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Can it be said who it was that wanted him to race for them?
This interview is a good one. His disclosure of the fears and thoughts he had caught me by surprise.
Great interview
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The sx tracks are getting chewed out in a few laps costing the promoters money to keep some what rideable and prepped, on top of that you have our superstars nearly killing themselves to win a SX race. Let’s get real here a bit of carnage is fun to watch in small doses but these guys are getting fucked up !!!!
Yeh I’m being a bit PC but if we wanna keep this sport alive not half killing the contestants or ending up in wheelchairs or lifelong injuries, pulling down the horse power of these bikes is the key....
Just my 2 cents
It also appeared to be a hell of a lot of fun, if that is still important?
125 and 250's where more than enough.
Saying things along the same lines on a podcast about a year ago.
I think the first step before switching away from 450's which is not easy to do.
Would be to use electronics to tone them down a bit.
We are un the Electric/computer age, They could
Limit ECU's if they wanted to and give them all less.
Could they not ?
We have just as many serious injuries in the 250 class, yet the motors are much more expensive as the factories stretch them to the limit. If we reduced the big boy class to 300-350, they would get close to 60 horsepower just like they are now, just cost more alienating riders on stock or close to stock power plants.
A couple other points:
1. Moto has always been dangerous and always will be. We cannot add seatbelts, but we can increase options for body armor and better head protection (gets better every year).
2. For supercross, simply slow down the tracks and make them all very different with unique obstacles. This could actually make racing worse though, so be careful what you ask for and the tracks used to be this way....and riders got hurt on 125's and 250's.
Production rules.
Imo a lower cc would kill the sport completely. It cost alot less for privateer to race a 450 . And be competitive. A competitive 250 costs alot of money
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But we have how many guys out in 450 Class just this year?
I Like the Ideas, others have shared also
About the Gas used.
And as someone said make the sound restrictions stricter
No reason not to its a win win.and should have been done years ago, but better late than never.
It is understandable that metally comebacks take their toll on everybody. I hope Trey stays healthy and happy forever riding dirtbikes for fun. There are brand abassadors who have plenty titles but none of them has the charisma of Trey.
Maybe make the premier class like the 450 class rules on components and high tech stuff and unobtainable works parts, but limit displacement to 250cc. I would say 350cc but we all know they would be right back at 450 power levels immediately.
Flame suit on.
Maybe 300 for the premier class.
Stock. What is stock? Surely you would require a homologation number to make it stock? Just do a more hardcore KTM factory edition with all the fruit and 52mm Cone Valves and Trax shock and a full TI bolt kit, charge 20K and they would sell enough to homologate be considered 'stock'.
Keep the 'non factory' rules for the 250's and open up the homologation to allow euro manufacturers to come in and at least have a go at supercross. Something like 'If not an established brand in the US the model competing must be available to purchase to the rest of the world in the 'stock' condition competing' Engine Cases and Frames must not be modified from the widely available model or something like that.
The 450s is a hard one because its the power plus the tractability and roll on ability. A 60HP cr500 is much harder to ride than a 60 HP crf450. The 250 two stroke didnt have this tractability. So even though the top riders could do the same rhythm sections if they didnt get them perfect or get out of the corners perfect they couldnt. So if they went through a Rhythm section out of control they would quickly lose speed and stop, crash or whatever. Now they can roll on the throttle and BRAAAAP jump 3 more and hope they get back in line. But how do you fix that? How do you make the bikes Harder to Ride still with lots of power but harder to ride in some way. I dont know. I mean a 250 does every jump a 450 does so if anything to maintain a seperation of class the 250 should be pushed down to 200cc, made super quiet on pump gas and then the 450s will be more special.
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