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This man-made jump was ludicrous and should NEVER be on a MX track. This is not what MX is about. It was a marketing ploy and obstacles like this continue to be the death of the sport.
I take Millville for example. in the early 2000's, a good C/B rider could navigate all the obstacles on that track. A B-rider might have to "huck" a jump that was easily clearable by the pros, but it was doable. They have made it so that even the local A guys on Amateur day have a real struggle with that stuff. For the 90% of the riders that show up to camp/ride/spectate the pro race, this stuff is impossible & disheartening and takes the fun right out of the weekend from the riding stand point. Every obstacle of pro MX is not supposed to rival X-Games Freestyle jumps.
Many local tracks are following suit by making bigger and badder jumps. After getting hurt in 2013 on the Millville Chadapult, I have all but hung up the boots. Being a 30+ B rider is apparently not good enough to have fun anymore.
Jump for show, corner for dough has been passed up. It is now Jump for Dough, corners are boring.
Seriously, give it a rest already, the track was incredible as was the event. Dirt Diggers and DC keep doing what your doing, every year the event improves and this was no exception.
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People seem to be dealing with this as some abstraction. It wasn't even close to an SX feature. It's basically the same jump that's been on this area for about 20 years without any comment whatsoever only now with about five more feet of dirt piled on it. There were other places on he track more treacherous in terms of the likelihood and severity getting wrong were a lot higher. It probably wouldn't look as bad if they could have grass, but that ain't Prairie City.
What Dunge and Tomac were doing was a bit like that pass RC put on Windham in 03 (?) at Binghamton when he hucked a double into a triple. Something just barely possible that only the best can do. That's a huge part of going to a pro race.
It's terribly placed for photography, with poor sight lines and those power poles that seem to curse most tracks, and it doesn't do a thing to put a photogenic jump that encourages whips at that track.
how is this not pure moto... listen to the crowd.. it was awesome!!!!
I have been riding since the late 80's so I think I have a good perspective on the progress of the sport. I was more negative on the halfpipe but after seeing it in person it was a really great addition to the track!
For marketing purposes if it was fox it would have been at least 30 foot longer and been the FOX 180, or they could have gone for a crack at a FOX 360!
Guys like Baggett would hip it and land on the embankment of the hill on the right hand side to get out of the bumps. It was awesome seeing him thread the needle and land on something that small at that angle. Now that creativity is gone. Just pin it or don't.
If you are going to make huge jumps in outdoor MX then use this one as a model, for a 150'er it seemed pretty safe for those that came up a little short. I thought this Hangtown track was one of the best from the Dirtdiggers
Why the fuck not? They claim to be the best in the world .
PS Whining about people whining is still whining you whiners.
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