Tony A goes to Reed for advice?

* wrote:

I like Alessi and hope he gets his moto life on track. It's a hard thing to do and they only have a few years to...

I like Alessi and hope he gets his moto life on track. It's a hard thing to do and they only have a few years to, "Get it right" at this level....Also, Most of us haven't any clue on how to get our own shit together, yet give advice to other families on how to live their lives! Alessis are good people doing it the way they think is best.

Americans - we're boring, ironic, intolerant people. If we were just more tolerant and not so susceptible to the herd mentality, we'd be much better. We can't think.....no one here can think for themselves anymore...Everything's just one big fucking extension of Facebook these days: "You look HOT, Babe!"

Fuck that.

jndmx wrote:

You don't see the inherent irony of posting your "extension of Facebook" rant here on an internet chat board?

3D wrote:

For Reed, it's a pretty easy answer. "Hey Tony, Get the fuck out of Mike's racing career and let the team take care of him. They...

For Reed, it's a pretty easy answer.
"Hey Tony, Get the fuck out of Mike's racing career and let the team take care of him. They know better than you. Then, as a Father, you can sit back and watch him win."

bobby397 wrote:

about time!!! if they had done that when he was on lites bikes, i wonder if his career would have been different? prob so.............

Rudeboy119 wrote:

8 pages minimum

ando wrote:

To be a fly on the wall during that discussion. I wonder if Reed was as brutally honest as he's been recently in other interviews? On...

To be a fly on the wall during that discussion. I wonder if Reed was as brutally honest as he's been recently in other interviews?

On a serious note, there are some aspects of these two guys that are poles apart. One guy has parents that didn't want him to race dirtbikes as a kid, he did anyway, packed up his life with his girlfriend at age 18, left his family behind and moved to the other side of the world to follow his dream, and has ended up winning just about everything there is to win in world MX/SX. The other guy has been groomed from the start to be a motocross champion, won everything as an amateur, yet has faltered in the professional ranks with many observers believing his parental guidance has been his Achilles heel.

* wrote:

Good post. Huge contrasts in the paths each of those two took to get where they are right now - Reed fucked off to the GPs...

Good post.

Huge contrasts in the paths each of those two took to get where they are right now - Reed fucked off to the GPs at 17 and has been on his own for the last 13 years or so and then Alessi who has had his Dad in his corner for ever step along the way here in the U.S.

Of course which story have we been more likely to romanticize the most in the U.S.?

bobby397 wrote:

about time!!! if they had done that when he was on lites bikes, i wonder if his career would have been different? prob so.............

* wrote:

What the fuck do you know?

Outsider wrote:

Reed's story is far more inspiring and closer to my own... minus the championships, money, fame... other than that, frighteningly similar!

chrisbuehler wrote:

I don't know who trains Mike but guessing they have their own "program". I find it hard to believe that he's not training enough so maybe...

I don't know who trains Mike but guessing they have their own "program". I find it hard to believe that he's not training enough so maybe it's just the opposite he's burned out, overtrained. From watching the Inside the Outdoors shows it's a strong possibility. One show Mike is saying he felt sick and Tony's response was something like "You want to be soft or do you want to be hard?" Training while you're sick is worse than not training at all. The body needs time to recover.

jasonv43 wrote:

I'm gonna guess that it had something to do with image management and how to make MA more appealing to the masses and not such a...

I'm gonna guess that it had something to do with image management and how to make MA more appealing to the masses and not such a sore subject all the time.

This is something that the greats: RC, JS, CR have all had to go through in their careers.

But then again, what do I know? Absolutely nothing, that's why it's a guess.

jasonv43 wrote:

I'm gonna guess that it had something to do with image management and how to make MA more appealing to the masses and not such a...

I'm gonna guess that it had something to do with image management and how to make MA more appealing to the masses and not such a sore subject all the time.

This is something that the greats: RC, JS, CR have all had to go through in their careers.

But then again, what do I know? Absolutely nothing, that's why it's a guess.

GrapeApe wrote:

All the Alessi's care about is winning; they couldn't care less about appealing to the masses. The more people dog pile on them the hungrier they...

All the Alessi's care about is winning; they couldn't care less about appealing to the masses. The more people dog pile on them the hungrier they get for a championship, to the point it may be counter-productive. If Mikey ever won a championship the "I told you so" posts from AAA, track guy, and Rocket Launcher would be epic.

I think they should ask Windham for advice. Afterall, Mikey showed KW how to double through whoops at the Honda test track so KW owes him one.

fasteddie69 wrote:

I have said in other MA800 posts that I believe his results this year indicate the possibility of overtraining. It is something that his team should...

I have said in other MA800 posts that I believe his results this year indicate the possibility of overtraining.



It is something that his team should look into.

A rest could also remind him of why he rides a bike.....it is meant to be fun isn't it?!!

fasteddie69 wrote:

I have said in other MA800 posts that I believe his results this year indicate the possibility of overtraining. It is something that his team should...

I have said in other MA800 posts that I believe his results this year indicate the possibility of overtraining.



It is something that his team should look into.

A rest could also remind him of why he rides a bike.....it is meant to be fun isn't it?!!

* wrote:

fasteddie69,

Can I quote you on that?

jasonv43 wrote:

I'm gonna guess that it had something to do with image management and how to make MA more appealing to the masses and not such a...

I'm gonna guess that it had something to do with image management and how to make MA more appealing to the masses and not such a sore subject all the time.

This is something that the greats: RC, JS, CR have all had to go through in their careers.

But then again, what do I know? Absolutely nothing, that's why it's a guess.

GrapeApe wrote:

All the Alessi's care about is winning; they couldn't care less about appealing to the masses. The more people dog pile on them the hungrier they...

All the Alessi's care about is winning; they couldn't care less about appealing to the masses. The more people dog pile on them the hungrier they get for a championship, to the point it may be counter-productive. If Mikey ever won a championship the "I told you so" posts from AAA, track guy, and Rocket Launcher would be epic.

I think they should ask Windham for advice. Afterall, Mikey showed KW how to double through whoops at the Honda test track so KW owes him one.

fasteddie69 wrote:

I have said in other MA800 posts that I believe his results this year indicate the possibility of overtraining. It is something that his team should...

I have said in other MA800 posts that I believe his results this year indicate the possibility of overtraining.



It is something that his team should look into.

A rest could also remind him of why he rides a bike.....it is meant to be fun isn't it?!!

* wrote:

fasteddie69,

Can I quote you on that?

EmDub425 wrote:

says Matthes. "I know that Tony Alessi pulled Reed in for a meeting on Friday to get his thoughts on how to get out of this...

says Matthes.


"I know that Tony Alessi pulled Reed in for a meeting on Friday to get his thoughts on how to get out of this slump and I was asked my opinion on a few things as well, Team Alessi is really trying hard to figure this thing out."

READY.................................. GO!