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Simple minds seek simple explanations. Prado has been a squirrel his whole career and there was plenty of complaining from riders, fans and media during his time in the GP's.
Am I alone on this one, or does he have some of the sickest style on the track? He tosses that thing on the triples and finish line most laps. So cool to watch, especially when he’s out front.
Well were they wrong? Looked like a pretty blatant move to me....and he has done this his entire career....ever since he did it to his teammate at his first ever GP....
Matthes, JT and Weege all gave him serious props as a contender leading up to the race this weekend because of his starting ability and the shorter races...but I guess that isn't enough....they need to consume their whole show on Jorge's one good moto....I don't know man....
To be clear, I don’t really care how much they talk about him, if they hadn’t have talked about him at all, I wouldn’t have cared, I just don’t think the way he rode on Saturday night deserved the narrative they went with
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This is so fucking epic I love it.
The content creator known as Matthes a.k.a. Pulpmx, has a history of being harsh on foreign riders. It seems that the US crowd loves too listen to that content.
Musquin was also dirty cross-jumping rider for example. While the same thing, done by Anderson, is called "riding a wide bike".
I have learn to never question Jett to be honest.😅
But Jett, Jorge, Eli, Chase, Haiden, Hunter, Ken (?) In the same motocross championship would be nice!
I don’t know why some are getting upset. Prado’s questionable and at times dangerous riding has been a topic surrounding him for as long as he’s been pro. It had nothing to do with his nationality then and it doesn’t now.
I follow his career already from the 85s, refresh my memory, because I draw blank.
His first GP with Herlings at Assen in the qualifying race is one….
I happend to be there at that race in Assen and yes .he made it diffecult for herlings ....but it centainly wasn't dangerous..........
I understand that riders get irretated by the fact he almost always start in front..and yes .He is difficult to pass ..but that doens't make you a dirty rider....and yes he certainly does stupid thing.. a few years ago in german he hit herlings at the finish......as a herlings fan i wasn't really happy about that either....
They didn't even touched each other, and he didnt used his rear wheel to sweep the competition to the ground... For example...
Next?
I heard that Prado crosses over from meal style to meal style, jumping from one lane of style of cuisine to another in hopes of blocking out the discerning palette.
You are to emotionally involved....who said anything about him taking anybody out...he definitely during his career has made many dangerous cross jump/cutoff moves... the majority of his competitors have complained/said something about how he rides and when you can take off your rose colored glasses and watch what he does....he deserves the reputation he has....
While I absolutely think that he is one of the most talented riders ever, he is as dirty as it gets. I said it in another thread already. It wasn't an issue in 2024 when he was so much faster than everyone and just blew by people like they were standing still. But what he did the years before had nothing to do with just "riding a wide bike". He crosses other riders lines, brake checks, cross jumps etc. It has been a thing for a few years when he moved to the 450.
Anyone who disagrees with that has not watched MXGP from 2020-2023.
Most have seen this cross jump already probably. But the jump here isn't even the only thing.
Look the 20 second mark how he crosses over just in front of Herlings while they're hard on the throttle right before an off camber. It's just unnecessary and risky.
holy hell that was dirty lmao
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Turkey 2018 MX2 class had a lot of cross jumping against Jonass. Was very controversial at the time.
Cutting someone off in mx is not nearly as dangerous as doing it in sx.
In the end of the day, Prado made all the pundits look like absolute idiots. The consensus from them was that he wasn't gonna make it, at the very best his ceiling was a 5th to 10th place rider. Well he became a 3rd to 10th place rider in his 6th through 10th ever supercross race.
None of these people have admitted that they have completely fucked up their assessment and revised what happened last year. Prados very aggressive defensive riding is an other thing, well known for anyone that has followed him the last decade. So it's easy to latch onto his defensive riding.
My assessment hasn't changed...he a fast talented rider who is a complete ass for how he handled himself last year...has nothing to do with speed or talent and has everything to do with personality and actions....find it hard to believe that apologists fail to understand that and think that those that are critical of him are being critical of his talent when in reality its all about how he handled himself last year...
Yeah crossing over and taking someone out with your rear wheel tapped in 5th is way safer than doing it while you're in 2nd gear in SX....
You know what I meant ass hat.
Is this actually what you think of the world? No wonder we have so many issues...
This drives me nuts as well. I never said he wasn't fast on a dirt bike. I knew that already. I piled on him for his behavior last year. I thought it was petty and childish - my bad I guess. Now there is all these eat crow threads and everyone saying "told ya" like people were pissed off and saying he sucked at riding. I will admit, there was a bit of that from some, but the overwhelming majority did not care where he was placing, just that he wasn't trying and that those shitty results might have been a bit better if he just grew up and became a man about it and tried. There is always a legit way out of a contract. That was not one of them.
I will also say, I like him a lot more this year when he is trying to be in the mix, but I still feel like him not addressing it is the pussy way out, and from what I saw last year, that will probably be the way he chooses to move forward.
Way to much info has came out that support Prado.
Did you hear Kawi team manager using villopoto as the reference for bike was fine last year? Anderson saying that he couldn't get the power he has from the Suzuki, from the kawi.
Chase has basically taken the Factory kawi, and made it a PC kawi for it to work for him. They had to completely abandon all principles to not have another failure on their hands.
Monster refusing to let Prado go so he had to abandon a race.
Prado back to being his MXGP himself, meaning when he feels it's his fault, he owns it. Poor line selection, lack of SX experience, selecting wrong starting gate. This is the Prado we are used to. In fact, its any MXGP riders approach. If its shit, they can it shit.
Just stop with your excuses for his shit behavior, it is getting old…in other words you can say whatever you want it’s not going to change my mind or many others…he is the one that made it public…nobody else.
The more all you Appalachian people hate on him the more I root for him.
What was his shit behavior? Do you mean his honest interviews? Because we don't know if he gave up, maybe the bike was so backwards, that you got arm pump and ran out of physical power after 10 minutes.
Explain what was his shitty behavior? And what about Kawasaki that leaked time after time again how much work Tickle was doing (Tickle was in his prime not fast enough, so how useful his test work is. I dunno). How much the engine builder was doing... (Dunno how much he did, I only know that he wasn't very professional on social media attacking a former rider that way.) I also see that the PC pipe is now totally different, build to give what Prado asked...
I'm by the way not emotional evolved, I followed Prado because he was always one of Jago Geerts competitors.
PS: You can't ignore the fact that a lot of people where claiming that Prado would never end higher than Marchbanks in Supercross. That Prado would never end up in the top X (some claims where more ridiculous as others). So don't be this surprised that fans but also European mx fans get even.
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