| P.V.P. Post Vintage Perspective |
July 2008
| King George |
| George Marshall 2007 Ahrma #1 PVMX |
| I asked "who are Victor Leloupe,Augustine Mingels, Johnny Draper, Leslie Archer", of a particularly snotty old guy busting a kids chops about not knowing who Roger DeCoster was at a vintage race one time . The kid and him both looked at me like I was speaking Martian or something.I followed with "the kid did'nt know one World Champion You did'nt know four. What's the matter before your time?" I had just had it with people being stuck in a bracket of time and being so narrow minded about that era. |
| Who are Victor Leloupe, Augistine Mingels, Johnny Draper, Leslie Archer ? |
| It never ceases to amaze me how the Vintage Mx Guys Hijack Brad Lackey as "Their Champion" I'm sorry I thought he won the 1982 500cc World MX Championship. Well it must have been on a pre 1974 bike I guess. Truth is he'sThe 1st American Champion and belongs to all of US no matter what time zone we're in. For me this is why the post vintage era is so special to americans because up until Brad in 82 when talking about World Champions, we were "also rans". So really post vintage is the most significant era for American Mx. |
| I wonder how vintage racers would feel if there were Previntage hardtail MX Events and they would'nt let them run on the same day because bikes with shocks tear up the track too much. I keep having this vision of a "Race Through Time Series" . A living MotoCross History lesson a spectator could go to and see Vintage,Post Vintage and Modern Motocross on the same program. Then we'd have a common connection. A racer could go and race all his bikes on the same day. With the same amount of respect given to all the races. The problem would be too many people might like it. |
