Hurricane was the reason all us Middle schoolers passed around Dirt Bike and motocross magazines. It’s great to Mr. Hannah is in good shape and sound mind. I was in grade school or kindergarten when On Any Sunday was playing at the drive-in. That was a great time to be doing it in the dirt!

Hannah interviews are always entertaining!

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Love his honesty.

Hannah is always objective and truthful whether you like the answer or not. One of the very best MX'ers of all time!

I was there in 78 at unadilla. Roger and Hannah..I'll never forget it..we thought man we're here watching the two best in the world ! Dice it up...the grass was 5 ft tall and the smell of two stroke was in the air. And I agree with Bob..they sissified that track. I'm proud to be a racer my whole life and proud that that's my era...Thanks Bob .

@johnwadsworth4916

2 ай бұрын

I was there too fantastic time I just remember all of it

I can listen to Hannah for hours…. such great life advice. He’s always been my hero, but listening to him talk can motivate anyone to higher success.

Hannah is as relevant in 2024 as he was in 1984. Legend

@jackwillson8099

Ай бұрын

Very true meet him two times I was a kid racing YZ 80 ,he Speaks his mind and true blue & one hell of a rider

@MotocrossTheGoldenEraBook

Ай бұрын

I totally agree.

I had a poster of Bob Hannah , Brock Glover and Rick Burgett on my wall when i was a kid

Hannah and Smith were my motocross heroes back in the 70s. When I rode my Honda, I wanted to be Marty, and when I rode my Yamahammer, I wanted to be Bob. I miss those days.

@barrycuda3769

2 ай бұрын

And they both had the coolest looking riding gear ever , particularly Marty , and Tommy.

When I was 12 yrs old there was a tv show called "Thrill of a lifetime" me and a buddy of mine wrote into the show...about how we dreamed of racing Bob Hannah....and they loved the idea....but Bob wouldn't agree for whatever reason.....40 years later...I'm still choked about it lol! He was my hero...like Bruce Lee, Bo Duke, Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger! But motorbikes were my first luv!

All time favorite racer right here.. brought a tear to my eye seeing him race

@jongalleog3486

2 ай бұрын

Hannah was the man !!!

I loved how the old tracks were different and hate how they are all the same today…!

What a majic time in MX. The Hannah years were special. I am still a big fan of everything MX but those years were special. Any race taking place in the pros could net you any one of 10 guys as the winner. It was exciting.

Genuinely honest. Hannah was and is a legend of the sport.

Thanks for the clip. Hurricane Hannah is my all time favourite rider. His throttle wide open and hang on style was pure motocross. 👍🇦🇺

Good honest to the point interview, Hannah pulls no punches.

Hannah for president

@jongalleog3486

2 ай бұрын

100 % agreed 👊🤟 !!!!!

@johntomasik1555

2 ай бұрын

Last thing we need is someone who supports a Republican or Democrat as President. 'Course the Republican or Democrat doesn't understand the problem.

@bikersoncall

Ай бұрын

Secretary of Defense.

@johntomasik1555

Ай бұрын

@@bikersoncall Why?

@bikersoncall

Ай бұрын

@@johntomasik1555 His; ''I don't fk around'' attitude.

Awesome interview, can’t wait for part two 👏

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Working on it. Should drop by Monday.

@mr2981

2 ай бұрын

This interview is from five years ago, find it elsewhere on KZread.

It was the Late Great Doug "Wheelie King" Domokos who taught most all those racers about using the Rear Brake to adjust the bikes Attitude in the air. Around 79 he started Wheeling the Super and Motocross Tracks for Kawasaki.

@mort8143

Ай бұрын

Doug hung a wheelie across the Sydney Harbour bridge, for an 'Australasian Dirt Bike ' magazine articlle, back in the '80's on a Kwaka KLX 650. The guy was a legend. 🇦🇺👍

@kepler240

Ай бұрын

I remember reading about him in 'Motocross Action' magazine in the 80's.

@michaellandreth1392

Ай бұрын

@@mort8143 I think he also road a KDX 2 stroke over there too. I think it's on YT.

Hanna was still is one of my heroes, just behind roger, a great fast rider and says it as it is , NO BS

KUDOS FOR THIS INTERVIEW,BOB HANNAH SPEAKS SO HONESTLY,ADMIRE HIS STRAIGHT TALKING & HIS COMPLETE ADMIRATION FOR ROGER DECOSTER WHO WAS NOT ONLY A FANTASTIC RIDER BUT DEVELOPED BIKES THAT WON CHAMPIONSHIPS

Mr Hannah you are one of the Motocross gods you're a legend in the sport when I was a kid I always loved it when Hannah won... Glad to hear your stories and your experiences.. God bless you and your family

@mort8143

Ай бұрын

Ditto from Canberra, Australia. I read great stories about him, but had to wait for videos before I could appreciate his wild style. Always my #1 rider. 🇦🇺👍

@MotocrossTheGoldenEraBook

Ай бұрын

Hannah would be a great VP next to Trump.

Interesting comment about the 450cc in supercross.

I saw the hurricane race in Herman Nebraska in the latter 70’s sometime. I was in awe of his riding!! It was epic

This video is very informative, I wish he, the interviewer wore in microphone as well thank you, Mr. Bob Hannah thank you for doing this, sir!

@marckradolfer6007

Ай бұрын

Exactly, the interviewer was muffled the whole show. Us 70 year old still loyal Hannah fans can't hear that well anymore. Go Trump- Hannah.

Bob Hannah is the greatest! Watching hm race was incredible. The original Ironman. Long live the HURRICANE!!! WFO!

What a great interview, where has Bob been. What a legend !! I hope there's 12 more episodes

Damn good interview. Always dug Bob's respect for Roger Decoster. He took a buddy of mine and myself to his pit after the 79 Nats at Saddleback. That was pretty cool. Got to get all up close to those OW's and look at all the trickery and wired up nuts and bolts. They gave us a bunch of stickers and signed media pictures. We were in moto heaven that day.

@mort8143

Ай бұрын

You lucky, lucky bastards!! 🇦🇺👍

I rode a couple of laps on the Bob Hannah track in Lancaster Sunday

Love Hannah honesty and give a fu*ck attitude.

Seen Hannah a few times at the Pontiac Silverdome!

we want episode 2 now!

The first time I saw Hannah race was at the Hangtown 250cc National MX in 1978, (that was the old Hangtown track at Plymouth mostly sand and loamy dirt). It was incredible to watch his speed on the track he was so much faster than everyone else it was mind boggling.

I met Bob hannah at Yorktown Theater in Lombard, IL in early 1980. He was standing in line right behind me. What are the odds that your hero is right next to you on a Friday night in your hometown? We chatted the entire time we were in line about why he was in town and about my 1979 YZ125. He was very friendly and sincere - he was the same guy then as he is in this video. We could only hope that the MX/SX world would listen to Bob Hannah as they have Roger DeCoster over the years taking the sport to the next level.

Wow sick man super big for the channel🤘

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Thanks. Stand by for episode two of Hannah and a bunch of other interviews come ng soon.

Bob Hannah and Danny Magoo ChandLer !

Hannah 💪

Hey man, you can’t say this is the first in 20 years, mxa and David pingree did a long one on whiskey throttle 2 years ago. In that Bob had fun and said there should be part 2 . Give a little credit to those guys

@EarthSurferUSA

Ай бұрын

I can't believe anything the pummy says now. He blew it at the beginning. There are more too. All he had to do was YT search,-------like the rest of us have.

@MotocrossTheGoldenEraBook

Ай бұрын

My interview with Bob was recorded two years before the Whiskey Throttle show with Hannah. Kudos to Pingree for getting Bob to sit down again and talk.

Really great interview. I love this channel and I'm glad to see something like this is available. I agree with Bob on the 350, but I especially agree about how they are taming the tracks and making them freeways. It's ridiculous. Riding rough tracks is what used to separate the really good from the really great. The thing with having every track with the same distance between jumps is super lame as well. They should have a maximum distance for triples, but also add some different types of jumps at every round. The 80s Supercross tracks were nasssssty difficult and never the same ol' stuff. It's gotten to be really boring seeing the same obstacles with different lay outs. Spice it up, people.

I remember seeing him race in the Seattle Kingdome in the late seventies a few times when I was about 12-13 years old. I still remember him crashing and going from last to first. I have his book, the Bob Hannah story on my coffee table, its been there for at least a decade now.

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Craig you need my coffee table book, Motocross the golden era on that coffee table of yours.

i love hannah. and his shirt

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Love him or hate him, Hannah always tells it like it is.

@rochellestanley9532

2 ай бұрын

Subed 😎

My advice to many young, aspiring elite athletes is to pick your heroes carefully. After 46 years coaching in athletics I have seen too many young athletes destroyed following them being repulsed by their heroes once they got to meet them. Most important point from this interview is that "athletes are not machines" who can be bent to the will of the machine they are riding. Athletes are human and what separates the great coaches are those capable of understanding all the physical/psycho/social issues of each individual they work with. Those coaches who understand all of this are those who's athletes are routinely on the podium.

I saw Hannah race at Anaheim one year and he was so dominating he nearly lapped the entire field in the main event. He was actually slowing down to let others catch up.

really appreciate this video. really cool man. hardcore

You Sir are a very talented communicator/content creator. Entirely lit, framed and designed well. Thank you for getting Mr. Hannah to do this video with your brilliant non-flashy skills. Coffee Table Book looks nice, as well!

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Thanks Edwin. It's all about the subject. Hannah doesn't need anything flashy to make him interesting.

@MotocrossTheGoldenEraBook

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the kind words. We're doing it old school. No flask and dazzle, just straight up interesting content.

Dude still looks the same as 1983!!!!!

Bob, Bob, Bob... You're a Champion, one of the best goddamn racers that has ever thrown a leg over a bike, and one of the greatest competitors to battle at any sport at any time. But at this point in your life, and this point without his, it's time for you to grow up, man up, class up and recognize that Marty Smith was the most important person that ever touched your life. Period. Say his name with reverence and respect. When you think of him, look up and smile, because he did more for you than anyone else. Without Marty Smith there would be no Bob Hannah. It's that simple. Did you answer the Bell? Yes. But there would never have been a bell to answer without Marty Smith. If not for Marty Smith you might be sitting side-saddle on an Apple Valley feed company's float entrant in the Tournament of Roses Parade each year.

I raced with Hannah in the late 1980's. He was so fast in that FL winter Nationals deep sugar sand whoops, he was a freak of nature. His big difference was that he had to get a top 3 to win big money. Today , they coast and get a 19th place and earn a million plus a year easy.

@chrisbuehler6868

2 ай бұрын

You're ill informed on what the current riders get paid. Who's coasting around in 19th and getting paid a million dollars? LoL what?

@WeaponsEducation

2 ай бұрын

@@chrisbuehler6868 Every rider who makes the main in SX or MX. It gets paid through sponsors. Way more then what you can phantom.

I saw hanna in a race in Massachusetts iwas in the pits got plenty of pictures 40 years ago ❤❤❤❤❤

Stoked to see the Trump shirt way back in 2019. Hurricane you'll always be one of my favorite's. RJ is my fav's too, but I'm good friends with him, so its little different.

Speaking facts about Dilla!!! Back in the day when they laid out the course with ribbon the stakes were only 5/6 inches off the ground not 3 feet high like today! It wasn’t groomed like today’s tracks either. They laid out the ribbon and the racers beat the track in or wore the track in! Especially Unadilla ! I know because I was there!! I’m not saying the riders today aren’t great because they are great but back in the day it really was just man and machine!!! Go check out a Six day reunion and see how they lay out the grass course! The last one I attended the ribbon was basically laying on the grass so coming over a hill you couldn’t see which way the course went!!

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Totally agree. The tracks today have become so unremarkable. I don't miss the dust, but I miss everything else about the great old tracks.

8:09… ingredients of All Champions!!!!!!!

I was actually at unadilla when Hannah and Lechien battled…..epic

Bob hannah, great american

He is right about the great riders of yesteryear being as fast as the new generations and the bikes are so much better it makes the new riders appear better as well. For proof look at David Baikys riding technique on his 83/84 CR 500 and his smooth graceful style. Then look at Jett Lawarences .....other than the scrub and foot postion very very simuliar. Poetey in motion. Hannah was a bull in a china shop , but it worked back then . On a modern 450 .....not so much ....ask Barcia .

Hannah was so crazy bad ass my best freind radical rick and i had a ground leval 1 bedroom apt No furniture just a keg in the corner and one wall was completly covered with bob hannah posters from all the rags ( magazines) hannah was like a god to us !!! In those days we kept our dirt bikes in the living rooms so no one could steal our bikes we poured ALL our money on our bikes my 250 kx and ricks 250xz GOOD TIMES !!!!😊long live bob hannah 👊🤟!!!!

i wonder how recent this is ?

@eric_sandstrom

2 ай бұрын

I'm thinking somewhere between 15 and 20 years

@MotocrossTheGoldenEraBook

Ай бұрын

This video was recorded in 2019, right before Covid, while I was researching for my book.

Glad bob has respect for his older generation,says how it is, imagine bob in the booth ! 😂

Why does the interviewer not have a mic.

Roger and Marty Smith were my heroes. I grew up in 70s racing locally. Wish I could of raced with the pros.

Saw him in Edmonton Alberta he gave everybody a lap, and I don’t know how many laps it took for him to lap them, and leave them in the dust. It was impressive because he wasn’t young then was great epic

(1) Bob Badass

When Hannah first started out he raced the intermediate class for one week, the expert class for one week, and turned pro the third week.

My hero

1982 on , got GOOD ! 👍

I was at sears point 77 to and I met him in the pits cool dude

Honda early work on rear disk brakes min 17:20 1984 works bike. The disk (look how small it is compared to today on stock bikes), also has the "floating hub" arm that was used on drum brakes. I bet it can still smooth out the rear braking today in places, but they never made production. It took a while got get the rear disk brake to work well, from what I understand (and see here).

Hannah raced the '82 RC250 at Anaheim and at the Seattle double-header. His first race on the '83 was at the Atlanta round. I remember that because I used to buy Motocross Magazine by Hi-Torq. They covered all the US races. They covered Anaheim and Seattle in the May 1983 issue.

@EarthSurferUSA

12 күн бұрын

Hannah was still with Yamaha in 82. Honda did not pick him up until Donnie Hansen got hurt before the 83 season.

@carmelotansengco4605

12 күн бұрын

@@EarthSurferUSA Sorry. My mistake. I was talking about the '83 Anaheim and Seattle races.

@EarthSurferUSA

12 күн бұрын

Oops. 20:30 I stand corrected by a pretty good source. :)

I think it says 2019, not sure, but how can you not write the year? It’s mandatory.

Hannah💯💯💯👌🏻

At 7:10, consider that Hannah is discussing a carboard cut-out of Roger DeCoster that motivated him. That shows how deep motocross goes. He's not talking about technique or technology-- it's about passion to be a champion.

Hannah comment about tracks is spot on🎉 cookie cutter tracks. So honest with what ever he is asked.

It was thru Tony D i was lucky enuf to meet bob at Englishtown i was riding an practicing some starts after the races i stopped an bob was riding around doing trials an riding the side of jumps like the big stair case..his bike skill was off the map....he was 35 or 40 then just before he quit hes was in a suzuki...in the race he skipped over. The track like jett lawerence does

You finally get an interview with Bob Hannah, and you use second rate equipment? Congratulations and thank you for this, but you blew it! I can barely hear the questions that you ask him.

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

You must be listening to it on second rate equipment.😅

@marklevrett6173

2 ай бұрын

@@motocrossthegoldenera I assure you it is not my equipment when I can hear Hannah perfectly, yet the interviewer sound like he is in another room.

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Mark, this was never intended to be a a broadcast video. It was only intended as a reference for writing the book. That's why I was not miked up. All we were recording was Hannah. However, now three years later, many people have asked to see the full interview. So here it is, with the only audio we have. I think most people are happy with it.

@marklevrett6173

2 ай бұрын

Ok that makes more sense then.

Bikes aside, much respect for the Reno racing. But as much as he hated the '81 Yam, it did win the World MX Championship title.

What's Hannah's view on barcia ?

This is an old interview. I mean, it shows the date on the slate.

Bob has not changed one bit. In fact, he may be even more intense today than back in the day. Were we (America) to teach and ingrain into our children to the mindset and competitive instinct that Bob has, we would have a great country today.

they have 250fs now making damn near 50HP at factory level, in 2004 I believe they were 32HP while a 125 was high 20s....most factory 450s are detuned for supercross......way way too much bike for a small track........ development of the 4 stroke in last 20 years has been insane to say the least.....they have dropped well over 20lbs off the bike.....with electric start as well look at what DeCoster has done to every brand he worked for.....Took KTM from laughing stock of MX to the bike every Japanese Mnfctr tries to emulate....with 3 brands spread across its platform......and he is still pretty humble! DeCoster is a straight legend!.......Suzuki (twice), Honda, and KTM, cant think of another man who has changed the sport or brands to the degree he has

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

You are absolutely right. 4-strokw technology has gone crazy and few people can safely ride a 450. It will be interesting to see what happens when 80hp electric bikes hit the mainstream.

He is correct about 450 being to much for supercross, the ama backed themselves into a corner, letting 400 fourstroke in 250 supercross class, so now its all fourstroke, which i believe the purchase cost and mantainece costs are hurting the sport at grass root level.

@EarthSurferUSA

Ай бұрын

Actually, it was the government force of a dictatorship called the EPA that forced the 4-stroke engines on the industry, and kill the "dirty 2-stroke", (The 2-stroke is still alive because it is actually hard for communism to kill free enterprise in a mixed economy, as free enterprise is our lives.). The FIM is the boss of the AMA (learned that during the 2001 SX promoter scandal, between Clear Channel, Jam Sports, and the AMA, that opened the door for the FIM to get more involved in USA racing). The only thing 'better" about the 4-stroke is the fact that they hook up to the ground better, so they can use more power, (Try to ride a 70hp CR500 and stay in control. A 70hp 450 4-stroke makes it easier.). So the FIM, kissing the butt of the EPA as the factories had to, (again, force is used), eventually filled up the starting gates with 4-stroke (took 8 years since Doug Henry, 1997, to do so actually). Now---that the bikes are faster, pull a gear much longer,---the tracks got faster. Here comes the multiple injuries, and even deaths on the tracks, (which was very rare when the sport was 10 times bigger than today.). Guess who we can't sue for all this cost and dysfunction that is killing the sport for the masses? The dictatorship called the EPA. This is a prime example of a government taking over or directing (by force every time), our free enterprise. This is how communism works in the USA today.

Interview is from 2024, 1999?

2019

The FIM SX tracks are designed to keep everybody the same speed as much as possible. That is why we see the top 8 guys on the same second for their fast lap, why the top "futures" kids could quality for a main, and why the most talented, (Roczen, Eli and Chase for examples), start having mental breakdowns. You can win any race you enter, but you are . 5 seconds off the pace, and running 6th. Do that a couple time as a super talent, and it break down your confidence. Tracks that everybody has wired,---comes from the philosophies of socialism/communism. The FIM. just about everything we do comes from some kind of philosophy.

Hannah is example of what makes America's great attitude if you are going to do something give it your all or dont do like trump never half ass it

@EarthSurferUSA

Ай бұрын

"never half ass it." Like your punctuation and sentence structure so people can understand what you are saying. Dude, I almost failed HS English in a public rural school around 1979,-----------------------------------and I am correcting people today??????!!!!!!!!! You guys need to sue your schools. No offense to you personally, but seriously. We need to know what we are saying to each other.

Bob Hannah's first video interview in over 20 years? What is the matter with you? My goodness.

@EarthSurferUSA

Ай бұрын

Ohh, I may be realizing this is a old interview.

Bad Bob, still being Bad Bob. He tells it like it or was, no sugar coating it. I find mx and sx a snore compared to what it used to be. Billy Bolt and Super Enduro and Hard Enduro get my interest now.

I don't know much about Super Cross, and just slightly more about Motocross, but I agree that the promotors and track designers seem to want to get to the point where someone dies each season. Bob focused on the use of 450's being the cause of the injuries, which makes sense but I think the track designs and similarly with Hard Enduro designs of today , instead of just letting the best riders win, they keep making things more dangerous. Maybe the carnage is a big part of what sells tickets.

Good interview on Bob's side but the interviewer blew it with the audio.

Badass! 💪🏻🇺🇸

Using a mic would sure have made the questions easier to hear.

Imagine from a mushroom spore to a champignon😂

I wish I could say, I have no regrets.

I got ricky carmiecal started by giving him a dander up attitude an he ran with it but he had plenty of fire an will already i told Omara to keep an eye on RC....just to keep him in check ..johnny was at every race.

You gotta love Bob Hannah, not many have the balls to wear a Trump shirt in these fucked up times. In typical B.H. style: If you don't like it, tough shit buddy. Hannah/Trump 2024.

Love the "Trump" patch on Bob's T-shirt. I would like to have heard the questions that Bob was answering. Would help me understand those answers.

It's a shame the leaders of the sport arn't bringing Hannah on board for his wisdom.

23:46… Truth

Trump/Hannah 2024

@motocrossthegoldenera

2 ай бұрын

Maybe Hannah/Trump, not Trump Hannah?

@ljc0177

2 ай бұрын

who'd think he'd be for Trump? haha

@AIRDOODOO

2 ай бұрын

Anyone who cares about this country, has some intelligence, and the balls to say it.@@ljc0177

@waynegarfield6607

2 ай бұрын

Hannah Trumped a few riders in his day. Trumped em good!!,

@teamflanneloutdoors5631

2 ай бұрын

Fucking A Right

Bob was always an animated guy but thats part of what made him and some others great. Hurricane was always cocky and confident and thats what drove him to win. Now it seems these young guys aren't allowed to have a personality. Its like theyre all robots.

23:53 Hannah let's the bird fly.

@kepler240

Ай бұрын

Hah. I didn't even see it.

Supercross is like a circus now.