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Offline martyestes

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John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« on: September 17, 2013, 10:12:04 AM »
Enjoy. Kind of long but a very cool race that just took place last weekend. Dowdy at age 50, still putting the hurt to guys much younger than him.  :mrgreen:

http://www.racerxonline.com/2013/09/16/vets-mxdn-highlights
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2013, 03:50:14 PM »
Thanks for that post,,,,and thanks to Dowd for putting the K5 in the lime light again.
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #2 on: September 17, 2013, 05:01:43 PM »
Always nice to see big green kicken butt  :-D
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #3 on: September 17, 2013, 08:59:55 PM »
Quote from: sandblaster on September 17, 2013, 05:01:43 PM
Always nice to see big green kicken butt  :-D

 :-D :-D...
and also nice to see that jean-michel bayle and jacky vimond also there after long long times...team france had so 4 ex-worldchampions in line up...    i had not enough time and money for the trip to england to be there.

race results of the vmxdn farleigh castle...

http://www.mylaps.com/en/events/955058
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2013, 06:09:39 AM »
I had the pleasure of riding with Dowd for an afternoon back in 97 when he was riding Ya'mama'ha's.
Keith Johnson who was the NESC Champ for several years in a row brought John here to Plymouth,MA(about 2 1/2 hours east of his hometown Chicopee,MA)  to do some track and trail riding.
I was in my second year of being an A rider back then and was pretty fast on the home-made JoJo Keller tracks around my home/area....Dowd shows up,and completely smokes everyone,making all 6 of "us" look like the ones from out of town!

An absolute awesome guy to talk to/ride with....so laid back and just an overall happy person.

He won the flooded out swampfest at the Southwick National that year too....man did it F'n rain that day!
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2013, 07:01:13 AM »
dowd is one of the nicest guys of the pro-riders...   :-)

one of the craziest guys were also racing in farleigh castle..  guy "airtime" cooper   8-)
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2013, 07:53:27 AM »
wish they would have talked about the 500's more and the pros/cons to the bikes they ride today. thats always interesting to hear their perspective.
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2013, 09:25:54 AM »
Based on the early interview it almost sounded like they were borrowed bikes.
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #8 on: September 29, 2013, 03:38:10 PM »
Is good, and very interesting to keep track of it.
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2013, 04:28:13 AM »
and here is a better video of 2012  including interviews with ryan hughes and jeff ward...  :wink:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxS3mLNeCAk
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2013, 09:09:08 AM »
Thanks Motopunk I really enjoyed that. :-D
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Re: John Dowd wins VetMX Des Nations aboard KX500 (video)
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2013, 06:55:25 PM »
Quote from: SHLEPY on October 31, 2013, 09:09:08 AM
Thanks Motopunk I really enjoyed that. :-D


 :-D .. only beeing there would be better as any videos... i love ryans crazy riding style on the k5

i try to get there in 2014 . we´ll see what happens till that ...  :wink:
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