The Dumbest thing someone has ever told you about dirt bikes

Everyone 'used to race'

My mechanic installed a new powerband.

This bike will out climb xxxxx bike all day long.

I had it boarded out to a 300.

Wheelies in every gear.

AMA Head Referee at a LL Qualifier: "I've never heard of Ricky Carmichael" 

I had no response to that statement. 

.... That motorcycles kill people. 

Mother in law thinks her sloppy son that has ridden twice is as in good of shape as Eli Tomac 

Summer of 1974.  Coming back from racing the Blue/Gray North vs. South Match races in New England.  Been on the road with my Dad for 2 weeks pulling a 3 rail trailer behind his Impala with my 74 CR125 strapped on it.  Raced Southwick on July 4th and we were finally headed south for the 3 day drive back to south Alabama.  Pull into a gas station somewhere around Virginia.  I'm filling up the car with the finest gas available for $.50/gallon and a dude that looks something like Popcorn Sutton strolls over and is checking out my bike.  "I ain't never seen nothing like that before.  Dang, it's got mud grips on both ends!"😂

Shades of the actor Gary Busey. The douchebag said something similar about wearing helmets. A short time later he crashes his Harley, smashes his head on the pavement and puts himself into a coma and nearly dies. The dude was a vegetable for a while. I don't know what his view on wearing a helmet is now or if he even rides anymore.

I just bought a crf300l and been riding it into work alot lately and a guy a work asked me if it had a powerband like the one in a yz85 he rode years ago

There's more to life than dirt bikes...

One of the excavator operators on a job told me he used to race 500's professionally and how pissed off Bradshaw got when he beat him one time. Uh .......lol. Bradshaw only raced the 500 class once and his worst finish was 7th so its pretty easy to know he was full of shit. I even ran into him at a practice track years later and he was obviously a novice. I dont think he even remembered who I was or else it would have really been embarrassing.

I could do without profeshenel125 ever posting shirtless selfies ever again. 65yr old shirtless men ain't my thing. I like em younger 😂 

In the late 90's, I heard a pro rider bragging about how he qualified for Loretta's on an 85 so his brother could go. He was in his 20's and rode in place of his brother. I just shook my head and walked off.

Me meeting someone in my future wife's family...

I was local expert / wanna be pro.

Guys says "yeah i used to do that too, I was just like you"

Me: You raced dirt bikes?

"No, but I had a street bike in the early 70's, went off the road one time, hit a road approach and jumped so high that when I looked over I was even with the power lines".  

Me:  AWESOME!  

The powerline story has also been used by many a snowmobile rider.

Switched to a new team and I’m now 5 seconds a lap faster!!!

Oh sure...coming out of the corner 3rd gear tapped and you'll clear easy. 

Was watching a race at work. Guy says.. can’t you just get in behind a guy and draft him like in nascar?

Said I that’s not really how moto works 

Next pass someone entered the corner behind, squared up and made the pass. He goes see, he drafted him. 

I just turned 68 and am going to play ride at Glen Helen tomorrow.

I ran into a guy at a gas station about 12 years ago or so while putting gas in my pit bike. The guy at the next pump looked over at me and complimented my modded crf50. He told me his son raced dirt bikes and was pro. I asked what his sons name was. He told me “Jimmy Decotis”.

I'm gonna get a vintage bike. They're way cheaper to race. And then bitch because they can't buy tires, chains and sprockets, pistons etc. for 1977 prices.

I was asked if Bob Hannah still raced. This was in the late 90s.

           Based on where you live, that dude likely was not lying !

All you do is sit on a dirt bike and twist the throttle. 

“MotoRcross” is not as physically demanding as soccer.

Back when I was a kid, the local gravel pit badass was going to smoke me and everyone else once their parents let them race, because they got  Pro Circuit pipe for their clapped out 86 KX80 and my bike was 'stock'. He was even 'training with "Gene Michael Bayle.' 

The stupidest thing I ever said about dirt bikes was when I got a 1983 KX80. I was telling a friend at school about it, and how it's now watercooled, and he asked how that worked. I actually didn't know so told him I think it mixes water with the petrol so it runs cooler.. 🤡

"5th gear tapped..."

A guy walking his dogs in my neighborhood yesterday started asking me about my bike then told me that Suzuki is coming out with a new 400 two stroke 

"Riding dirt bike will get you hurt"   Not one time I have ever been hurt riding a dirt bike, now crashing a dirt bike is a different story!!

Instead here's the dumbest thing I've ever told someone about dirt bikes.

About 25ish years ago we got a new shop teacher at my tech school. Said teacher is a member of this forum. When he mentioned that he raced dirtbikes, i wanted to connect/impress him so bad I made up some bullshit about how my buddy got injured racing and in order to keep his points I raced in his place. I'm still embarrassed by that retarded decision, especially since to this day I've never raced before. So Steve, sorry about that lol. 

After he bashed his head off the curb he definitely changed his views.  He was one of the biggest advocates behind the push to have California create a helmet law.

A guy who was buying a used 1985 RM125 mentioned in passing "10w40 motor oil is fine for pre-mix" 
He was also back a few weeks later telling me the bike blew up ....