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Noone said you acted illegally, the claim is that you acted in your own self interest to screw over a facility in a tight nit community.
Now you're trying to justify your actions after the slighted community turned their back on your business.
I don't really care man, this thread isn't about what LACR has done. It's about an industry insider and owner of a popular company who sued a race track because his kid is a shitty rider and got whiskey throttle off of a berm.
Period.
Its people like you that are the problem. Why didn't they realize the track was too dangerous before they rode it? Why didn't they realize the track was too dangerous after they rode it? They should've packed up. Why didn't he understand the waiver he signed? Why didn't he setup a go fund me himself? I'm sure people would have donated. Lacr probably didn't do any of that because the guy sued them. I don't know the owners but I'm sure they wouldn't have any problem doing a ride day. Geez. Hey why did McDonald's serve hot coffee that got spilled on someone and burned them? Literally same kind of thinking.
classic deflection.
Is there an acceptable amount of money to extract from a track and still expect people to support your goggle company?
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There’s a few ppl on here saying what about rich and his brand and taking away from his family, well what about all the track crew and workers at LACR that are out of work because of Rich Taylor?
Nah, not even a little bit.
You think you can start a post with "I'm a better human than you" and then go on some rant about how OTHER people are judgemental? How delusional, disconnected, and arrogant do you have to be to type something like that, hit send, and then defend it even further.
I agree that they should not have sued. What pisses me off is that these are my favorite goggles. They are smaller than other goggles and fit in my helmet better. They do not press down on the top of my nose like some others do. I am going to see if the strap will interchange with Scott or 100% goggles. Anybody tried this?
You and I have already gone back and forth last year and agreed to disagree. The other guy is constantly berating people as well as me and now he’s implying I’m gay, lol. You’re right I’m only saying I’m probably a better human since I don’t post the bullshit he posts and I was only responding to his initial judgement. His posting history speaks for itself. The circular and immature responses are humorous.
Deflection? That’s what your response is. Not one question answered. That is deflection.
FarmerJ, another guy with zero facts. Pack up and get out with your baseless statements.
hahaha this is your rebuttal?
What facts of the event do you have that contradict the common sense scenario laid out by Farmer J?
I would say that your posting history speaks for itself as has already been pointed out in this thread but you always continue to ignore.
Care to comment on that or do you want to continue to ignore the fact that you solely created your account to defend Rich?
If you can't man up and admit that, go ahead and keep acting like I'm the problem. I mean in my experience it's the typical arrogant SoCal way to act better than everyone and not be able to take ownership for anything.....which is exactly why your boy Rich sued LACR ironically. He couldn't take ownership of the fact that his kid is a squid and got whiskey throttle off of a simple berm that thousands of riders hadn't had a problem with before him.
At the end of the day, I'm just so happy that this thread is full of EKS Brand Goggle Reviews for others to find later.
There are some lawyers that would take that case.
Brother, we may have agreed to disagree last year or whatever, but that doesn't mean your continued nonsense and insane self-righteous posts can go on unchecked lol.
It's a message board, your opinion doesn't carry any more weight than anyone else's, and when others think it's stupid, we can say so. CLEARLY you feel the same way.
I still feel, as do a lot of others, that you are REALLY close to the RT side of this whole thing. Maybe even the man himself.
Nothing self righteous about my posts unless because they differ in opinion from you and others. The self righteous viewpoint is the one that people use to pile on to something they don’t know much about other than a statement they read and a post the other party posted. I do know and have least come in contact with all of them at some point. I have also been involved in race events that we promoted and we worked with Jack himself, although they were years ago. He was cool to work with then but I don’t know about what’s happened since him. Also, Lungbutter keeps saying the kid was a squid, etc. that’s not an excuse to undermine the tragic circumstances. It’s just an ignorant statement to justify his ignorance or anger. I have only or mostly proposed questions of why LACR has denied help and advice, or why haven’t they created a new company. We only get to read about their supposed hardship, but why are the ignoring the handouts. What are they doing with the money? The poor me shit is stupid, they have options. I also think it’s bullshit for Rich to receive threats of violence and the call to burn his business at the stake over doing what he thought was right for his son. He used his country given right because nobody else came to help. That is fucked up.
Because nobody else came to help? GTFO. "Nobody came to help" because it WASN'T the tracks fault.
This is the consequences of his own actions. Period.
If his kid hit a dozer on the track and the track said eff you, I guarantee people would have come to help. Keep carrying on with the same drivel. It's pretty pathetic at this point.
When you are in a room with 100 people and 98 of them disagree with you, take a look in the mirror.
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You’re conflating things. Your pissed because rich is industry, but LACR is also industry. If industry isn’t allowed to sue because they are industry, shouldn’t they have worked together to create a benefit ride day because they are industry? That could have been a compromise to help each other out? Gofundme was around then but not really an acceptable thing in our sport at that time.
For the love of god if we ever get to the point in the US where we have standardized pitches for jump faces and limits on how tall we can build a berm just put me out of my misery, I don’t want to breath the air of an existence like that.
Can you sue Glen Helen if you hit a kicker on the huge down hill and take a trip to endonesia trying to go as fast as you can?
Anyone who thinks specific regulations on track safety and auditors certifying things will decrease track liability clearly has no idea how things work in this unsophisticated country that doesn't have these things.
As long as the threshold to sue is "bad thing happened to me" those kinds of regulations just become the things cited in the lawsuit. Personal injury lawyers will take all the detail you can give them on how things should have been. Surely they'll find a few things out of spec or at a minimum a consultant who will say they are.
Would also love to see any data that says places that have gone the bureaucratic route are actually safer.....
Refer to your previous response above the post quoted.
"Deflection? That’s what your response is. Not one question answered. That is deflection. "
Yeah....that was your quoted response to the guys right above the post you quoted me back on.
Please, let's all listen to the guy that lives where 0.000000094% of the US population lives, he definitely has a pulse on what happens in the nation...
And neither is suing tracks.
Choices were made and actions have consequences.
And for my VitalMX EKS Brand Goggle review segment rant brought to you by PulpMX ….it’s whack to accept ad money from a track suing man like Rich Taylor. This is how empires fall. Back to my boycott ✌🏽
If all the tracks are built to conform to specific dimensions and someone crashes and gets hurt, he then can't sue? Is that similar to signing a waiver and still filing a lawsuit against the track?
Make sure whoever puts you out of your misery gets me too. We can get a two for one special.
These "developed" countries sure have a lot of wooden stakes and fences quite close to the track in the videos I see on YouTube. Hawkstone and the track they run the Vet MXoN sure look sketchy on GoPro. They also look like an absolute blast to ride BTW.
Bumping this as I noticed today EKS Brand blocked me on Instagram 😂😂
Throw em in the trash!
Everything that has happened to LACR, Anthony and the Barbacovi's...is FUKKKKKKKKEDUP!!!! So many people have been screwed with our awesome local track LACR being shut down since last December. And yup, Its due to 3 law suits but the first one mainly clearly noted within this post. But some other little kids parents, suing cause they sent there kid out on the main track on a PW50 or a 65 and he got landed on at age 6 or 7, recovered just fine. And some "girl" that barely knew how to ride broke her ankle and she decided to sue.
You dont ride/race dirt bikes and SUE A MOTOCROSS TRACK!!!!!
We really miss LACR bigtime, and so do a few thousand others that loved to ride there at Anthony's awesome facility. The Barbacovis have been involved with their track since the early/mid 80's....CRC I mean, their own SON, pro rider..Jeff Barbacovi died at their own track. They didnt shut it down, they kept it going.
Its really a shame what has happened. Im sure everyone still keeps some positive hope that LACR will reopen sometime in the future
For all it's little faults, LACR was ours and we miss it. For 50+ years Jack and family have gone above and beyond to give us yahoo's a place to gather and have fun. Miss it every weekend, and the occasional Wednesday private ride days...
People can say what they want, but without the Taylor lawsuit we'd still have it in our lives.
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