Carmichael qualifying in arenacross

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WeiserGuy 1/31/2016 9:49am
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Once you pass 31, you're 40 untill you turn 60.
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Oh no I'm 31!

I'm in the best shape of my life, but I've often heard it's much harder to stay fit after 30.
Chris_Cooksey 1/31/2016 10:10am
1/31/2016 10:10am
Jim 78 wrote:
I just think Its unbelievable that RC can still ride at the level he does! He's definitely the GOAT!
Chris_Cooksey wrote:
He can ride. No doubt about that, but in business he can't see the big picture. He only worries about his own personal bottom line period!
RonSkj wrote:
What's the reason you get up and go to work?
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me selling your name to the "Road to Supercross" is the business equivalent of using a sweat shop. I guarantee RC does not believe ALL riders need to ride arenacross before being ready for SX. This is a money grab by RC and Feld.
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RonSkj 1/31/2016 10:17am
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Chris_Cooksey wrote:
He can ride. No doubt about that, but in business he can't see the big picture. He only worries about his own personal bottom line period!
RonSkj wrote:
What's the reason you get up and go to work?
Chris_Cooksey wrote:
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me...
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me selling your name to the "Road to Supercross" is the business equivalent of using a sweat shop. I guarantee RC does not believe ALL riders need to ride arenacross before being ready for SX. This is a money grab by RC and Feld.
Well shit... I have nothing. You win!
Chris_Cooksey 1/31/2016 11:20am
1/31/2016 11:20am
RonSkj wrote:
What's the reason you get up and go to work?
Chris_Cooksey wrote:
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me...
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me selling your name to the "Road to Supercross" is the business equivalent of using a sweat shop. I guarantee RC does not believe ALL riders need to ride arenacross before being ready for SX. This is a money grab by RC and Feld.
RonSkj wrote:
Well shit... I have nothing. You win!
Haha, I like to think I am open minded and am wrong quite a bit. It's nice chatting with other open minded people.

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bad juju 1/31/2016 8:33pm
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Crisp BRAAAP! wrote:
He wants to race Supercross again, so he needs to take his own road back. Grinning
Chris_Cooksey wrote:
Haha, the road is such a shitty plan! Can't stand Carmichael and his fat greedy face. Loved him as a racer, but as a person.... When...
Haha, the road is such a shitty plan! Can't stand Carmichael and his fat greedy face. Loved him as a racer, but as a person.... When you have issues with that many people, maybe you are the problem. I wish he would stop squeezing every last drop of money out of his fame and truly help the sport or go away!
I'm gonna second that, the road to supercross is a sad one..
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h&m_cycle 1/31/2016 10:47pm
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Chris_Cooksey wrote:
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me...
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me selling your name to the "Road to Supercross" is the business equivalent of using a sweat shop. I guarantee RC does not believe ALL riders need to ride arenacross before being ready for SX. This is a money grab by RC and Feld.
I agree... RC4 would complain about the lappers, now he's helping put some of them out there...
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Chris_Cooksey wrote:
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me...
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me selling your name to the "Road to Supercross" is the business equivalent of using a sweat shop. I guarantee RC does not believe ALL riders need to ride arenacross before being ready for SX. This is a money grab by RC and Feld.
h&m_cycle wrote:
I agree... RC4 would complain about the lappers, now he's helping put some of them out there...
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do not end up being winners.

Frankly, I've always considered Carmichael to be a bit of a prick. Reed, too. But they are champions. They didn't get that way for being nice.
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h&m_cycle 2/1/2016 5:35am
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Celine wrote:
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do...
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do not end up being winners.

Frankly, I've always considered Carmichael to be a bit of a prick. Reed, too. But they are champions. They didn't get that way for being nice.
Nice guy(s)?... What in the 14 Hells are you talking about?... Ricky's Joke to Supercross was brought up & I responded...

IIf it really was a "stepping stone" to Supercross... you would have to podium 3 times in arena-cross to move on...

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Chris_Cooksey wrote:
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me...
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me selling your name to the "Road to Supercross" is the business equivalent of using a sweat shop. I guarantee RC does not believe ALL riders need to ride arenacross before being ready for SX. This is a money grab by RC and Feld.
h&m_cycle wrote:
I agree... RC4 would complain about the lappers, now he's helping put some of them out there...
Celine wrote:
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do...
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do not end up being winners.

Frankly, I've always considered Carmichael to be a bit of a prick. Reed, too. But they are champions. They didn't get that way for being nice.
One year it was KDub(3rd), RC(1st), and Reedy(2nd) that were on the podium. After the race we went down to the tunnel to catch them before they got back to the pits. Kevin was super nice, and stopped said hello, yadi yada yada. Classic Windham. Reed was nice as well but more business like. I'll never forget Ricky, he had a little wax gatorade cup and set it down to sign my girlfriend (at the time) poster. A security guard on a golf kart was honking like crazy to tell him to move his stupid cup. The look RC gave the guy was too funny, I just started laughing and ricky turns back says a few choice words laughing. I was never the biggest RC fan steering the bandwagon but i respected the hell out of the guy. Every time I have spoke with him he has been pleasant.
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Once you pass 31, you're 40 untill you turn 60.
So at 59 (I mean 40) you could still date a monster girl.
There's some happy folks right now.
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hasko158 2/1/2016 6:31am
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Amazing that people still think he's going to race...smh
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h&m_cycle wrote:
I agree... RC4 would complain about the lappers, now he's helping put some of them out there...
Celine wrote:
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do...
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do not end up being winners.

Frankly, I've always considered Carmichael to be a bit of a prick. Reed, too. But they are champions. They didn't get that way for being nice.
Zycki11 wrote:
One year it was KDub(3rd), RC(1st), and Reedy(2nd) that were on the podium. After the race we went down to the tunnel to catch them before...
One year it was KDub(3rd), RC(1st), and Reedy(2nd) that were on the podium. After the race we went down to the tunnel to catch them before they got back to the pits. Kevin was super nice, and stopped said hello, yadi yada yada. Classic Windham. Reed was nice as well but more business like. I'll never forget Ricky, he had a little wax gatorade cup and set it down to sign my girlfriend (at the time) poster. A security guard on a golf kart was honking like crazy to tell him to move his stupid cup. The look RC gave the guy was too funny, I just started laughing and ricky turns back says a few choice words laughing. I was never the biggest RC fan steering the bandwagon but i respected the hell out of the guy. Every time I have spoke with him he has been pleasant.
Right on Zycki11. Lots of bunched up panties in this thread. Not sure if it's jealousy or just ticked off because he beat the stuffing out of their favorites. It doesn't matter why or, even that they do, dislike RC. I didn't like MC for a number of reasons including the two I mentioned. What matters is the scoreboard. RC's stats say that he OWNED motocross for 10 straight years. People talk about perfect seasons and yeah, that's incredibly impressive, but RC was UNDEFEATED in his outdoor career as far as titles go. Are you feeling that? NEVER lost an outdoor title. In the history of sports, any sport, has anyone dominated like that? Somebody look it up. Maybe some bowler or dart thrower managed to NEVER GET BEAT. HA! So yeah, 'some' people still want Ricky's name associated with their businesses. It'll pass. People will forget to mention RC. Maybe not in your lifetime but, sometime.
4thGearPinned 2/1/2016 8:35am
2/1/2016 8:35am
hasko158 wrote:
Amazing that people still think he's going to race...smh
If ricky had the motivation and the physical capacity to still race and train at the level he was, he would be doing the same thing chad is doing.

He has other issues than being " burnt out. " which pushed him into retirement. He suffered from digestive issues and especially in the peak of his training with aldon, which for a normal guy who works a 9-5 and hangs out all night would make daily life aggravating. Yet alone someone operating at the physical levels he was day in and day out.

There should be no doubt in anyone's mind he wouldn't be on the same level as chad or better if he was still out there.

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jeffro503 2/1/2016 8:45am
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Chris_Cooksey wrote:
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me...
That is a short sided argument. Is it OK to use sweat shops for higher profit margins? Where do you draw your moral line? To me selling your name to the "Road to Supercross" is the business equivalent of using a sweat shop. I guarantee RC does not believe ALL riders need to ride arenacross before being ready for SX. This is a money grab by RC and Feld.
h&m_cycle wrote:
I agree... RC4 would complain about the lappers, now he's helping put some of them out there...
Celine wrote:
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do...
Just because he's a multi-national champion does not mean that he is a nice guy. In fact, I would assume the opposite. Nice guy's often do not end up being winners.

Frankly, I've always considered Carmichael to be a bit of a prick. Reed, too. But they are champions. They didn't get that way for being nice.
I disagree with this. On the track , RC was an aggressive , do or die competitor and he absolutely took no shit from anyone on the track. " Off the track "......there are a lot of people in the industry that would tell you the exact opposite. He is a genuinely nice guy. Actually very humble and respectful towards other riders and absolutely loved his fans.

People get into a business to make money. Especially if you have a family support. He could be on the beach every day of his life drinking margarita's and smoking cigars....but he's not. He decided to try and stay in the sport and help keep RCH afloat and get something new going in the RTSX. ( which he is just a part of that , there are others involved making more money at it than he is ) It has it's issues , but it's also new.

Some of you act like , since he's a former racer , that some how entitles you for him to come up and lick your boots. Because ya know.....he was a racer and people supported him. So now he owes everything and rest of his life to everyone on the planet that watched him race.

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rcarrico 2/1/2016 10:07am
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Chris_Cooksey wrote:
Haha, the road is such a shitty plan! Can't stand Carmichael and his fat greedy face. Loved him as a racer, but as a person.... When...
Haha, the road is such a shitty plan! Can't stand Carmichael and his fat greedy face. Loved him as a racer, but as a person.... When you have issues with that many people, maybe you are the problem. I wish he would stop squeezing every last drop of money out of his fame and truly help the sport or go away!
You must hate MC even more than RC, he is still hanging around the races earning $ and is older than RC and has been retired from racing longer too.
Reefer Sutherland 2/1/2016 11:56am
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oshow wrote:
The stupidity in here scares me...
This forum has devolved into a complete parody of itself.
Reefer Sutherland 2/1/2016 12:23pm
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Crisp BRAAAP! wrote:
He wants to race Supercross again, so he needs to take his own road back. Grinning
Chris_Cooksey wrote:
Haha, the road is such a shitty plan! Can't stand Carmichael and his fat greedy face. Loved him as a racer, but as a person.... When...
Haha, the road is such a shitty plan! Can't stand Carmichael and his fat greedy face. Loved him as a racer, but as a person.... When you have issues with that many people, maybe you are the problem. I wish he would stop squeezing every last drop of money out of his fame and truly help the sport or go away!
Whether there's any creedence or not, that'll go over like a fart in church. Bold strategy, Cotton.
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Jim 78 2/1/2016 8:31pm
2/1/2016 8:31pm Edited Date/Time 2/1/2016 8:35pm
Man this thread got blew up! I was just saying that its pretty awesome that he can still get out there, and lay down some fast laps for a guy that doesnt even compete anymore. As far as RC being greedy or a Butt I dont know. I know I have always been a fan of the little red headed chubby kid, Thats blowing down the field! Lol.

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