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If I'm paying money to watch someone race a dirt bike, it's Ricky Carmichael.
If I'm paying money to watch someone just play ride, it's Travis Pastrana.
If I'm paying money to watch someone cut insanely fast laps on MX/SX track, it's James Stewart.
However, the talents of people like Larry Roeseler, Chris Carr, Geoff Aaron, and Evil Knievel have to be respected for the things they were able to do on a motorcycle.
He made Rossi change his riding style. The kid is bonkers on a bike. Started off as a Moto kid.
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I'll take the example of Everts, Everts was inspired by David Bailey. How many riders of this era were inspired by Stewart ? A lot.
When I watch Tomac take a corner standing up on the pegs, I see Everts.
I would make the difference between a rider who revolutionizes/Innovate something and riders who have the talent to reproduce easily what they can see (mimicry).
JMB was an innovator, JMC was as well, Everts ditto, RC ditto (Innovator with the physics aspect) and obv Stewart.
This generation has received a gift of 30 years of evolution. This is more true with the easy access of videos ect.
Bayle has won the best riders of Supermotard, as in this video, the best race of the time, against the best rider of the time, Chambon, just after leaving Motocross in 92 and 94 also won this race. In the 93, he starts first, falls in the first corner, stays last and reaches Chambon N1, when there are still four laps to go.
In road races he was also at the highest level competing in 250 and 500, he did not fight for titles, but he did get a pole in a GP of 500
He has also competed in Trial in France, being well classified and in Enduro as well.
He also competed in Rally cars in France
In MX and SX he won everything important individually and in some MXDN he did very well, winning his category.
The whoops passed them as no one was capable, it was his strong point, but then he had technique for everything, one of his specialties was to brake with the rear brake in the banked curves, while accelerating, with which he hit the bike to the ground , etc was very good, even today the best pilots can watch videos of him and learn.
Marquez win some flat track in Barcelona, in MX I think he made one round os spanish national race and results about 10 position and one enduro race and riding good, but, all this is in the same time when he compite in MotoGP
Prado also ride very well in Trial, is his other moto passión, he won one local race, and when he have 10 years try one time in moto road with Sete Gibernau, but, he prefer stay riding MX.
It's still early for to says if it's the most talented MX rider,
Scrub in the EMX250 in 2016 Talavera
65cc
85cc
125cc
And in the GP Agueda 2017 only he made this jump like that, nobody from MX2, nobody from MXGP.
See how the falger was made backwards when he sees it coming. And the exclamation of the public.
But really JS7 is it not obvious? Were talking most talented... Dont take my word for it RC said it many times. I think RCs opinion matters much more than all of ours combined because he knows what it takes to become the GOAT. We dont even know what winning 1 sx/national takes. I trust RC. His words and my eyes tell me hes right.
Pit Row
https://youtu.be/hCpVsltIIwY?t=278
Bagget having 1 win in 64 career starts in premier class (i.e. he’s won a whopping 1.5% of his SX starts and has 1 more career win than myself) puts your asinine argument to rest, not mine.
If you want to start a topic naming the current top 5 or 6 riders in US, i’ll concede BB4 belongs in the discussion. Most talented rider in the history of the sport? GTFO.
Reminds me of someone like rc or dungey
Talent doesnt mean squat if you dont make something happen with it.
Imo stewart was the most talented and he got far, but not as far as he could have.
He’d probably vote windham or Reynard.
He's gnarly, no doubt, but in the list of most talented people in the history of motorcycle racing I don't think he belongs in that conversation.
Right, and I’m the troll...
My bad, Bagget is the most talented rider in the history of our planet. He just doesn’t find himself on the podium regularly against current competitorn in US(let alone historical or global) because he slacks off and doesn’t apply himself. It’s not like he moved to Florida and dropped $5M of his life savings to build out his own MX/SX track and training center on or anything. If only he applied himself he’d prob have more wins than RC by now
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