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What do you all think?
This material could be wrapped around a tough bolck and held in place with something as small as a sewing needle if so desired. Even in 1/8 to 3/16 thnkness's the material would stil have a very readable full body appearance. The best advantage is with it's light weight and porr tensile strength, is if were to sperate from its substrate it would still maintain most of its rigidity and deflect off a bike. If it were to somehow to find its way into the spokes or sprokets the material would desinergrate with in seconds. Best of all the material would be comparative if not less than the material currently being used.
BRING BACK THE HAYBALES!!!!
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Since it's the sponsors that want the covers to be seen, it would seem reasonable for them to cover the cost of new, safer covers. I would think a tube cover, open on one end, think of a pillow cover, with a bungee at the opening to keep them tight would be easy to install and when placed with the open end away from the direction of travel, would keep them from being pulled off.
In tight turns a special tuff block is not needed, in my opinion.
Instead, stacking the blocks to shoulder height would keep riders from hooking them with their pegs, as they lean in for the turn their shoulders would be against the blocks. The extra height would allow bigger ad space and if cover was made to go over 3 blocks it would secure the blocks together so they wouldn’t easily fall over.
The viewing public might complain for a while because of the reduced visibility in these turns but they would adapt and tv camera crews would find ways to set up that would minimize the restrictions.
One more thing to add;
If you feel passionate about getting these changed, why not send Feld an email offering your thoughts about the safety of the tuff block covers and offer them a solution.
http://www.feldentertainment.com/Contact/
I agree. I think this could be a great solution.
You ever own a boat? You know the keychain floaty thing that the dealer hands you when you take possession (usually anyway). It's a very shiny, slick piece of cushy foam, printed in very bright, hi res color with a logo on it. I feel that this would be a perfect material for a tough block. They are very durable, don't fade and are hard to scratch.
I think that you could direct injection mold them with a hollow core and they could last an entire season.
I might get them quoted and forward it to Feld. You could probably buy three sets for less than the cost of the hors d'oeuvre's at the supercross finale party.
Also, we always had a walk way between all the lanes of the track.That way you could run two sets of the regular blocks into the corner, and use the round block as a cap right in the corner. Last week at LA, they were using one line of blocks to separate the lanes....not enough room IMO..
They should raise the cost of it for sponsors a little to paint them, I'm sure everyone would be ok with it seeing what we just witnessed...
Pit Row
My suggestions for a name for the current offering:
Felds money maker blocks
Paralyzer blocks
Circus blocks
Weak tit blocks
Fag blocks
Gay ass blocks
Dumb ass track barriers
We don't give a fuck about the riders blocks
(No offense intended to dudes who like to suck it)
Just thankful that it was a Honda banner that caused the incident. Now they get to pay their own rider several million dollars with zero exposure. Great advertising Honda. Smart move.
After hearing Larry Brooks talk about this issue going on for the past fucken 10 years and NOTHING being done it got me a little pissed off. NOT sorry for the rant.
From 2 years ago:
Daystar99 wrote: Tough block covers coming off and affecting the outcome of a race and the riders' safety is just unacceptable and, considering how many good alternatives are available, borderline pathetic. This type of thing, besides being so dangerous, isn't "just part of racing" - it's so random and unpredictable and so potentially dire that it wrecks the race. There - I feel so much better after that - I was so absolutely pissed after first JB and then CP both hooked those damn things. This is going to be a close championship and it would be damned sad to have it decided by something as capricious as a tough block cover.
I see way more pros than cons by doing something like this. Plus the logos would be easier for the viewer to see since most of the tv stuff is shot from arial views.
Somebody send this to head office, STAT.
Someone with connections should run this by Feld or Asterisk (where's the Docs - I know they pass thru here once in a while) or the teams or something.
Aside from advertising, they are also there to help keep bikes in their lanes.
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