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i just watched a video of chase lock #755 testing and he was straight up hauling @$$, i talked to him at the seattle sx and it was his first time ever riding an sx track... he couldnt pass sound check and had alot of problems. but he will be one to keep an eye out for next year west coast sx...he is still very young so he's got time also to get experience....hope you all cheer him on and support him!
873
873
But wait, let me get this straight.....a guy goes to a supercross race and has never RIDDEN on a sx track
So did he race or did he not get through sound ?
On the video you watched, was it a sx track he was riding on ? ....cos that would not make sense if you say you saw him at Seatttle and it was going to be his first time.
Just trying to make some sense here so we can support the guy.
Mr. Lock is just going to have to let his results speak for themselves.
Regarding not passing sound at SLC, who is your pipe company? If you need any help in that area please e mail me at michael.rigdon@verizon.net
Best of luck.......
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good luck at glen helen if he is in
but i cant understand how he can race almost all the supercross races this year, and be slowest by 13 seconds or so EVERY round... and he has a supercross track in his backyard, right?
he goes good on arenacross stuff
If you rode SX all year would be within 13 seconds of Stewart?
I'm glad you got to meet Chase; I've known him since we were small kids and raced against him many times before he decided to move to Montana from his hometown in Minot, ND. I'm glad you think he has potential - as I agree with you - but I think you should also know the whole story.
After quitting motocross several times as a kid, he made a comeback in 2006. Chase has always been a very talented rider but always seemed to lack either heart or the ability to step-up at race time. It seemed that every time the gate dropped he couldn't raise his game to even top-3 a common problem but not one worth criticizing for.
As he was growing up racing, Chase was always the faster to two racing cousins but as time passed his younger relative, Casey Schriock, started to enjoy his own success and started challenging/beating him. At that same time, mysterious bike problems started to arise from Mr. Lock's trailer that nobody but he could spot. As Casey got faster, more oddities arose and Chase started showing up to fewer and fewer races where he would be pitted against other talented riders. Eventually, he quit.
When he made his comeback in the fall of 2006, the aforementioned Schriock was one of the two fastest riders in the state and a very talented regional rider. For this reason, the backyard of the Schriock/Lock compound (chase had moved in next door) had been turned into the best place to ride/train in the region. It features a constantly evolving, full-sized outdoor track and an AX track to hone AX (and SX ) skills on. Additionally, being the kind relatives that they are, the Schriock's volunteered to take Chase to any races they attended in their fun mover. Life was perfect.
Then, word came around that Chase's group of friends was under the impression that he was the fastest rider in North Dakota; "whatever, uninformed buddies" was the response by those in the know. As summer progressed, he started riding less, missing many opportunities to ride with his faster cousin and many talented riders who would often come to train. Wouldn't you want to ride with those who could help you to improve?
In the fall of 2008, Chase bought two new KTMs despite many state-wide rumors that MDK had given them to him. Then, just like that, Chase bought a small box van and was moving to Montana, away from the supreme riding facility behind his house; away from several regular riding partners who enjoyed riding with him (despite incorrect rumors of how bad Chase always beat them) and could help him improve; and away from people who had embraced him as one of their own road-trippin' brethren. He left without so much as a "thank you."
As you would expect at this point in a story, the rumors about Chase didn't stop when he moved to Montana. Inferred sources were easy to spot, but people in the know never heard a rumor fire up from Chase himself. First, he "won" the Washougal Pro-Am: well, in fact, he had won one moto of the 250 A class and got something like 20th in the other--mind you, that race was during Loretta Lynn's and every top amateur in the country was in Tennessee—but good moto Chase. Then, word surfaced that he had obtained his pro license by "racing enough pro-ams" when, in fact, he had received 0, yes 0, pro-am points in a one-year period (starting in Millville in '07).
After a showing in Millville where he was pitifully far off the pace of a North Dakota rider who did make the mains,Tanner Reidman, it was obvious that he wasn’t ready to race professionally (he didn’t jump the RC double until practice two, a jump that every other rider had mastered by lap three and something that endangered the other riders).
Then came the Seattle SX, coincidentally one of only two West Coast rounds Tanner Reidman would not be racing, and Chase was there, riding an SX track for the very first time. However, it didn't have to be his virgin outing; he could have stayed where he was and trained on a first-class AX/SX hybrid track with another rider who had more than double his experience racing that type of track (Chase has only raced one Professional AX in his life in Des Moines, Iowa where he failed to make the night show).
In Seattle--where he was more than a minute off of the next fastest rider's time, not the leader but the rider in 42nd-- I'm sure he was a kind recipient of some of your attention but, realistically, there were others who were much more deserving to be out there --such as life right?
In the end, Chase Lock is most definitely a likeable guy and a very talented rider; nobody has ever taken that away from him. Unfortunately, so many coincidents surround him that one must wonder if he really is the person that he claims to be. He is certainly not ready to race supercross and how fair is that, really? He never earned the right to be on the track with those who did what they were asked to do to get a license and it is an offense to their hard work for him to line up with them.
He was in a situation where he could have done it all and earned every bit of praise anyone could give him, but he didn't. This is about the truth and sometimes the truth hurts. Now we'll just have to wait and see if the AMA renews his license after the performance he has put forwarded thus far. Good luck Chase. I hope you do make it, but you'll have to prove that you earned it.
Justin Fisk
No reason why Chase should have any issues passing sound if he's running FMF.
Good luck!
mx873 how did you meet him?
i don't know, how you can get chase lock confused with Jake locks fuck head
Now as for Chase Lock, Im not sure who he is, but Im sure he will have no problem getting into GH with the economy... Well be lucky if theres a 40 man gate!
Pit Row
I witnessed the whole thing from when he rode mini-bicycles at my grandma's house to the day he left for Montana. And no, none of it was wrong, maybe just different than you know.
I never spoke of why he left motocross or North Dakota but, rather, the circumstances to which he left. There are way too many coincidents to be ignored, period. Being a friend of his in Montana, you only know half the story. But we both agree that he is a likealbe guy.
He bought a an '07 Honda CRF250 in the fall/summer of 2006 from Pure Honda so you stand corrected. Change is a good thing but if you leave a perfect situation for preparation of your career goal then your career goal must not be that important. There are many who wouuld interpret it that way.
The rest of your points are irrelevant and the fact that you two were up all night before a race that was supposed to mean something to him shows that neither of you were mature or serious enough to do well at the race.
Finally, according to AMA records available on the web at the time, Chase had 0 points. I think it is obvious to anyone who looks at his times in Millville last August that he is not ready. Maybe one day he will be, but today is not that day and when he goes out there he is a danger to himself, to others and is slapping the ones in the face who have trained their ass off to be where they are at.
mx873:
I apologize if it felt like I was jumpin all over your case. In reality, the "Chase Syndrom" has been happening for years and I felt that it was time to set the record straight. I believe you saw him in Seattle, but I also follow every SX's lap times and his times say otherwise. Hopefully he'll take that as a wake up call to be better prepared if there is a next time.
but ya its all good, i just thought he was a good rider for never riding a sx track before...he didnt seem like what you deecribed him as, people change tho, maybe he grew up lol
probably 25 seconds slower then stewart
You know how it is when people get a job or whatever based soley on who they know or by working the system, just gets you all riled up. Nobody ever doubts his potential and I guess everyone has their fervant supporters as well. I hope we can both walk into the pits one day and get an autograph from Chase, as long as he does it legit, but I doubt he'll be very happy with me!
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