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COMMUNITYOver the years we have heard so many classic Magoo stories and tall tales that we figured it was time to start collecting them all in one place. The COMMUNITY page here at dannymagoo.com is meant to do just that. Feel free to post your own old school pictures and stories of Magoo, old school moto in general, or anything else that can somehow be seen as roughly related. As with all things Magoo, anything goes, really. 219 comments to COMMUNITY |
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I was at Indian dunes late on a saturday. I was just a kid racin around on the International track. Thought i was the fastest guy on the track. There was a part on the track where you would climb up a hill turn right race along a 30 foot flat and then go down a drop off to the right. Anyways i was on the flat part when i heard the roar of a 500 coming up on me. I didnt know what side he was on,cuz he wasnt, he was above me! he flew up the hill must have seen me aproaching the top and just gassed it HE WAS IN MY LINE!!! He just jumped right over me clearing the flat and landing down the face of the drop off!. I remember to this day seeing “Magoo” on his leathers. I was like what a wildman! To this day after racing and riding my whole life, that was the coolest thing i have EVER seen on the track. The world was a better place with Danny in it. Hope to see him in the res.
Danny,
I remember watching you at Hangtown and was amazed on how far you would jump down hill. You were simply amazing!
RIP
Danny,I am so sorry it took almost a month to hear of your passing. I only knew you for about 5 years and we lost touch after my son stopped riding a couple years ago, but the lessons you taught us both went far beyond riding. It was an honor to have known you, and I will carry that which you taught me for the rest of my life. I dont use the “cant” anymore and I thank you for that. I will always remember our trips together up to Humbolt. I know you were always in pain and yet you were always fun to be around. You were kind, yet had the heart of a warrior. I remember saying goodbye once after a phone conversation with you, and you said ” I love you guys”. Well, we loved you too Danny. Our hearts our broken. Rest in peace my friend.
God speed to a fallen friend
the motocross have lost a friend
but i now you watching to us
RIP my hero(magoo)
from the netherlands
irfan gitgel
Danny was the rider, regardless of your brand allegiance, you watched intently and cheered for him as he hung it out every second.
The few times I got to see him here in the midwest were always the highlight.
Godspeed Danny
Danny rip!The greatest rider–Magoo ride on…..The world will miss you!H.P. Germany
I never met Danny but I’ve read a lot about him and the fantastic person he was. R.I.P. Danny. One day will meet somewhere. Leo.
God Speed Danny Magoo. You were one of this Canucks favorite riders. You were Motocross. Marc’o’
legends never die
the first time i ever saw danny ride was at sears point, i was just a kid. the crowd was going crazy, he was jumping so much higher than the other bikes. then it must have been around 79 in hangtown he pulled into the pits ramming the Maico factory van with fresh paint into the fence as he parked it. the race was mind blowing. there was a steep downhill with a jump and a turn at the bottom. all day long you could hear the bikes making the turns before the downhill. they would just blip the gas a little there. we stood at the snowfence about 5 people back just down from the jump. magoo got the holeshot and was leading the race by at least 7 bike legnths by the third turn. we waited to see what he would do on the jump. this is the moment i will never forget, the moment my motocross visons came true. we heard chandler’s bike pinned through those top turns. he hit the outside lip of the jump. whipped the bike so that we had to look behind us to see him. he whipped it back onto the track. he made the tight turn at the bottom. then he did it again the next lap. he think he won both motos that day in the 250 class. i still remember it all these years later. what a loss. what a man. the fastest mx rider who ever lived.
D.A.W.G. Will Hunt !!! #3
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R.I.P.