Hey GMC,
Is that a young Dave Hammond in the hotel room with that YZ 250 
Mr Maico #54
Yes that’s a young Dangerous Dave.
Dave behind the bike, Russel Evans (SA) in chair, behind him Ian Roe, (Vic) and further back is Lyndon Heffernan (NSW)
It was our second night in the USA and we had met Malcolm Smith that day at his shop in Riverside. Dave & Ian had bought the YZ’s from him and where else do you keep new bikes but in your motel room. They were covering their bikes with contact to try to keep them looking good in order to get a good price for them at the end of the trip. Ian had decided it would be easier if he took the tank off the bike and was fitting the contact with the tank on his lap, no one noticed at the time that fuel was dribbling out of the breather hose onto the carpet. We tried to mop it up but it had soaked into the carpet making it rise up in a big bubble. We had to sit a chair on the bubble everyday to hold it down so the motel owners didn’t notice when they came in to clean the rooms.
Classic times.
