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For me HRC in 80's on proved to me Red Rules. Super Champion,HOF. thanks RJ.

Best interview Bob ever gave. He is so real and my life long hero on and off mx.

America's favorite racer 🌎 #1

Great interview. I had my bedroom walls plastered with nothing but RJ pictures. In 1986 in Maggiora Italy I got to meet him and had a nice conversation with him.Rj is and will be my all time favorite rider.

My brother and i would race way back in the day . My brothers 1976 Honda cr 125 had made 13.5 inches of travel in 1976 and my 1979 rm 80 had 8.5 in the front and 11 inches in the back my brother Kelly really new how to modify are bikes back in the day plus Now he has invented and patient the cross lock that locks and transporting bikes with out tie downs in 2003 and made it back then to the Sema show . To this day . We still are involved with motocross.

American hero ❤️

Great guy ...Great rider also ...

Got nothing against this guy but do not wanna hear his words on any subject...

This guy sounds just like me .. meaning I would give about the say answers Marty does with his answers...

When Marty talks of the tracks unsafe and hurt many riders, he was totally correct. But remember he is talking about ~20 yrs ago... Today, the sx tracks are much much safe, easier, groomed, and you do not see so many top riders hurt now, in the 2020s...

Thanks Bob, great interview!

Interesting words from a champions' Champion who lead the way for all of us today....

Stud rider!

Brad is totally correct about the big changes to bikes occurred from 1970 to 1980.

Brilliant Interview

NEVER enjoyed motocross like the days of Johnson, Bailey, Lechien and Wardy .

These questions and insights were excellent, but unfortunately, these interviews should have been the benchmark for content. The audio is a big wart on the nose of a beautiful woman. Details matter.

Being 65 years old, seeing Bob's rise, and now hearing him talk about what was really happening in the sport, I say Bob Hannah is a genius not only in the most difficult sport ever devised by man but in human nature. His deference to Roger Decoster as being the gold standard is an accurate assessment of the sport. A failed knee reconstruction in the late 70s ended my pursuit of going pro, and I am grateful this happened. He made a slight comment about how the initial track builders were making doubles and triples with ever-varying distances and steep landings where you had to tread the needle and often flat landing, taking forces into our bodies that were beyond brutal. It is my opinion that those years of the 80s and 90s were the most brutal and dangerous times for our sport. This was the peak of difficulty and danger within our sport.

I enjoyed that 👍🏻

I was lucky enough to attend the Yamaha training session they offered with RJ as the trainer. It was a phenomenal experience and was a time to never be duplicated again. I can't believe any rider would turn down his offer of help . Truly unfortunate IMHO how the sport today has lost some of its heritage, in large part from the loss of AMA control/management, changes to the sanctioning body, and stupid rules that allowed such displacement advantage to the 4 strokes which was never updated to match the technology as it developed to shrink the displacement advantage to even up the HP advantage.

Interesting that Yamaha in Europe would run Ohlins USD forks for Hakan, Leif and Jacky but Yamaha in the US were more restricted in that area.

Ban paddle tyres.

Democrats are choking dirt bikes in California.

When I was a kid in the early 70's I remember watching Decoster and Wolsink and Mikola etc. racing Carlsbad on ABC wide world of sports. It was maybe 1973 or 74. I knew at that moment I had to do that. It took me a while because I had to get old enough to work and buy my pickup and my bikes and stuff but eventually I became a local MX racer. I rode Suzuki because that's what Roger rode. Guys like Decoster and Hannah and Smith were my hero's. I was not good but I had fun. Having fun was my motivation. Then I quit for 18 years. Wife, home, etc. When I came back in my 40's all the two strokes had been replaced by four strokes. I was racing Hondas. First a 250F and then a 450F. I had fun but my bones became more brittle and breaking when I crashed. Now I am partially crippled in my right shoulder and I had to quit again but they were the best years of my life. I never had more fun doing anything else and now in my 60's I never will. Motocross can literally kill you. A good friend of my broke his neck at the track and died there in front of his wife and son. But he would rather be dead (a Christian) then paralyzed. Only people who have lined up at the gate and raced motos understand the love of it. It's like a drug addiction but everyone is going to the hospital no matter how good you are. If you don't take yourself out then someone else will.

We say Marty at the Melbourne Australia supercross in 82 from memory... truely "next level" stuff....AWESOME...!

Was in Las Vegas 2006 or 2007 , not sure with Chuck Sun and we ran into Brad Lackey at a bar. We sat and spoke with him a while. After we left, Chuck was like a little kid saying "That man is a legend".

I can't believe that not one rider would allow Rick to assist them... amazing.

Marty Smith the pioneer of SoCal FMF MX. Watched all 3 docs. Rip Marty and Nancy

OK whadidy say at 30:57 ?

So it was K-Rocs bike. That puts an end to that whole debate.

Not too many liberals in motocross (thank God...Trump 2024!)

Rick Johnson was the 80s just like Duran Duran were the 80s, a magical time growing up in that era.

RJ you are so right about just go ride. I’m 56 and after being off bike for 10 years went back to riding in the desert. It’s good for the soul finally peace. And you’re right about the sleeping good at night.

“Flash” was best during his YAMAHA years…🤙🏻🇺🇸

Great interview

Met him twice in Pontiac.. Awesome guy yet alone a Freakin LEGEND 🔥🔥✌️

I really love these interviews but I wish that you had a sound engineer to help with the sound. 😊

Huge RJ fan. Was gutted to learn of his accident at Gatorback (first time @ Speedweek- we were a little late the next morning). Really appreciated his thoughts on just riding being good for the body & soul. Couldn't agree more. My riding buddies and I always say to old racers " who cares how fast you are or aren't, just ride and have FUN"🎯

RJ is my favorite all time rider 🤘BadBoy Club 🔥

RJ says that... Pastrana & Deegan are clowns 🤔. Jelousy looks good on you Ricky!!!

RJ is one of the best of all time!!!

Why is the audio consistently so bad for the interviewer compared to the interviewee? If you end up reading this you really need to improve the audio for the interviewer sometimes we can barely hear it

Hard to believe some of the newer knuckleheads turned down free advice from RJ , l'd like to have went abit deeper into that but he said the bottom line . Last time l saw RJ race was the 1987 125/500 Nationals at Kenworthys Troy 0hio , Guy Cooper 1-1 , RJ 1-1 , still have the T shirt .

Last week Ryan Hughes was asked his opinion of today's announcers and said that, while James Stewart is good, for example, he would prefer someone with a more philosophical insight into the sport during live TV broadcasts. Johnson is that announcer.

The epitome of grit and determination. I appreciate how RJ intelligently articulates his experience, insights and observations. Thanks for taking the time to interview one of the true legends in MX.

RJ is the man

Ricky is a great rider, a real bad-ass , not a Muppet robot like today's riders, spoke from the heart, a real racer, great interview thankyou

HOLY MOLY!!!!!!!!! i've never been a big bob hannah fan, but i'm the BIGGEST fan now after seeing his TRUMP patch on his shirt at the start of the video! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!!!!!

There’s just something about an air cooled two stroke!😊 My bikes ( moto cross ) were 79 KX 250, 80 KX 250, 82 KX 250. They were beautiful and fun and affordable.

Very good desert racer!