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and you guys whining about kids size and they should move up...you are definition of vitards. that kids runnin for the lead and jumping everything in the building and you complain? seriously? ....."sandbagger"???? you guys are incredibly stupid.
only problem for the mini's was that stupid bump double coming outa the talevega corner thing. that definitely caused a lot of problems for the mini's.
However, I was at the race and it was the talk of the pits. Then again, a couple years later, I spent a month with Shae doing another project and he told the story to a bunch of us working.
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Emig was way off in his comments that a young riders pro career will be based largely on the nights results.
The carnage was entertaining for sure, but the general public got turned off. F1 became more of a specialized sub-culture. In the 1980s, most people knew who Jackie Stewart (and Mario) was, but not Nelson Piquet.
You'v never heard the term "Bone Stock?". Jeez and I thought you knew everything.
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Try to follow me. (I don't know why I put myself through responding to your posts but, you got me)
"Bone stock' is slang. Just like "Box stock". Both of which mean completely stock machines with no changes whatsoever. Follow me?
So, Shae was riding a bone stock Kawasaki Supermini. Meaning it was there just to show the newscaster how to ride up and down the start straight. It had no suspension work, no aftermarket pipe or aftermarket parts whatsoever.
I am sure you know Shae, feel free to fact check my little trip down memory lane I have shared with you all.
The point of this story is that all those kids last night could have easily jumped the triple. The bikes were more than capable.
does that clear it up for you? Or are you going to have any other useless fact seeking questions?
Like I said, Shae did it in 99 at a real SX venue during a real Thursday morning show pass conference. Now, Shae was a SX championship contending 125cc rider at the time so his skill is a lot higher then the kids we watched last night. However, the machine was or is capable.
SX triples are the same exact distance week in and week out. They aren't that big. Heck, the finish last night was probably longer in distance. What used to make a SX triple difficult is not the distance of the jump but the obstacle before it. This day and age with the power of the four strokes, they aren't difficult for the pro field at all. If a stock Supermini has a decent run at it, it will make it just fine. It's been done.
Even the Pro's.
Watching it there...last-nite...
I was impressed with the Super-Minis.
VERY Impressed. Watching the Japanese kid on the #7 was like watching James on the Kawi...spectacular...TP199 kinda Spectacular.
Uh huh.
Without doubt. 100%. It was the talk of the track walk and the pits the next day we used to practice on Friday. He did it on Thursday press day. Did the step on-step off before it and then did it.
I know Dave, I just make this shit up.
Again, a SX triple is not a big jump. It is the same distance every week and the only thing that makes it hard is the obstacle before it. It is as smooth as butter when jumped right.
Want to hear even a crazier story? When we were filming Charlies Angels 2 in 2002, Chris Gosselaar in front of all the cast and crew and 20 Sx riders, including Shae Bentley, jump a 60 foot double on a box stock XR 100. Want to know how he was talked into doing it? By Shae telling him what he had done a few years earlier on a Supermini.
People that were there and saw it?
- Shae
- Ryan Hughes
- Dave Castillo
- Rich Taylor
- Clifford Adoptante
- Trevor Vines
- Ronnie Renner
- Myself
- Ted Campbell
- Jeremy albrecht
- Nick Wey
- about 10 others I can't remember off the top of my head
and about 200 other cast and crew.
Of course, he had a massive downhill run. But he landed it like butter and was asked by our bosses to never do it again. it was the craziest stunt of the movie and it was done at lunch on a personal play bike.
That motor was 31hp, my kid rode AC 92's race bike this summer and just said it was insane. I know the figures on that motor but can't say.
My kid would have raced that track last night but I would have a hard time believing that race was going to get him a step up the ladder as the announcers were touting it to be. The 1st sign he wasn't comfortable or on his game I would have pulled him off. He's already had too many broken bones. And no where in that situation would the word "fun" have entered. We go and race a few times a year with some of those kids not very often can I say I see them having fun.
And my god the 53, when he hit I said "ouch" so loud I think my neighbors down the street heard me.
The KTM kids were hucking the double section of the triples, can't see a pro on a 16/19" KX100 finding it impossible to hit the triple. They weren't 5 feet out of the corner then like they are now.
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