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From an outsiders perspective, what are the top bone head moves in the MX industry? As Paul Harvey states, there is always more to the story...no doubt! However, on the surface it does not look good. I will kick it off with two items: Mike Fisher thinking that going with FMF pipes vs Pro-circuit would be a good idea. Second, Scott terminating Bevo Forte.
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The double displacement rule for 4 strokes is the worst though. Initially, it wasn't so bad because 4 stroke technology back then is lightyears away from what it is now. But the fact that it hasn't been changed after all these years is, IMO, the biggest failure in MX.
Jgr going with yamahas again
Suzuki getting rid of guy cooper
Not letting the riders unionize
Putting chicks in the nationals
Making the 30 second girls dress like hookers
45 second lap times
Suzuki not paying Decoster a proper contract
Suzuki letting Hannah go to Yamaha.
Suzuki letting DeCoster go to KTM.
Having 1 moto main for the Nationals.....didn't they do that one year?
Almost any discipline either given or not given by the sanctioning body. So inconsistent either way that it makes it hard to accept MX as a sport when the powers that be are such a joke
The transformation of outdoor Nationals into outdoor SX
Turning the amateur system into big business. Let kids be kids
Pit Row
1. Getting rid of the 125 class. Putting children straight off an 85 onto a 250F is more than bone head, it's criminal. Screw the best two years a kid should have making a transition from an 85 to a 250 and screw the best racing any of us will ever see.
2. Changing the 250 class to the 450 class forcing one of the best all around bike platforms ever made to almost become obsolete. There is a reason the "open class" 500's went away. Did we learn nothing from the past?
3. Making ANY bike slower, weigh more, cost more, shorter life, higher maintenance, run hotter all in the name of "technology"?
$$$$$
However I'm sure if they had of known it was gunna be one or the other they wouldn't have signed JLaw.
Honda letting RC go
Suzuki letting DeCoster go
AMA's meltdown at the local level over the past couple of years (in district 11 atleast)
Not allowing 250 v. 250f
Moving the final round of the 250 East to Vegas. How damn "east coast" is vegas? Just confirmed to me that the series is a show, not about the rider.
MC trying the KTM (at that time)
Not having a 2 stroke 150cc max open class at the nationals. Im not a 2stroke guy, but it would be more entertaining than the WMX.
2. Killing, Semi's
3. Moving Nationals to sunday
4. Scott getting rid of bevo forte
5. renaming the classes (supercross champion of the supercross class)
Now that i think of it, The biggest bone head move in the mx industry,
WAS THE HIRING OF STEVE WHITELOCK
I've yet to see anything stupider than that and I don't care how many times people tell me he's matured, in my eyes he will never live it down.
Honda Lowballing Rc
Jgr and yamaha
hansen and the anahiem 1 lcq
Hill doing a backflip.
Alessi and the BTH T-shirts
No 2008 CR250R
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