D!ck Riders

Chest Rockwell
Today's race is why we as fans should bite our tongues until, as Mr Berra said, "the fat lady sings."

Everyone wants to shit talk brands, riders and even team managers, but until the last race has finished, anything can happen.

So many people stoked when they thought Eli shit talked on the '15 Honda, but the bike that ends up costung him a million plus looks to ultimately be the green machine.

It really sucks when a rider's fan base causes you to root against said rider, but the Tomac dick riders just couldn't wait 2 more races to run the bases. GFY.

Love ya!

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Feint
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Feint 4/29/2017 8:39pm
4/29/2017 8:39pm
The bike didn't cost him shit. His nerves did.
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Acidreamer 4/29/2017 8:44pm
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Cant blame the kawasaki. His brake mechanical was an in house part thats not in production. Tonight was him having an off day.

You can blame the honda for being unstable as shit. Eli knew it, and its been a trend with the new honda bucking roczen twice. Plus various honda owners on here saying the bike is twitchy.

Also i bet tomac made that million with his wins and contract extension. I dont think hes bummed about the money.
Chest Rockwell 4/29/2017 8:51pm
4/29/2017 8:51pm
Feint wrote:
The bike didn't cost him shit. His nerves did.
My point exactly good Sir!
Chest Rockwell 4/29/2017 8:55pm
4/29/2017 8:55pm
A 20 race Supercross season never looked so appealing. I wish we had another month of this stuff. Better than any movie script.

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Phantom 661 4/29/2017 10:19pm
4/29/2017 10:19pm
Acidreamer wrote:
Cant blame the kawasaki. His brake mechanical was an in house part thats not in production. Tonight was him having an off day. You can blame...
Cant blame the kawasaki. His brake mechanical was an in house part thats not in production. Tonight was him having an off day.

You can blame the honda for being unstable as shit. Eli knew it, and its been a trend with the new honda bucking roczen twice. Plus various honda owners on here saying the bike is twitchy.

Also i bet tomac made that million with his wins and contract extension. I dont think hes bummed about the money.
This wasnt just an off day for Eli, it was a very important race and he mentally melted. It's a tough deal
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andyman 4/30/2017 1:51am
4/30/2017 1:51am
Acidreamer wrote:
Cant blame the kawasaki. His brake mechanical was an in house part thats not in production. Tonight was him having an off day. You can blame...
Cant blame the kawasaki. His brake mechanical was an in house part thats not in production. Tonight was him having an off day.

You can blame the honda for being unstable as shit. Eli knew it, and its been a trend with the new honda bucking roczen twice. Plus various honda owners on here saying the bike is twitchy.

Also i bet tomac made that million with his wins and contract extension. I dont think hes bummed about the money.
There was nothing wrong in that brake when they took it a part.
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TXDirt 4/30/2017 3:02am
4/30/2017 3:02am
When the pressure was on he melted. This wasn't just a bad race. This was an epic meltdown. A bad race would have been 5th place. Atleast he would still have a chance. This was about the worst possible outcome for Eli in arguably the biggest moment of his career so far. And he laid an egg.
jorgechavez 4/30/2017 11:15am
4/30/2017 11:15am
andyman wrote:
There was nothing wrong in that brake when they took it a part.
I remember hearing that there was a problem and they are no longer running that brake. They didn't talk much about it because of sponsor shit I guess.
smoothies862 4/30/2017 11:45am
4/30/2017 11:45am
Chest Rockwell wrote:
A 20 race Supercross season never looked so appealing. I wish we had another month of this stuff. Better than any movie script.
no. never. yuck. more doesn't mean better.
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jk367 4/30/2017 12:39pm
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I absolutely think he cracked under pressure and I believe early in the year roczen was in his head which caused poor results and arm pump
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kiwifan 4/30/2017 1:02pm
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Acidreamer wrote:
Cant blame the kawasaki. His brake mechanical was an in house part thats not in production. Tonight was him having an off day. You can blame...
Cant blame the kawasaki. His brake mechanical was an in house part thats not in production. Tonight was him having an off day.

You can blame the honda for being unstable as shit. Eli knew it, and its been a trend with the new honda bucking roczen twice. Plus various honda owners on here saying the bike is twitchy.

Also i bet tomac made that million with his wins and contract extension. I dont think hes bummed about the money.
Honda owners here raced Eli factory Honda??? Really you should not compare the factory bike to a production bike and think its the same...a lot of the Honda problems were due to them being forced down specific suspension types and settings...those days are gone with HRC back in the fold.

also the bike Roczen rode is waaaay different the what Eli's bike was. Plus Roczen made the mistakes not the bike....he had NO front end loses that Eli had when he was on it.

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