RANDOM RADNESS // 56

Motocross Action has the most documented collection of photos in the sport as their photogs have been capturing everything motocross since MXA’s inception in 1973. These photos have been kept locked up inside MXA’s palatial towers (except for the ones that were pilfered). It was time to break into the historic archive of photos that have been captured over our 48-year history. Out of the millions of photos MXA has in its archive only a fraction of those have been seen by the public. Only a few hundred photos were needed per issue of MXA, but our guys snapped thousands of photos each month that were just stored never to be seen. We finally thought we should share these unseen photos of the past and present. We also thought that other fans of the sport needed a platform for them to share their Rad photos as well. With that, MXA’s Random Radness was born.

Brian Deegan racing in 1995 on a Honda CR125.
Brian Swink in 1994.
Damon Bradshaw racing his factory YZ250 in 1989.
Damon Huffman in 1995 on his factory RM125.
Greg Albertyn, Ian Harrison and Roger Decoster in 1995 when they were all working for factory Suzuki.
French rider Christophe Pourcel dropping in on one of Glen Helen’s incredibly creative track layouts.

 

James Stewart’s Pro Circuit Splitfire KX85. 
Travis Pastrana back in his freestyle days.

 

Nick Wey on a Pro Circuit KX125.

 

Roger DeCoster chasing Jimmy Weinert in 1975 and Livermore — where Roger’s Suzuki forks would break off.
1977 Maico 400 with Pete Maly riding. 

 

Mitch Payton lost a bet and Goat Breker got to shave his head.
Mike Alessi before he was big enough to ride big bikes.

 

Jeff Ward F1 race car 1997
Jeff Ward in his Indy race car in 1997.

 

Jeff Emig on his 1994 factory Yamaha YZ125. Jeff commented on MXA’s Social Media about the photo,“I’m thinking that was the big table at Broome-Tioga/Binghamton, NY. It was late in the season because I had LONE RANGER on my pants because I was the only rider on the team at that point.
Jeremy McGrath chatting it up with his buddy Denny Stephenson.
Jeremy McGrath in 1995 on his factory Honda CR250 racing in Texas.
Robbie Maddison practicing his jump at Wyvern Ranch before he did it in Vegas.

 

This was Robbie doing the real thing. 

 

The 1997 CR250 that everyone dreaded riding. 

 

Honda ad for Ricky Carmichael’s 2022 perfect season.

 

MXA test rider Larry Brooks surfing the 1994 KX250 in the sand.

 

John Dowd and Chad Pederson battling on 125’s in 1996.
Mike Brown (26) holeshot the field ahead of Damon Huffman (12), Scott Sheak (38) and Robbie Reynard in 1995.
Rick Johnson on his 1982 factory Yamaha.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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