I was 16 years old and ate, slept, and lived dirt bikes every day with my buddy Jason...we watched every race and loved these guys that were our hero's...those were the best days of my life...
Me 4 lol. I was 16 in 86 and remember watching MotoWorld for all the highlights with Dave Despain. Keep the wheels on the ground and your feet on the pegs lol
MY MOM TOOK ME OUT OF SCHOOL TO SEE THIS RACE, IT WAS TRULY A MEMORY I'LL NEVER EVER FORGET. "HONDA" AN ADDICTION I WELCOMED ! A LOVE NEVER LOST, RICKY JOHNSON, DAVID BAILEY YOU ARE MY HEROES!
In india I spent all my youth seeing pics of greatest motocross stars in motocross action magazine. Now seeing them in action when I hav grown old. All thanks to TH-cam.
I was at this Race & It was an epic battle. WFO from start to finish, Larry Huffman went berserk! Best I ever seen. INCIDENTLY, the 2ND best race I ever seen was the '81 125/250 Nationals when Hannah & Howerton brawled it out at Saddleback Park. God I miss racing at that Track. Saddleback Saturdays ruled!
35 years later, and we're still talking about '86 Anaheim. Unreal battle. Just wish I could watch these old races with the same video quality we enjoy today.
I was able to start being a SX fan thanks to my local honda suzuki dealer loaning me their video collection one by one starting with 85 or 86 i remember thinking watching this race man i hope they are all this competetive an good. ..it was sick how many times they changed the lead
I was there with all my buddies with our monster mullets and parachute pants . God I miss the 80’s - dam they were a blast !! After this show you had The Mickey Thompson off-road race at the Colosseum then most mister truck . My flask was alway full
Bailey vs Johnson was the old school rivalry everyone was talking about. When I was 8 years old my dad would put on the race for me. I was always rooting for the #5 motocross bike. It was one of the most epic supercross race ever.
Dam, I sure miss these days. Rick Johnson has always been my favorite. I'll never forget these years, they were the best years of my life and the last good years thus far......
I was there 14 yrs old ! Was epic . David Bailey was amazing to watch . The whole stadium was on its feet . Amazing event. Love motocross . Not the same today as those 80s races . Really messy
During all those years only a few "mad" kids were able to watch supercross with satellite tv. I was one of them and I was 14 in '86. I think most people miss those years, probable the most exciting and true years of supercosss. End of '80s and first '90 have been the very best years os motosports not only off but on road. Lets feel happy for having lived those years "live". BR
Amazing! It was in the magazines we got imported to the UK and it changed everything, the way the tracks were built out doors, the bike choices we made and gave me one arm shorter than the other after many metal plates. i remember these Lads and im Welsh not American, but RJ & David Bailey will stay in my head till i fkn die!!...Ace vid!
I was lucky to be there that night and everything they say about this race is true it was a once in a lifetime battle to witness in person. I want to say there were laps they passed each other 3 to 4 times it was crazy
I was at a 250 national in anderson south carolina when david Baily made his first public aperance at a race after his bad accident . He was strapped onto a four wheeler with a back rest welded on it. He was riding around. Kinda broke my heart.
My senior year of high school and the whole year was amazing for Supercross - DeCoster was my idol and it all came together that night. Not since Bruce Penhall in Speedway had I been so excited for every race in Orange, LA County and Carlsbad.
Great clip. I remember that, and was heavy into riding at the time. What an epic battle. Definetly one of, if not the best race battles of all time. Up there with some of Magoo's amazing runs. Among others. Wardy was always a blast to watch as well. Sure miss the days of the big 2 stroke battles.
I was lucky enough to be at that race. I was racing a 125, amateur, but later that year I bought a 87 cr 250 because that's what David and Ricky were riding!
Now those are true motorcross riders! Motorcross riders today have no clue what these boy went though!! They wore kindy belts to hold there guts in place!! RJ love ya!!
David Bailey is a champion in motocross racing. Bought his dads book How to race motocross in the 70's. Raced at lake sugar tree in Axton VA. The best Riders in the world where at the trans AMA 500cc National at lake sugar tree late 70's Great racing De Coster .many more. What a great track to see the best mx riders in the world......
I used to watch a vhs tape of all those races, does anyone know the name of it. It had the David Bailey “can’t touch him with a 20 foot pole” race and it had the race where Johnson crashed and came back to win.
What a race! I still remember it. I was a rider then, DB and RJ awesome riders. I am not able to say if it is the best race of all times, however, those two guys plus Johnny O, Ron Lechien, Jeff Ward, Broc Glover... just gave Supercross a quantic jump. Great video, congrats!
Ricky Johnson is 1 of only 2 racers in the history of the sport to simultaneously win two pro-level AMA Championships for two different sized bikes in simultaneously in the same season...) he did it in 1988 & then Jean-Michel Bayle did it in 1991... but I believe the season this race took place during (1986), David Bailey was the 500 class champion of this season & the next racer to win that class championship was RJ... he won the 500 class back-to-back 1987 & 1988 & in 1988 he won the 250 title simultaneously...
Today’s tracks are basically flat track sections, perfectly measured whoops and allot of ridiculous jumps. As talented as today’s riders are, I don’t think they could handle riding those tracks. Time to bring them back and make supercross more interesting.
Yeah, those were the days... I remember I went to Anaheim in 87 and nearly cried when I heard Bailey was paralyzed. THEN on top of that, Johnson missed a jump and was knocked out cold. He was OK, but in light of Baileys injury, it was pretty scary...
That has answered my Question of my life ..! I just LOVED CARLSBAD. RACEWAY .I studied the wide world of sports coverage .RACED ONCE got fourth in 500 open class .IF only i studied the LITTLE PROFESSOR🤔💪I COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDA🇺🇸☝💯🏁🏆🏁
Class act. Today’s riders never race this clean and respectful whip is probably why this was such a good race. Back in the day I was head to head with a dirty rider who made the race dangerous for me and other riders. When the race was over I went to the tower and before I could get a word out they said don’t worry, he was disqualified. Where is that today???
The tracks were way more technical back then,and I'm pretty sure Guy Cooper designed a track a few years back in the old school style,all the guys struggled,rv,js included.
Carl Stanton I'm proud to say I grew up watching guy Cooper race with Reynard and gnarley Marley god they were fun to watch coop was a beast!!!! and my favorite track used to be what they called the sugar bowl if you watch the movie steel roots mcgrath did the triple and rode a huge wheelie afterwards brahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
I totally agree. Need to get rid of all the ridiculous jumps and bring those tracks back. Then let’s see just how good today’s riders are. When I raced in the 80’s my arms never stopped moving and our body English was all over the bike. Much harder workout and stamina than today with these 4-stroke flight machines. Today’s tracks are basically flat track sections, whoops and perfectly measured jumps. Watched a video recently where they added a sand section where all the leaders were going down. I grew up racing sand and rarely went down.
The '86 CR250 is Known to be one of the Most Powerful CR250's Ever Made! The Later Models were made with Smoother less Peaky Power Band - I Owned an '88 CR250r & '95 CR250r but the '88 had more Grunt Imho - Cheers👍😉
I liked that 1996 suppercross with Jeremy Mcgrath in Houston when Emig and Hughs past mcgrath and were going to break his win streak then they took each other out.
ya its pretty close to what they race today except for those speed bump sort of jumps that they slow down for. for the bikes back then that musta have been nuts!
Great Race ! competitors compete, lesser men cheat, the man who takes you out couldn't beat you no dout. This is still a RACE TO REMEMBER fair play great day in our hearts for being Professional and giving it your All.🏁💯🏁👏👏👏🕵✔🎬🏆💘 RJ is my guy🏁David Bailey could really FLY Its the drive from within that keeps HOPE alive that I CAN WIN🏁💘🏁🏆👏👏👏🏋💯🏋✔🎬🕵 We understand
Why do people want to compare these guys to the modern racers? Just remember that these two will always be better than the modern racers cause they did what they did in a time when you didnt bitch about track conditions and the bike you were rideing was alot harder to ride. Newer bikes do most of the work for the rider. The older bikes make you feel every thing they do. They didnt jump as well, they had better power and they were heavyer.
Yes this. Race was right in the middle of the collection of sx tapes the local Honda/Suzuki shop was letting me borrow one at a time and when I think all those races,in my head the picture I remember most is that#6 bike of Bailey ,team mate Ricky just going so hard at it,neither wavered,you could see the frustration,Ricks Helmut movements he's like give up already and Bailey was just so focused he was I like go away at last,and the rest was just well...let go to the video tape Johnny,Rollin..
@tvangess No doubt haha, literally every time I talk to another dirt rider he always says "Wow is that the '86? I remember when those came out! Coolest bikes on the market, and still are some of the best dirt bikes Honda ever made". :)
Bailey and johnson two giants of the sport. Rj went on to dominate the next few years. But if bailey had not gotten injured who knows how many more races like 86 anahiem we would have seen. And how differently the championships would have played out. No doubt rj was awesome but so was david.
now that would be an awsome race..should make a video game based on that like fantasy football. choose your faverit riders on your faverit bike and pit them up against the best of all time
I was 16 years old and ate, slept, and lived dirt bikes every day with my buddy Jason...we watched every race and loved these guys that were our hero's...those were the best days of my life...
Same here bud.
Me 3
Me 4 lol. I was 16 in 86 and remember watching MotoWorld for all the highlights with Dave Despain. Keep the wheels on the ground and your feet on the pegs lol
John Rambo
Amen
Me 5 🤘🏻 I had a Johnny Ó Show t-shirt I wore until it turned to dust
MY MOM TOOK ME OUT OF SCHOOL TO SEE THIS RACE, IT WAS TRULY A MEMORY I'LL NEVER EVER FORGET. "HONDA" AN ADDICTION I WELCOMED !
A LOVE NEVER LOST, RICKY JOHNSON, DAVID BAILEY YOU ARE MY HEROES!
I WAS @ THIS RACE & LOST MY VOICE, DAVID & RICKY HAD EVERY ONE IN AWW..
THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES!
Hell I wish we were still on the 80s in my opinion life was a lot better back then
FooBar Maximus it’s you fucking whining libs that screwed everything up. Go back to your safe space . Fucking idiot.
@@jimbeam4111 hahaha
@@jimbeam4111 YOU'RE the only idiot.
Richie that’s your opinion. Who cares what libs think?
@dougie LV + Reagan killed the white dream in the 80s. I laugh at you clowns. He distracted you and took your jobs! LOL HAHAHAH .....Clowns...
In india I spent all my youth seeing pics of greatest motocross stars in motocross action magazine. Now seeing them in action when I hav grown old. All thanks to TH-cam.
I was there! I still have my tickets! Took the CDS bus with my new wife and a bunch of friends. Thanks for posting this.
I was at this Race & It was an epic battle.
WFO from start to finish, Larry Huffman went berserk! Best I ever seen.
INCIDENTLY, the 2ND best race I ever seen was the '81 125/250 Nationals
when Hannah & Howerton brawled it out at Saddleback Park. God I miss racing at that Track. Saddleback Saturdays ruled!
I was 12 years old at that race. I will never forget it. One of my all time favorites.
When i finnish building my time machine im heading to Anaheim 86
35 years later, and we're still talking about '86 Anaheim. Unreal battle. Just wish I could watch these old races with the same video quality we enjoy today.
I was able to start being a SX fan thanks to my local honda suzuki dealer loaning me their video collection one by one starting with 85 or 86 i remember thinking watching this race man i hope they are all this competetive an good. ..it was sick how many times they changed the lead
I was there with all my buddies with our monster mullets and parachute pants . God I miss the 80’s - dam they were a blast !! After this show you had The Mickey Thompson off-road race at the Colosseum then most mister truck . My flask was alway full
Bailey vs Johnson was the old school rivalry everyone was talking about. When I was 8 years old my dad would put on the race for me. I was always rooting for the #5 motocross bike. It was one of the most epic supercross race ever.
aaah the days when fours trokes werent around :D
Dam, I sure miss these days. Rick Johnson has always been my favorite. I'll never forget these years, they were the best years of my life and the last good years thus far......
I was there 14 yrs old ! Was epic . David Bailey was amazing to watch . The whole stadium was on its feet . Amazing event. Love motocross . Not the same today as those 80s races . Really messy
During all those years only a few "mad" kids were able to watch supercross with satellite tv. I was one of them and I was 14 in '86.
I think most people miss those years, probable the most exciting and true years of supercosss.
End of '80s and first '90 have been the very best years os motosports not only off but on road.
Lets feel happy for having lived those years "live".
BR
Amazing! It was in the magazines we got imported to the UK and it changed everything, the way the tracks were built out doors, the bike choices we made and gave me one arm shorter than the other after many metal plates.
i remember these Lads and im Welsh not American, but RJ & David Bailey will stay in my head till i fkn die!!...Ace vid!
I love the old school tracks. They actually look fun to ride. They made for good racing too.
I was lucky to be there that night and everything they say about this race is true it was a once in a lifetime battle to witness in person. I want to say there were laps they passed each other 3 to 4 times it was crazy
I spent many years watching all the races I could one of the smells I will never forget 2 stroke oil and gas mixture I loved it 😊
I was at a 250 national in anderson south carolina when david Baily made his first public aperance at a race after his bad accident . He was strapped onto a four wheeler with a back rest welded on it. He was riding around. Kinda broke my heart.
My senior year of high school and the whole year was amazing for Supercross - DeCoster was my idol and it all came together that night. Not since Bruce Penhall in Speedway had I been so excited for every race in Orange, LA County and Carlsbad.
LOTS OF RESPECT AND LOVE FOR BOTH THESE GUYS AMA HALL OF FAMERS WELL DESERVED!
CONGRATULATIONS 🎊 ❤😊
Great clip. I remember that, and was heavy into riding at the time. What an epic battle.
Definetly one of, if not the best race battles of all time. Up there with some of Magoo's amazing runs. Among others. Wardy was always a blast to watch as well. Sure miss the days of the big 2 stroke battles.
I was lucky enough to be at that race. I was racing a 125, amateur, but later that year I bought a 87 cr 250 because that's what David and Ricky were riding!
This race and many others is what made supercross, supercross.
This and Pontiac.
Wow, that WAS a great race. Bailey and Johnson are awesome. Pretty good commentators too.
Now those are true motorcross riders! Motorcross riders today have no clue what these boy went though!! They wore kindy belts to hold there guts in place!! RJ love ya!!
Absolutely fantastic race the golden age of super cross miss those days … absolute legends
I was there. Amazing show, still remember the intensity and the crowd.
David Bailey is a champion in motocross racing. Bought his dads book How to race motocross in the 70's. Raced at lake sugar tree in Axton VA. The best Riders in the world where at the trans AMA 500cc National at lake sugar tree late 70's Great racing De Coster .many more. What a great track to see the best mx riders in the world......
I was 11 , My first Honda was a 1986 cr125 and those guys were my heroes
I had Ricky Johnson Jeff ward bob hanna posters all over my bedroom lol
I remember watching this race! Was on the edge of my seat 👍
Definitely the greatest supercross race ever, plus the one from La Collosium at the end of the same season. Ricky Johnson vs Guy Cooper
RJ got tboned in turn 1 by ward and lechien and was dead last . He was flying
What’s the name of the vhs of all of those great races? When Guy Cooper and Johnson went at it.
@@lucyloo2228 the Cooper Johnson epic was LA Colessium event. The last of the 86 season. Truly an epic. I was an RJ fan, but Cooperman was awesome
I used to watch a vhs tape of all those races, does anyone know the name of it. It had the David Bailey “can’t touch him with a 20 foot pole” race and it had the race where Johnson crashed and came back to win.
What a race! I still remember it. I was a rider then, DB and RJ awesome riders. I am not able to say if it is the best race of all times, however, those two guys plus Johnny O, Ron Lechien, Jeff Ward, Broc Glover... just gave Supercross a quantic jump.
Great video, congrats!
Rodrigo Salas Olivares agreed. Loved these days. Johnson, Ward, Bailey awesome.
Man, the islands, and 1986! Bad people, kidnapped-- my PK!
I remember getting so physced to see Jumping Johnny O back in the mid-80's day when he came to Washougal. It was f**king RAD!
No doubt one of the greatest races ever!
これ以上のバトルは 未だに無い！
I WAS AT THIS RACE W SOME FRIENDS CLASSIC RJ. RICKY JOHNSON WAS MY IDOL
Aneheim supercross is awesome. It's like a religion down there.
Ricky Johnson is 1 of only 2 racers in the history of the sport to simultaneously win two pro-level AMA Championships for two different sized bikes in simultaneously in the same season...) he did it in 1988 & then Jean-Michel Bayle did it in 1991... but I believe the season this race took place during (1986), David Bailey was the 500 class champion of this season & the next racer to win that class championship was RJ... he won the 500 class back-to-back 1987 & 1988 & in 1988 he won the 250 title simultaneously...
Remember the Aquanet hair bands ? I remember buying this Europe album and drinking beer at pit parties at night in high school.
2019 fellas where we at
Those supercross tracks then were so gnarly
This was a he'll of a good race. There was one that was just as good between Ward, Cooper, Johnson, and others that is tough to beat as well.
lets make a copy of the race track and have them race that today
The racers of today would not like that track. It's to rough
Today’s tracks are basically flat track sections, perfectly measured whoops and allot of ridiculous jumps. As talented as today’s riders are, I don’t think they could handle riding those tracks. Time to bring them back and make supercross more interesting.
Yeah, those were the days... I remember I went to Anaheim in 87 and nearly cried when I heard Bailey was paralyzed. THEN on top of that, Johnson missed a jump and was knocked out cold. He was OK, but in light of Baileys injury, it was pretty scary...
Carmichael and Stewart seemed to do it just about every race in the 2006 outdoor season.
That has answered my Question of my life ..! I just LOVED CARLSBAD. RACEWAY .I studied the wide world of sports coverage .RACED ONCE got fourth in 500 open class .IF only i studied the LITTLE PROFESSOR🤔💪I COULD HAVE BEEN A CONTENDA🇺🇸☝💯🏁🏆🏁
Supercross changed so much
agree- technical smoothness against brute force and determination
Supercross at the time was like watching motocross in slow motion. Couldn’t embrace it then still can’t embrace it 35 years on.
ricky johnson is a class act
My hair stands up on the back of my neck just thinking about that race,,, TooHip v The Bandit... The Best Of The Best!!
That track looks unpredictable
Respect!
Class act. Today’s riders never race this clean and respectful whip is probably why this was such a good race. Back in the day I was head to head with a dirty rider who made the race dangerous for me and other riders. When the race was over I went to the tower and before I could get a word out they said don’t worry, he was disqualified. Where is that today???
The tracks were way more technical back then,and I'm pretty sure Guy Cooper designed a track a few years back in the old school style,all the guys struggled,rv,js included.
Carl Stanton I'm proud to say I grew up watching guy Cooper race with Reynard and gnarley Marley god they were fun to watch coop was a beast!!!! and my favorite track used to be what they called the sugar bowl if you watch the movie steel roots mcgrath did the triple and rode a huge wheelie afterwards brahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
I totally agree. Need to get rid of all the ridiculous jumps and bring those tracks back. Then let’s see just how good today’s riders are. When I raced in the 80’s my arms never stopped moving and our body English was all over the bike. Much harder workout and stamina than today with these 4-stroke flight machines. Today’s tracks are basically flat track sections, whoops and perfectly measured jumps. Watched a video recently where they added a sand section where all the leaders were going down. I grew up racing sand and rarely went down.
the magic supercross..it's fantastic
I was there. Bailey was my favorite rider.
Had on video, watched it again and again, who would think we're still talking about it
I was there 😍
GREAT!!!!!!
I was there 👍
I was there. I remember watching this. I wanted rick johnson to win. Still a good race
Love that race!
I remember this. I rooted for Bailey. I was in my teens and had a cr.
@CjBiker88 Holy cow! Those were 250s???? I ride a 1986 CR250!! That's amazing! And I thought it was some old cheap dirt bike!
The '86 CR250 is Known to be one of the Most Powerful CR250's Ever Made! The Later Models were made with Smoother less Peaky Power Band - I Owned an '88 CR250r & '95 CR250r but the '88 had more Grunt Imho - Cheers👍😉
Johnson and Bailey, the 2 best supercross riders ever. Carmichael, Stewart and McGrath, eat your heart out.
This vid would've been better with the sound of the bikes because hearing those things are like music anyway
Crazy race.
I remember it very well.
They handed out American flags
He said 22 years later I was like damn this video must've been uploaded almost a decade ago
I liked that 1996 suppercross with Jeremy Mcgrath in Houston when Emig and Hughs past mcgrath and were going to break his win streak then they took each other out.
ya its pretty close to what they race today except for those speed bump sort of jumps that they slow down for. for the bikes back then that musta have been nuts!
awsome battles :O
Great Race ! competitors compete, lesser men cheat, the man who takes you out couldn't beat you no dout.
This is still a RACE TO REMEMBER fair play great day in our hearts for being Professional and giving it your All.🏁💯🏁👏👏👏🕵✔🎬🏆💘
RJ is my guy🏁David Bailey could really FLY
Its the drive from within that keeps HOPE alive that I CAN WIN🏁💘🏁🏆👏👏👏🏋💯🏋✔🎬🕵
We understand
Damn! The 30 second board girls got a lot better looking over the years!
Hard to believe I announced that race 30 years ago!!!
1djgreg wow really? That's crazy!
yah right
Straight bullshit my father actually was working in the twin towers when that happened. Your so wrong
I remember that race, I was Bob Hannahs fluffer behind the scenes. I also rebuilt Broc Glovers top end before that race. 😁
I was the janitor there. Didn't get to see anything but dirty toilets.
Why do people want to compare these guys to the modern racers? Just remember that these two will always be better than the modern racers cause they did what they did in a time when you didnt bitch about track conditions and the bike you were rideing was alot harder to ride. Newer bikes do most of the work for the rider. The older bikes make you feel every thing they do. They didnt jump as well, they had better power and they were heavyer.
AWSOME !
thats awesome
I still have the Moto-Video VHS tape
A lot of people don't remember how blurry the '80s were. It's not camera quality it was actually that blurry.
Bailey and Johnson truly a epic battle. Old school track no rythym sections here
supercross and motocross racing is the most physically demanding sport on the face of the earth period!
Yes this. Race was right in the middle of the collection of sx tapes the local Honda/Suzuki shop was letting me borrow one at a time and when I think all those races,in my head the picture I remember most is that#6 bike of Bailey ,team mate Ricky just going so hard at it,neither wavered,you could see the frustration,Ricks Helmut movements he's like give up already and Bailey was just so focused he was I like go away at last,and the rest was just well...let go to the video tape Johnny,Rollin..
TY
I was offered free tickets to this race, but could not go. ☹️
@tvangess No doubt haha, literally every time I talk to another dirt rider he always says "Wow is that the '86? I remember when those came out! Coolest bikes on the market, and still are some of the best dirt bikes Honda ever made". :)
Bailey and johnson two giants of the sport. Rj went on to dominate the next few years. But if bailey had not gotten injured who knows how many more races like 86 anahiem we would have seen. And how differently the championships would have played out. No doubt rj was awesome but so was david.
Maravilha
I wish I was alive to see that race
now that would be an awsome race..should make a video game based on that like fantasy football. choose your faverit riders on your faverit bike and pit them up against the best of all time
38 years ago now I think !
Atlanta '90 was the best race ever.
I think I listened to the badass guitar solo on tfcd then the vid
gotta love the old snappy 2 strokes haha
Dear Rick Johnson Please revive Too Hip Bad Boy sports wear.
Flat top an all!!!!
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