Has Reed faced the toughest SX competition over time?

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Edited Date/Time 12/26/2014 2:38am
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps, and more....what say all of you?
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2QK4U 12/24/2014 5:05pm
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bents wrote:
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps...
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps, and more....what say all of you?
You forgot RV.

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Zracer 12/24/2014 5:49pm
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No ,but the fastest competition , absolutely.
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the_wood109 12/24/2014 6:05pm
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Check out the racerX articles for a history lesson. Reed is one of the greatest riders that the sport has ever known.
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downard254 12/24/2014 6:14pm
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He has faced some good ones. Now if only he could have had a shot at Hannah, Barnet, Bailey, Ward, Johnson, Lechien, Stanton, Bayle, Bradshaw, Emig, and a few others, he would have tried them all.
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Skippie 12/24/2014 6:29pm
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the_wood109 wrote:
Check out the racerX articles for a history lesson. Reed is one of the greatest riders that the sport has ever known.
No one is denying that, just saying that over the span of his long career he has faced some of the best this sport has seen (MC, RC, Stewart, Dungey, RV etc.) while still in their prime.
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machine 12/24/2014 7:11pm
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Yes and he's drug free..
dirtworldmx 12/24/2014 7:14pm
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bents wrote:
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps...
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps, and more....what say all of you?
Yeah, I'm going to argue that Jeff Ward has faced tougher SX competition in their prime and beat them all. Glover, Bell, Sun, Barnett, Hansen, Bailey, Hannah, O'Mara, Stanton, Bayle, Bradshaw. The argument for Reed is solid, but only time will tell if half of THAT list become the legends that I've included on mine.
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Yes and he's drug free..
SickSickSick
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TDeath21 12/24/2014 7:48pm
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Definitely. He has went up against Carmichael, Villopoto, and Stewart, all in their prime.
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bents wrote:
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps...
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps, and more....what say all of you?
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You forgot RV.
That was on purpose. Sick
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Wtf he didn't race lusk in his prime.. when lusk was beating mc in what 98-99 reed wasn't in big bikes... Lusk on the kawi did good but wasn't his prime like his Honda days
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Motodave15 12/24/2014 9:38pm
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But yes reed has faced some very tough competition
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bents 12/24/2014 11:00pm
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bents wrote:
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps...
Outside of MC winding down, Reed has faced the best of the best in their prime. RC, JS, Lusk, Windham. Now Dungey, Tomac, Canard, Barcia, Milsaps, and more....what say all of you?
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You forgot RV.
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That was on purpose. Sick
Sorry it was not. I totally meant to include RV in this list. Although I do agree that dirtworldmx has a great list, I would respectfully argue that Reed had to race the 3 most dominant riders ever in RV, JS, and RC. And Dungey is quickly climbing into this category. Then there are the rest of the new breed, with better training, sport science, and technology behind them.

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Whitey 12/24/2014 11:08pm
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bents wrote:
Sorry it was not. I totally meant to include RV in this list. Although I do agree that dirtworldmx has a great list, I would respectfully...
Sorry it was not. I totally meant to include RV in this list. Although I do agree that dirtworldmx has a great list, I would respectfully argue that Reed had to race the 3 most dominant riders ever in RV, JS, and RC. And Dungey is quickly climbing into this category. Then there are the rest of the new breed, with better training, sport science, and technology behind them.
You don't think Jeremy was more dominant than Ryan, Ricky and James? wow
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bents 12/24/2014 11:13pm
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Only that he didn't really race him in his prime, not disputing Jeremy as the king of sx. Outside of his numbers, RC, JS, and RV have pretty much put a lock on total wins and podiums indoors and out as well.
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Yes and he's drug free..
I dunno man, according to WADA, caffine is a PED, and Im pretty sure ive seen him drinking coffee before
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mayzo 12/25/2014 12:19am
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I'd say yes, took him on in Gosford years ago and although he was a full lap ahead of me. My bike finished the race.
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mayzo wrote:
I'd say yes, took him on in Gosford years ago and although he was a full lap ahead of me. My bike finished the race. Merry...
I'd say yes, took him on in Gosford years ago and although he was a full lap ahead of me. My bike finished the race.
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Watching him ride those two times at gosford was fucking hectic: that yz was getting flogged. All I could think was if that is "smooth" what the fuck does Rc look like...

Reeeeeediculous!
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davis224 12/25/2014 4:59am
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I would say Windham might have the edge, he raced against (and beat) RV, all the way back to MC in his prime.
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TD248 12/25/2014 8:05am
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Id say Larocco is probably a good candidate
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bents 12/25/2014 9:01am
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Both Windham and LaRocco are both excellent candidates too. My only point with these two would that they were not consistently at the same level fighting for wins and championships although Windham did occasionally. Often Reed, RV, RC, and JS (or a combination of this group) put the hurt on the field pretty quickly and seemed to be in another race.
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Skippie 12/25/2014 9:40am
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Whitey wrote:
You don't think Jeremy was more dominant than Ryan, Ricky and James? wow
In supercross yes, but not so much outdoors. And as already brought out, MC was winding down as Chad reed was starting to come into the picture.
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Wtf he didn't race lusk in his prime.. when lusk was beating mc in what 98-99 reed wasn't in big bikes... Lusk on the kawi did...
Wtf he didn't race lusk in his prime.. when lusk was beating mc in what 98-99 reed wasn't in big bikes... Lusk on the kawi did good but wasn't his prime like his Honda days
Did Lusk even have a prime ? He was fast but it was out of control fast and he would crash at least once almost every race, yes he beat MC a few times but not even in the same league.
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The Rock 12/25/2014 10:10am
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Lusk raced 16 days (or was it even less than that?) after getting his forearn plated.

Color me impressed.

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