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Sorry if this has been covered.
But who thinks banning starting devices would be a good idea?
Everyone has them so they are of no advantage.
It would make starting a little harder thus helping the good starters do better and spread everyone out going into the first theoretically reducing the number of first turn pileups and make for better racing.
Not to mention save a buck or two.
What do you guys think?
But who thinks banning starting devices would be a good idea?
Everyone has them so they are of no advantage.
It would make starting a little harder thus helping the good starters do better and spread everyone out going into the first theoretically reducing the number of first turn pileups and make for better racing.
Not to mention save a buck or two.
What do you guys think?
Oh wait.....you're probably one of those guys who also believes we need to go back to those antiquated 2-strokes of yesteryear.
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What we should be worried about
is the top level racing itself!
My educated guess is that you wouldn't see a huge difference in speed going into the turn with a starting device.
Traction, contact w/ other riders, ruts etc. are still factors with or without a starting device that play A HUGE roll in getting to the first turn first.
Crap gets old.
That's such an ignorant statement. Have you not seen any video of a top rider from 1990 since then? They look like today's novices basically. The racing today is infinitely better than 1990 due to the evolution of riders AND bikes.
If watching people flounder closer together around a motocross track is your idea of good racing.....you're probably over 45.
If everyone is using them, then there is no advantage, so what's the point?
It's just one more thing to add cost and hassle.
Yes the riders have gotten more refined, we can refer to that as the Jeremy McCarmichael Stewart syndrome.
Yes the bikes have gotten more refined, and "easier to go fast on".
Yes the tracks have become more refined , due to the riders and the bikes.
But, you take todays riders on the bikes of 1990 and you will still have the same great racing as you do today, maybe even a little better due to fewer injuries.
"the pro's have them, so why shouldn't I?"
unfortunately, this is the exact thinking that got the sport where it is today... $1,200 exhaust systems. pfft. fuck that shit.
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Close racing is not bad.....it's great, I would just rather watch FAST racing even it if meant sacrificing a little "closeness".
The 4 strokes have changed the pace and made riding fast, easier! Period!
2 strokes made for better racing and for acrobatic jumps and leaps we no longer see today. I love my 4 stroke but wish they never came about!
Anyone here go to the Rose Bowl Supercross when Damon Huffman won? I believe he won the Championship at that race. I ask because there was a whoop section and at the end of that section was a 6-7 foot high wall. Only the 250's and the best were doing it but halfway through the whoops they would launch off a 2 foot whoop and clear the wall. I remember Guy Cooper having a tough time with it and it was HAIRY!! I have not seen such acrobatics in Supercross since the 2 stroke..
Now it seems more like Nascarcross!!!
EDIT: Oops just meant to quote CamP
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