Procircuit team bad luck continues

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FerCzD 12/10/2021 2:04pm
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What you guys think of a testing and practice cap in SX. All teams get X amount of hours worth of testing and practice for their riders. As someone mentioned, a healthy balance and also to try a level playing field, so private teams don't fall behind too much from factories with illimited resources.
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yak651 12/10/2021 2:12pm
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FerCzD wrote:
What you guys think of a testing and practice cap in SX. All teams get X amount of hours worth of testing and practice for their...
What you guys think of a testing and practice cap in SX. All teams get X amount of hours worth of testing and practice for their riders. As someone mentioned, a healthy balance and also to try a level playing field, so private teams don't fall behind too much from factories with illimited resources.
MX isn’t like road racing where you can monitor tracks pretty easily. How are you going to monitor who’s riding on their own time? Riders know what’s up, if they want to keep pushing limits instead of just building a base I guess that’s on them if they crash and get hurt
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jk367 12/10/2021 3:05pm
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So is he out or not? Anyone know for sure
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romain524 12/10/2021 3:27pm
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Pro Circuit could have lost Shimoda this morning at Elsinore when the linkage decided to snap by the bearing and ended up breaking the shock shaft.
Fortunately Jo was all good, walked back to the truck happy that he wasn’t injured.
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MXMattii 12/10/2021 3:33pm
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romain524 wrote:
Pro Circuit could have lost Shimoda this morning at Elsinore when the linkage decided to snap by the bearing and ended up breaking the shock shaft...
Pro Circuit could have lost Shimoda this morning at Elsinore when the linkage decided to snap by the bearing and ended up breaking the shock shaft.
Fortunately Jo was all good, walked back to the truck happy that he wasn’t injured.
When this kind of things happen... How does a thing like that happen?!
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romain524 12/10/2021 4:27pm
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romain524 wrote:
Pro Circuit could have lost Shimoda this morning at Elsinore when the linkage decided to snap by the bearing and ended up breaking the shock shaft...
Pro Circuit could have lost Shimoda this morning at Elsinore when the linkage decided to snap by the bearing and ended up breaking the shock shaft.
Fortunately Jo was all good, walked back to the truck happy that he wasn’t injured.
MXMattii wrote:
When this kind of things happen... How does a thing like that happen?!
Seems like it was a freak accident or a wrong batch of linkage maybe?
Fortunately ended up good, just broken parts.
Btw just Jo, Cameron and Seth were here today, no Jett, Forkner is probably back at Reynard’s.
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caviar&cigarettes338 12/10/2021 4:53pm
12/10/2021 4:53pm
romain524 wrote:
Pro Circuit could have lost Shimoda this morning at Elsinore when the linkage decided to snap by the bearing and ended up breaking the shock shaft...
Pro Circuit could have lost Shimoda this morning at Elsinore when the linkage decided to snap by the bearing and ended up breaking the shock shaft.
Fortunately Jo was all good, walked back to the truck happy that he wasn’t injured.
I wonder when that happens do all the riders get pulled in and all linkages pieces same as Jo’s get checked ? Bad material because of covid supply chains being down got material from different supplier? I know procircuit machines their own linkage pieces well they did at one point
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crusty_xx wrote:
Maybe Mitch should hire Jeremy Seewer. Dude hasn't missed a single moto since turning pro 8 years ago. But then again he doesn't ride Supercross
agn5008 wrote:
I haven’t missed a moto in 34 years. Maybe he should hire me.
MyBobbym wrote:
Puttin round on 2nd gear no wonder.
I’ve probably been hurt worse putting around in second than at full speed, lol…

Of course these days, second might be my full speed…Laughing
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mica.lagross 12/11/2021 6:27am
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On racerhead this week it says he suffered a pelvis injury
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-MAVERICK- 2/18/2022 12:12pm
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Jett Reynolds. Left with the medics.

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ArmPumped 2/18/2022 12:14pm
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At this rate Mitch is gonna put together a Wheelchair Basketball team.
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soggy 2/18/2022 12:18pm
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Something over there at PC Kawi just isn’t right. What a run of injuries they’ve had.

It might be time for Mitch to change his philosophy on not paying riders a high base salary and big bonuses for results.
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mb60 2/18/2022 12:29pm
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I don't know about Jett Reynolds but how the heck did he get a PC ride ?
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JJO741 2/18/2022 12:33pm
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Reynolds has been eaten up and spit out by this sport the past few years. Hopefully it’s not too serious.
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TeamGreen 2/18/2022 12:49pm
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soggy wrote:
Something over there at PC Kawi just isn’t right. What a run of injuries they’ve had. It might be time for Mitch to change his philosophy...
Something over there at PC Kawi just isn’t right. What a run of injuries they’ve had.

It might be time for Mitch to change his philosophy on not paying riders a high base salary and big bonuses for results.
I'm pretty sure you're gonna see 3 PC riders at Minn and I'm thinking "a change of fortunes" will be part of the new theme at PC.

As for wages? I'm thinking there's a coupl'a other teams that are paying as much or more than Mitch; and. let's remember, it was Mitch that sounded the alarm bells about the sponsors showing up at Loretta's with their checkbooks wide open.
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devindavisphoto 2/18/2022 12:50pm
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mb60 wrote:
I don't know about Jett Reynolds but how the heck did he get a PC ride ?
Are you serious? Dry
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mattyhamz2 2/18/2022 12:54pm
2/18/2022 12:54pm
I really hope Reynolds can stay off the ground in the future. Watched him from the time he was on 65's and raced with his older brother a little bit at one point. Good dudes and want to see Jett succeed.
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Stewyeww 2/18/2022 12:55pm
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It would make a lot of sense to offer riders longer contracts, so they can have a year or two to get going and make mistakes with lower pressure to perform. Short contracts forces riders to ride to far above there abilities in hopes of keeping a ride. Or a better feeder series for the same reasons.
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Thisusernameisavailable 2/18/2022 1:13pm
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Stewyeww wrote:
It would make a lot of sense to offer riders longer contracts, so they can have a year or two to get going and make mistakes...
It would make a lot of sense to offer riders longer contracts, so they can have a year or two to get going and make mistakes with lower pressure to perform. Short contracts forces riders to ride to far above there abilities in hopes of keeping a ride. Or a better feeder series for the same reasons.
Quite right. Imagine if the manufacturers could back a 2nd tier team.

For example, a rider like Reynolds moves from amateur to pro, his first year, maybe two is on the 2nd tier team. Primary objective is to make every main event and get top tens by seasons end.
When he’s conditioned enough, he moves to the top tier team where the primary objective is podiums and wins.

Then he moves to the 450 2nd tier team and repeats.

Interesting..
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Lightning78 2/18/2022 1:48pm
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I really liked that caller into one of the pulp mx shows that said let the rookies and newer 250 riders ride the east coast and the veteran 250 riders ride the west coast and the east coast kids have to earn enough points to graduate to racing the west coast with the veteran 250 riders.
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yak651 2/18/2022 3:32pm
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Stewyeww wrote:
It would make a lot of sense to offer riders longer contracts, so they can have a year or two to get going and make mistakes...
It would make a lot of sense to offer riders longer contracts, so they can have a year or two to get going and make mistakes with lower pressure to perform. Short contracts forces riders to ride to far above there abilities in hopes of keeping a ride. Or a better feeder series for the same reasons.
It would make sense to have more pro support and less amateur support. Then a rider that gets injured would still have a chance to get some support the following year instead of being dumped and never being heard of again
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The Kawi curse continues
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RaceFace58 2/18/2022 3:45pm
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Stewyeww wrote:
It would make a lot of sense to offer riders longer contracts, so they can have a year or two to get going and make mistakes...
It would make a lot of sense to offer riders longer contracts, so they can have a year or two to get going and make mistakes with lower pressure to perform. Short contracts forces riders to ride to far above there abilities in hopes of keeping a ride. Or a better feeder series for the same reasons.
In a perfect world…..in this world you end up with a team with an oft-injured rider getting paid to watch or on the flip side a guy who is disgruntled because he’s outperforming his contract. It’s a good middle ground where it is. I always like when people spend other people’s money.
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Chris_Buehler 2/18/2022 4:40pm
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Premix wrote:
The Kawi curse continues
What happened now? I just Weege interviewing Jett Reynolds about making his debut Sat. Curious how he will place
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Premix wrote:
The Kawi curse continues
Chris_Buehler wrote:
What happened now? I just Weege interviewing Jett Reynolds about making his debut Sat. Curious how he will place
Weege show took place before they rode the track.

Reynolds might now be out with an injury.
Chris_Buehler 2/18/2022 6:00pm
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Premix wrote:
The Kawi curse continues
Chris_Buehler wrote:
What happened now? I just Weege interviewing Jett Reynolds about making his debut Sat. Curious how he will place
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Weege show took place before they rode the track.

Reynolds might now be out with an injury.
Wtf. That looked gnarly. I hope he's ok
thatswhathappens 2/18/2022 6:10pm
2/18/2022 6:10pm
Lightning78 wrote:
I really liked that caller into one of the pulp mx shows that said let the rookies and newer 250 riders ride the east coast and...
I really liked that caller into one of the pulp mx shows that said let the rookies and newer 250 riders ride the east coast and the veteran 250 riders ride the west coast and the east coast kids have to earn enough points to graduate to racing the west coast with the veteran 250 riders.
Not saying it's the best idea, but it's definitely the most logical solution I've heard of so far that wouldn't drastically restructure the series format.

Counterpoint: some past 250E champs might not feel great about now holding the lesser important plate, having to explain to the kids that back in the day it was on equal footing with the west, lol
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