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Edited Date/Time 5/4/2013 5:39am
Who are the top 5 naturally talented riders of all time? I don't know much about this subject in regards to pre 1990, but here is mine.

1. Bayle
2. McGrath
3. Stewart
4. Carmichael
5. Windham

Okay now coach me up, who is in your top five?

Edit: After more thought, I bumped Pourcel in favor of Windham. Pourcel and Reynard are Honorable Mentions.
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Jt$ 4/30/2013 9:08am
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Windham needs to be on this.
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TDeath21 4/30/2013 9:13am
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Jt$ wrote:
Windham needs to be on this.
I almost put him fifth. If I had it top six, he'd be there for sure. Reynard is another one who maybe should be there. That's why we love bench racing I guess.
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What 4/30/2013 9:13am
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Old school list

Joel Robert would have to be #1, because physically, he was a fat, out of shape, smoker. MX was in it's infancy, so everything he had was just natural talent.

Malcolm Smith.

Kenny Roberts, Sr. (not moto, but if you know what he did, then there is no arguing)

Decoster

Danny Fucking Chandler

Least naturally talented, yet still succesful:
Jeff STanton

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zook11 4/30/2013 9:18am
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How is stew not #1
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Blitz 4/30/2013 9:20am
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zook11 wrote:
How is stew not #1
easy choice for number one.
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gotwings 4/30/2013 9:25am
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Agree top 4, Windham 5.
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Bguy85 4/30/2013 9:26am
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I think villapoto is showing he's one of the best.
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Bguy85 wrote:
I think villapoto is showing he's one of the best.
his talent is strength and conditioning, not pure natural talent.

Stewart wrote the book on how virtually everyone rides a motocross bike post-2004, including Villopoto.
Landshark 4/30/2013 9:38am
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Lechien is got to be #2
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Tarz483 4/30/2013 9:39am
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my pics
bayle
windham
stewart
pourcel
reynard









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peelout 4/30/2013 9:42am
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hard to have a top 5... naturally talented dudes are everywhere

Pastrana
Reed
JLaw
Reynard
Windham
Pourcel
Stewart
MC
Bailey
Magoo
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McGrath
Bayle
Stewart
Pourcel
Whindam

If I remember correctly in several interviews RC said he was never the fastest just always had to work his ass off. After the RC era natural talent can only take a rider so far.
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FreshTopEnd 4/30/2013 9:44am
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Tripes
Bayle
Lechien
Stewart
Pastrana

Honorable mentions Robert, Windham, Bailey, Everts
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Tarz483 4/30/2013 9:50am
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i agree its hard , so many good riders

i agree bubba changed everyones riding style , then there's pastrana , he's just a whole nother animal lol

another that changed everyones style was mcrath he brough a whole new style of staying low over the jumps from he bmx days ..rj was stylish too

i think of villopoto more liker the Goat rc , just pure determination and a good rider ..or
jeff stanton , just a total bulldog , who made his bike go where he wanted lol

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EastFlorida 4/30/2013 9:52am
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I may make some mad, but Magoo wasn't "naturally tallented"...he was a crazy beast that was willing to hold it on longer... It wasn't "pretty" to watch, but it was "brutally efficient".....
Landshark 4/30/2013 9:53am
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1. Bayle
2. Lechien
3. Pourcel

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hammertime 4/30/2013 9:56am
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zook11 wrote:
How is stew not #1
Blitz wrote:
easy choice for number one.
anybody that doesn't pick him for number one is on glue. remember the shit he did ion a 125. bayle and those guys were good, but stew rewrote the book on freakish talent.
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FLmxer 4/30/2013 9:56am
4/30/2013 9:56am Edited Date/Time 4/30/2013 10:15am
Stewart
MC
Windham
Bayle
RR
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Pastrana
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Everts
Lechien
Pourcell
Cairoli
Milsaps
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TDeath21 4/30/2013 9:58am
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Good idea guys. Pictures would definitely make this thread a lot better.
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SEE ARE125 4/30/2013 10:03am
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Pastrana #1 for overall talent on a bike. Stewart #1 for MX/SX talent.

I mean who the fack pulls a backflip off a berm??

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fader418 4/30/2013 10:11am
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EastFlorida wrote:
I may make some mad, but Magoo wasn't "naturally tallented"...he was a crazy beast that was willing to hold it on longer... It wasn't "pretty" to...
I may make some mad, but Magoo wasn't "naturally tallented"...he was a crazy beast that was willing to hold it on longer... It wasn't "pretty" to watch, but it was "brutally efficient".....
Exactly! Was surprised to see him on that list
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fader418 4/30/2013 10:12am
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#1 should be a tie between J law, Hanny and Ronny Mac!
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FLmxer 4/30/2013 10:14am
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I feel lucky to have watched RC, Stew, Davi and endless others every week on mini's growing up in front of us. They were just as amazing on the little bikes and to this day the things I saw James do on a 85 just blew our minds, like scrub whipping it down a hill that everyone is landing like 30 feet down before these really nasty knee deep ruts and no one except James on his 85 was landing like 75 feet down there landing in those ruts and just fully pinned. He would fly over that take off so leaned over and pinned and if you were in a spot that you couldn't see the landing, you were sure he must of wadded it but nope and every lap all day. We just new he was going to change everything. MC showed us how to be smooth and precise, RC changed the way we trained and James showed us how to ride.
overthebars39 4/30/2013 10:19am
4/30/2013 10:19am
Oh, this is about the AMA talents
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Tarz483 4/30/2013 10:49am
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FLmxer wrote:
I feel lucky to have watched RC, Stew, Davi and endless others every week on mini's growing up in front of us. They were just as...
I feel lucky to have watched RC, Stew, Davi and endless others every week on mini's growing up in front of us. They were just as amazing on the little bikes and to this day the things I saw James do on a 85 just blew our minds, like scrub whipping it down a hill that everyone is landing like 30 feet down before these really nasty knee deep ruts and no one except James on his 85 was landing like 75 feet down there landing in those ruts and just fully pinned. He would fly over that take off so leaned over and pinned and if you were in a spot that you couldn't see the landing, you were sure he must of wadded it but nope and every lap all day. We just new he was going to change everything. MC showed us how to be smooth and precise, RC changed the way we trained and James showed us how to ride.
awsome i woulda loved to see him on an 80 , and your right it seems like the good guys were always good , i got to see alessi race a ccouple times , and davi millsaps on an 80 , and it was sweet , people lined the fences just like the A classes
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BAMX 4/30/2013 10:52am
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Landshark wrote:
Lechien is got to be #2
You beat me to it. i remember reading that his Dad would make him train so he would ride out to the track in the hills and then pull his fuel line and dump it on the ground so his Dad would think that he went through a tank.
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Outsider 4/30/2013 11:29am
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Bguy85 wrote:
I think villapoto is showing he's one of the best.
What wrote:
his talent is strength and conditioning, not pure natural talent.

Stewart wrote the book on how virtually everyone rides a motocross bike post-2004, including Villopoto.
He hasn't always been in shape. His natural ability isn't being smooth that's for sure, but still talented imo
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What 4/30/2013 11:32am
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overthebars39 wrote:
Oh, this is about the AMA talents
Ok Everts. Gotcha. But you take away Everts, and the next best thing out of BEL is Jean Claude Van Damme.

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