Baja 1000 today

Hi all,

NBC will airing this years Baja 1000 at 10:00 pt this morning, or 1:00 eastern.

Additional info here: http://www.cyclenews.com/ShowStory.asp?HeadlineID=13258

According to Cycle News team Honda was running 450X's.

Dale

Stove,

Yeah, the coverage was so so, but, remember we are enthusiasts and that coverage is geared towards the masses. A friend of mine who has nothing to do with racing or dirt bikes, thought it was great.

I was disappointed that they didn't follow up on the iron man class that they showed just the one entrant in the beginning. With the finisher making it to the finish some 40 hours later, I thought that would be a real story. To me, it's just mind boggling that someone could ride continuous for that many hours, like our own Cheesebergers 44 hours last year, amazing.

And yes, I'm sure that those 450X honda's are "stock".

I was glad to see Roesler get his win. He seems to be one of those racers who has remained relatively untouched so to speak by his fame, on the contrary, his fame seems to have made him more humble. I met him several years back at a wedding. I just walked up to him and asked him if he was Larry Roesler he said yes and asked who I was. We chatted about desert racing and riding in different places for the better part of an hour. What a cool guy, he was just like chatting it up with an average dirt bike guy. He got a kick out of the fact that I remembered his riding tips about downhills that I had read in a dirt bike magazine, about just looking 10' in front of you and not looking at the whole down hill. He laughed and said "heck yah!, man if I looked at the whole invader down hill I'd fill my pants".

On the moto cross files yesterday they had a repeat of David Bailey's story and the premiere of the Johnn O'Mara story. What a great couple of show's. David Bailey is the guy I have always tried to emulate, smooth and technical. I read his stepdad's book, Gary Bailey on Moto cross technique years ago and got quite a bit out of it. As well, I got a lot out of Marty Smith's motocross school held at Carlsbad Raceway not long before it was closed permanently. I highly recommend to anyone wanting to improve their skills, no matter what your age, to attend the Marty Smith school. I guarantee that you will get your money's worth of riding!!

You can find the tv schedule here http://www.motocrossfiles.com/tv-schedule They have two DVD's availble now, Hannah and Johnson, and it looks like they will be making them all available int the future. Too bad they are only 1/2 hour shows, I'm sure they could make hour shows out them easily. In fact the Hannah show is now availabe on DVD and is almost 4 hours in length.

Stoveguy said:

Ditto about LR, amazing guy. The first year we ran Baja our team got 3rd place in class 38 on a Husky WR400, we were stoked ! That morning of the finish we were in the same resturant as Larry, we were whooping it up a bit (he was Husky mounted at the time) he came over to see what was up. When he found out that we podiumed first time out he ordered us up four pitchers of Magaritas. Now I know you are not "down" with the Desert Vipers Dale, but some of them are good friends of my dad's and one year at the Adelanto GP Larry won every Pro class there was right down to the vintage pro class. He won something like 6000.00 or $7000.00 (they do have a nice Pro pay out) He grabbed everyone within ear shot and went to the local bar and bought everyone drinks till the winnings were gone ! Point in fact our own Fritz, I believe was Best Man at Larry's wedding. Truely one of off roadings greatest champions and an all around guy as my old man says " he may not be a Marine but Larry Roeseler is a man's man" . Another one is that Fritz, did you know that after racing 40 plus weekends a year he would head to Baja and pit/chase for LR ? The word Stud comes to mind when I think of those two.

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I'll have to second that stud vote!!

I don't dislike all the DVPR's, just what they did ticked me off. Wish them nothing but the best, maybe one day they'll be back in the D-37 fold.

Thanks for the story about LR. I wish I could remember who's wedding I was at that I met him, I just remember that it was in Victorville at the Green Tree Motel.

Oh, I was there the year that LR won all those classes, it was a year or two before Ty Davis started winning all the time. Maybe Ken, aka bike barn could jump in here with some info about that time.