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For Tomac to look that comfortable on the bike 1st race out on it, I’m looking forward to seeing how he does against Jett in 26 with another 7 weeks to prepare

Everyone moaned how treacherous that track was and Tomac looked so planted and aggressive with minimal mistakes was very impressive to watch.

I also have to say with 2-3 more top names bought into WSX the racing (450s) was as enjoyable to watch as ama 

 

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11/16/2025 2:56am

In the first moto, I thought Tomac's bike was a bit sketchy.  The back end was slipping out from under him quite a bit.

By Moto 3, he was looking a lot more solid.

I expect by A1 Tomac's going to be trouble for everybody.

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I was wondering how he would gel with the KTM. He looked pretty damn good to me. 

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11/16/2025 3:01am
Radical wrote:
In the first moto, I thought Tomac's bike was a bit sketchy.  The back end was slipping out from under him quite a bit.By Moto 3...

In the first moto, I thought Tomac's bike was a bit sketchy.  The back end was slipping out from under him quite a bit.

By Moto 3, he was looking a lot more solid.

I expect by A1 Tomac's going to be trouble for everybody.

Yeah you know that happens when you twist the throttle sometimes. Bike looked great tomac looked great. 

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Johnny Oz
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11/16/2025 3:10am

It's the first time I ever considered buying a KTM.

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11/16/2025 3:34am

He looked sketchy in the whoops a couple times, but it didn’t seem to bother him, he continued to skim, which tells me he trusts the bike..

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11/16/2025 7:19am

He looks incredible on the bike

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11/16/2025 7:23am Edited Date/Time 11/16/2025 7:24am

2-3 more top riders to get in....did u miss they just kick out a top rider this week and cancelled his multi year contract 🙄

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PRM31
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Front242 wrote:

2-3 more top riders to get in....did u miss they just kick out a top rider this week and cancelled his multi year contract 🙄

??
Can you translate for those of us who speak english? 

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11/16/2025 7:32am

One race is early to say anything but he did look comfortable no doubt. I am interested to see it on the tighter slick tracks. But love to see it from Eli. 

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Stoked to see that the ol dogs got some bark in him!! He looked like he hasn’t missed a beat. Kenny’s still got some speed in him too, Kenny was racey. 

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11/16/2025 7:39am

He was really throwing that thing around, looks like he loves the bike. To me this version of Eli was really hard to imagine - I see it now!

Them whoops did look a tad unpredictable though. 

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11/16/2025 8:32am Edited Date/Time 11/16/2025 8:47am

Don’t give your hopes up. I want tomac to beat Jett so much, but I would not bet a dollar on that happening (championship I’m talking, he may win races here and there). Jett is the best guy on a dirtbike we’ve ever seen. 

I was stoked seeing tomac put it up there last night. That was awesome. His bike looked bad in the whoops though. I think beating Kenny in these short races is actually probably tougher than if it were Jett. Kenny is like THE guy on early sprint laps and tomac mostly had him handled. Good signs from the ktm group! And that hole shot….. jesus

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11/16/2025 8:33am
Johnny Oz wrote:

It's the first time I ever considered buying a KTM.

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Eli hasn’t looked that free, loose, comfortable, whatever word, in a long time. 

Good interview with Lewis. Lewis asked about the 2nd race whoops and what changes they made. Eli said no changes, it was just what he was doing on the bike. Sure looked fine in race 3. 

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PRM31 wrote:
Eli hasn’t looked that free, loose, comfortable, whatever word, in a long time. Good interview with Lewis. Lewis asked about the 2nd race whoops and what changes...

Eli hasn’t looked that free, loose, comfortable, whatever word, in a long time. 

Good interview with Lewis. Lewis asked about the 2nd race whoops and what changes they made. Eli said no changes, it was just what he was doing on the bike. Sure looked fine in race 3. 

It looked like he set the corner up and was a little higher in the berm before third race. He skimmed them all and hop out the last three. Even Kenny was trhing to jump through tbose but was losing time. They were untouched all day and just getting progressively gnarly. Dude looked comfortable even when he got out of shape.

He was trying lots of big junp combos no one else would, it wasnt always faster but shows how good he felt and how much he trusted his equipment. 

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11/16/2025 8:55am

Confirmation from Eli, that blue pig is still a blue pig.  He was throwing that KTM around like a bmx bike.

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11/16/2025 9:05am

He looked like Eli in 2022, that whip past Ando was the equivalent of Stewart's helmet grab.. Cool to see, but that #1 plate on orange was far too familiar. Almost felt like I was watching Dungey out there. 

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Zycki11 wrote:
One race is early to say anything but he did look comfortable no doubt. I am interested to see it on the tighter slick tracks. But...

One race is early to say anything but he did look comfortable no doubt. I am interested to see it on the tighter slick tracks. But love to see it from Eli. 

1 450 race in was all it took to convince Deegan fans he was gonna be fighting for the championship. Double standard bias maybe?

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11/16/2025 9:06am

Confirmation from Eli, that blue pig is still a blue pig.  He was throwing that KTM around like a bmx bike.

how did he ever win on a Blue Pig then?

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PRM31 wrote:
Eli hasn’t looked that free, loose, comfortable, whatever word, in a long time. Good interview with Lewis. Lewis asked about the 2nd race whoops and what changes...

Eli hasn’t looked that free, loose, comfortable, whatever word, in a long time. 

Good interview with Lewis. Lewis asked about the 2nd race whoops and what changes they made. Eli said no changes, it was just what he was doing on the bike. Sure looked fine in race 3. 

The last 3 laps of race 2 were a little sketchy, I was watching close during the last half of race 3 and he was on rails! It’s hard to believe that there was no suspension change, but the man said what he said. 

Great start on Orange, now we just gotta get them all to A1 healthy!

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11/16/2025 9:55am

Confirmation from Eli, that blue pig is still a blue pig.  He was throwing that KTM around like a bmx bike.

In my opinion, the new Gen YZ is worse for him than the older wider one. 

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11/16/2025 10:59am Edited Date/Time 11/16/2025 11:01am
Front242 wrote:

2-3 more top riders to get in....did u miss they just kick out a top rider this week and cancelled his multi year contract 🙄

PRM31 wrote:

??
Can you translate for those of us who speak english? 

they just kicked Roczen out this season and ya think 2 more top riders to get in....haha

 

or try AI 🤪

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11/16/2025 11:03am

Star chose to keep cooper who still can’t do whoops….😬 

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11/16/2025 11:12am
Johnny Oz wrote:

It's the first time I ever considered buying a KTM.

If you buy one you'll ride just like tomac

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11/16/2025 11:14am
Front242 wrote:

they just kicked Roczen out this season and ya think 2 more top riders to get in....haha

 

or try AI 🤪

I asked AI, it said. 

In normal English, what Front242 is trying to say is something like:

“People keep saying WSX just needs 2–3 more top riders to join, but did you miss what just happened? They just dropped one of their top riders (Roczen) this week and canceled his multi-year contract. And you think more top riders are going to sign up now? Yeah, right. 😂”

 

Short answer: his English is understandable, but it’s not very correct or clear.

Here’s what he wrote vs. how it should look in standard English:

Original:

2-3 more top riders to get in....did u miss they just kick out a top rider this week and cancelled his multi year contract 🙄

More correct:

“People say they just need 2–3 more top riders to join… did you miss that they just kicked out a top rider this week and canceled his multi-year contract?”

Issues:

“did u miss they just kick out” → should be “did you miss that they just kicked out…”

Missing “that” after “did you miss”.

Casual texting style (“u”, no capitalization, run-on sentence).

Original:

they just kicked Roczen out this season and ya think 2 more top riders to get in....haha

More correct:

“They just kicked Roczen out this season, and you think 2 more top riders are going to join? Haha.”

Issues:

“ya think 2 more top riders to get in” → should be “you think 2 more top riders are going to get in / join?”

Again, no capitalization/punctuation, very informal.

Original:

or try AI 🤪

That one is fine as a casual joke.

So:

Is it accurate English? Not really—lots of grammar issues.

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LLOYD22 wrote:

Star chose to keep cooper who still can’t do whoops….😬 

Seriously. He's only won 3 SX championships. And he hasnt won a championshipsince 2025. If he hasn't figured it out by now, it's not going to happen. Should just drop him.

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11/16/2025 11:37am
PRM31 wrote:
Eli hasn’t looked that free, loose, comfortable, whatever word, in a long time. Good interview with Lewis. Lewis asked about the 2nd race whoops and what changes...

Eli hasn’t looked that free, loose, comfortable, whatever word, in a long time. 

Good interview with Lewis. Lewis asked about the 2nd race whoops and what changes they made. Eli said no changes, it was just what he was doing on the bike. Sure looked fine in race 3. 

Gravel wrote:
The last 3 laps of race 2 were a little sketchy, I was watching close during the last half of race 3 and he was on...

The last 3 laps of race 2 were a little sketchy, I was watching close during the last half of race 3 and he was on rails! It’s hard to believe that there was no suspension change, but the man said what he said. 

Great start on Orange, now we just gotta get them all to A1 healthy!

Did they change the gearing for moto 3? 

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11/16/2025 11:40am
LLOYD22 wrote:

Star chose to keep cooper who still can’t do whoops….😬 

kage173 wrote:
Seriously. He's only won 3 SX championships. And he hasnt won a championshipsince 2025. If he hasn't figured it out by now, it's not going to...

Seriously. He's only won 3 SX championships. And he hasnt won a championshipsince 2025. If he hasn't figured it out by now, it's not going to happen. Should just drop him.

Justin cooper won a championship in 2025?

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11/16/2025 12:07pm Edited Date/Time 11/16/2025 12:07pm
LLOYD22 wrote:

Star chose to keep cooper who still can’t do whoops….😬 

kage173 wrote:
Seriously. He's only won 3 SX championships. And he hasnt won a championshipsince 2025. If he hasn't figured it out by now, it's not going to...

Seriously. He's only won 3 SX championships. And he hasnt won a championshipsince 2025. If he hasn't figured it out by now, it's not going to happen. Should just drop him.

LLOYD22 wrote:

Justin cooper won a championship in 2025?

Wrong  Cooper. My bad bro

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