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1/25/2012 11:36pm
I started off today by doing my normal rounds of forums, lurkings, and race report reads (even though I listened to the race.) Cut out a few porn site visits, and I ended up at DV12 looking at the 2000 phoenix supercross video. Oh how I longed for the sound of a crisp 250 gettin clutch slapped out of and inside line over a nice sized rhythmn section. DV12 provided, with his come from behind beat MC race. It was awsome.
That got me thinking of other good races to search. Of course the next place I ended up was sand Diego 2001. I immediatly noticed a different tone in David Bailys voice. Think have gotten serious! I also watched some old school daytona with Travis and even the "best supercross of all time" in '86 but something occured to me after this watch.
Very rarely does anyone (Ricky, James, Chad) catch the other seconds at a time. Now a days its more like a fraction type win or loss. Even more so is a fraction per lap. For example, Alessi is quite fast in supercross. His main downfall is a couple of slow laps (usually midway through the race.)
Riders have seemingly taken a mechanical state for maximum speed at maximum times. The 2000 races that I watched seemed light years behind the 2001 races. Riders took on this mechanical maximum speed (Crysis reference
)
So with that I say 1997 is the year that riders became machines.
That got me thinking of other good races to search. Of course the next place I ended up was sand Diego 2001. I immediatly noticed a different tone in David Bailys voice. Think have gotten serious! I also watched some old school daytona with Travis and even the "best supercross of all time" in '86 but something occured to me after this watch.
Very rarely does anyone (Ricky, James, Chad) catch the other seconds at a time. Now a days its more like a fraction type win or loss. Even more so is a fraction per lap. For example, Alessi is quite fast in supercross. His main downfall is a couple of slow laps (usually midway through the race.)
Riders have seemingly taken a mechanical state for maximum speed at maximum times. The 2000 races that I watched seemed light years behind the 2001 races. Riders took on this mechanical maximum speed (Crysis reference
)So with that I say 1997 is the year that riders became machines.
They just don't go for it....unless your James. Which is why everyone loves him even the haters.
its been the same since RC
3rd -20th can be fractions off each other that adds up into the total sceme of things.
When I say machines the top two and even 3rd to 20th are different machines. At one point it was all human. Now its as mechanical as the stopwatch itself.
The difference in how they need to be ridden makes the difference you speak of.
-Steve
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Cost twice as much, cost twice as much to fix, and very few amateurs really need that much power. Dudes, we are racing OPEN class bikes in SX? WTF???
Screw it, lets bring back 350cc two T bikes, or 400s for that matter then these bloated overpriced 1/6th of car engine pieces of crap can go back to the damn dustbin they belong in.
I'm forced to watch you tube videos just to remember what real motocross sounded like. God I miss the pack of 125cc Pros barreling into the first turn at Unadilla, if you never heard that you don't know what you are missing.
His name is McGrath and it happened when Mitch signed him to ride a cr 125 in 1991.
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