Back in the mid 70s they had a pro motocross race on the track at the bottom of the hill. Evil Knievel was there to prerun the track as a publicity stunt. Well he ran off the course and never finished the course. He also tried to run me over in the pits. They had parachuters come in at the beginning with flairs on their lower legs. For those that know the area you realize what a bad idea that was. They started a fire that burned a section of the mountain and over a dozen vehicles. Getting fire equipment in was a problem because of the road and people still trying to get in. Crazy day. Hadn't thought about that in many, many years. Thanks for the video. That area has really changed.
I am native of Colorado and we used to look for big Hills East of Colorado Springs but nothing like the Widowmaker! Some very humble men back then, the only thing to prove was their hard work.
I'm over near Westcliffe and there's two huge hills that I've been riding there since the early '80's. But they're on private property so have to get permission. 1000' tall hill, no trees, it's perfect. In all the years I've never made it to the top on my normal dirt bikes, there's really no way but it's still incredibly fun! Only allowed to ride on it one day per year to avoid leaving ruts, and I agree with that.
@@rockybutler yes correct, no 1500 to 2500 vertical ft Mountains east of Constitution Avenue, but the planes do have their beautiful Rolling Hills of which some of them can reach easily 700 vertical feet with a 12 to 15% incline. I haven't been to the springs in a few years, the only thing I'm missing is it's growing in Leaps and Bounds. They can have it. I now live on the east coast in a very nice cabin on a Mountaintop in Southwest Virginia. Love it here, the people are more grounded in civility than in most places these days. This comes from a native of Colorado without having the bumper sticker on the back bumper of my truck telling you so. Life is good!
This is great! I grew up in Provo and it was so awesome to see land in between the cities. Now the entire valley is full of homes. Thanks for the awesome memories. 👍
Yeah I was there that day most awesome display of horsepower and two wheels I have ever seen just phenomenal and had one hell of a good time nitro burning Harleys with shovels welded to the wheels yeah it was awesome you can still see where they used to run the hill climb on the point of the mountain down there they quit doing it there unfortunately that you can see the scars left from tearing up that mountain it was awesome
I lived down the hill on the closest street to the first hill climb. I remember hiking up to the basé of the hill. That first event had entrants running everything from a Honda Trail 90 to BSA and Triumph 650s. Good times.
I miss the 80s. Home made contraptions, works MX bikes, group B getting too narley.... thank you for posting this so i could share with my little one!.
I moved to SLC this year and the first thing I did was go to this with my cousin. Can’t believe how time flies. And the valley sure don’t look like that anymore.
That part of Utah is the town of Draper. There are houses on the benches of that mountain now. Also when the camera looks into the valley it all developed now. You can still see the scars on the hillside from the past competitions, but nobody rides them anymore. I remember watching the coverage back in the old days before I moved to Utah.
That is one heck of a hill….I was pulling for the guy who said this was his last year. He ended up 2nd..can’t complain with that but the guy who one was unbelievable…..a big hand for all of those riders 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This kind of event still happens every year in idaho. It's called the Big Nasty Hillclimb. People with customized bikes that have super long swing arms and insane engines go up it. It's at Big Willow road around Payette, idaho.
I use to ride and do some small hill climbing (4-500') and I went to the billings hill climb one year and it's actually really cool the bikes that people build and bring. Such an underrated sport. These dudes are crazy
@@speedfreak8200 the videos don't do any justice for how steep some of this stuff is. There's stuff you can't even walk up and if you don't lay your bike over right (assuming no paddle tires can't just dig in) it and you are falling down that hill. I've been with people that got bogged down and it took 6 people to get the bike to the top because going down wasn't an option. I've rode a bunch of moto cross tracks, trails ect. Hill climbing is just different. If it's anywhere near where you live it's well worth going to watch an event and you'll get a better understanding of just how steep this stuff is
I used to ride that canyon every other weekend corner canyon was the place to be, that hill is behind a cement plant just across the highway from the old state prison
I was 14 at the time and I lived in a small town in Utah. It's sux how that area's now full of housing! Maybe not on the hill itself but at the base for sure. They're even tearing down the old prison there. I would have loved to try that hill on my yz 490 when I got a bit older but I never thought to try.. I was a pretty good hill climber and was the first to climb some that went vertical at the end for 10-15 ft. "you just need a lot of momentum" lol!!
I remember watching this on TV. I was a Sophomore in high school and emulated these guys. I got to go to my first rally that year, although I couldn’t ride quite yet, and things then were a lot different, BETTER! There were no politics involved, period! If you drank and ride you got a ticket. If you drank to much and ride you went to jail, if you didn’t finish yourself in a stupid wreck. KUDO’S to all the men, this was close to the end of an era where men were men and women knew they were women.
I know a guy who lived near the base of the Hill. His Grandparents owned the Gold Miners Daughter Hotel at Alta. He told me that there was a Big Hay field between his house and the Windowmaker Hill .. Now it's a Subdivision.
I started riding mini bikes when I was five and progressively bigger from then on. In the early 80s I bought a Husqvarna 390 Automatic. The guy I bought it from bored it put a domed piston in it and added a bigger carb. He sold it because it was too hard t start. That bike was uncanny fast and the torque was crazy, it went up anything I ever tried. We heard stories that a guy in 80 or 81 that a guy climbed Widomaker on a stock YZ 465. I still haven't been able to verify to this day.
Back when Dad's had the solution to all problems always around their waste! Kids respected their elders. You learned early that when you F'd up, you were going to respect the belt!
Back when real men were men! One legged man’s father laced his prosthetic leg to the foot peg! You don’t see stuff like that much anymore, great time to be alive.
It's a sad world these days. Some comments on here saying the same thing that's happened to all my old playgrounds...fuckin people buy a huge chunk of land that is no good for anything except for dirt bikes and think they're going to get rich growing weed or some far fetched fantasy horseshit pipe dream that never happens..... Sorry I had to vent all these soyled jeans mass viginity issues can really get my goat......don't even get me started on the schools😂 if someone told me 30 years ago the world was going to be the way it is today ?? I would've ran.....for president
Hello everyone, This is rider Tommy Elmore at the 23 min. mark. Sure was a lot of fun back then, where does the time go !!
Great to look back on Tommy. I hope you still have the Bell Moto 3!
Back when television covered cool and interesting sports!
I love these old hillclimb videos. Its just a great way to escape everything else in the world and root for real and humble heroes
Well said
Back in the mid 70s they had a pro motocross race on the track at the bottom of the hill. Evil Knievel was there to prerun the track as a publicity stunt. Well he ran off the course and never finished the course. He also tried to run me over in the pits.
They had parachuters come in at the beginning with flairs on their lower legs. For those that know the area you realize what a bad idea that was. They started a fire that burned a section of the mountain and over a dozen vehicles. Getting fire equipment in was a problem because of the road and people still trying to get in. Crazy day. Hadn't thought about that in many, many years. Thanks for the video. That area has really changed.
Everyone’s weight started with a 1 back then.
Its nice to just watch awesome TV without all the garbage on today. Thanks for posting this.😊
The open face helmet 😂🤣😂 that guy is a maniac 😁 Mad props to the one legged dude 🤘🏻
Brings back good memories
Awesome days 🤟🇬🇧🤠
I am native of Colorado and we used to look for big Hills East of Colorado Springs but nothing like the Widowmaker! Some very humble men back then, the only thing to prove was their hard work.
I'm over near Westcliffe and there's two huge hills that I've been riding there since the early '80's. But they're on private property so have to get permission. 1000' tall hill, no trees, it's perfect. In all the years I've never made it to the top on my normal dirt bikes, there's really no way but it's still incredibly fun! Only allowed to ride on it one day per year to avoid leaving ruts, and I agree with that.
You must have been looking a long time, not much for hills east of the springs.
@@rockybutler yes correct, no 1500 to 2500 vertical ft Mountains east of Constitution Avenue, but the planes do have their beautiful Rolling Hills of which some of them can reach easily 700 vertical feet with a 12 to 15% incline. I haven't been to the springs in a few years, the only thing I'm missing is it's growing in Leaps and Bounds. They can have it. I now live on the east coast in a very nice cabin on a Mountaintop in Southwest Virginia. Love it here, the people are more grounded in civility than in most places these days. This comes from a native of Colorado without having the bumper sticker on the back bumper of my truck telling you so. Life is good!
I used to attend these as a kid. Wow, how that area has changed!
It's all house's nowadays
@@quackhead7492except for the ones sliding off the hill.
Is this where the hangliders launch now a days. Pre California style Draper?
I love Hill climbing .A Sport for Ever.
The 80's back when folks were still cool, everything was not racist & it was fun to be alive.
It's was perfect balance between human happynes and technology
The second to last white decade
@@BikingVikingHH until idiots like you started with there racism. I really hope life is fucked up for you.
@@BikingVikingHH your not a viking clown. You have identity crisis going on.
Your right and it was pre social media. It was the rise and the downfall of today's society!
This is great! I grew up in Provo and it was so awesome to see land in between the cities. Now the entire valley is full of homes. Thanks for the awesome memories. 👍
I tuned in to see 80's MX gear. That HONDA hat!
Yeah I was there that day most awesome display of horsepower and two wheels I have ever seen just phenomenal and had one hell of a good time nitro burning Harleys with shovels welded to the wheels yeah it was awesome you can still see where they used to run the hill climb on the point of the mountain down there they quit doing it there unfortunately that you can see the scars left from tearing up that mountain it was awesome
I lived down the hill on the closest street to the first hill climb. I remember hiking up to the basé of the hill. That first event had entrants running everything from a Honda Trail 90 to BSA and Triumph 650s. Good times.
The guy with one leg tied to his bike is legend
I miss the 80s. Home made contraptions, works MX bikes, group B getting too narley.... thank you for posting this so i could share with my little one!.
I moved to SLC this year and the first thing I did was go to this with my cousin. Can’t believe how time flies. And the valley sure don’t look like that anymore.
I sure miss the old days. Everything was better.
much respect to all the riders, their families and crews.
Vince with 1 leg incredible!
"ten-hundred and 94 feet"😁Brings back memories!
What were the memories, when you were failing math class? Lol just kidding
wish my dad was in this video! he loved doing the widowmaker - paul argyle. it’s insane to see how different utah is, no houses or phones in sight
Back when there was nobody here. I grew up in this area and really miss it.
So much talent, energy, time, courage, and money invested in not solving real problems.
I love that movie on any Sunday
A one legged rider tied to the bike.....only in the 80s
I wonder if anyone ever was horrified if he fell off and they saw that leg flopping around with the motorcycle as it falls.
When men were men , the original built not brought, proper back yard shed hero's, clever guys with nervs of steel!!!❤
So cool! Thanks for posting this gem
That part of Utah is the town of Draper. There are houses on the benches of that mountain now. Also when the camera looks into the valley it all developed now. You can still see the scars on the hillside from the past competitions, but nobody rides them anymore. I remember watching the coverage back in the old days before I moved to Utah.
This was used on the same film used for making ADULT films on in the 80’s. I could of sworn I saw Ron Jeremy & Harry Reems in this hill climb.
Ha Ha..Great observation!
Such a cool video! Thanks for sharing!
Looking for my old '71 Blazer. I know it was there somewhere. Fun times.
Noticed at least one IH Scout in the opening shot of the camp.
These guys are HaRDCoRE..No gloves..no goggles..no face shield.. just a pair of jeans and a flannel seems the safer way to go!
That is one heck of a hill….I was pulling for the guy who said this was his last year. He ended up 2nd..can’t complain with that but the guy who one was unbelievable…..a big hand for all of those riders 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
This kind of event still happens every year in idaho. It's called the Big Nasty Hillclimb. People with customized bikes that have super long swing arms and insane engines go up it. It's at Big Willow road around Payette, idaho.
Wow these guys are amazing
I use to ride and do some small hill climbing (4-500') and I went to the billings hill climb one year and it's actually really cool the bikes that people build and bring. Such an underrated sport. These dudes are crazy
Why is it underrated?
@@speedfreak8200 the videos don't do any justice for how steep some of this stuff is. There's stuff you can't even walk up and if you don't lay your bike over right (assuming no paddle tires can't just dig in) it and you are falling down that hill.
I've been with people that got bogged down and it took 6 people to get the bike to the top because going down wasn't an option. I've rode a bunch of moto cross tracks, trails ect. Hill climbing is just different. If it's anywhere near where you live it's well worth going to watch an event and you'll get a better understanding of just how steep this stuff is
@jlo7770 damn sure is different. Just got home from the mountains and once you get on serious shit there is no "turning around" lol
@@jamikaynelson I learned to take the easy route up and help the ones with bigger balls then me at the top
HELLO Guys n Girls of a certain age..we all learned of Widow Maker hill climb from ON ANY SUNDAY 😊
I used to ride that canyon every other weekend corner canyon was the place to be, that hill is behind a cement plant just across the highway from the old state prison
Crazy to see how far this sport has come
I used to go to widowmaker as a kid with my dad. That is when men were men! Loved seeing this.
Hell ya. Good ol days. Kegs,girls,and cops on horses. Lol . Bottom of the hill is all houses now.
1500, whats it take to go the distance...WINGS ?.... great event, Thanks for sharing.
I was 14 at the time and I lived in a small town in Utah. It's sux how that area's now full of housing! Maybe not on the hill itself but at the base for sure. They're even tearing down the old prison there.
I would have loved to try that hill on my yz 490 when I got a bit older but I never thought to try.. I was a pretty good hill climber and was the first to climb some that went vertical at the end for 10-15 ft. "you just need a lot of momentum" lol!!
Oh,yea. That hill is covered with houses.
I remember watching this on TV. I was a Sophomore in high school and emulated these guys.
I got to go to my first rally that year, although I couldn’t ride quite yet, and things then were a lot different, BETTER! There were no politics involved, period! If you drank and ride you got a ticket. If you drank to much and ride you went to jail, if you didn’t finish yourself in a stupid wreck.
KUDO’S to all the men, this was close to the end of an era where men were men and women knew they were women.
I love it..wish i could go back and riding on my first 125 elsinore.
I had the 175 and the 250 Elsinore. Age 12 I had a new Yamaha TT 500. Raced in everything including flat track and ice
I know a guy who lived near the base of the Hill. His Grandparents owned the Gold Miners Daughter Hotel at Alta. He told me that there was a Big Hay field between his house and the Windowmaker Hill .. Now it's a Subdivision.
Keith Rossler is a badass😎 The cool look on his face all the way up the hill 😂
I started riding mini bikes when I was five and progressively bigger from then on. In the early 80s I bought a Husqvarna 390 Automatic. The guy I bought it from bored it put a domed piston in it and added a bigger carb. He sold it because it was too hard t start. That bike was uncanny fast and the torque was crazy, it went up anything I ever tried. We heard stories that a guy in 80 or 81 that a guy climbed Widomaker on a stock YZ 465. I still haven't been able to verify to this day.
Back when Dad's had the solution to all problems always around their waste! Kids respected their elders. You learned early that when you F'd up, you were going to respect the belt!
I love when they go over the shrubs and just rip it out and into the air flying
That music around the seventten minute mark is awesome.
omg the riders and bikes are nuts XD
Vince Bertolucci is a badass too 😂😎🤘🔥
Sad to see that era pass away.
Great times 👏🇺🇸
Damn , I was born shortly after this happened.
Ken Otto is a really good announcer/commentator!
God I miss this years
Do they have this in 4K?
right you are ken.
Quality video
What year is that motor..?
Imagine pulling up to this event in a can am xmr 1000 renegade or outlander
Omg I had a pair of those pants at 10:18 the good old days
The view from the top now is all city clear across the valley. Too bad, we had a good thing in the 70s
Davis county in the 80's was a great place to be I could ride my dirt bike anyplace I wanted to
the music! hilarious
I read it's all houses know just is the same were my friends and I ripped it to shreds it's so different to here I guy that has the same name as me
Tying a leg to the bike. Thatd never fly these days. Thats awesome. 🎉
He's been the Polk county Sheriff for a very long time for a very good reason !
All Sheriff's should be like Sheriff Judd.
When you think that this was more than 40yrs ago… Wow
It's all gone now, all that green is developed and the hill, known as widow maker at the point of the mountain is all excavated away.
You can still see the trail on the freeway, though houses are built up around it
Back when real men were men! One legged man’s father laced his prosthetic leg to the foot peg! You don’t see stuff like that much anymore, great time to be alive.
Good times 😊
10:15 is that Hunter Thompson?
Tie a handicap to an out of control meat grinder, what could go wrong. Real men for sure!
Scott Horner - Heads up
I was at this event the old Widowmaker was an insane hill the new one is good but just not the same.
Weber River area?
@@50buttfish the new widow maker is in Croydon
I wonder how many of these bikes exist today.
One of my relatives used to participate around this era. As a result he messed himself up pretty bad but he’s still got a couple in his shed.
Some are in museums
The sagebrush they encounter is where they may get into some trouble..where he is experiencing some now😂
Year I was born rad
That hill is all houses now.
Different times....imagine knowing your probably gonna fail
Should had turned volume gains up when mixing. Can't hear a thing
Wow the salty city doesn't look like that anymore
The year I was born ….
Back when men were men and sheep were nervous
Back when men were truly animals
I saw it in the 70's
Saw a hang glider get hit by a Ford truck.
To bad the commercials are edited out
Grip it and rip it Brraaapppp ring ping ping ping
Before masculinity was frowned upon and we didnt know what soy was.
It's a sad world these days.
Some comments on here saying the same thing that's happened to all my old playgrounds...fuckin people buy a huge chunk of land that is no good for anything except for dirt bikes and think they're going to get rich growing weed or some far fetched fantasy horseshit pipe dream that never happens.....
Sorry I had to vent all these soyled jeans mass viginity issues can really get my goat......don't even get me started on the schools😂 if someone told me 30 years ago the world was going to be the way it is today ?? I would've ran.....for president
Kerry Peterson looks like Josh hill
Well we didn’t kill anybody last year we need to step it up this year lmao
Hey this guy has the same last name as me lol.
Ah, the 80s... when everyone was contracting aids and clueless how they got it. 😂
Now its all houses there
It's sad looking back at what used to be openness and is now all paved over. Everywhere we used to ride as kids is now houses too.
@@8180634yep now u got to get out of town, which is hard when too young to drive
Some video from the 70s and 60s and even 50s or phenomenally high quality resolution and sometime during the 80s they just all turn to crap
50’s - early 70’s was film converted to video later, late 70’s was native video. And those tapes, (generally 3/4” tape) didn’t last a long time.