If You Could Change SX / MX History

I would bring back the 125 class at the national level. Biggest single fuckup ever in the sport here in the US as far as I'm concerned. Anyone who couldn't see that a 250F was legalized cheating was a complete and total idiot allowing it equal footing against the 125.

I wish that David Bailey would not have gone to Huron, and Danny Storbeck would have not raced at Gatorback in 89.

Would it be ok if we inserted my name into any blank where it says Ricky Carmichael?

Other than that all of the above along with Magoo, Henry, Button......

I'd kill the YZ400F program.

I would change a couple things:

1. 2-strokes/4-strokes: Supercross would be 2-stroke only and Motocross would be either/or. The Lites Mx class could run a 175f/200f 4-stroke, and the Motocross class could run a 300f or 350f 4-stroke.

2. Kawi actually resigns Stewart in 2009.

3. Red backgrounds never happen, along with any other color other than black on white (Mx class) and white on black (Lites class), and the previous champs always have to run #1

4. The numbering system never went to the crappy permanent numbering system. All the points would remain tallied at the end of the season, and a number was assigned starting with #2.


If all of these things remained and changed, I would be stoked.

I would have MC stick around like Windham has. I just like watching both those guys ride...

If I drew a better spoon at Loretta Lynn's, MX history would have changed. At least that's where I place the blame for my lifelong moto failures.

No injuries

I'd replace Youthstream with someone who actually cared about the riders and the teams.

i would have 2, in 2007 BT~ would not have crashed at budds creek des nations, not injuring his shoulder,

and Josh Coppins brakes would not have failed in Loket that year either, so he could have won the MX1 title,

As far as individual events, Cooper saves it when he does the freestyle move at Atlanta in '89 and wins his first ever SX over Stanton and Johnson....and Bradshaw doesn't choke at LA and beats Stanton for the Supercross title, just because then maybe the beast would not have retired and would have been ending his dynasty/rivalry against MC about the time that RC moved up to the big bikes....

As far as sport trends, The most importnt thing I would have done is make the SX series two stroke only.

Talk about the modern racing all you want now, but if the talent pool we have now was on 250 2 strokes, the racing would be like the old Grand national mile races.

More lead changes than you can count, and you wouldn't really want to be leading when the white flag came out because the last lap would be like a white flag/green flag finish in nascar, and you would be the one with the target on your sideplate.

in GP racing, Vromans wouldn't have turned the wrong way, and Lackey would have spanked him anyway, and Billy Liles wouldn't have crashed while leading the 500 GP points and broken his femur.

Another vote for Bailey never getting injured

Bring back the works bikes

X10

I wish we wouldn't have lost great tracks like Carlsbad.
I wish Yamaha would've stayed yellow and black
I wish I never would've gotten rid of all my old racing gear on ebay 10 years ago to get some beer money
I wish fluorescent colored apparel never would've come out, because I looked like a damn clown in them in the early 1990's
I wish Damon Bradshaw would've won the 1989 125 National Championship, instead of Kiedrowski.
I wish Box vans were still used instead of team semi's now
I wish people still wore chest protectors and kidney belts

last but not least............... I wish I would've bought a TUF t-shirt that said "Big Doubles, No Troubles".
Life goes on though.

x3

X4, and add Magoo, and Fonseca, and button,

and RJ's wrist, and Reynard's shoulder, and Schultz's knees, and Broc Hepler's brain, and all those that never realized their true potential.

no injuries.
no yz 400's
no bradshaw burnout
no dogger drugs
no cagiva for marty smith
no slutbag leticia kline banging pro's hubbys

I would've kept riding with Jimmy Button and Jimmy Gaddis and moved to Cali so i could've done a few rounds myself, oh and i'd kick the guy in the nuts that approved the name "Lites" class.

No waterskiing for Hannah

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I'd outlaw all the bitchers and criers about "poor old 2 strokes"... fucking fuck...give it a rest!

criers are going to cry about something. Just outlaw crying and bitching. Topic is irrelevant.

my aunt would have nuts and take me hunting and give me weed and beer when i was 12 instead of knitting me gay sweaters and making me try her key lime pie

Reed wins SX title in 03... So we don't have to hear he never beat RC for a title!

If I could only change one thing, than in order of preference:

1. I would change every accident every rider had that resulted in their death.

2. I would change every accident that resulted in a rider's paralysis.

3. I would change every accident that resulted in a career ending injury.