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          The 16 year-old Californian on the # black-and-yellow Yamaha YZ had won his first professional AMA event..

          Ron Lechien: 20 Laps and the Truth

          For the 1983 season, Team Yamaha hired a 16-year-old kid from El Cajon, California, named Ron Lechien to contest the AMA 125cc National MX Championship Series.

          Lechien had turned 16 in December of 1982, less than a month before the season-opening Anaheim Supercross.

          Lechien spent racing for Yamaha and when Dick approached Yamaha's Racing Division Manager Kenny Clark about a pro contract, Clark.

        1. Lechien spent racing for Yamaha and when Dick approached Yamaha's Racing Division Manager Kenny Clark about a pro contract, Clark.
        2. In year-old Ron Lechien from CA, bursts onto the Supercross scene.
        3. The 16 year-old Californian on the # black-and-yellow Yamaha YZ had won his first professional AMA event.
        4. At age 16 years old, he stepped right into a Yamaha factory ride, winning the Orlando Supercross as a rookie on a YZ! One week later at.
        5. #TBT A “Bad Ass” tribute build on a Yamaha YZ Ron Lechien replica.

          6. Back then there was no AMA 125cc East/West Regional —it would arrive in 1985—so Yamaha decided to keep their young rider on the sidelines until he got some supercross practice in.

          “Atlanta was my very first supercross,” says Lechien, who today works with his father, Dick Lechien, at Maxima in El Cajon.

          “We were concentrating on the 125cc Nationals that year and Yamaha kept me out of the first three races. I don’t think they wanted to throw me to the wolves too early!

          “Atlanta was just the full-on mudder,” says Lechien, who was affectionately referred to as “Dogger” not for only his laid-back attitude, but also because Lechien means “the dog” in French.

          “I rode the last-chance qualifi