Dave wrote on 12/28/17 at 06:21:51:It was a kinder/gentler type of racing.
Your racing experience sounded like mine. I rode that Honda Super 90 for several years and it never failed me. I did manage to stall it in a pretty deep mud hole, worked it out, pushed it up the hill and bump started it down the other side. Started right up - I won the race.
A few years back, on my BMW, I rode over to the Western Reserve club - still there. I also rode down to the Mathias Raceway (just south of Dover) which was a great place, too, and it is no longer there. Small building is still visible. Mathias himself, as I understand it, closed up the Dover business or sold it, moved to Fla. then moved back and opened up a mc repair shop. At that shop, he bored out for me the cylinders of my 1968 BMW R50 (this was around 1982), and I haven't heard since from him.
I went to college in 1969 and graduated in 1974 so I was out of the motorcycle scene during that time. Around 1976, I had a Hodaka 250cc "Thunderdog" which was one of the best 2-stroke bikes I ever owned - lots of low end torque and a great handler. I was married at the time and we had a little baby girl. I tried running a hare scrambles (around August) down about 60 miles south of Canton and I was shocked at how hare scrambles had changed. It was dog eat dog and very dangerous because of that! I decided my daughter needed a Dad more than I needed to race with those kinds of people. Never raced again!