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Jan 25, 2021 · Nineteen eighty AMA Supercross Champion Mike Bell passed away yesterday after suffering a heart attack while mountain-biking near his home in Southern California. Bell was a longtime Yamaha...
Michael R. Bell (August 8, 1957 – January 25, 2021) was an American professional motocross and mountain bike racer. He competed in the AMA Motocross Championships from 1976 to 1983. Bell was a member of the Yamaha factory racing team for his entire motocross career, winning the AMA Supercross Championship in 1980.
Jan 29, 2021 · Mike Bell, who won the 1980 AMA Supercross Championship and 20 AMA and Trans-AMA events, passed away from a heart attack while mountain biking. He was a versatile and stylish rider who rode for Team Yamaha and was inducted in the AMA Hall of Fame in 2000.
- Jody Weisel
Jan 27, 2021 · Coming from a racing family, Mike’s biggest accomplishment in motocross was claiming the number-one plate for the AMA Supercross series in 1978. Before the year was out, we called on Mike once again to serve as a test rider for the first-ever Manitou built by Doug Bradbury.
We lost an unsung hero this weekend when Mike “Too Tall” Bell passed away at the age of 63. Mike was a fixture for Team Yamaha winning a Supercross Championship in 1980. Mike’s first SX victory came at the 1978 Superbowl of Motocross at the L.A. Coliseum and he shadowed Danny LaPorte in the 500 Nationals in 1979 narrowly missing the title ...
Jan 25, 2021 · Mike Bell, one of America’s leading Supercross and motocross racers of the late 1970s and early ’80s, has died. He was 63.
Jan 25, 2021 · PICKERINGTON, Ohio — Mike Bell, one of America’s leading Supercross and motocross racers of the late 1970s and early ’80s, has died. He was 63. Born on Aug. 8, 1957, in Los Angeles, Mr. Bell began riding at age 10 in the mountains near that city, but he did not start racing until he was 14.
