Is there a board/site like Vital where the Euros get together and talk primarily MXGP?
I see a few MXGP threads here but with the following over there, I have to wonder if there is a similar site somewhere they are all congregating around.
I see that Lewis tries to bring some MXGP heat here since he joined MLs team, and we have some great international member representation, but the discussion is primarily focused on SMX and its riders.
I’m a veteran of the days of FreshDirt and MotoDrive and don’t remember much being there back then either other than MXGeoff coming in to spew some self preservation garbage from time to time.
It's funny how some Americans label anyone outside of their country as a 'Euro' and think that they are single entity. Certainly in sport they are not. MXGP is a world championship series and Europe is just a continent that a lot of the races are held in.
Most individual countries will have their own MX forums but as far as I know there isn't one for the MXGP series.
My apologies as I didn’t mean any disrespect. Most of the top riders in the MXGP series are from countries in the geographic region in and surrounding Europe. A bad word choice nonetheless.
I see all the fans from those countries at the races and wondered where they all get together and talk about things. I’ve been following MXGP more and would like to join in.
honestly it should be equal amount of threads bout the GP’S on here as with the US series but try Reddit see if there’s any subreddits going on bout the GP’S
It would be difficult to have a successful forum in Europe, mostly because of all the different languages.
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No problem. I'm not sure that the concept (an international forum for a specific international series) is a thing. I don't know if the likes of F1 has a forum. But like Snapper said, an international forum is going to restrict a lot of people because of language.
We used to have mxtrax which was UK based that was good, but it was driven into the ground through incompetence.
MXGP Forum ? Feel like you’d have to be on an approved team, prior to entry.
All I know that the racing in the mxgp series has been straight fire for years now and that the tv package they offer is superior to ours!!
Lol. MXGP is a European championship contested by European riders coming from a European feeder system on European tracks (16 of 20) with a European promoter and European sanctioning body. If there was an MXGP version of Vital, where do you think it would be based? Indonesia? Argentina?
I've also wondered why there isn't a "go to" forum to discuss GPs and all other things moto in Europe.
I would love to hear your take on calling smx a world championship..
SMX is a world championship because they call it a world championship.
I would love to hear your take on the FIM calling AMA supercross a world championship in '21, but not '22. The only thing that changed is the FIM stopped receiving payment from Feld. If Infront decided to stop paying the FIM would their series become any more or less a world championship? I don't think it would.
World championship is just a marketing term in this sport for promoters and sanctioning bodies. I could hold a race in my backyard and call it a world championship.
We just had a thread discussing Euro's taking over because of the Lawrence brothers success.
But a series that are held all over the world, have riders from all over the world are a european championship? Check…
Btw, im okay today..
Riders from all over the world? I went through the top 40 for each MXGP and MX2, so 80 riders total, and these are the only non-European riders I could find:
MX2:
13. Camden McLellan RSA
15. Jack Chambers USA
MXGP:
40. Miguel Cordovez ECU
Should I do the same for the EMX classes or do you get the point?
Anyway, back to the subject, it would be cool to have a thriving European forum.
I don't think anyone is labeling everyone outside the US as European. MXGP is a European based series. That is what he was referring to.
ignorance is like a infectious disease, the more you spread the bigger it gets........
firt of all, FIM, world governing body of motorcycle sport, in all continents of planet earth, all national federations are members of FIM, that is why there is world championships, because FIM sets rules and regulation, classes, etc, so that country federations can prepare their competitions and racers like every where in the world.... AMA is a member of FIM, and only because of that americans can participate in the world championship of whatever motorcycle sport and have a team competing in MXdN, ISDE, Worldjuniors, etc., it is also the reason why any non american racer can race sx or mx in america, he just needs a racing license from his country federation........
also, Europe is a continent not a country, its group of countries with very diferent habits, culture and even language.....what you are saying is people from mexico, usa, canada and eskimos are all the same.....with a bit of knowlage someone would understand that france, great britain, italy, germany, spain, netherlands, etc. have completely diferent culture and specially diferent language, and therefor they are not obliged to talk english, besides in great britain ...... with that bit of knowlage that i know highschool gave to the americans who attended, i was there for 3 years and got it, it is fairly simple to understand europe and all its differences....
funny in all of this is that USA is only 500 years old, and was "made" by europeans, still i notice here a lot that very soon americans forgot about their grandparents, their culture and their heritage......symptoms of that said infectious disease so much spread here.....
I'm well aware of the different cultures throughout Europe, why does that keep you from having a forum to discuss European moto?
By the way people from Mexico, USA, Canada and maybe even eskimos (does Ben Lamay count?) all post on this forum. Doesn't seem to be an issue.
only the ones that know english for sure !!!!!!
i guess that the difficulty of communicating in a different language then your own is something you cant imagine........
i am from portugal, writing in english with you...... so step down a bit, be humble and awnser me in portuguese if u can......
even with google translation on, i bet you will have a very difficult time to express yourself and you will stick to only english forums, for sure......and that is the all smart of you !!!!! imagine a normal person.......
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Am I wrong in thinking that the World Series of Major League Baseball is only for teams from the USA & Canada?
It seems no matter what the thread, we always devolve into semantics about entitlement, titles, names, nations, and continents. A triggering thing for some people I suppose.
As the OP, I was just trying to ask if there is a place like Vital where hardcore fans of MXGP gather together to talk moto. That's it.
Seems like the answer is no. Thanks.
I think you can find it at: MinorLeagueMoto.com
Vital is probably the last active MX forum in the world. The rest of the people use Facebook groups to discuss Mx.
Here in Sweden the forums have been replaced by that.
And in some of the european countrys, english is still not the second language that people speak. Here in scandinavia people speak fairly good english but in France, Italy and Spain that are large MX countrys the english is still very poor.
So it’s hard to make it work since people have a hard time do comunicate.
Some people see Vital as a global forum, while others gladly remind us foreign visitors that it’s a American forum.
So you need a specific number of riders from outside of europe to be okay with it?
All the Americans, South africans, Russians, Aussies, Kiwis and what ever that have raced the GP’s all over the world through out the history is not enough for you to be able to acknowlage the Motocross World championship for what it is?
First reasonable response to the question in this thread
So you're saying that having racers from many Nationalities makes something a World Championship?
I would say a series that are ran in different countrys all over the world, A series that are not based out of one country and a series that have riders from all over the world have earned it’s rights to be called the world championship it is.
The Dutch championship have riders from all over the world but they don’t try to claim it as a world championship since there all ready is one.
And they know how silly it would sound to call it something based on only the riders and not taking the locations in consideration.
There is so much irony in your post. The FIM is a European organization that wants to control all of motorcycle racing across the world. Many Americans don’t like that and prefer to do things differently and be independent.
Nobody with a brain thinks Europe is a country. There could be a forum in English for MXGP and racing in Europe because most everything for the series is already in English and the broadcast is in English, is it not? I’m sure there are plenty of MXGP fans that don’t speak English but I also know there are plenty who do. I spend a few weeks in different countries in Europe every summer. I’m in Greece as I’m typing this. I’m always surprised how many people speak English no matter where I go.
Going to different countries is a world tour.
As has been said, MX Trax in the UK was decent, but it was moderated into oblivion, some great contributors, but all the ones worth reading or engaging with got banned, there was a load of stuff on there about the corruption of Youthstream and the FIM, Wolfgang Srb and his family and all sorts of stuff and it got proper shut down.
A few came here ( i was one of them) and it died on its arse for being too PC and split into tons of subforums, it wasnt broken , but they fixed it till it was.
You are wrong....www.fim-moto.com.... check for yourself, AMA is a member, and try to check what should happen if AMA droped their FIM membership.....this "alone and proudly" feeling so much in use in usa, glen helen out of the nacionals is an exemple, is what made usa loose their dominace of motocross and a lot of other sports....
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