zgodovina motokrosa

[mazek26]

za govorno vajo v šoli bom naredu to pa iščem po neti pa nč ne najdem zato sn se obrno k vam. če kdo ve kak al pa če gdo ve kako stran o tem, kako se je začelo v svetu in sloveniji naj prooooosim napiše. strani so lahko v eng samo upam da bo kako tudi v sl. hvala

[Ice]

zacetek bi ti lahko bila beseda "scrambler".pod tem imenom so po 1945 zaceli anglezi terati motorje po gmajnah. ;)

[enduraš]

zacetek bi ti lahko bila beseda "scrambler".pod tem imenom so po 1945 zaceli anglezi terati motorje po gmajnah. ;)

aja?!? zakaj so to delal? kej več veš?

[Ice]

zacetek bi ti lahko bila beseda "scrambler".pod tem imenom so po 1945 zaceli anglezi terati motorje po gmajnah. ;)

aja?!? zakaj so to delal? kej več veš?

ja zakaj pa dandanes terajo motorje po cross pistah?!

[cyc]

Mogoce je mislil, da so z njimi lovili lisice ali pa mel motorizirano verzijo polota :D - sej ves - pr*uknjeni Anglezi :lol: :lol: :lol: :P :rolleyes:

[Ice]

:rolleyes: zacelo se je z takratnimi serijskimi motorji,katere so malo "dvignili"; potem so norton,triumph,BSA in ostale angleske tvrdke na trg poslale serijsko dvignjene motorje pod imenom scrambler.zakaj ime "scrambler" ne vem tocno; mozno zaradi pomesanih delov iz vec motorjev zdruzenih v enem.

[cyc]

Jaz mam pa se eno drugo idejo glede izvora imena "scrambler" :lol: :lol: Hint: scrambled eggs. :lol: :lol: :D :P :ph34r:

[mazek26]

lepo, velko stvari zvedu ki nisn vedo. bom si pomagu s tem scrambled

[gidl]

HISTORY OF MOTOCROSS AND SUPERCROSS RACING

When motorcycle racing resumed here and abroad following World War II, US racing remained focused on "flat track," as it had before the war. Races were held on the numerous dirt ovals and horse tracks across the country. Limited schedules of AMA National road racing events were also being organized. Meanwhile, the first motocross races were being held in Europe. But motocross wasn't attracting widespread attention in the US.

In 1947, the FIM created the Motocross des Nations, an annual event to determine the World Team Motocross Champions. In 1957, the FIM fully embraced motocross by creating an individual World Motocross Championship Series.

Early motocross machines were incredibly primitive by today's standards. They were heavy, underpowered, and equipped with rudimentary suspension systems that did little to smooth out the rough terrain. But motocross had two undeniable elements that promised future success: it provided an affordable but highly challenging sport for participants, and offered incredible, up-close action for spectators.

In the late 1960's, the European masters of motocross began to export their talents and technology to North America, where a related discipline of "rough scrambles" had developed independently. In a matter of a few years, motocross had taken hold in America.

The AMA held a variety of amateur and Pro-Am motocross races in the late sixties. By 1972, American racers had motocross fever, and the AMA established a formal National Championship Motocross Series.

At the time, US riders could only dream of beating their more experienced European counterparts. But international stars, led by Belgium's Roger DeCoster, gave the Americans something at which to shoot. And by the time the 1980's rolled around, the Americans had learned the lessons well enough to dominate the sport.

During this decade of motocross racing, the United States delivered to the motorcycling world a new development that has changed the very face of the sport.

In 1971, the AMA conducted a professional motocross race on a temporary track at Daytona International Speedway. While most motocross races had been held in the remote, rural countryside, Daytona brought motocross to the people.

A year later, the concept was taken a step further - motocross was brought to major urban sports stadiums, beginning with the Los Angeles Coliseum. The term "Supercross," a combination of Super Bowl and Motocross, was coined.

Meanwhile, the popularity of the AMA National Motocross series continued to grow. Race weekends developed into well-organized weekend festivals in the countryside, and the level of competition just kept getting better.

In the 80's and 90's, teams, motorcycle manufacturers, broadcast partners, race facilities and sponsors worked together to bring the sport to new audiences. Top motocross/supercross riders became household names, and off-road motorcycle sales soared across the country.

Today, the AMA U.S. Motocross and Supercross Championships are the nation's best-attended motorsport on dirt. Millions more worldwide follow both series via cable, satellite and internet broadcasts.

[gidl]

AN INSIDER'S HISTORY OF SUPERCROSS

(An excerpt from AMERICAN MOTORCYCLIST October 1998)

Gary Bailey had just done something completely unprecedented.

He had torn up the infield grass at Daytona International Speedway, churning the sandy soil into the AMA's first artificial motocross track.

The whoops, stutter-bumps and berms that Bailey built, located in the shadow of the famed speedway's east-end banking, snaked through the infield on both sides of a culvert. In just hours on this day during Motorcycle Week 1972, riders would take to that course on Maicos, CZs, Jawas and Husqvarnas in a style of racing that would one day become known as AMA Supercross.

History was about to be made. But Bailey had just one small problem:

The riders didn't understand the jumps.

"It's funny," Bailey says 26 years later. "That first track really had nothing in terms of obstacles. There were no doubles, and everything was low to the ground.

"So when they saw this little, 25-foot ramp jump over the drainage ditch, we actually had riders looking at it and saying, 'We're supposed to jump over that?'"

These days, the only thing the pros wonder about when it comes to jumps is which trick to pull while in the air: a nac nac, a whip-it or a Superman? But motocross, even the outdoor kind run on natural terrain, was new here in those days. And the notion of bulldozing the earth into artificial obstacles seemed truly radical.

"We actually had people riding into the ditch and coming to an abrupt stop at the bottom, then going over the bars," Bailey recalls, chuckling.

"We had to do something in case that happened during the race," he adds. "So we put in a 'chicken path' around it. Some of the riders were actually using it during the race."

Fast-forward 26 years, and it's easy to see how far Supercross has come since those early days.

The sport now fills stadiums in major cities from coast to coast. The tracks are intricately contrived mazes of doubles, triples, tabletops and rockers. The stars sign big-money contracts with Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki and Suzuki. And they're the heroes of young fans around the world, even in Europe, where Supercross once was considered nothing more than a sideshow to the traditional sport of motocross.

AMA motocross was barely a year old in 1969, (when Bailey, a racer himself, staged what were very likely the first stadium motocross events.

He converted the venerable Ascot Park in California, long a venue for AMA Grand National Dirt Track racing, into a motocross track, using part of the half-mile track and even taking riders outside the oval on one section.

The man-made track was an attempt to make the European sport of motocross, still quite foreign to America, more accessible for fans.

"We were just looking for a way to get the average Joe Blow to watch the races," Bailey says. "He doesn't want to go sit in the dirt and spend all his time getting to and from the event. Why not put it in a stadium?"

Bailey approached the AMA with his idea, trying to get the Association to sanction the event. But officials balked.

"The rule was that the track had to be natural and it had to be at least 20 feet wide," Bailey recalls. "Ours was only 15 feet wide in one spot, so we didn't get the sanction."

The races went on as planned, however. And word of their success got around.

In 1972, when officials at Daytona International Speedway were looking for a way to incorporate motocross into Motorcycle Week, they called on Bailey to do for them what he'd done at Ascot. And he must have done a pretty good job, because they've kept calling on him every year since.

At the time of that first Daytona race, though, Bailey admits he was winging it.

"They told me to build a motocross track in a field," he says. "Now, we know so much about this. But back then, it was like, Oh, OK.'"

Jim Weinert remembers that first Daytona race well. After all, he won it.

"At first, I sort of looked at the event as a racer does, it's just another race and just another racetrack," says Weinert, who now helps run his brother's scrap-metal business in New Jersey. But it quickly became clear that things were different.

First, there were whoops, or whoop-dee-doos as they were originally known, short, squat bumps that came in rapid succession.

"Those things took timing," Weinert says. "The bikes we had didn't have any real suspension travel, and going over them, it was like, 'Boom, boom boom.'"

There was a reason those early whoops were so tough, says Bailey. They were made out of telephone poles.

"At Ascot," he says, "we just used the poles, but at Daytona, we added dirt over the top. The only problem was that the bikes tore up the faces, and pretty soon we had exposed telephone poles again."

The solution? "We had guys there with shovels scooping sand back on them during the race," Bailey says.

Right from the start, Weinert says, it was clear that such artificial obstacles would demand a different kind of racing style. There was more emphasis on technique, and a monster hole shot didn't hurt, either.

"The tracks would wear down to one line pretty quickly," Weinert says. "If you didn't get a good start, you had a really tough time."

Later that year, artificial-track MX racing made it to the Los Angeles Coliseum for the first time, and the bar was raised even higher.

The Coliseum wasn't a motorsports stadium. It was built for the Olympics, and had been hosting football games. So dropping a racetrack on top required certain accommodations.

The track was tighter. The obstacles were more involved. And a certain amount of spectacle was added by routing the course up a dirt-covered portion of the stands to the now-famed peristyle turn.

The event, put on by promoter Mike Goodwin, was christened the "Superbowl of Motocross." And it was showbiz from the beginning, remembers Larry Huffman, who announced that first race.

"It attracted the movie stars," says Huffman. "Steve McQueen and other celebrities were there. During the races, the crowd just went insane."

But did it qualify as motocross?

"We had a tough time with the purists," recalls Mike DiStefano, who worked with Goodwin on the promotion of that first event. "The outdoor motocross guys thought it was a circus, and it was. That was kind of the point."

Still, says Weinert, the Coliseum was an amazing place to race. With the fans packed in, cheers filled the bowl-shaped stadium.

"I remember one night when I fell in the main and was coming back from ninth," he says. "Every time I passed somebody, they cheered, and suddenly I realized all these people were cheering for me and watching what I did every second.

"If you think something like that doesn't make a difference, you're wrong."

By the time Belgian MX legend Roger De Coster ventured to the States to ride the new style of motocross for Suzuki in 1974, it had gotten even bigger.

That year, another venue, the Houston Astrodome, was added to the existing Daytona and LA races, and the AMA rechristened the three-race collection of stadium races the "Yamaha Superseries." Among insiders, though, this new style of racing was already going by the name "Supercross."

With three 500cc motocross grand-prix titles already to his name, De Coster was expected to be tough in any race involving knobby tires. And he was, winning the 500cc class at Daytona that year going away.

"It was fun to be in Daytona, because it was a place that was well-known to us in Europe," says De Coster.

"I remember thinking, 'Geez, they're digging out the lawn in front of the grandstand," he adds. "As a motocross rider, you always dream of racing on a golf course, and this was the closest thing to it."

Still, he says, European riders didn't think this American invention was a big deal. "We raced it, but we didn't consider it in the same league (as the grands prix)," De Coster says.

By 1976, the AMA Supercross name had become official, and the series had grown to five points-paying races. But the final element that would take it to the big time was waiting just around the corner, a major star who would give the new sport a personality to go with the flash.

Bob "Hurricane" Hannah became that catalyst, winning the AMA Supercross championship in '77, '78 and '79 until a water-skiing accident ended his streak.

"Hannah did quite a bit to change everyone's thinking (in Europe)," De Coster says. "He won a lot, he was outspoken, and he was a real character. He was the first rider who started attracting attention to Supercross."

There would be other stars, racers whose names need no introduction. David Bailey. Jeff Ward. Rick Johnson. Jeff Stanton. And of course, Jeremy McGrath.

By the time AMA Supercross roared into the 1990s, it had grown into the crown jewel of U.S. motocross. And Europe, which had exported the concept of motocross to the States decades before, got back a very different sport that has developed into a world championship of its own.

How has Supercross changed since those early years?

For DiStefano, the biggest difference is all-out speed.

"When we started (at the Coliseum) they were doing lap times of about a minute, 50 seconds," he says. "Now it's maybe a minute 20. They've got three times the obstacles, and they're still going faster."

Weinert says much of that difference can be attributed to bike development.

"There were no special stadium bikes until Honda came out with a very quick-revving engine," he notes, "and people started going to that. Nowadays, you can ride a whole Supercross in one gear."

As a track builder, Bailey has had to keep pace with that horsepower development and the dramatic improvement in rider skills.

"The guys today are so good at what they can do with a bike," Bailey says. "Back then, you could have whipped a bike sideways in the air, but no one did. What amazes me is to stand there and watch a guy hit a triple jump the first time and land it perfectly."

It's a long, long way from the time when Bailey had to build a "chicken path" for a single jump.

[mazek26]

super ej ki si pa to našu

[Hanzi]

Ko boš tole zrecitiral bo 10 minut mimo kar pa mislim da je dovolj za govorno vajo. rabiš samo še prevest. Mislim da si je gidl zaslužu en pirček :rolleyes:

[gidl]

Mislim da si je gidl zaslužu en pirček

Itak...tole je sicer zgodovina Ameriškega MA in SX....Evropska je bla podobna....najprej so bla samo Evropska, pol kasnej pa Svetovana prvenstva....Moj bivši šef JDG Team Kawasaki je bil zraven od samga začetka, ampak kako točn gre zgodba sm že mal pozabu....Prvi svetovni prvak v 125 je bil komaj leta 75, v 250 leta62 in v 500 lata 74...

[mazek26]

Mislim da si je gidl zaslužu en pirček

Itak...tole je sicer zgodovina Ameriškega MA in SX....Evropska je bla podobna....najprej so bla samo Evropska, pol kasnej pa Svetovana prvenstva....Moj bivši šef JDG Team Kawasaki je bil zraven od samga začetka, ampak kako točn gre zgodba sm že mal pozabu....Prvi svetovni prvak v 125 je bil komaj leta 75, v 250 leta62 in v 500 lata 74...

pol je blo 250 najprej pol 500 in pol 125

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