Leaded fuel at indoor MX tracks

It’s a valid concern but I don’t know what the solution would be. 
 

in a typical Mx track setting I wouldn’t sweat it too much but indoors is different, lead poisoning is nothing to mess with 

I think you just explained Vitards...

I rode an indoor yesterday and can say i felt the same. My ashtma was extremely exasperated too. Id get 6 laps into a session and itd start up. The pits at this place are good and out of the fumes but riding in and going in to watch my daughter, i could really feel it. 

How do you know lead caused your problems? Could have been carbon monoxide.

I was wondering the same thing re: lead.   Could be VOC’s from bikes running rich?   No matter what it is, sounds like these venues need better ventilation. 

It's the exhaust not the lead. They just need better ventilation. BUT as an industrial hygienist even if they had better ventilation if you have been there for more then a day it will have a cumulative effect on you. Meanin each day you will get a headache sooner or hard to breath sooner then the day before.

Then you should take your test results and show them to the track owner and discuss it.

OBTW: What was the level of micrograms per deciliter?

You didnt have a Denali and big 5er there did ya? 

I came late and ended up parking in front of them on the hill. 

Do they do anything for lead poisoning? 

I have felt like shit all day and my wife tells me my kid has seemed down today too which isnt normal for her. 

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/11312-lead-poisoning

I feel like this discussion is pretty laid back considering lead poisoning could be involved. Not trying to be a Karen but someone should probably say something to the people running these tracks. It's no joke, especially for young kids.

I spent a lot of time at indoor practice tracks as a kid for years. Some of them had adequate ventilation and others were essentially not ventilated at all and basically just a barn. This was back in the two stroke days as well.  At around age 17 I was told I had some scarring on my lungs at which point they asked if I smoke etc (no), really no cause for it. Flash forward a decade and I still have it. still not a smoker, no asthma, etc. I really think back to some of those times when we were literally just sitting in a cloud of exhaust for hours on end for months out of the year and really think it has something to do with it. 

Its a shitty part of the sport that really doesn't get brought up alot. 

I too grew up in lots of indoors. Always felt a little fumey but it was pretty heavy yesterday. 

Talked to another buddy who was there with his fam and they feel shitty today too.. coincidence? 

Talk to the track owner as an advocate for the sport. 
 

if he has a head on his shoulders he will hear you out and make some tweaks. 

He does and i believe him to be a solid dude for sure. Seems to really care about his patrons and what they think. 

It's not the lead making you sick. That level is less than what anyone would have had at any given time when leaded gas was the norm and isn't going to give you symptoms. However, If the ventilation is poor enough that you're bumping your lead level, you're sucking in all kinds of exhaust fumes and that's what is giving you symptoms. Most likely CO. And why are you routinely getting lead levels checked? 

General rule of thumb with these places is if they're heated, they aren't ventilated well enough. 

I'll just say it. Lead has no place in Motocross.

If the pros can get 20HP more out of their bikes than us without lead, then we don't need it either.

If you use race gas, get unleaded race gas.

Knowing it's a disadvantage performance wise, Chad Reed set the example and stopped running leaded fuel in his kid's bikes, and is advocating that everyone stop.

I used to always feel like crap the day after a ride day.  Not from getting a good workout, but from breathing exhaust.

If felt like toxins needing to work their way out of my body.  It felt like a hangover.

About 10 or 12 years ago, I started wearing one of the ventilated N95 masks, and now simply a bandana or neck gator over my nose and mouth.  My understanding is that Andrew Short used to wear the ventilated N95 mask as well.

Obviously it doesn't filter out everything, but It seems to filter out enough to make quite a difference.

Now, the day after a ride day, I feel fine.

I'm going to reiterate.  Leaded fuel has no place in Motocross.  Let's get rid of it, especially anywhere our children ride.

Youre right about the little bikes.. ill admit tho, lead never once crossed my mind..  My daughter rode her 110 with the 50s and when id go down by the start, i liked the smell because it reminded me of the old days but i was like damn this is intense in my head lol.. 

Stark has a solution!

only lead that's going to hurt you is from a bullet!!

I'm 64 y/o  been using leaded race fuel for the last 38 years in all my motorcycles chainsaws brush cutters with no problems

Mark

This post might suggest otherwise…

Thank god the boomer is here to tell us that huffing lead is perfectly acceptable.