All you guys talking about these old motorcycle racers need to discover AHRMA and the vintage bug. Last year I race, or was at least in the same race, with Lacky, Howerton, Chuck Sun, Wise, and Omeara. Ealier this year I watched Cuck Sun go over the bars from about 5 places back.
Back in 04 in Arkansas I rolled in from a 45 mile woods loop with no brakes and a busted shifter. In the pits Bugsy Mann walks up and says, "Bah, they were crap bikes then and they are crap bikes now." In 03 in Dalton, MA Malcolm Smith helped me push my bike up a mud and rock encrusted hill, then I helped him push his.
Good stuff.