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First Letter:"Jim,
My brother Dave showed me the Yankee Registry you sent us and we noted interest in the ISDT and Donny Cutler, Charlie Vincent and Dave Latham. We grew up about 3 or 4 miles from Donny Cutler's. After my Yamaha mini-enduro, I had a Kawasaki "100" Greenstreak which was one fast little bike when it wasn't pumping wristpin needle bearings through the transfer ports or blowing up in many other ways I'd never seen before. I raced it in what I think was the first Junior Enduro that Donald Cutler and Marcia McDonald put on, later to be a Series, and the 'Streak did it again. I think it was the brakes on both ends that fell apart that day. Dave (my brother, not Latham) had a "Trail Boss" which was the dual purpose version of the "Mean Streak", same thing (almost) which NEVER blew up! So I think I was about 16 or 17 when Donny got both me and Max Markowitz on Ossa Pioneers, the bike Donny was using for ISDT and other enduro racing at the time. ('Think Donny's still got at least one, according to his brother, who my brother sees regularly). The Pioneer I owned was aquired for me, I think, by Marcia McDonald and was Charlie Vincent's bike before I got it. These bikes were more like the Stiletto in appearance, with the short rear fender and small seat, but with a high pipe and lights. They looked like the Six-Days Replica that Ossa came out with in '73, a little different than the square-tailed Pioneers being sold at the time. Max and I used to ride together regularly as kids and we still stay in touch. Max did a couple of ISDT's on Taylor's bikes, but I did manage to whip him once in a Junior Enduro. My brother Dave, myself and Max have been up to Taylor's Yankee shop so for all I know you may have met all of us. Thanks again for the Registry and I hope you find my short little history here to be of some interest.
Marc Belleville
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