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The
photo above was sent to us by Warren Reid. It was taken in 1975
at a CMC $1000.00 purse race that Warren won. I was there that
day and remember Warren going up the hill before Banzai that
paralleled the start hill. There was jump in the middle of the
hill and Warren hit it flat out in third gear landing on the
back wheel and with the front wheel still in the air, shifted to
forth and did about a hundred yard wheelie wide open. Absolutely
amazing. For those of you that were not around the CMC scene in
those days, Warren Reid was the undisputed king of Saddleback in
the 125 class. His 125 pictured was the fastest 125 of the day
by a mile, and it featured the very first "Flipper-cone" FMF
down pipe. To this day, I can still hear that bike screaming up
that hill. Also note the works Honda front end. Below is a
note from Warren.
Hey All,
Here is a cool old photo taken by my then girlfriend and now
wife Cinda. It was Fall 1975 at a CMC Motocross race at
Saddleback Park in California.
It was the first time she'd been to a Motocross race and I won.
I actually wrote a story for a motorcycle magazine called
Motocross Journal about Saddleback Park based on this photo.
It was in the May 1997 issue I think. Frustratingly, I couldn't
find this photo to submit with the article when it went to press
and I thought I had lost it.
I came across it while cleaning a storage unit we were emptying
a few weeks ago. So now it is digitized forever.
This bike was the fastest 125 on the planet and was the first
with a Flipper Cone FMF pipe that Donnie Emler and Jon R came up
with. It worked with the radical porting spec we used on
the '75 CR125 cylinder when everybody else was using boost
ported '74 cylinders and drilling holes in
the piston. I must have holeshot more 125 Nationals and
CMC pro races with this bike than anyone in history before I
retired it after winning the Jim West Memorial race in early
'76..
Some of you old So Cal CMC types may remember my signature "Blue
Van" in the background too that I inherited from Jon R.
Merry Christmas,
Warren

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Hakan Andersson 1973 250 World
Champion
Hakan Andersson is
visiting MXworksbike.com and went with us last Sunday to the
historical Red Bud motocross track in Buchanan Michigan for a
photo shoot. Here Hakan is reunited with the works Yamaha
monoshock that he won the 1973 250 World Championship with.
Details of a very interesting new project we are working on will
be coming soon.
Also, photo's of
Hakan riding his bike in 2008.
Don
Jones tribute page
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1980 Mugen ME125 W1 Click
for updated text
Photo CD available
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roger
decoster, Joel Robert, Bob Hannah, Torsten Hallman, Jaak Van
Velthoven, Ake Jonsson, Marty Tripes, Marty Smith, Sten Lundin,
Pierre Karsmakers, Gary Jones

Left to
right: 1971 YZ250, 1972 YZ360, 1972 RH250, 1973 RN370, 1973
YZ250, 1974 OW370, 1976 OW125

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