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8/22/2012 5:58am
Moto 2 first left hand turn. Tickle pushes Alessi wide going into it so Alessi goes inside the barrier and barrel, making no attempt to stay on the track and comes out ahead of Tickle. Tickle would have had the pass if Joelessi ((c) BROtocross) hadn't cheated.
Props to Chiz who went wide to but did not follow. Got back on the track and raced.
Props to Chiz who went wide to but did not follow. Got back on the track and raced.
Hard for me to get past this....
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Just curious if anybody else on this forum has ever been an 18 year old "kid" that was expect to set the MX world on fire..... I'd imagine the stresses associated with that would be hard to deal with. Look at JLaw....
Now, granted, I don't have a lot of knowledge about amateur days drama, but that's ancient history.
Watch any of the starts from Unadilla and you will see about 1/3 of the pack drift wide in the 1st turn and go outside the yellow markers and not 1 of them shuts off.
If that wasn't your brother would you be saying the same thing?
I watched it a few times and he had plenty of room to get back on the track.
Mike hung around the MXdN VIP tent and signed autographs with Cairoli for a long time after the US team got shuffled away after only about ten minutes. Youthstream made some big promises and failed to deliver. Mike wasn't part of it, yet he hung out and made a bunch of fans and delivered a little bit of what Youthstream failed to.
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I wish sometimes he would quit looking back, trying to be a roadblock, and just look forward. However, he did win a moto at Washougal, and that's all the record books will say. Not HOW he won it.
Say what you want, but the speed and results he's pulling off on privateer equipment are impressive. Yes, maybe if everyone else was healthy he wouldn't be that high in the pecking order. As the old saying goes, "You have to be in it to win it". He is.
I only see these professionals once or twice a year. Got to know a little about Mike and the clan while they worked at Millville a few years back.
One thing I'll say is, Mike did a great job of interacting with his fans on a Thursday night during a track building contest by the creek that runs through the track. While most of the other top pro's were snugged in their home away from home, he was out judging tracks that kids built in the sand and make that activity something special by not rushing through it.
It would be a good lesson for some of the other top riders in the sport to learn from. The fans are what makes them big. Once you get too busy for them, you've fallen away from the real meaning of why you do what you do...
I have respect for all the riders following the circiut, trying to scratch out a living from something they love.
He's on somewhat thin ice, albeit that ice is growing thicker every weekend.
I am not a huge Alessi fan, but he has grown on me this year. His humility has been great to witness and he seems a bit more grounded than in years past. People slam him for his blabbering podium speeches, but I really like them. Honestly, I'll fast forward through about everyone else's broken record on the podium and listen to his.
He definitely has a past, and he works on moving past that and making people forget about it, and then he will do something (ie: brake checking at Millville, cross jumping at Hangtown, etc...) that keeps making an impact on his efforts. It seems to be 3 steps forward and 2 steps back for Alessi.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I would kill to do what Alessi is doing for a living. I would kill to have his skills on a bike. He doesn't have to worry about my opinion of him or anyone else's.
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