Who Has the Best Style? | MXGP/Supercross Question of the Week

nowadays manz dont get talked about a lot but seely had underrated style 

Paulin. 

Paulin does have a real cool style. Always found great lines, made things look effortless one minute and then hucked something bigggg the next minute, badass.

Windham was always cool to watch, obviously.

Kay De Wolf

Kay does have a sick style.  Vialle too. Oh and talon vohland. 

RV, unmatched aggression IMO. First that comes to mind from the last 15 years. Flow state Tomac is up there too

Robbie Reynard 

Nico Izzi on 80's was the coolest, TP in his 125 era was just insane - you know, thinking about it, Shane Bess was pretty bad ass too.

Maybe someone can find a video I remember seeing years ago of RV. 

It was a cellphone video of RV going from almost last place to the front in like 5-7 laps? Title of the video was like “RV last to first in 10 mins” or something like that. I’ve looked for it several times but have never found it. 

Kenny. Baggett was fun to watch when he was on 

Man that's a tough question...  Some of that depends on what style you like.  Tomac when feeling it, beats a track in to submission.  He pounds the ruts and just hammers everything.  It's a sight to behold.  The opposite of that today is Jett, he has an ability to just float over things, turn breaking bumps in to mini doubles and just skim the tops of jumps, it's like a poetry in motion.

Then Anderson with the untucked jersey and just hanging it out there...  Reminds me a little of Hannah.

Since I like the guys that abuse the bike and track, I'll take Mark Barnett.

Check out this art by Byron Chaney...  If you haven't seen his work, check it out, it's good stuff!

 

El Hombre 

Y’all are trippin! Kevin Fuckin Windham end thread…

Barnett was before my time but he's a legend. Every picture of him is pure class. They don't make them like him anymore

Yup, imo no one looked better than RV. I still dont know what exactly made his riding style look so unique, it just was. 

Pourcel was pre Jett ultra smooth. Totally ahead of his time. All from necessity. (Be nice if AC took a leaf out of his book)

Toss up between RV or Baggett on a 250. Bubba on a Kawi 450 '07-08

Mike Brown, Erik Eggins In the sand, Dutch .  DV12 on 125 in 98,  Dobb unique style, Alex Puzar,  Patrick Capps, Larry Ward 125,  Huffman 125,  Stribos 125, Marco Delargo 125 Italian,  Chad Johnson 125, Denny 125. 90,s 125 riders . McGrath looked Great on a 125 last yr. Very close to his 91 style. 

Legu Seguy 125 he,s the rider that tapped his heal on the front fender at The Bercy jump contest. In the 125 gp,s Very stylish and smooth. 

Agree, Bayle was also like that...

Not claiming he had the best style, but J-Law in his prime was pretty sick. He would do this thing going through a rutted corner where he’d pull his knee up next to the inside of his elbow with his foot under the handlebar. As opposed to his knee being under the bars and his heel by the front fender like most would when going through a rut. He would do this and still be dragging bar it was always something I always thought that was really cool and actually a pretty efficient move since your boot can get pretty heavy with mud. It’s much easier to raise your knee up than your foot. Gotta make things easy on yourself when you’re hungover

Jett and RV.

The sport continues to develop, most comes from the pasts best riders, some from other sports, especially bmx over the last 20 yrs, most go a bit wrong by trying harder instead of understanding what technique development they need and how to perfect it. Once I have families doing it right it’s generally the younger brother gets the best as he has more to learn off. 

Special shout out to Darryn Durham by the way.

Dungey. Boring to look at, but that straight back.

Jeff Ward