2026 A1 Hype Thread

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1/9/2026 5:31pm

Tomac’s kit looked awesome!!!

Press day riding stand outs…

Tomac was looking really good, fast and perfectly downsiding everything.  Flicking it through the corners too…

Next best was Webb, he looked spicy for sure.

Plessinger was throwing it around with authority.

RJ was cooking too.

Sexton didn’t seem to be very aggressive.

Prado scared me a couple times.

Craig had a significant get off…

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Press516 wrote:
Tomac’s kit looked awesome!!!Press day riding stand outs…Tomac was looking really good, fast and perfectly downsiding everything.  Flicking it through the corners too…Next best was Webb...

Tomac’s kit looked awesome!!!

Press day riding stand outs…

Tomac was looking really good, fast and perfectly downsiding everything.  Flicking it through the corners too…

Next best was Webb, he looked spicy for sure.

Plessinger was throwing it around with authority.

RJ was cooking too.

Sexton didn’t seem to be very aggressive.

Prado scared me a couple times.

Craig had a significant get off…

Good synopsis of press day, haven’t seen Tomac’s gear yet but now you got me curious

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1/9/2026 5:49pm
sumdood wrote:
70%27s poster

"New from O'neal...Enjoy the Psychedelic ride"

Sigh...the gear companies will say "pushing the boundaries" whenst the rest of us will say gag

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Just putting out the vibe…

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Regarding the new tuff blocks.  All I see them doing is widening the race track and saving less injuries.  The square tuff blocks have saved tons...

Regarding the new tuff blocks.  All I see them doing is widening the race track and saving less injuries.  The square tuff blocks have saved tons of very serious injuries from providing "mattress" type landings and padding the heavy impact. These triangular shaped versions will do less of that.

They should catch less footpegs provided the slanted side is facing the track

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1/9/2026 7:02pm

Chase looks enormous on the Kawi.  

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1/9/2026 7:21pm

No hype around Hunter and I like it. He gets a start he is gone.

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1/9/2026 7:45pm
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Rough one for Craig during press day!

Wasn't that bad. Neither is the following one, but anyone surprised at the name. 😄

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The sexiest bike in the pits today was HRC's Chance Hymas bike, it looked better than Hunter's bike. I'm a Suzuki guy but I like yellow Suzkis and not the black shit they are running this year.  Ugliest thing in the pits today was the Triumph 450 front number plate, with TLD/Ducati's hideous freestyle number font being a close runner up.  

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Do the jumps look more peaky than normal?

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Twas the night before A1 and all through the park, not a bike was stirring, not even a Stark. The esky’s were stocked by the lounge with beer, in the hopes that the gate drop soon would be here.

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Twas the night before A1 and all through the park, not a bike was stirring, not even a Stark. The esky’s were stocked by the lounge...

Twas the night before A1 and all through the park, not a bike was stirring, not even a Stark. The esky’s were stocked by the lounge with beer, in the hopes that the gate drop soon would be here.

Not even a Stark 😂 

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CPR wrote:
Twas the night before A1 and all through the park, not a bike was stirring, not even a Stark. The esky’s were stocked by the lounge...

Twas the night before A1 and all through the park, not a bike was stirring, not even a Stark. The esky’s were stocked by the lounge with beer, in the hopes that the gate drop soon would be here.

And so, as they drifted off for a sleep, tomorrow’s 6 beer limit a promise they can’t keep, they dreamt of a battle , 4 bikes wide, zero family interruptions and a dinner of sides.

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Prado and Tomac looks good. Especially Prado compared to last year.

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1/10/2026 4:23am

El Hombre with 100 goggles now? I wonder why he didn’t switch to astars. 
Scott loosing two high profile rider this week 

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Justin Cooper and Plessinger are now in Scott. 

Haven’t seen this. Thanks

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CPR wrote:
Twas the night before A1 and all through the park, not a bike was stirring, not even a Stark. The esky’s were stocked by the lounge...

Twas the night before A1 and all through the park, not a bike was stirring, not even a Stark. The esky’s were stocked by the lounge with beer, in the hopes that the gate drop soon would be here.

jps256 wrote:
And so, as they drifted off for a sleep, tomorrow’s 6 beer limit a promise they can’t keep, they dreamt of a battle , 4 bikes...

And so, as they drifted off for a sleep, tomorrow’s 6 beer limit a promise they can’t keep, they dreamt of a battle , 4 bikes wide, zero family interruptions and a dinner of sides.

Dreams and no promises 🍻

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Haven’t seen this. Thanks

ClubMX Yamaha, PRMX Kawasaki, and Phoenix Racing Honda also switched to Scott. 

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jps256 wrote:
And so, as they drifted off for a sleep, tomorrow’s 6 beer limit a promise they can’t keep, they dreamt of a battle , 4 bikes...

And so, as they drifted off for a sleep, tomorrow’s 6 beer limit a promise they can’t keep, they dreamt of a battle , 4 bikes wide, zero family interruptions and a dinner of sides.

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