro, the winning team did 12Laps, He did 11 by himself.  
David Bailey..........So smooth
Kari Tiainen...........4WECs
Murray Watt..........For the Gold medal he got in the Spain ISDE and the story that went with it.
David Armstrong.....For not just being an MX rider.
and the legend that is Stephane Peterhansel......2WECs ISDE Outrights and 6 Paris to Dakar


Cheers
Noel

[PERM250]

How about Gaston the great or goat.

[jimg1au]

aust chris dixion,charlie edwards sid willis mick doohen troy bayliss crumps both
euro ove fundin ole olsin an all the checs i meet when pitting for gary middelton at a international at liverpool
nz ivan major  barry brigs
usa jay springfield.dick man kenny roberts
japan norrie chan no41
uk wigg brothers  booey as in nigel
and many more

[jerry]

I'm from the seventies and that's the era I relate to. I'm also a Mexican as you will see.
Australia Trevor and Gary Flood ( Can't believe no-one mentioned them!)
Europe    Roger De Coster although my son is called Joel ( My wife wouldn't allow Roger)
USA        Marty Smith. He was the first superstar in my humble opinion

[Rossvickicampbell]

Firko - I reckon you have more tall stories to tell than Magoo and that is saying something!!!

I grew up with Marty Smith and then thought Bob Hannah was awesome.  In Australia I also went for Mark Pace (being a Honda boy back then) but thought Gally was also the ducks nuts.  In Europe - maybe Graham Noyce, Andre Malherbe or Dave Thorpe!!!

Rossco

[GD66]

Favourite all time Harold Ekerold the last true privateer to win a world championship

That'd be Jon then....

[mx250]

It's an impressive list, I don't think there's one I would disagree with. And there's more besides, I sure, both local and international .

[EML]

The problem I see here is that there are too many catagories perhaps.
It does show the differing age brackets of the respondents though and you can see the influence of perhaps Motocross Action mag et al. in the replies.
The argument isn't helped by the fact that we can never race them all together at the same time, but wouldn't that be a race and a half.
I agree that the Yanks probably have the best format where you have to race all facets to be AMA champ in which case Dick mann is the MAN. But could he do the Dakar??