Hill Climb Crashes!

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Edited Date/Time 9/10/2013 3:32pm
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I wonder if they have a "Stock" bike (modern MX bike) class?

Would be fun to see how MX'ers would do at a Hill climb event.

Crazy big air some of them get..!







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gharmon 9/5/2013 7:06am
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I know it was "wreck in Wednesday" but it would've been nice to see at least one make it the hill.
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bogdan912 9/5/2013 7:20am
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That was the gooniest thing I've seen in a while. They just pin it and hope for the best.
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Kmid514 9/5/2013 7:31am
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Billings has stock classes, just on the old, easier hill that they used since 1910 or whenever. Fun to ride but you have to enter several months in advance and it's about $70/class for 2 tries(at the Great American event).

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neverwasfastenuf 9/5/2013 8:15am
9/5/2013 8:15am
You know you're on the gas when you loop out one of those babies.
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peelout 9/5/2013 8:54am
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i have HUGE respect for the hill-climb pro's... those dudes can ride.

i have raced moto for over 15 years and the two professional hill-climb events i did were incredibly tough.

i didn't place in the Big Nasty in '08 but i placed 15th in the Exhibition class at the '10 Widowmaker on a GSXR 1000

those hills are fuckin' crazy



(ps... i rode borrowed bikes at both events, the one pictured is my Widowmaker ride)
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Jakes Dad 9/5/2013 10:46am
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peelout wrote:
i have HUGE respect for the hill-climb pro's... those dudes can ride. i have raced moto for over 15 years and the two professional hill-climb events...
i have HUGE respect for the hill-climb pro's... those dudes can ride.

i have raced moto for over 15 years and the two professional hill-climb events i did were incredibly tough.

i didn't place in the Big Nasty in '08 but i placed 15th in the Exhibition class at the '10 Widowmaker on a GSXR 1000

those hills are fuckin' crazy



(ps... i rode borrowed bikes at both events, the one pictured is my Widowmaker ride)
Ok that says a lot.
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visser62 9/5/2013 11:09am
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I remember MC did a hillclimb a few years ago, I think he was on a KTM and a crazy modified Harley.
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40Plus_922mx 9/5/2013 12:51pm
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I really hate revisiting the pain some of those dudes exhibit in their body language. Been there too many times.
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JACK_Schit 9/5/2013 2:00pm
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Mindless riders with zero respect for physics of two riding.
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JACK_Schit 9/5/2013 2:04pm
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40Plus_922mx wrote:
I really hate revisiting the pain some of those dudes exhibit in their body language. Been there too many times.
Then guys are SPODE'S HUH?
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LappedU 9/5/2013 2:13pm
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That were all along for the ride, looks like a case of too much power, uncontrollable power!
vanillaice782 9/5/2013 2:16pm
9/5/2013 2:16pm
They're doing it wrong. They should have been scrubbing those 1000cc beasts.
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rallendude 9/5/2013 3:39pm
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While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a hill that no one could get up. The goal was to see who could get the farthest, not who could get there quickest. This is just up hill drag racing, with jumps sometimes.
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peelout 9/5/2013 3:59pm
9/5/2013 3:59pm Edited Date/Time 9/5/2013 4:03pm
rallendude wrote:
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a...
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a hill that no one could get up. The goal was to see who could get the farthest, not who could get there quickest. This is just up hill drag racing, with jumps sometimes.
you may be a little mistaken... there are different types of hills and different styles of races.

there are more track style hills and more climb if you can hills.

for instance, Widowmaker 2013 (skip to 1:30 for the climb)

https://youtu.be/q4L-7tSOjyc
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rallendude wrote:
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a...
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a hill that no one could get up. The goal was to see who could get the farthest, not who could get there quickest. This is just up hill drag racing, with jumps sometimes.
peelout wrote:
you may be a little mistaken... there are different types of hills and different styles of races. there are more track style hills and more climb...
you may be a little mistaken... there are different types of hills and different styles of races.

there are more track style hills and more climb if you can hills.

for instance, Widowmaker 2013 (skip to 1:30 for the climb)

https://youtu.be/q4L-7tSOjyc
Pete is one bad old dude! Both him and his son Petey (seen in the beginning of the video) are incredible riders and always on some old jalopy. haha

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mxbigd17 9/5/2013 5:07pm
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This hurt just watching!
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rallendude wrote:
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a...
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a hill that no one could get up. The goal was to see who could get the farthest, not who could get there quickest. This is just up hill drag racing, with jumps sometimes.
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willie838 9/5/2013 11:23pm
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jesus christ a gixxer 1k motor? sick.

i thought they'd want more torque than top end hp but what do i know.


coworker went out to a hillclimb recently in PA, 2 weeks ago?

said he saw 4 riders make it to the top in the 6 hours he watched.


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when i asked him why he didn't go to unadilla, he told me that mx was like nascar- if you've seen them go around the track once, it's the same every time. These hillclimbs they're crashing and getting thrown! Huh
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Robgvx 9/6/2013 2:22am
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Excuse my ignorance, and no offence meant.....

Doesn't a stock 450 (or even 250) have enough power to pull itself up the Empire State building given the traction? Why do they put half ton street bike motors in?

I can see where the wheelbase mods come in but isn't traction, light weight and rider skill more important than horsepower?

The widowmaker courselookss particularly rough and rocky. Wouldn't a trials bike be better than a 125 horsepower 200 kilo lump of pig iron?

And watching those guys do goon-riding loop outs do they not know about clutch and throttle control (never mind jumping skills)?

Sorry.....
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velocitygear 9/6/2013 10:43am
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peelout wrote:
i have HUGE respect for the hill-climb pro's... those dudes can ride. i have raced moto for over 15 years and the two professional hill-climb events...
i have HUGE respect for the hill-climb pro's... those dudes can ride.

i have raced moto for over 15 years and the two professional hill-climb events i did were incredibly tough.

i didn't place in the Big Nasty in '08 but i placed 15th in the Exhibition class at the '10 Widowmaker on a GSXR 1000

those hills are fuckin' crazy



(ps... i rode borrowed bikes at both events, the one pictured is my Widowmaker ride)
Jakes Dad wrote:
Ok that says a lot.
lol- peelys cool but those bikes, aren't bikes! The physics are just plain wrong!
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40Plus_922mx 9/6/2013 12:02pm
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40Plus_922mx wrote:
I really hate revisiting the pain some of those dudes exhibit in their body language. Been there too many times.
JACK_Schit wrote:
Then guys are SPODE'S HUH?
No they have crappy gear on. A spode (like me) would have a super clean bike full of stickers, super new clean gear, and then ride worse then those guys. again, like me.
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Robgvx wrote:
Excuse my ignorance, and no offence meant..... Doesn't a stock 450 (or even 250) have enough power to pull itself up the Empire State building given...
Excuse my ignorance, and no offence meant.....

Doesn't a stock 450 (or even 250) have enough power to pull itself up the Empire State building given the traction? Why do they put half ton street bike motors in?

I can see where the wheelbase mods come in but isn't traction, light weight and rider skill more important than horsepower?

The widowmaker courselookss particularly rough and rocky. Wouldn't a trials bike be better than a 125 horsepower 200 kilo lump of pig iron?

And watching those guys do goon-riding loop outs do they not know about clutch and throttle control (never mind jumping skills)?

Sorry.....
In my experience...big hill climbs are more about momentum than pretty much anything else. Lose momentum and it doesn't matter what bike your on you aren't going to make it.

And with momentum in mind...I think that is where the high horse power bikes come into play.

But I'm not a hill climb guy...so I could be wrong.
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dsmith 9/10/2013 2:02pm
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geezz...no wonder they throw roost a mile .......those are some huge hooks!.
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dboivin 9/10/2013 2:21pm
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Some of you may remember Junior Jackson, he's pretty active in the midwest hillclimb scene. Always got respect for the hillclimbers, go broke or go home attitudes....the get offs are never pretty.



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Full gnar bro
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rallendude 9/10/2013 3:32pm
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rallendude wrote:
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a...
While the second video looked pretty cool, neither of these are what hill climbing was supposed to be in my mind. What ever happened to a hill that no one could get up. The goal was to see who could get the farthest, not who could get there quickest. This is just up hill drag racing, with jumps sometimes.
Dts717 wrote:
There you have it. I grew up riding hills like that. No joke, me XR75, dad TT500, my brother XT250 used to go to some hills near our house like that. We'd ride from bottom to top, part our bikes and walk (slide) down 1/3 of the way and watch all them city folk with their two-stroke race bikes and riding gear (we wore work boots, jeans, and a glittery open face helmet with no visor) flounder around on the hill. I've seen some really nice bikes turned to junk in a matter of minutes. Seen more than a few left in the bottom for dead.....bikes that is.

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