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Don't think his set up was right, he seemed off in the corners like he couldnt trust the bike.
Normally comes back next weekend and rips
Was at the race last night, Eli looked super spunky in his opening ceremonies lap, thought this could be his night. But he looked off all night. His body positioning, his rear shock looked super springy and soft. I was WTF all night. Really excited to see KR94 tighten this championship back up
Cripes, the bloke got 5th, after a 'bad' night for him, in what so many of you regard as The Greatest Series On Earth, and by that, is now leading the series, yet many here are putting s**t on him?
I'll never understand some of you. 🙄
Great to see Roczen winning.
Hunta? - s**t happens, especially in SX - I just hope he's not banged up - that was quite a slam into the ground.
I think he looked a bit like the days when he had arm pump problems due to ride height setup. Not saying he had arm pump on the first laps but if he expect to get it maybe you don’t have the same aggression and speed from the get go.
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I don't believe we have met. Proceed with the anticipated sophomoric name calling.
I can't disagree with you Bear. Going from a 10th(?) place start to 5th is great. But the optics of it all were bad. Justin Cooper caught and passed him, Eli typically beats him, Mookie finished ahead of him as well, Webb was catching him until his mistake, and both Kenny and Hunta seemed much faster. He looked very un-Eli as well, elbows down, back stiff, just not comfortable. He looked injured or tired. Not a lot of 33-year-old motocross or supercross champions throughout history wouldn't you agree. It's a long season.
Leigh, Ricky, and Jason all thought he is injured more or less. I agree with their consensus.
Kenny ain’t no spring chicken either! He’s been doing it forever, and still hauls the mail…even with what his body has been through. Yeah, Eli might be more mature…but I think there’s an underlying issue for him to be so “off” all of a sudden.
Something is definitely wrong. He has to be either sick or injured. He does not look like himself.
He has weird races, but this too many in a row to not be some physical issue.
Have we not seen this in years past with Eli? Beast Mode, killing it in one race, 5th the next weekend,..he's either on or off, just the way he rides
He was definitely off but he got back on it when Webb closed in. You could physically see his body language change and he spread the gap back out. Only highlight of the race for him was the last 2 laps. Hopefully he is alright going forward.
In the heat race I saw him trying different lines like it was free - not even timed- practice. Just feeling the track out in some areas. Something off, maybe it was a simple as just wasn't the track for him.
That’s when he suffered from arm pump like I wrote earlier in this thread. I believe it’s that again.
So he wasn’t old at Daytona and 3 weeks older is all it took?
Probably hemorrhoids…
Kenny takes a lot more time off than Eli. This is not Eli cannot be fast today, it .is he has been old all season, race after race. It is not one race that has fatigued him, it is the cumulative effects of week after week racing, the air travel, the training, the shit adds up and when you are older. It takes more time to recover. That is why there are no 30+ supercross or motorcross champs - so far. That could change this year of course, but age is very good explanation of his mid-season slump. Hard to believe this needs explaining, hasn't everyone experienced that you can't bounce back faster when you gain years? I believe science proves this many times.
Exactly what I said and kept getting hated on for lol. But everybody has to hate on all the riders at different times it seems.
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Ha! You must be young because that's the way aging works. You feel great one day, then you wake up the next morning barely able to walk, wondering how you sprained your ankle in your sleep,
Eli overtraining again?
That’s is so correct, I’m 35 and the last two three years everything changed for me. I have to train smarter and less and plan for recovery and resting way different then before.
You guys need to get on OwenJakes program. No reason you can’t peak athletically in your mid-30s if you’re on the right “stuff”
I just know now I don’t even have to hit the ground to get hurt, hell if I sneeze hard enough I can feel it for days.
Fence posts again?
We know eli and his ktm are not a fan of these tracks. We can see it in how he rides and how the bike looks. Tracks like this hes gonna be a 3-6 guy. Might be an issue with him but hes not a fan of this type of track
Watching him go into the finish line jump the rear was to high IMO. Looks very similar to the year he tore his MCL up.
Eli likes his rear high, if I remember correctly he ran like 80mm sag. It was when he had to much sag and the bike low in the rear he got arm pump.
Last week in Birmingham qualifying he cased that rhythm section on his last lap. My bet is he has something wrong with his left wrist. Go back and watch it.
I know he likes the rear high, I'm making the assumption based off everybody else tracking off the flat corner to the finish line jump. He was making corners 2 instead of one and it looked a-lot like the rear end was pushing the front.
Running the rear high will make the bike behave exactly like you describe, but that’s how it has worked for him earlier and he said to low in the rear he gets arm pump.
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