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Good article by Gary.
http://www.racerxvt.com/article/what-were-the-parents-not-thinking
I once saw two riders stop in the middle of the track, actually parked on the downside of a tabletop, sitting there talking, in the middle of a day practice. I mean, do you have a functioning brain cell in your head?
At the races once in Pa. there was a kid doing full throttle starts through the pits. Treating the pit lane like a start strip. Two elderly people were sitting there and said something to the mom proudly watching- she proceeded to start screaming curse words at them.
Once I was at a Virginia track where there was only a couple bikes riding. Dad is standing there watching while his kid plays in the dirt, on the face of giant step up. The kid has 50 acres to play in, and he's got to sit in the dirt a foot away from where 450s are launching a giant jump.
It's just a stunning level of stupidity I see almost every time I go to the track. What's up with that? is it just the general love of risk?
http://www.racerxvt.com/article/what-were-the-parents-not-thinking
I once saw two riders stop in the middle of the track, actually parked on the downside of a tabletop, sitting there talking, in the middle of a day practice. I mean, do you have a functioning brain cell in your head?
At the races once in Pa. there was a kid doing full throttle starts through the pits. Treating the pit lane like a start strip. Two elderly people were sitting there and said something to the mom proudly watching- she proceeded to start screaming curse words at them.
Once I was at a Virginia track where there was only a couple bikes riding. Dad is standing there watching while his kid plays in the dirt, on the face of giant step up. The kid has 50 acres to play in, and he's got to sit in the dirt a foot away from where 450s are launching a giant jump.
It's just a stunning level of stupidity I see almost every time I go to the track. What's up with that? is it just the general love of risk?
they do wheelies, stir up tons of dust and ride with shorts and a t shirt.
for crying out loud, there are 5,000 acres of virgin sand, great jumps, and no people around out there.
they trying to show off or something, i dunno...
I think dirtbike riders in general are idiots
I love this sport, but it is a magnet for dumb asses.
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She can barely get up and over some of the steeper areas of the track.
Appearantly he had a bike problem recently and she wasn't aware dad wasn't back there and there was a close call. He couldn't understand why he got so much negative attention on the Houston MX message board.
Complete pinhead, he asked how he's supposed to get his girl ready for LL if she can't ride the main track. He's going to have a lot more than LL's to worry about when she gets landed on by a 450....
Maybe it's just me, but little kids should be able to abuse those 50's in a field before ever rolling onto a track. If you can't run that thing wide open and man handle it on flat ground, a track is no place to learn, with or without big bikes on it....
pretty dumb move right there
Onion, all I's gots to say.
1. 50's and ultra beginners on 60's or XR's
2. 60's and 80's
3. Beginner and novice big bikes
4. Intermediates and experts big bikes.
Yes there was some down time, but eliminated practice accidents. One accident is too many.
Most of what is being discussed comes down to track owner's aswell. If I was running a track and saw a kid/parent doing half the things that have been mentioned, they would be asked to park it until they can figure out how the system works. JMO though
I call that "rest time"!
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