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Mike Alessi
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Wow...some of you guys are easily angered..make yourself a cocktail and relax
First I would cry wondering how the F*ck I got there, who drugged me to get me there, and it would just go down hill from that point....
Their goals obviously meant a lot to them so who am I to hate or ridicule? I get smoked by local kids every time I ride a track.
The thing that really bugs me about Mike is ( and this comes from watching the sport for 35+ yrs )......He does NOT give himself enough credit. To me he seems like he's already beaten before he gets to the gate. If he could some how figure out a way to relax , come down from being so high toned and just ENJOY IT......I think he and everyone else would be amazed at what he could do on his bike.
He has always been capable of so much more......but for some reason he has always taken it " Too serious "......and lost all the fun and what the sport is about. When you chill out.......is when a guy can ride his best.
Get that fucking knee fixed Mike....and get your ass back out there! There is a lot more racing in your career to be done. You quit now , you'll regret it for the rest of your life.
Just my $.02 here.
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Life is short and the window of opportunity for a professional racer is even shorter.....so I hope he makes the best of it. You only get one shot....and I feel Mikes best days are still ahead of him....not behind him. I hope we see him back out there hammering down soon with a big fat smile on his face and having fun. I'm tellin ya.....when you get in that mode , the results get better.......everything is just better. But what the hell do i know?
JUST when he (and Peick) get to their highest point, boom, the SX track design takes them out.
I, for one, would love to see SX tracks more like in the 70's come back, or at least a version of those tracks, where the riders are actually on the dirt racing most of the time rather than sailing through the air with the potential for disaster in front of them in the form of a HIGH pointed mound of dirt, every three feet around the entire track.
but you have to consider that this is a living in usa these kids grow up racing day in and day out.
most off them did not go to public school and where homeschooled so they had more time on the bike probably spend months on the road traveling and going from local to national events just to make a career in this sport.
and for Mike the transition from amateur's to pro's has been very hard he was winning 9 out of 10 races in the amateurs against RV and other top riders of this generation, the moment they turned pro RV amazingly found something and ever since mike has been beaten more often than he ever was used too. It's not that he was not working or training for it and to keep coming back after some serious injury's and finally making a heat win in his pro career last year i can only imagine how it feld like after all those years working his ass off. i do admit it was a little dramatic and embarrassing at one point.
with his heat win last weekend you clearly could see he could cry but he managed to keep in control of his emotions and that makes me happy
Outside looking in, on many of them, but especially Mike who was SOOOO heralded, I bet he's not thought of much else as his career has gone on and he hasn't maybe achieved what all would have expected of him...
Reality is, he's clearly nice, a bit odd, and still quick as fuck on a bike.
I'm sometimes nice, weird as shit and old and slow. So who are we to judge?
(Unless you punt someone. Then you're fucked!)
Do Swedish athletes not cry much?
Hoping for good things for Mike. Keep your head up keep charging.
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