Crusty Demons of Dirt

[Firebolter]

Cool video about the making of the CDD. When this video came out in the early 90's, remember it well! Me and my buddies got a copy and watched it probably 20 times. It was the first dirt bike video that was non racing or moto cross and focused on the pure fun of extreme riding. Seth Enslow was a mad man. "Dude, you have some serious problems you need to work through"

If you have never seen CDD, it's pretty cool. Captures the 90's dirt biking scene pretty well-and was the start of freestyle-

[smdub]

Have never seen or heard of these videos or any of these people (outside of McGrath and Pastrana.) But, that was still a pretty neat video to watch. Interesting to know how it started.

[Firebolter]

McGrath, Kevin Hines and Fred Hoess came to Kauai once and we (my club), got them bikes and we took them to some of our most gnarly stuff we had and they ate it up. McGrath would just look up and take off up the side of a valley and leap across the dirt road up to the other side of the hill. It was epic. Riding with those guys just made me love dirt biking even more and I am one of those guys who has ridden since I can remember.

The next year I raced against the 3 of them in the Mauna Kea 200 (enduro) on the Big Island. Hines and Hoess killed it on Husky 250/125 respectively. That race is a 2 day 200 mile enduro from sea level up to 10K feet on Day 1, bikes get impounded on the mountain and you ride 100 miles back down to sea level on day 2. One of the most epic races I have ever completed. And those guys make it look easy-

[Bucho]

Im not sure if Im a total pussy or just into dirtbiking too late in life. I feel all those guys are crazy.


I remember reading about freestyle MX in cycleworld a little bit. I remember a big article about Mike Metzger being the “backflip godfather”.

Then what really amazed me was just a couple years later I was at a motorcycle show at the DC convention center. They had this great motocycle stunt show. The riders were two brother (maybe 14 and 15 years old). They were doing ramp to ramp back flips on Honda 150s. They put on a great show but it was hard to believe these kids were doing it. Just w few years after it was the impossible trick

[Twist]

Im not sure if Im a total pussy or just into dirtbiking too late in life. I feel all those guys are crazy.

I think most of those guys have spent a lot of time in the ER with broken bones and internal injuries. You don't get that good otherwise. NOT doing this is a measure of a sane mind.