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Ironman, which wasn't on the circuit until after RV had already raced his last AMA national, made him a legend?

Heres my dad ripping buckley berm in the 70’s with an open face, sand deep af. He was one of those local guys who would beat up on the national guys when they came to town. Heres another pic, not sure where, maybe capeway rovers.

See above; it’s not the amount of races that gives a rider rookie status. It’s when they went to full-time pro. If you want to add in a footnote, fine. But the benchmark used is not the amount of races a racer raced. Would you really want to argue that RV’s rookie season was in 2011 because he only raced 2 outdoor races in 2009 and missed all of 2010 even though he had been racing 450s since 2009? Or that Trey Canard’s rookie 450 outdoor season was 2013 because he only raced 2 races in 2011 and missed 2012...

The difference is pure volume and context, not whatever cope narrative you’re peddling: a couple of meaningless late nationals after dominating at the The Ranch doesn’t wipe out rookie status the next year, but a full prior pro SX campaign plus some outdoor and SMX starts absolutely does. Davies already burned through his first-year pro status in 2025. He’s not a rookie in the AMA ranks in 2026, period.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I like it that Kris said something. Yes, it kinda goes against always towing the company line though. I also like that in this weeks review pod Steve criticized the Lorreta Lynns track as being too slow. Its not a good measure of amateur talent.

That's actually the sad part the Riders do pay to to race and entertain us and then they sell that on top of it! I used to joke when my kid did it that we were the only clowns that paid to perform not even Ringling Brothers does that LOL

Listen to the podcast. They checked his bank account to make sure they hadn't missed any deposits, named names of factory guys asking about it at races, made it sound like it's common knowledge at the races.... don't think they would have discussed it to the extent they did if they weren't sure about this one.

If there were Jeeps at Croom they were breaking all the rules. Sounds more like Ocala NF. With a name like Old School Fool I'm inclined to believe the later.

Jeeps are not aloud in the riding areas of Croom Permits/passes will be issued for two wheel cycles and 3 and 4 wheel ATVs. ATVs must meet the following requirements: a) Wheel base of less than 55 inches. b) Width of less than 45 inches. c) Total vehicle weight less than 500 Ibs. d) Travel on 3 or 4 low pressure tires. e) Has a seat that is designed to be straddled by the operator.

It’s a little different when the large group of guys go on a Wednesday morning to work together. They establish a little loop that has some thought built into it. Not fully eliminating the chance of a quad getting into the mix somehow but it isn’t very likely. I’d love to go watch a session at Croom one year then ride the hammered ass loop after they all leave. Edit: my iPhone is “autocorrecting” so much weird shit lately. I’m not drunk at 9:00am.

I miss the days of riders being assigned a number based upon points earned. At the same time...career numbers are pretty cool and very marketable for riders, so I get that. But single digit numbers for 250 class riders is bogus!

The track flows better but it took out 2 great photo corners. I thought they were going to put some rollers on the straight away in place of the Buckley berms but they didn't, it didn't get as rough as it used to when the riders came down the hill from the turns they took out.

Triumph should put Max on a 250 for west coast and a 450 for east coast.

Hunter reminds me of CR22. Incredibly talented rider who just so happened to be born in the same era as a generational talent. In Chad's case, two: RC and JS7. Hunter has to go head-to-head with not only his brother, but next year, the Coenens.

These track owners can't win. If we could just leave the tracks at their normal state and have unique conditions at each event it would be really good like it was 20 years ago. I think it would go back to highlighting a rider's talent on specific tracks like it use too. But at some point, the AMA became paranoid about dust and having every track ripped as deep as possible to hold water and slow the speed down. So these tracks have to bring mulch in to mix it to help rip it as deep as possible and hold...

Or leave the wood chips and sawdust at home and just let hardpack be hardpack? I don’t understand why every track has to feature a rutty, intermediate terrain surface.

The complaint is they didn't rip it deep with the mulch to mix it in. So the mulch was on top of a hard surface making it slippery.