What is your 1st memory of Motocross

[Davey Crocket]

My 1st ever involvement was in 1970 or 71 when I was 11 or 12, they had a motocross meeting in the hills  at Porirua (its now a suburb....Waitangirua). My dad was in the Lions club and they where helping with the catering and flaging. I remember seeing CZeds (had those saddles for seats with the floppy sides!!), orange tank TM's and an aray of pommy stuff!!. Man they where noisy.... no mufflers. I instantly fell in love with the smell, the noise and the look.... leather bib and brace, boots etc.... Before this I didn't have any sort of interest in bikes at all- keen rugby and other sports mad player. Any way after that I was hooked, I'd catch the bus and train to Wellington and walk for miles to motorbike shops to have a look ( nothings changed - I just drive). I saved my money from working after school and a couple of years later bought my first bike... Yamaha CT2175 trailbke, and the rest as they say is history!!!. Also at this MX meeting I had my first ever hamburger!, a meat patty between 2 peices of bread - Mc'Shit didn't exist  back in those day's in NZ, ( funnily enough the first Mc'Donald's in NZ was built at Porirua shopping centre a couple of years later and I remember seeing people lined up outside the shop to buy it), I can still taste that hamburger, nearly 40 years on!!. Still eating hamburgers too. Any way thats my first recollection of Motorcross - whats yours.

[DR]

1974 My eldest brother bought a brand new TM125L and what makes this memory remain so vivid is it was also my first smell of R30 my MX addiction was born. I'd ridden bikes for years prior but had nothing to do with 'competition' models until my bro guided me in the right direction

[sudman]

Hey not that far removed from yours, my Dad took me to the round of the world champs at McKays Crossing north of Wellington in summer of 1975, I remember seeing lots of yellow & that very same year I got my 1st real mx bike a kitted 74 TM125 at the age 12 ( I could just touch the ground if I lean my ass off to one side of the seat , I must say not alot has changed today as I still have do that on 08 RMZ250  ). Just seeing all the top riders & works bikes was mind blowing, if I was not hooked before I was now.

[BJJ]

Well,  I started scrambling,  back in 1975 on a TM75,  but 1-2 years later our club started building man made jumps, then the same year almost, it was Stadium Cross in ChCh New Zealand.  Motocross was born.
I still prefer the slow sweeping TT style tracks. 

[Rossvickicampbell]

I moved up from an XR75 in the local minibike club to a 76 CR125 - because of this dad took me down to Christmas Hills (if I remember rightly) where I saw my first MX meet - 76/77 CR250's and RM125S (with the downswept pipe is that right?).  My addiction started then 

Rossco

[firko]

My Dad took me to a scramble at Moorbank in what was most likely 1960, I must have been around 10 or 11 as Dad still had his FC wagon, as he bought a new EK in late '61. I can only remember one bike from that meeting, it was number 17 Greeves owned by a workmate of my Dad. I can't remember the blokes name for the life of me but he wasn't much good. I remember being a bit disapointed as my Dad had built him up as some sort of champ during the car trip out to the track.

[Dave D]

I can't recall my first interest in bikes because it seems since before I could walk     But I do recall my first "big" motocross event I attended and there was a guy there that was an up & comer that just blew away all rivals and outjumped everyone by far. The place was the monza masters held at ballarat and the new guy was Craig Dack........

[David Lahey]

First memory is mid 1970s somewhere near Nerang (Gold Coast, Australia), I think it was called Broadwater Estate and there was a very wet muddy MX day and many people couldn't even get around the track.
Soon after that the place was covered in houses.
That was pretty good but the most memorable were 1975 at the Echo Valley (Toowoomba) MX track (Mountain Man event) and the day at Tivoli that Gaston Rahier and the pommy bloke on the flying 125 Bultaco (Vic Allen?) raced against the top Aussies.

[GD66]

Hey not that far removed from yours, my Dad took me to the round of the world champs at McKays Crossing north of Wellington in summer of 1975, I remember seeing lots of yellow & that very same year I got my 1st real mx bike a kitted 74 TM125 at the age 12 ( I could just touch the ground if I lean my ass off to one side of the seat , I must say not alot has changed today as I still have do that on 08 RMZ250  ). Just seeing all the top riders & works bikes was mind blowing, if I was not hooked before I was now.

Don't wish to be a wet blanket, but that wouldn't have been a world championship meeting, NZ has never had one. The sea of yellow would have been caused by Gaston Rahier, Jimmy Ozaki, Peter Ploen, Ivan Miller, Greg Brinck and Peter Boyle, all carving it up on Suzukis....

[gilletty]

1979. River Heads, Hervey Bay QLD. My step brother raced there and my mum said I should give it a go. I was 12 on an RM50. Yes I am a short ass. Kept getting smoked by a kid on an Italjet 50. Bloody thing was so much faster, but hooked ever since.

[brent j]

Another Wellingtonion here. It's funny that a few of us could have been at the same meetings.
I can't remember where my first MX meeting was but I went with the Boyles (which is why I had SUZUKI's for so long, Lawton and Boyle Suzuki) from Wgton, probably around 1973.
Mark Boyle used to race and was one of the faster guys and I do remember watching this old guy in pudding bowl helmet on what we thought were CZ road bikes and having a great laugh. Of course looking back they were twin pipe CZ's, one red, one blue!!!!!!!!!

I did watch the meeting at QE11 park when Gaston Rahier was there and my most enduring memory of that meeting was Reg Dixon on his CCM. 

[Tossa]

this hurts, but late 50's dad used to take me to the rickman Workshop, where they fed me marmite sandwiches (bloody hated them) and then seeing them race at beanham park

[Tim754]

Most likely not the first but the clearest.. Grand Nationals Scrambles at Christmas Hills Victoria.

[oldyzman]

My first was Mr Motocross at the old sydney showground, must have been approx 1978.
Brett

[Davey Crocket]

Hey Alison, I see you lurking there... whats your 1st memory? and Tossa that's legendary stuff, if only we new what we new now then!!!