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csik magnet

Well-known member
Nick Csik - AFM #775

2018 AFM Novice - Clubman Middleweight, 600 Superstock, 750 Superstock, 600 Superbike, 750 Superbike, Formula 1, (who needs a gym membership with that weekend schedule??), 2018 Top Novice
2019 AFM Expert - 600 Superstock, 600 Superbike, 750 Superbike, Formula 1, Formula Pacific back marker.
From fastest of the slow guys to slowest of the fast guys :laughing
 

Tumbleweed

rollin' right along.....
Actually never noticed this thread before - apparently I'm only a "Posted Today" BARF reader :laughing

Chris Harris AFM 970.

I don't have a big resume like some of ya'll, I got a little line up of shiny farkles, but more importantly to me, I have some of the best damn memories from the races and with the race-peeps. Every race is more fun than the last:thumbup

One of the best decisions I ever made. Ever.
 

jaybocc2

o lento
not sure if i've posted.

Jay Bendon - AFM #705
2017 - Novice Clubman - 1 round (sonoma)- Clubman Heavyweight, Open Superbike, Open Supersport
2018 - Novice - 4 rounds - Clubman Heavyweight, Open GP, Open Superbike
2019 - Expert - (All?) rounds - Open GP, Open Superbike, Open Superstock
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
not sure if i've posted.

Jay Bendon - AFM #705
2017 - Novice Clubman - 1 round (sonoma)- Clubman Heavyweight, Open Superbike, Open Supersport
2018 - Novice - 4 rounds - Clubman Heavyweight, Open GP, Open Superbike
2019 - Expert - (All?) rounds - Open GP, Open Superbike, Open Superstock

Gonna make me look huh...:laughing

Your #290... quite the list. :thumbup
 

frozenuts

I make words too.
Not sure how I missed this as I was telling EVERYBODY that I raced a motorcycle minutes after parking the bike in the paddock after getting lapped...

AFM #868, AFM SF Chapter Director

Currently Formula 40 Middleweight, but started in Formula 40 Lightweight.
 

Holeshot

Super Moderator
Staff member
Not sure how I missed this as I was telling EVERYBODY that I raced a motorcycle minutes after parking the bike in the paddock after getting lapped...

AFM #868, AFM SF Chapter Director

Currently Formula 40 Middleweight, but started in Formula 40 Lightweight.

IZzatt all you’ve got to say?
 

bikewanker

Well-known member
Actually never noticed this thread before - apparently I'm only a "Posted Today" BARF reader :laughing

Chris Harris AFM 970.

I don't have a big resume like some of ya'll, I got a little line up of shiny farkles, but more importantly to me, I have some of the best damn memories from the races and with the race-peeps. Every race is more fun than the last:thumbup

One of the best decisions I ever made. Ever.

Don’t need no long ass resume to have the “Best Damn Memories” ! :twofinger:ride
 

bite me

live la vida loca... 365
There are a lot more mature racers these days (if you can call a racer mature :p)

I remember seeing the 40yo class and thinking how awesome it was to see OG's racing.

Go Sarah!!!! :banana

That is soo true, I remember thinking that as well. Geez hope i can still ride when i am that old.. Now going on 56, i think 40 young... LOL
 

firstbuell

GO! 04,16,23,31,64,69,95
eh, youse kids dunno wut “old” is.....

I moved to SJ in ‘71 from Ohio, towing a U-Haul trailer containing the 1st brand-spanking new CB500-4 to be delivered back there - the very 1st person I met socially here was Bob Jones @ Emery’s Honda (US dealer #2), an AFMer who directed me to their upcoming race @ Vacaville Raceway (an unbelievably bad pave circuit with Willow Springs-level lethality off-course)

I rode up on the freeway (with new wife driving her 351 Cougar XR7 behind, carrying my meager toolbox, front # plate, & mail-order leathers) & competed successfully (whew!) in Prod, then rode home - this is how some of us did it back then.....

within 2 yrs, wife & I were both officers in AFM North Chapter - 1 day I got a call that some PanAm pilot/impresario seeked a Board meeting/audience to introduce a too-young racer with mebbe 800(!) trophies from Lodi, etc. - the kid needed shelter/experience/guidance til he matured, & we had AMA insurance, so @ this meeting Jim Doyle introduced us to......
Randy Mamola (whom I described as a smiling freckle with legs)

AFM North opened up both Sears Point & Laguna Seca as Cotati & Vacaville disappeared, plus South had Riverside, Orange County Raceway, & then Ontario (total Indy clone) going, so there was a LOT of AFM racing to be had throughout the ‘70s

during that time, I won exactly 2 races:
1975 - Ontario 6-Hr 250cc class (therez always a story @ an endurance event.....)
1979 - Sears Point 500cc Prod (XT500 single against UJM-4s !)
before & after those successes, the comraderie of the racetrack defined my non-work existence for a decade+

that said, another AFM opportunity became available mid-‘70s - track announcer, a role for which I was MUCH more capable than competing - that wonderful gig lasted thru ‘80, soon growing into getting paid(!) for AMA Pro, IndyCar, IMSA, etc., events @ a wide variety of venues north & south

others followed me on the AFM mike, including (eventually) Ralph Shaheen, John (can’t remember), & Vik “Eek” Anderson

I’ll close by reprising my claim that AFM was (& still is) the basis for most of my enduring friendships, so be a pal to everyone
 

Holeshot

Super Moderator
Staff member
Curt, that post is the best thing I've read in 2020 (for me). Thanks for the memories. Quite awesome!
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
Cool shit...! :thumbup

More than I knew about ya.. and that would be John Fossgate.

"Here comes the psychodelic centipede!" <- Always loved that line.
 

budman

General Menace
Staff member
The AFM has been blessed with some good announcers.

Enjoyed all I have met a lot. I think Ralph may have been the only one that was not a racer. Not sure but I don’t remember another main one that did not race.

Still enjoy seeing Ralph on the Tube. I enjoyed our interactions when he was at teh Point. I recall someone else doing Willow. Anyone know??
 
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