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diesellands Added a reply to Pittsburgh Riding Spots???

1/12/2018 7:43am
Tracks: Switchback Creekside Mx acres Pleasure Valley Doubling Gap Rocket raceway Roaring knob Highpoint Steel city has been flattened for a couple years now High voltage, plum creek, challenger, beaver valley, and pretty much every other track in the area have closed for one reason or anther. There’s a handful of private tracks, but unless you know someone they don’t...

diesellands Added a reply to Things to do in and around PA?

4/7/2016 8:09am
If you're into mountain biking, big bear WV is fun. Coopers rock is kind of -meh. If you make it up to Pittsburgh... Frick Park, North Park, and Roaring Run (Apollo) have the best riding. Pittsburgh Has a ton of good resturants to try. Kayaking on the rivers, Segway tours, probably a free concert somewhere on at least one of...

diesellands Added a reply to Broc Hepler?

3/31/2016 9:51am
He posts on his Facebook and insta gram page. He's doing the app. Enduro series. Was riding a lot at switch back in butler (45 mins or so from his house) and I'm sure he will pop up at high voltage (20mins from his house) this summer. He's really quick in the woods, and always has been. Back in 02-04...
Big James is pretty much spot on. Granted, you may need a stock bike and a mod bike if you are chasing the multiple classes. But really that's not necessary until you are at the next level. I spent a short time racing, but had a lot of strong finishes in the small window that I did race. Started off...

diesellands Added a reply to D. Durham

3/3/2016 5:49pm
This thread blows my mind... Those dudes are riding bikes (you can see them in the video) They aren't "just off of the couch", that's sarcasm I think the video shows dd on a rowing machine. What people seem to be missing is that they know they aren't willing to train enough to be in a title chase, and are...

diesellands Added a reply to W. Hahn?

1/18/2016 5:13pm
After the crashes back to back he had, What do you expect? Walk out of the hospital and onto the box? I know hes been training & riding for a little while now, but if you had the crashes/injurys he's had youd probably 'retire'. It takes a lot to get over that mental hump. His times weren't far off in...

diesellands Added a reply to Chad Sanner's side of the story

1/8/2016 9:41am
The the people who think it was an "attack" on 11/10 trying to shut the shop down or what have you... You can't shut down a shop that's already pretty much closed. If you walked around the pits at any east coast national and took a survey, I'd say 9 out of 10 guys that have delt with the shop...

diesellands Added a reply to Chad Sanner article

1/1/2016 8:42am
You can assume all that you want. Let me just say... The tracks can make more money leasing the land for a tough mudder than a mx national. Mx sports puts on the amateur events following the Nationals - my payout checks have come from them.

diesellands Added a reply to Chad Sanner article

12/31/2015 6:49pm
In regards to the martins being loaded from having the national.... MXSports Puts the event on and leases the land from the owner (martins in this case). The owner doesn't make anything close to what you would think. Like anything. But on the same hand... MXSports has all the equiptment, fuel, staff, logistics, promotions, insurance, rentals, lodging, taxes, etc. You...

diesellands Added a reply to Chad Sanner article

12/31/2015 6:33pm
This is how it is... Chad/11-10 had a bunch of riders that he "helped" out. He would do the work and the riders would supply parts from their sponsors/pockets (a lot of guys get motor parts for free depending on the sponsor ex pistons, cams etc). He setup a race team, that was funded by the work he did at...

diesellands Added a reply to Kenny

5/8/2015 4:58pm
Here's how I see it playing out. KRoc Will be impressive for about the first 8-10 motos. He has a jump on everyone so it will take a little bit for people to catch up with fitness and setup. I think at that point he will start to fade a lillte, Maybe he peaks his training and gets burnt out...

diesellands Added a reply to Risk Vs Reward

3/22/2015 6:12pm
Risk Vs. Reward... Its really a good title for looking at mx. Theres a few common things that I see now that im an adult 1) Parents become so invested that they push their child above the "comfort zone" 2) Parents think that winning local races = Winning races at a national level (pressure the kids at large events) 3)...