Upgrade to enjoy this feature!
Vital MX fantasy is free to play, but Premium users receive great benefits. Premium benefits include:
- View and download rider stats
- Pick trends
- Create a private league
- And more!
Only $10 for all 2026 SX, MX, and SMX series.
I hate the attitude we seem to have in the US. Guys steal bikes. They ride them in the street. And now we need to use tax money to buy them a nice facility to ride them? What the fuck?
I bought my bike, wheres my free riding area?
The Shop
Free shipping: VITALMX
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Fortunately for the bikers who were banished with their motos and quad cycles (because it's a movie). The island has a world class outdoor track, and two supercross tracks. One on the west coast of the island and another on the east coast. With no normals to bother with their antics It's a moto free-for-all. Or is it? Are they really alone? Will they stick together to discover the island's secrets or will the mysteries of Dirtbike Island split them apart in a battle royal mud race?
Of course the sequel will be "Return To Dirtbike Island" and will employ a revenge plot.
The fact that some of you feel that building a dirtbike park anywhere for ANY reason is a bad thing, is beyond me. Intervention and opportunities to make better choices are rarely a bad thing. Don't you guys watch CHiP's?
Stellar post!
I like your script/plot much better than Time Rider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann.
And it is not just the inner city black kids. It would not work with the backwoods rednecks, Hispanic or Asian gang bangers. All of these kids doing these kinds of actions can make a serious attempt to get out of the situations they are in but it is their choice to stay where they are and continue to give a big F you to the laws that exist for public safety and then blame law enforcement for doing their jobs
Hello, my name is Wind O'Neal. I run the only certified track and trail building company in Maryland. We have proposed to build a motocross track in Baltimore City. They are considering it. They've scheduled a meeting. I will go and put into the record what we aim to do. There is a lot of misinformation, spread by people with a deficit of same. This thread is becoming typical - it's nothing new to me, and it's the reason I've not posted much here since MotoTalk became VitalMX. Why bother.
In the interest of my friend who posted this for me (who is one of the few who walks the walk - he created the first glossy moto mag for our region and I hear was an ArenaCross champ
I have been working for 15 years in Maryland to get this problem solved. All riding in most of Maryland is illegal. It is a result of a totalitarian agenda perpetuated by Progressives here in the the Socialist Republic of Maryland. I could give up. I may! But I want to see how this works out. I don't know if Grady was talking about me, but thanks for your help, Grady! I got the materials and have found them useful. Anyway, what we are proposing is a regular motocross track. There's no need to superimpose your erroneous predictions into this because we don't know the future.
Here's all I know, without adding anything that could be incorrect. To describe EVERYTHING we have in mind would take a long meeting, or a long post, neither of which have ever worked out for me (guess what? people don't come to meetings). With all the land in Maryland, and with the largest landholder being the Department of Natural Resources, the state doesn't really care about us. There's one little trail opening up 3 hours away from here if you reserve a camp spot. I won't go into that. It's totalitarian. Anyway, the ONE place anybody would NOT expect to have the government open a riding area (Baltimore City) is the ONE government that came to us. I said YES.
In short, here is my plan: VIN numbers taken at the gate. ID, names and addresses upon entry, fences with barbed wire, private security all over, government does not pay for this we do, police will be outside if we need them, location is right off the highway so no need to drive through city, safe part of town, there is a separate area for wheelies / grandstands, the motocross facility is not for illegal activity but for the sport of motocross only. I will reiterate because many posters like to fill in the blanks with erroneous information: this is for riders with riding gear and legal bikes to do motocross, and in another part of the park wheelies.
I have no idea if this will diminish illegal street riding. Not my problem. But the City has land. They are asking a private company for some solution. To me the problem is not enough legal riding places locally. I hope to make money. I hope to offer a safe place for dads and moms and kids to ride or race if they want. This has nothing to do with illegal street riding. There's no data suggesting it will. I make no promises. But a place is only a cesspool if you make it one, like this thread has become. I don't know Lenny but it is unfair to paint him as racist because he acknowledges that all Americans are citizens ... with rights. Last time I checked, we have a right to ride. The enemy is authoritarianism, and low-information voters. We need to check power, and educate the voters.
Finally, I appreciate if you think this is a pipe dream. Would like to wait until government solves all your problems? How's that going for ya? This is a private company, engaging in capitalism using government land (public land, I remind you). Would you rather this land just sit and become landfill or something? Or can I get your support to turn an unused park (where some are already riding) into a moto haven? Got a positive suggestion? Let's fucking hear it!!!
more bikes get stolen to ride at tax-payer funded motopark
motopark turns to drugs/more crime/more theft
Liberal fucks count it as a win for social progress
more people killed to steal bikes from their homeboys
HORRIBLE HORRIBLE PEOPLE
YALL ARENT AGREEING WITH ME SO ILL CALL YOU RACIST
By this threads topic the problem is: Dirt bikes illegally being ridden in the streets of Baltimore, many of which are stolen, and the chaos and mayhem that ensues because of such illegal activity.
And your proposal has NOTHING to do with the problem, WOW! Here are your words "I have no idea if this will diminish illegal street riding. Not my problem."
Here's a positive suggestion, create a motocross outreach program that helps genuine motocross enthusiasts(riders and families) relocate out of that shit hole and to an area that actually welcomes and facilitates the sport of motocross
To condense simply what you wrote it looks like this:
"My pipe dream is, as a private company, to open a motocross park using public land in the hopes to make money, giving genuine moto enthusiasts in the Baltimore area a safe place to ride."
Got it
Youre naive as shit if you think it wont.
Pit Row
Well, it might. Kids that can't afford the whole legal show, that can only watch the upper crust thru a barb wired fence,
I can see how they would feel.
But, in a perfect world, a few inner city kids, and hopefully their families, would go with the program.
But, in the real world, the monies involved to participate in that vision just aren't there, IMO, for the inner city crowd. Whatever race or creed.
Hats off to mxcouncil, on keeping the faith, for 15 years at that.
Hopefully, he pulls it off. Who knows, a place like that could turn into a magnet for the fractured, scattered, out
of touch with each other crowd of dirt bike riders in that area.
I mean, would it be cool or what, when hundreds, maybe a few thousand, got to know each other enough to actually
demand from the powers that be something for them.
And yeah, it may give the locals a taste, something to strive for, something besides a six pack of colt45 every evening.
Would be a grand thing if it did.
Who knows, there might be some smoldering, angry kid right now, who after seeing the inequality of life, channel that anger into a job, a bike and a will to kick the ass of every motor home kid out there, on their own terms.
In a perfect world, maybe.
Human psychology, if you don't think it's the work of the devil, I encourage people to better understand it.
They will, by and large, reap the good things in this life.
That in itself is reward enough.
Any way you look at it, there will be those that will not change.
That will resent The Man telling them how to be.
So, in this case, the 64,000 dollar question, what do you do with the, I dunno, I'm gonna throw out 80 percent
that say fuck you, and your entry fee, I'm riding thru the Harbor Tunnel tonight, pulling wheel half way thru.
Do you guys really think the majority in the inner city will back a cop when he rams the guy from behind, and puts a stop to it?
Just need somewhere legal to throw down some sik triks!
As you may know, not every detail can be delivered to you, succinctly, free of charge, or free of some effort for you to grasp. I used to hold meetings on this sort of thing and nobody came. So I'm well aware of those armchair fencing champions who have great opinions and show up for nothing when it counts. I have little time for ignoramuses.
But since you did the others the great good favor of reposting (because they obviously are having trouble with it) I will indulge you. My company is a non-profit. It is a private company. It is what you need to get this sort of thing done. To make a track break even you need a good income stream and keep expenses tight. You'll understand.
I won't actually make any profit off of this. I'll screw up my family's vacations because of this. I'll piss them off - almost everyone I know who has run a track has ended a marriage. So let's get real. What is my motivation? To help the sport of motocross in my own backyard (which happens to be Central Maryland). To those of you who post without having anything to contribute that will benefit us, please stay out of the way. To those of you who post with no intention of coming to Maryland to ride, keep out of our way. Please.
For those that can't understand the OP "a plan to move dirt bikes out of Baltimore neighborhoods ..." it is the title of the Baltimore City Resolution the government gave it. It's not mine. Get a clue. I've stated as clear as is humanly possibly on the day of the Daytona SX (and night of an incredible international guitar concert I just attended) what you need to know to help out without making an utter ass out of yourself (backwater virginia). If you need more info I'll try to provide it.
Please don't come to this meeting if you intend to cause trouble. This is for the citizens of Baltimore City to decide if they need a riding area. If it goes well or goes ill I have no choice but to honor THEIR decision. Stop making this about YOU. The Motocross Council is offering our help. If you can't do the same, just save the bandwidth please. Your stupid opinion is not needed and you are just being rude. Read the available materials before posting.
Now I have to rewind to see what happened to Mookie.
Post a reply to: A plan to move dirt bikes out of Baltimore neighborhoods