Mike goodwin racing wikipedia

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All of us have friends and acquaintances, but motorcycle friendships are intense — bonds as intense as soldiers in a war zone and as close as a secret society. Men who race together, trail ride on the weekends or share riding stories in the garage have a connection that is forged by fire —albeit ignited by the spark of an old Champion plug.

Tom White was special to me…very special. We raced together through the s, s, s, s — right up to the end. We were in the same class for most of our racing lives, except for the time when he was a dirt tracker and I was a road racer. We both found our true calling when we switched to motocross. He was called to motocross because a severely broken arm led him away from dirt track.

I became a motocrosser because I wanted to race every week — not just five weekends a year. Tom 80 racing at Golden Gate Field back in Tom turned his job at Orange County Cycles into a launch pad for his own business. Since Tom, Dan and I knew each other from Saddleback, it was only natural that his business motorcycle parts and mine motorcycle test rider would bind us together.

We were both attracted by the fact that we wanted to make motocross better for the guy in the pits. And Tom understood what that meant that better than almost anyone in the motorcycle industry.

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Way before there was even a whiff of a Yamaha YZ on the horizon, the White Brothers were the kings of four-stroke parts. The White Brothers made every conceivable item that the crude four-strokes of the s and s could use. Tom built one-off four-stroke concept bikes, sponsored a four-stroke-only team and eventually threw the might of the White Brothers into founding the World Four-Stroke Championship.

He put up the purse, organized the races and even acted as the announcer — all of this at a time when no motocross racer took four-strokes seriously.