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Interviews

• MR Interviews Alice Sexton!
  by Michael McCook #41
  
  
   
• MR Interviews Vintage Iron's Rick Doughty
  by Michael McCook #41
  
   
• MR Interviews AVDRA's Dave Boydstun
  by Michael McCook #41
  
  
   
• MR Interviews Fred Guidi
  AHRMA Mid-Atlantic MX Coordinator
  by Al Conte #48J
   
• MR Interviews Rusty McFarland
  by Michael McCook #41
   
   
• The Untold Story of an American Motocross Hero
  -An Interview with David White - part 1
  An Interview with David White - part 2
  by Giles Nelson #665
• MR Interviews Joey Poole
  by Michael McCook #41
   
   
• MR Interviews Rae Tyson
  President, Potomac Vintage Riders
  by Al Conte #48J
   
• MR Interviews VMX Race Promoter Curtis Harper
  by Randy Smith #24
   
   
   
• MR Sponsor Profile:
  An Interview with Joe Abbate of Cycle Therapy
  by Michael McCook #41
   
• MR Interviews Phil Ketchum, Moderator of the premier Hodaka discussion group and Vintage Racer
  by Randy Smith
   
• MR Interviews Travis Agle- Vintage Racer and Moderator of the premier Maico discussion group
  by Michael McCook #41
   
• MR Interviews Paul Stannard of Strictly Hodaka
  by Mark Jarecki
   
   

Featured Articles

by Mark Firkin aka Firko #53


• Classic Dirt 5
• Changing Times
• A Rose by Any Other Name
• Trent Farlowe, the Man and His Mission
• Mickey and Mike... Mark Firkin - Part 1
• Memories of Bimbo
• Pulling Out the Pink Thing
• The Shed, and Its Place In a Blokes Life
• Cranky Old Geezer
• Budget
• Why Julio Iglesias Leaves Me Cold
• A View From Oz - Roger, Suzuki and Me
• The Day The Music Died
• Bouncing Czechs

by Stu Osborn #657


• When to move up, or when not to... Sandbaggers in Denial
• "It's a Disease" - Collecting Vintage Motorcycles
• The AMERICAN Historic Racing Motorcycle Association
  -Salutations and Frustrations-
• Remembering Jimmy Pomeroy, the 1st American
• Heartbreaking For At Least One Racer - Mattawa 1970
• AHRMA Cautious and Deliberate with Rules Changes
• The Amazing Dave Wilson
• My first race in more than 28 years
• AHRMA to add more 100cc VMX Classes this racing season!
• Northwest Artist takes on VMX race promotion for the new AHRMA Pacific Northwest Region!!

by Terry Frazier #71E


• Vintage Enthusiast Teardown Disease
• The Long-term Effects of Production-based Racing
• Five rules for starting VMX
• Equipment Review: Pro-Vue RX System

by Charlie Oxford #20E


• Listen To Me!
• A Dose of Reality
• A New Season is Here!
• How an Old Motorcycle Probably Saved My Life

by Fritz Guenther #22T

• I've Lost My Bearings Part 2 of 2
• I've Lost My Bearings Part 1 of 2
• Who said water and oil don’t mix?
• Oil Is Always Cheaper Than Steel - The Great Synthetic Oil Myth

by David Russell #832


• Thoughts on What Determines "Collectability" and Value
• The Motorcycle as Art
• Going Hunting

by Rich Fogel #45


• Addicted to VMX
• Plastics Restoration
• Rich Fogel's 1980 CR125 Resto

More Feature Articles

• Memories
  by Stephen Gautreau #999
• It's the Economy Stupid
  by Fred "900" Guidi
• I'll give you fifty bucks for it
  by Raphael 'Tag' Hargrove III #366
• Everything Happens for a Reason
  by Tom Long #20B
• Husky Hooker Headers Mystery
  by Robert Haag #74Y
• From Soup to all of you Nuts
  by Steve Clark #309D
• AHRMA
  by Fred "900" Guidi
• It's a Vintage Family Affair!
  by Randy Smith
• My First Vintage Restoration
  by John Nicholas #12
• The VMX Art of Rob Kinsey Now Available!
• York Swap Meet: Another Huge Success!
• Driven - Steve Christini's 10-year quest...
  by Brian Howard - Photos by Michael T. Regan
• Weedstock and the Diamond Don’s Riverport National
  by John Putkey #238
• A Racing Father's Daughter Remembers
  by Joy Cook
• Rausch Creek Race Report, April 16th 2005
• SIEGE's Personal Racing Checklist from Hell
• Andy Caldecott: A Quiet Champion Passes
• 2006 Going Forward But Still Looking Back
  by Randy Smith
• Weedstock 2006
• Carnegie AHRMA VMX Oct 16, 2005
  by Giles Nelson
• The History of Maico Through 1977
  Submitted by Vintage Vinnie
• Chehalis AHRMA VMX
  by Giles Nelson
• A Special Preview of the Primm MX Collection
  by Perry Sconzert
• Adding a National AHRMA 100cc Class--What's Your Opinion?
• A Ghost of a 30 Year Dream
  by Joey Poole
• How to avoid getting ripped off at the Cybermarket
  by Chris Sunkin
• The Track - "Verse"
  by Mark Hayzlett

by Nigel Hollingsworth


• I’m Pissed and I Can’t Read Anymore
• Nigel's Piles
• The World of Hollingsworth
  Motocross Legend Launches New Racing League

by PJ Read


• The Saipan Soiree Saga
• Chinese Takout
• Hong Kong @ 200kph
• Equipo Madre Trato Rides Again!
• Open Letter to McCookRacing and Nigel Hollingsworth
   
  

• EQUIPO MADRE TRATO REFORMS
  by Raphael ‘Tag’ Hargrove III

by Michael McCook


• 2006 AHRMA Season Opener: The Arizona National!
• 2006 Potomac Vintage Riders Swap Meet
• PVR's 2005 Vintage Swap Meet Best Yet!
   
  

RestoNuts

• Project YZ250F!

Movie Reviews

Mr Smith & Hollywood go to the Movies

• MXoN: Sixty Years and a Day
• One Chance To Win
• The Worlds Fastest Indian
• Magoo: The Story of Danny Chandler
• Dust To Glory
• Suzuki GP 1970 - 1973
• Yamaha GP - 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983
• Yamaha Moto-Cross
• Garrett Michael Berg Memorial Races II & III
• Motocross 70's Style
• BackTrack

Top Ten

by Rick Doughty

• Top Ten Predictions of the Future
• The Best and Worst
• A Clean Sheet of Paper
• Is It Just Me...?
• McCookRacing Top Ten Trivia Quiz
• Rick Doughty's Top Ten
   
  

On The Couch

by Dr. Joe Abbate #43F

• Volume 4 - The Two Stroke is dead, long live the Two Stroke
• Volume 3 - American Historic Rules Motocrossers Avoid
• Volume 2 - The Rules
• Volume 1 - Thoughts that remain in my mind

Photos

• Submitted Photo Galleries
• AHRMA National - Gatorback MX Gainsville, Florida
  Photos by Amy Cooper
• AHRMA Season Opener: The Arizona National!
• Monster Mountain
  Submitted by Joe Abbate
• Scenes from Motocuse 2005

Vintage Motocross Club Profiles

• Klub Kevlar - Sydney, Australia
• Hammer & Tongs - Pacific Northwest
• AVDRA - American Vintage Dirt Riders Association
• ACR - American Classic Racing
• IVORME- Indiana Vintage Off-Road Motorcycle Enthusiasts

Vintage Motocross Profiles

• VMX Racer Profile - Grant Humble #38
• The Motocross History of Doug Grant
• Vintage Motocross Profile - Mark Strassner #426

MR Sponsor Profiles

• Metro Racing
• MX Restorations

Rob Kinsey Artwork

• New VMX Art from Rob Kinsey!
• The VMX Art of Rob Kinsey Now Available!

Racing Tips

• Submitted Racing Tips

Off Track

by Michael McCook

• Volume 9 - Steps to the Top and Fighting over the Track
• Volume 8 - Where are we going now Soup?
• Volume 7 - Let's Go Racing
• Volume 6 - Someplace between Nowhere and Goodbye
• Volume 5 - Just when you thought you had all the answers, all the questions changed
• Volume 4 - It’s All that Noise behind You
• Volume 3 - If We do what We did, then We get what We got
• Volume 2 - Women, Motocross and You
• Volume 1 - Off Track

Submitted Race Reports

2005

• Harpers, Greenwood Missouri - MOVMX April 10th 2005
  by Randy Smith
• Missouri Vintage MX Race Report
  by Mark Hollywood Jarecki
• Season Opener at Harpers, Greenwood Missouri - MOVMX March 20th 2005
  by Randy Smith

2004

• Nov 7th MOVMX Season Finale Report from Greenwood Missouri
  by Hollywood Mark Jarecki #45Q
• Moberly Race Report
  by Mark Jarecki 45Q
• Topeka Race Report. Vintage MX at Heartland Park Topeka July 18
  by Randy Smith #24
• Thunder Ridge Race Report
  by Gordon McCaffer

VMX Action Photographers

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