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My body.
i guess the biggest issue is i never got into trail riding and was mostly into moto racing. I say this as a big reason as to ride and race moto comfortably you need to do it regularly where trail riding you can slow it down for lower skill guys and dont need to be wfo every where.
for me to get comfortable i have to ride at least once a week and i dont have that time or money so it makes riding more discouraging
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The older I get, the more I notice I am living "through my head" instead of my heart. I don't like that trend and hope this gets me back in a better groove.
After crashing my brains out at 19 years old and getting a bad concussion, I decided racing would not be a priority anymore. Plus getting a promotion at work I couldn't risk getting hurt while learning my new position. Just recently in July 2018 (21 years old); I convinced the girlfriend to go with me to a local track on the 4th of July and we'd meet up with friends after (plus she never been to a motocross track). After pulling off the track because I had a bad feeling, I decided to go back out for a few more laps then I got thrown over the handlebars on a downhill jump and landed at the bottom. I broke my wrist, got another concussion. After getting a plate and 12 screws. I was very lucky that's all I sustained. I lost my drive completely to ride the edge.
I got my 2002 RM250 to ride on practice days and some single track, but that's it. I wish I could've been injury free but it could be a blessing in disguise, who knows. I love this sport more than anything to walk away completely.
My fav is getting a huge needle shoved in the bottom of the foot.
Custom insoles from FootLogic Is my only help these days for my feet.
Pit Row
Now factor in children time because they both wanted to do stuff like play soccer competitively. On three teams total and that was many a weekend driving to games and tournaments.
And serious injuries that finally made me call it a day. Not counting previous injuries, I had The Big One that resulted in:
1. severely shattered left femur/upper trochanter and the resulting titanium nail and hardware.
2. broken left radius and ulna (both arm bones above the wrist).
3. cracked sternum.
4. too many broken ribs to count.
5. collapsed right lung.
6. 3rd degree separation of right shoulder.
7. major concussion
8. 6 days in a trauma center in Austin.
Started riding again 10 months after that one, for a year, until I knocked myself into another major concussion and broke a tooth. Then I was finally done. I wanted to be able to run and play with my kids. I ended up doing serious running for a few years, a slew of half and full marathons, that culminated into sucessfully training for and completing a 70.3 and a 140.6 triathlon (Ironman! yeah!).
Oh yeah, I had kidney cancer and lost my right kidney in between the running stints.
It wasn't crashing that made me quit. Crashing just forced me to take some time off and I wound up enjoying that extra time way more than I did racing.
Think about what it was like when you first started out, and picture yourself as an inexperienced rider, fresh to the sport, rolling out onto some of these modern, crowded tracks that are available today. Pretty intimidating. I’ll never understand why there isn’t more demand for safer, more natural terrain type tracks. A prepped turn track, even. It would benefit the sport tremendously.
Not to mention the fact that most races run waaay too many classes, with too few riders on the gate of each for motos that are too short... reduce the number of classes, lengthen the races. It’s easy to see why off-road racing has grown tremendously over the years.
The tracks around me are very jumpy almost supercross style. I’d like to ride more nationals style tracks and when the jumps are big just make them table tops. I’m racing Grand Prixs this year. 1 hour motos, cold start so not everyone is flying into the first corner all at once, (especially me 11’ Kx250f dang things a bear to start finding tdc every time) Natural terrain almost hare scrambleish w/ a l portion being on the mx track but mostly the safer jumps and only about 45 seconds to 1 minute of the 15 minute lap times being on the mx track. I treat it more like a 1 hour trail ride and don’t ride over my head. With 15 minute lap times I only see the top A riders come past me 1 time towards the end of the race.
Maturity, MX racing is fools gold for crazy kids!
Interesting to me how different places can be so into different things, I Lived in Sacramento , and there they are Crazy about , The Sacramento Kings.
I lived in Kentucky and they are Crazy About a College Team the UK Basketball, co workers could tall about it for hours,
I lived in Colorado and they are Crazy for the Denver Broncos.
It seems to me If you want to live somewhere where you can somewhat have that experience or even possibly have that experience with motocross would be
Southern California.
I even Played fantasy football a few times, it was fun and helped but im still not into football.
In Motocross Playing the Fantasy games helps to stay involved and keep it fun if your not riding.
I graduate in May and am in a light semester with more work hours at a job that pays well. I'm looking to do my first race in about 2 years this weekend at Elk City in Oklahoma, if everything regarding my capstone goes smooth. I've been itching to get on the bike more but it's just so damn expensive. At the end of the day, I'm happy I took some time off to get my life situation squared away before getting back into it. My future looks bright with plenty of dirt scootering.
Fast forward, kids have grown up, no longer in the military and I got back into riding. Bikes feel heavy. They are great until they decide to go sideways and there is less a chance to stop. Feels like navigating an 18 wheeler around a go kart track though. Where are the nimble exciting bikes I remembered? I sell the 4t pig and get a 2t. Ok, fixed that. Tracks have these make it or break it jumps. I’m not interested in breaking it and no longer have the skills to make it. I know, just roll them and move on, but it’s worse than just slowing down, it’s actually deflating. Hard to describe, but I’ll leave it at not fun. One track does evolve and seems to have gone away from any sketchy jumps. Kudos to them. Definitely more enjoyable experience. But it’s still a long drive to get there. I look into racing. Wow, there are like 52 classes now, and each has about 6 riders. Seems the same riders in many of the classes, especially in the vet classes. Weird. And in each class there are guys with white plates, some with yellow and more with black plates. Who’s who? I guess you pick whatever you want now. That’s different. Oh, I messed up a sketchy jump. Ouch. Shattered collarbone. Note to those getting older, bones take a lot longer to heal when you’re old! Heal up, get a different bike. Frame up rebuild on an RM125(144). That’s fun! Track is still a long distance away though. Want to improve riding to race, but don’t make time to go riding, thus don’t race. Sell bike, ponder riding future. I still love the sport. I’m 52 and don’t miss a race on TV. Why don’t I race? I don’t actually know, some combination of all the above I suppose. I wonder how many of us would race dirt bikes if they were a modern rendition of a 1976 Elsinore 125 in size and power, and the tracks were just natural terrain? Do more riders, especially those of us with jobs, limited time, really want 50, 60+ HP bikes that weigh 240+ lbs to ride around SX styled tracks? I guess somewhere deep down I answered that for myself.
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