The Vintage Iron Project - Episode One - Hugh Parker's Works Bike Collection

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4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this series we set out to showcase the finest collections of rare vintage motocross bikes and memorabilia across the country.

In Episode One, our host Rick Doughty talks with collector Hugh Parker about his collection of 80's - 90's works bikes ridden by some of fastest riders of all time - including Ricky Johnson, Jeff Ward, and Jeff Matiasevich, and Georges Jobe.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vintage Iron Project.
0:07.0	Let's go!
0:13.0	Welcome to the Vintage Iron Project. I'm Rick Dowdy, and I'm here today with Hugh Parker and his
0:22.3	amazing collection of bikes and history. So Hugh, welcome. Thank you. How does a guy, like yourself,
0:30.1	go from tech to motocross? You were involved with Zoom and a bunch of other places up there in Silicon
0:36.2	Valley, right? Yep, absolutely.
0:38.3	Well, it's a very long history in that I long before technology, I was a fan of
0:44.2	motorcross as a small kid. I grew up in Northern California, started riding just for fun,
0:50.2	and then wanted to start to get into racing. From that, happened to be at the mecca of Fox and Campbell,
0:57.3	just lived right there, actually, at the time,
0:59.7	and started going, my dad took me to the races,
1:02.3	and started out on an 80,
1:05.4	and then from there, kind of progressed into motocross
1:08.6	and started to build kind of a cool history of the love of
1:13.4	bikes but also the love of racing and motorcross in general.
1:16.2	And then started hanging out with Dean Mattson and Rick Ryan up in Northern California.
1:22.1	Dean was just a little bit younger than me.
1:24.4	Rick was already racing pro.
1:26.2	So I started out on 80s, did the whole Southern California
1:29.5	Circuit, Golden State Series, TransCal, and that's kind of, I met Dean Mattson at the World
1:35.0	Mini in 83 at Saddleback, and then we both traveled up back north together and kind of never really
1:40.3	separated and started just doing lots and lots of motorcross together, got
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