Old AFM photos 1989 and 1990 (or there about)

FZ1MinesRdRipper

FZ1MinesRdRipper

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I think the 3rd place guy might be Jim Jensen? He's got that Colin Edwards turkey neck thing going...Ha! Ha! Hey it worked out pretty good for Edwards. :)

FZ1MinesRdRipper said:
This was 600SS. I'm on an absolutely bone stock out of the crate RZ500. These guys are on fully pumped 600's with slicks etc. I'm pretty sure that's Woo behind me and I see Pittman in the white leathers. The guy in red leathers #4 was pretty quick if my memory serves me. I can't remember his name though. The guy in third was on the FJ600 might be Jepsen. Actually this class was mostly Ninja's and FJ's. I think the guy on the outside mid pack ( green leathers) may have been Glen Sopher...I may have the spelling wrong. The afm produced some excellent racers over the years. I need to go to a race next year and support the club. Sure miss the good old days of racing. It was just different back in the day. I could run the RZ in 4 or 5 classes...open gp, 750ss, 600ss & F1 for $100.00 bucks.

Happy riding barfer's
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Zerox

Zerox

Can I be....frank?
These old photos are a hoot, cheers! :thumbup

Prolly lots more hiding in someone's photo collection, scan them and post'em up.
 
Jello_Biafra

Jello_Biafra

bbrraaappp
budman said:
I knew him......When we were racing. He was damn fast. Good chap.
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Saw him this morning, that is indeed him. Said 86 was a huge year for him and he went off AMA racing the next year.

I didn't get to chat with him for too long but I'm gonna see if I can email a link to this thread to him. :ride
 
Maddevill

Maddevill

KNGKAW
Great thread. I started AFM in around 88 on a FZ600. Doug Kamholz was my roommate back then. Watched Dwayne Chung, Denny Dority, Dave Deveu, Dave Avery and others. Raced against Joe Carillo when he had the full TZ/TZR which inspired me to put a TZ motor in my TZR. Didn't help. He still kicked my ass.
 
afm199

afm199

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divot02 said:
I just went through this post completely for the first time. Mind boggling. I was from the Sac. crew in the 70s. Paul Vogel and I were roommates for years. I see so many name and things that blow my mind. I was not far behind Ed Unini and Paul Ritter On that faithful day at turn 8. Also just behind Elkins at Ontario when He bailed. I can't contain the flood of great memories. I wish they were not so muddled. Anyway I have scanners and time and would be happy to document this stuff if anyone would be interested. I challange the 70s folks to step up. Thanks
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Paul is still around and riding fast. He's a sometimes instructor for Keigwins. I see him 3-4 times a year.
 
afm199

afm199

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Jakemate said:
Yeah, I know Chris Quinn. He's still local, (was my neighbor for 14 years. :laughing He still has The Wheel Works in Hayward, lacing up spokes. Still has a metric shit tonne of little duck stuff and oddball bikes kicking around.
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Kaming Ko is on that AFM schedule. He has one of the largest collections of sweet bikes in the world. Including a Ducati MotoGP bike he rides on the track.
 
bite me

bite me

live la vida loca... 365
Great thread hope for more

This is really fun as all the names and memories from 1984-1995.
Great times..
Anyone have the year end results from 1988-1993?
 
EastBayDave

EastBayDave

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someday I'll figure out how to make this scanner/printer I just got f//the kid for Xmas to scan/capture the files of the zillion pics I have in prints...

dang thing prints them fine after scanning; just won't save them to file?

derp....
 
FZ1MinesRdRipper

FZ1MinesRdRipper

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Smoker

Diving into turn 7 at Sears Point as us :afm199 guys call it. :teeth

I loved this bike...I wish I would have put a shock on it, fork work, brakes etc. Absolutely stock off the showroom floor...except the Michelin Hi-Sports. I did pretty good on this old boy in 600 prod, 600SS, F1, OpenGp, 750SS. Always in the top ten...even my first race in the 600 class I finished 9th from the back of a very congested field of 600's. I sure miss it...some of the best times of my life.
 

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Cafe Racer

Cafe Racer

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FZ1MinesRdRipper said:
Diving into turn 7 at Sears Point as us :afm199 guys call it. :teeth

I loved this bike...I wish I would have put a shock on it, fork work, brakes etc. Absolutely stock off the showroom floor...except the Michelin Hi-Sports. I did pretty good on this old boy in 600 prod, 600SS, F1, OpenGp, 750SS. Always in the top ten...even my first race in the 600 class I finished 9th from the back of a very congested field of 600's. I sure miss it...some of the best times of my life.
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Damn!:thumbup

Bay Area Grassroots. Those were good days. Yamaha was so raw back then.

Dainese before it was the D Store.
 
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wfo439

AFM 439
Me leading the race and former AFM #1 Walt Nitto Jr. circa '85

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Me behind Schwantz, ahead of Rich Oliver. Jim Jepsen, Glen Shopher and Tom Aquino are in there somewhere. Don't know their numbers.

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Bob Okano's, possibly Bob O, (lived in Sunnyvale) pic of Gary Nixon on an Irv Kanemoto. tuned TZ 750 at a Sears National race. I'm behind on Randy Mamola's old B model TZ 250. It was open practice. Sweet memories! :afm199
 
budman

budman

General Menace
Staff member
There is an edit button. Lower right.

Indeed Bob O.
You guys were the dudes at the front of the 75 rider train when I started.
I remember seeing you.

Good to have you on barf!!
 
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wfo439

AFM 439
budman said:
There is an edit button. Lower right.

Indeed Bob O.
You guys were the dudes at the front of the 75 rider train when I started.
I remember seeing you.

Good to have you on barf!!
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Odd, the edit button has been visible before. Tonight no joy. Only a "quote button" :wtf
 
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