What Junior Club did you start motocross?

[mudguard]

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.

[jimg1au]

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

[mainline]

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

Puttered around in the bush and used the recently vacated track for the MX club behind the PGH brickworks at Brendale before that.

[VMX247]

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.
Port Hedland NW- West Aust- late 70's-early 80's

http://ozvmx.com/community/index.php?topic=2002.0

[vandy010]

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......

[STW996]

Wheelstanders when we lived on the southside in 72 and then North Brisbane club at the old track at Samsonvale from 73 on


Shane

[Hoony]

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.

[smed]

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.

[JohnnyO]

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.

[worms]

just up from the old drag strip!, very fond memories of the surfers dragways. 75 hey? just a young whipper snipper then!

cheers Trev

[Mike52]

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?

[JohnnyO]

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?

I reckon i saw Wild Bill at Surfers in a funny car maybe?

[Mike52]

May be, but not what I had in mind

[090]

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.

[JohnnyO]

I rode the very first meeting held at Stanmore in '77.. it was like a flat track then.