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I live in So Cal and witness lane splitting first hand every day. Have also seen my share of covered bodies and mangled sports bikes over the years. Being in San Diego and the heavy military presence some of the craziest riders are our servicemen. But they were always adults, never witnessed a 7-12 yr old lane splitting on the freeways.
But it is actually a very good comparision to some of the amateur parents who put their kids lives at stake by letting them do 60' triples while their bodies are still not fully developed to take the pounding they do when they crash. Might by just as safe sending them down I -5 during rush hour on a sport bike
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So fun shifting all the time, but I remember coming around the inside of this small uphill triple, and seat bouncing the shit out of it to barely clip the top. I was making the turn like this ( it was the only way
This bigger guy squares up the inside. Makes a turn, like this
The whole point of MX and SX is to go faster also. Faster lap times just like faster ET times in Drag Racing and Nascar and any or most racing even skiing.
The whole point of racing is to be faster than everyone else.....lol.
Jason
"You can't eliminate danger from a dangerous sport. Man will always circumvent a way to be more competitive and people will still die and get hurt."
Why would you want to eliminate danger from the sport is the question.
I have had plenty of friends die and critically injured in this sport we love but it will not stop unless we stop riding completely and then people will still die other ways. I agree there are things that can mitigate injuries and danger but like I said competitors will circumvent to be faster even so I accept the risk and move forward.
I'm assuming you also don't think Kevin, which I really like as do most, is not trying to seize upon a monetary moment under the "safer for you" attitude?
I work in petrochemical and there are some millionaires out there that think they made us safer and our environment cleaner but they didn't they just drove prices up and slowed us down. If you don't do as much work you won't have as many injuries..........guess what? People are still dying at my facility and all the others.
Jason
Let me ask a simpler question.
Do you think 5 or 10 years down the road after all the safer stuff takes place that people will still get hurt or die racing and riding dirt bikes?
Jason
Drag cars etc will run down the strip on their own. It's all about times and speed.
Unless I'm missing something.
Jason
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The only way anything would ever change is a very broad, everyone involved, mass effort to change all of the tracks that are used in competition motocross. That would still not stop someone from building their own track with crazy obstacles, but it would help to reduce the tragic injuries during any kind of competition. Obviously, this would be a massive effort and not very likely. But expecting some kind of reduction in the power of the bikes to result in any lowering of the number of injuries is dreaming. No correlation at all.
Unless, they restrict everyone to pw50s.
How many F1 drivers have died since Senna? Zero. Yes, a number have been very seriously injured, but not one F1 driver has died while racing F1 since Senna. And IMO, F1 racing is vastly more dangerous than motocross.
It is impossible to take all the danger out of any form of racing, but it is Clearly Possible to make it safer so that less people get seriously hurt, and that less people die.
I have always respected this sport for the skill AND conditioning that is required to excel at it. IMO as the bikes become more forgiving it becomes easier to let that conditioning drop off. More forgiving equals higher speeds, more chances taken.
Less conditioning and the ability to get around the track faster, or at higher speeds, is going to get more people in bigger trouble.
I'm talking at the local level. I've been riding and racing since 1973 and my observation is that the crashes that happen now are more horrific than those even 20 years ago and absolutely in the 70s and 80s. In the 70s one just swapped out or looped out and learned a little something about physics.
Now if the average rider gets in over his head, the price is huge. The bikes are too good, is that possible?
Sorry, too much coffee today.
I agree with you 100% and the scary part is most of the people that ride dirt bikes can't see this point of view.
They can't even follow the logic that F1 is still very dangerous, just NOT AS dangerous as it was.
They think that we are saying we can eliminate all risk. No one is saying that. That is impossible, but we can have a goal to reduce death and catastrophic injuries
I remember a young man that went over a berm and I believe he landed directly on the concrete on his head but this has been years back. He went over it at a relatively slow rate of speed as I remember.
Jason
We've all seen the infamous "first ride" videos where someone tries to ride a 2 stroke and suddenly the bike shoots out from under them right away. I think that experience, that scary hit of power gives people a respect for the bike. This is something that you deal with in supermini, 125 and 250. That respect for the power is something that really gets lost with 4 strokes.
I wonder if that is a contributor to people getting injured at a higher rate?
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