brad lackey

Preston Petty wanted to control the big swings in motion that make a bike dive under hard braking with his No-Dive invention
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The strange thing about Lackey's 1982 FIM 500 World Motocross Championship was that after he won it, Suzuki dropped him for 1983
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Joel Robert, Paul Friedrichs, Guennady Moisseev, Jaroslav Falta, Sylvain Geboers, Roger DeCoster, Zdenek Velky, Vlastimil Valek, Jiri Stodulka, Tony DiStefano and Brad Lackey all raced CZs
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MXA knows a lot about the 1992 CZ 125MX, we raced it, tested it and lived with it—well, actually we tolerated it
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Brad Lackey was angry at Kawasaki’s less-than-enthusiastic support, so he put a Husky tank on his Kawasaki, repaint it black and wrote “Kaw” on it—it became the famous Black Kaw
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"Nowadays, you cannot be yourself, because today’s riders seem to be reading from a script. The guys racing in the old days would not have stayed on script."
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The best thing about air is that it is free. The worst thing about air is that it doesn't like to be caged inside a shock
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Are you up on your CZ exhaust pipe lingo, because this is the later side-pipe, not the earlier down pipe or the iconic twin-pipe
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Many 450cc Supercross-spec bikes have super-stiff forks, loads of bottom-end power, a massive front brake and a lowered subframe. Surprisingly, Anderson’s FC450 wasn’t your standard Supercross machine
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A major player in the early 1970 Swedish motocross connection, Stig had a long career working on race team suspension for Ohlins
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And a brief history to the teams that never were, which happened seven times in American MXDN history—along with the teams that were victorious
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For the 1973 season, the factory built a limited-production run of 200 units, dubbed the F11M 250‚ it wasn't until 1974 that Kawasaki introduced the KX nomenclature for its motocross bikes
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In the beginning...
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Every AMA 500 National Champion from Mark Blackwell in 1971 until the AMA killed the class in 1993
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The "Mag 250" demonstrated Husqvarna's ability to market a true "works" caliber motorcycle, They were an immediate success in the hands of AMA National privateers
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This tree wasn't close to the track. It wasn't next to the track. It wasn't on the edge of the track. It was on the track—and the riders had to chose which side of it to go around.
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Memorable moments aren't all that pretty
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It doesn't matter where you're from, it matters how fast you are —just ask the Flyin' Hawaiian
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11 years in the making
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Aren't 450 four-strokes the new Open class?
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The woman behind the man behind the handlebars
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Cellblock B is home to prisoner Number B-147U
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A non-plastic part from the man who invented plastic parts
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BY ZAP On the cove rof the November 1973 is Texan Jumpin' Jack O'Leary (with his Full Bore boots, leather ?leathers? and Carerra goggles) aboard a strapped tank YZ at the Lockhart MX track in Texas. Long before Chaparral, BTO…
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The history of the sport returns to the little screen when MAVTV begins re-airing seasons one, two and three of "The Motocross Files" on October 4 with season one's inaugural show on "Bad Brad" Lackey. Lackey was America's first World…
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Have you ever wondered how riders can show up on the podium wearing a number 1 jersey and hat five minutes after winning the title? The answer is simple, they print the victory gear in advance. Of course, that means that in any close points…
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Ryan Dungey?2009-2010. EVERY AMERICAN TEAM SINCE 1972: AND HOW THEY FINISHED Year...Place...Riders 1972...7...Brad Lackey, Jim Pomeroy, Jimmy Weinert, Gary Jones 1973...4...Jim Pomeroy, Mike Hartwig, John DeSoto Tony…
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