No Pro Circuit Riders in the East/West Shootout

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Edited Date/Time 5/3/2015 12:23pm
It's so odd to not see a single Pro Circuit Kawasaki in the East/West Shootout considering PC went 1-2-3-4 in 2010. What a crazy difference...
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johnnybgood 5/2/2015 10:59pm
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Idiots for not signing pourcel.
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ML512 5/2/2015 11:15pm
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johnnybgood wrote:
Idiots for not signing pourcel.
Idiots? Christophe Pourcel isn't eligible for 250 Supercross anymore... Beyond that, he wasn't interested in a 250 Outdoors contract, his words...
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Canerat 5/2/2015 11:24pm
5/2/2015 11:24pm Edited Date/Time 5/2/2015 11:26pm
Mitch sure has slipped a tad in recent years when signing riders. Great bikes however are no good in the wrong hands. AC is their only hope for the outdoors.....and only having one rider to carry the team slims the chances.

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bsharkey 5/2/2015 11:29pm
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AND .......... the other teams have caught up to the pc level with bikes I believe now as well. they don't have that "better bike" advantage anymore
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johnnybgood 5/2/2015 11:30pm
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He would have ridden for them.
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ML512 5/2/2015 11:33pm
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johnnybgood wrote:
He would have ridden for them.
On? 450 for Mitch wasn't an option, and CP turned down another 250 team offer as well. I spoke to Mitch about it at Santa Clara and he spoke to Pourcel about outdoors if he needed a fill-in, and Christophe really wanted to ride the 450. Once again, Pourcel also told me he was only interested in a 450 ride. As my topic is about the East/West shootout, this idea is still completely irrelevant as Pourcel is no longer eligible to race 250 Supercross due to his East Coast titles.
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Lightning78 5/2/2015 11:39pm
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Man, everyone keeps carrying this AC flag as if his really shown us anything except being injured. He did have some good sx races till his shoulder popped out but no exceptional competition that year and is be willing to bet webb will have him covered indoors and outdoors… . PC riders have been failing to produce at an alarming rate over the last few years and thats shocking… I don't blame them 100% imo team green program has failed them horribly hope PC gets it figured ot soon
Aussie_power_sports 5/2/2015 11:56pm
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Man, everyone keeps carrying this AC flag as if his really shown us anything except being injured. He did have some good sx races till his...
Man, everyone keeps carrying this AC flag as if his really shown us anything except being injured. He did have some good sx races till his shoulder popped out but no exceptional competition that year and is be willing to bet webb will have him covered indoors and outdoors… . PC riders have been failing to produce at an alarming rate over the last few years and thats shocking… I don't blame them 100% imo team green program has failed them horribly hope PC gets it figured ot soon
Hasn't shows us much? AC was regularly beating bagget and bogle. Guess that doesn't mean much.

We haven't seen him healthy outdoors.
One of the reasons is Mitch is reluctant to sign guys really young with the exception of AC and that's because Kawasaki made him. The thing these days is he doesn't have the motor advantage that he use to and other teams pay more.
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I believe Cianciarulo, Alldredge and Tonus will do good this summer. I don't know about the 2 others.
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Derpin' DJ 5/3/2015 12:03am
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Canerat wrote:
Mitch sure has slipped a tad in recent years when signing riders. Great bikes however are no good in the wrong hands. AC is their only...
Mitch sure has slipped a tad in recent years when signing riders. Great bikes however are no good in the wrong hands. AC is their only hope for the outdoors.....and only having one rider to carry the team slims the chances.
Eh, his bikes have been a bit iffy the last few years. Baggett and Wilson had big issues last year with the bike.
neverwasfastenuf 5/3/2015 12:04am
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It's been a tough run for Payton and company, some bad luck, some injuries, but the mechanicals has to have been the hardest to swallow.

They were so used to being the dominate team.

He didn't win that many championships and have the best of the best riders by just being lucky though. They will find there way back.

AC has the skills and has grown a bunch but he has some serious competition that has taken care of business and tasted victory.
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RY4N37 5/3/2015 4:28am
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It does seem that PC have slipped in recent years. Not just that but the other teams have improved, it just seems that they don't get the same calibre of riders that they used to. If you think back a few years, they seemed to always get the best riders. Now if you named the best 250 riders in America, none of them except maybe AC ride for Pro Circuit
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MudPup545 5/3/2015 7:03am
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It's the Lil' Chino sponsorship curse.
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slumpstone 5/3/2015 7:53am
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Yeah Joey did real bad, four thirds, two fourths, one fifth and one mechanical while in third. Real shitty season
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crf250pilot 5/3/2015 8:27am
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slumpstone wrote:
Yeah Joey did real bad, four thirds, two fourths, one fifth and one mechanical while in third. Real shitty season
Mitch expects wins.
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slumpstone 5/3/2015 8:33am
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Yeah I get it but how many guys won, three.
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oshow 5/3/2015 8:35am
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I'm Team Pro Circuit.

They will be back on top

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h&m_cycle 5/3/2015 8:50am
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Aussie_power_sports wrote:
Hasn't shows us much? AC was regularly beating bagget and bogle. Guess that doesn't mean much. We haven't seen him healthy outdoors. One of the reasons...
Hasn't shows us much? AC was regularly beating bagget and bogle. Guess that doesn't mean much.

We haven't seen him healthy outdoors.
One of the reasons is Mitch is reluctant to sign guys really young with the exception of AC and that's because Kawasaki made him. The thing these days is he doesn't have the motor advantage that he use to and other teams pay more.
Austin Forkner will be up soon, he isn't old enough to drive & I believe he could of made the top 10 last night.
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500guy 5/3/2015 9:45am
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Remember the year all the bikes broke in Vegas ? I think chains breaking and such.

I bet Mitch wasn't very happy about that weekend either.
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slumpstone 5/3/2015 10:17am
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Aussie_power_sports wrote:
Hasn't shows us much? AC was regularly beating bagget and bogle. Guess that doesn't mean much. We haven't seen him healthy outdoors. One of the reasons...
Hasn't shows us much? AC was regularly beating bagget and bogle. Guess that doesn't mean much.

We haven't seen him healthy outdoors.
One of the reasons is Mitch is reluctant to sign guys really young with the exception of AC and that's because Kawasaki made him. The thing these days is he doesn't have the motor advantage that he use to and other teams pay more.
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Austin Forkner will be up soon, he isn't old enough to drive & I believe he could of made the top 10 last night.
The top? Are you serious?
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h&m_cycle 5/3/2015 11:08am
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The top? Are you serious?
Top 10,
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The Rock 5/3/2015 12:07pm
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neverwasfastenuf wrote:
It's been a tough run for Payton and company, some bad luck, some injuries, but the mechanicals has to have been the hardest to swallow. They...
It's been a tough run for Payton and company, some bad luck, some injuries, but the mechanicals has to have been the hardest to swallow.

They were so used to being the dominate team.

He didn't win that many championships and have the best of the best riders by just being lucky though. They will find there way back.

AC has the skills and has grown a bunch but he has some serious competition that has taken care of business and tasted victory.
They will find their way back.

Definitely. Just like Chad Reed you can never count PC out
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HenryA 5/3/2015 12:23pm
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Seems like there is a curse over the PC team. Mitch can't be too happy about how the situation is at the moment.

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