Who is your favorite rider and why?

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Doug Henry because he is a badass.
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gsxrcr28 4/18/2012 7:43am
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Current -
Stewart - just to help offset his douchebag Haters

All time -
Marty Smith
Dymond
Lechein
RJ
Matiasevich
Emig
Lusk
RC
JLaw

Reasons for all of them is their style or they had a lot of Haters.
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Local boy, kicking the world's ass since 2006.

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ninesevenfour 4/18/2012 7:59am
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My favorite rider of all time: The Goat. Pretty much self-explanatory.

Favorite Current Rider: Kyle Partridge. Got to hang out with him a couple times, cool dude!

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Arnoud tonus, simply awesome style.
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Tarz483 4/18/2012 10:47am
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1st Fave Damon Bradshaw , stylish and ooozed Cool Smile

2nd Jeremy mcgrath , so dominant

3rd Rick Carmichael , can u say determination !!

4th Travis Pastrana awsome bike control , and absolutely fearless/insane lol

current

1 Chad Reed , just awsome and stylish

2 Ryan Dungey he's smooth and Won every available Cship , and i live in minnesota Smile

3 Ryan Villopoto , he is The MAN right now !! Prob should be #1 but i cant help but go for the underdog sometimes.

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valvesr4wimps 4/18/2012 11:07am
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Current? Ricky Renner.

Past? Doug Henry

I seem to have a soft spot for the guys that buck the flow
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Ricky Carmichael

Rick Johnson

Guy Cooper
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Torco1 4/18/2012 11:42am
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Emig has always been my favorite rider. I don't really know why, I just liked him from his #6 Yamaha days and on. When I finally got to meet and hangout him through work it really made me like him even more. WIndham is a close second.
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jasonv43 4/18/2012 11:47am
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Torco1 hands down!!!

Without a doubt one of the best if not the best. Funny as hell and smoooooth with the ladies. Cooler then the other side of the pillow.
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dboivin 4/18/2012 11:47am
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DD for throwin the horns. He just bumped all my favorites down a notch. He also speaks unfiltered..much like Hannah.
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Best rider of the future will be AC92! He will break all the records....IMHO
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fader418 wrote:
Best rider of the future will be AC92! He will break all the records....IMHO
Buddy Antunez was really hot coming out of the amateurs.
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Then Guy Cooper
Now Chad Reed
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blusmbl 4/18/2012 12:37pm
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I can only narrow mine down to a top 4.

#1 Stewart - he changed the game on how to ride a dirt bike, and was the baddest dude ever on a 125. I also share a birthday with him, and he gave me free VIP passes to Indy this year!

#2 Emig - I have to support anybody with the style to pull off Frezno Smooth. Seems really cool, down to earth, and funny.

#3 JMB- incredibly smooth, made riding look effortless. Just unbelievably talented on a motorcycle, and very humble.

#4 DV12 - been a fan since watching his original epic goon ride video on his YZ250. Seems great with the fans, he is way more active on twitter than anybody else, and I appreciate his humor. Also doesn't seem afraid to call it like he sees it with the current season of SX.
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ocscottie 4/18/2012 12:41pm
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as far as current riders, do i even have to say it? Cool
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I'd imagine for anyone who got into the sport in the '90s like me it would be McGrath. Everything about the guy just oozed awesomeness.

I'm a fan of everyone really, but MC still has 'em all covered.
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" LA CABRA"

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Torco1 4/18/2012 2:18pm
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jasonv43 wrote:
Torco1 hands down!!! Without a doubt one of the best if not the best. Funny as hell and smoooooth with the ladies. Cooler then the other...
Torco1 hands down!!!

Without a doubt one of the best if not the best. Funny as hell and smoooooth with the ladies. Cooler then the other side of the pillow.
When are you going to be back this way again? It's about time to dust off the BBQ.
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WhKnuckle 4/18/2012 2:21pm
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Favorite ever - Roger DeCoster. Everytime I go through the uphill lefthand sweeper at Rio Bravo, I remember how he did that turn.

Favorite current - KDub. He's the Zen Master of Motocross.

Most incredible rider I ever saw - Stewart. I know that a lot of very hard-core insiders with decades of experience used to go watch him ride and just walked away shaking their heads in disbelief.
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tbanks 4/18/2012 2:24pm
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Trey Canard, for his style and his attitude.

Followed by James Stewart, RV, Deano, and Metty.
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Whknuckle-finally someone else says DeCoster! Had a poster of him on my wall and being a 5 time world champion had a pretty impressive ring to it. When he went 1-1 at his last GP ever, and then hung it up at like 36 yrs old, I thought that was the coolest possible way to go out! Then I have to go with the GOAT. Then I have to go with MC, the king.

Currently it's Dungey and Reed on the big bikes. Wilson in the two fiddy class.

I gotta say Mookie is growing on me-the kid just lays it down!
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Bob "hurricane" Hannah. There have been a lot of great riders since he ritired.
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slowvet 4/18/2012 4:58pm
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Back in the day, DeCoster, Pomeroy Jim. Current, James Bubba Sturt.
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Jean Michel Bayle ... smoothest guy to ever ride! I know many will mention KW and Pourcel as the smoothest but if anyone ever watched Bayle he was just unbelievable. Pourcel copied him and in my opinion is not as fluid. Bayle has very little body movement on the bike and his throttle control is just masterful.

A perfect example is the 1992 Charlotte Supercross. Bayle passes Stanton and they both go over a dragon back type obstacle. Bayle rides over it effortlessly while Stanton jumps into it and kinda bulldogs the bike through the obstacle. JMB's style is poetry in motion.

Here's the vid (see at 1:20):

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Pastrana...he pinned until he lead or crashed...awesome dude...great smile...hot wife...the life IMHO
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jasonv43 4/18/2012 9:24pm
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Torco1 hands down!!! Without a doubt one of the best if not the best. Funny as hell and smoooooth with the ladies. Cooler then the other...
Torco1 hands down!!!

Without a doubt one of the best if not the best. Funny as hell and smoooooth with the ladies. Cooler then the other side of the pillow.
Torco1 wrote:
When are you going to be back this way again? It's about time to dust off the BBQ.
Sounds like a plan. I'll let you know.
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travis199...he's always been his own man and been a winner at everything he's tried!
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hammertime 4/18/2012 11:01pm
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Teej317 wrote:
CP377...effortless speed
JS7 (or rather JS259)...fearless
pourcel??

worst pick ever, the dude's a quitter and a fag!
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Uncleof2 4/18/2012 11:44pm
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Ryan Daniel Villopoto cause he is my nephew and Iike pilotdude and RC said
"He is the number 1 guy in the world right now. " He's pretty much same guy
now as he's always been. Made it a point to come to my daughters reveal party
tonite and was just one of the young people there.

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