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This is NEVER going to draw public interest until they have riders lining up on that gate. And by riders i mean more than just Ken Roczen. This whole WSX thing ain't gonna work folks.

Main problem is that they don't have riders, simple as that, you are not going to convence the french motocross fanbase to watch Ken Roczen and... Vince Friese? When a few weeks ago they saw Herlings, Prado, Seewer, Febvre, De Wolf at the French GP, that they are going to see Herlings, Jett, Sexton? Deegan?, Prado, Febvre, Ferrandis? At the end of the year at MXdN and even later in the year they will see Jett, Webb, Barcia, Vialle at the París SX. Supercross is hard to grow outside the US, at least in Spain the only way to grow...

Hopefully, too much SX as it is and too many SX only contracts. Time to get back to riders doing both series and maybe knocking a couple of rounds off the current AMA SX as it is to give riders a few weeks off between series. Don’t quite get the fascination with SX over outdoor Motocross.

The whole series seems kind of meh

New term for vital: Varguing... Lol.

I thought last year was the test?

You know how everyone has been wondering how this series was making any money??? Looks like the Saudis finally found out that they are indeed not making any money. Apologies in advance but... this whole WSX deal has been a clown show from the start. Sounds like that whole group has over promised and under delivered. Unfortunately, this is a common thread within the sport.

I've said it quite a few times.....wsx isn't going to last

I would NOT want to be a part of those meetings with the investors. Yikes.

I'm no ML but that's we hear in France, unfortunately. I'm actually surprised there's no press release yet.

It's a combination of things that have led to Vialle not having the results outdoors that one would expect. 1. The 250 class has no age limit here, so it's chalked full of super fast guys of all ages. It's no joke even outdoors. 2. Bike production rule and track differences means he's having to figure out a set up from scratch. 3.The higher speeds on ama tracks combined with the crazy aggression in ama is something he has to get use to. 4. Since he came to the states, practically all of his time has been devoted to supercross...

Thanks Guys.. I know it is pretty nerdy, but you really have to spend a lot of time pouring over these details to recreate an accurate works build. I am also interested in how the technology of the MX bikes have evolved since the early 70's. The mid-70's works RC's had titanium bolts, but in those days, titanium was thought of as the kind on material you would only find on NASA spaceships , but today it is a fair common material for easily obtainable aftermarket parts. I was really interested in when Honda started using machined titanium parts on...

Heer is a pic of Roczen's straight rhythm build which is actually McGraths' old 2005 factory Honda.. You can see the HRC ti knuckle clearly.. the outward facing boss that acts as the stop when the lever folds out is ever so slightly different form the 1997-99 and 2000-01 knuckles and the easiest way to identify the different knuckles.

I think it is probably more the fact that CNC machining titanium parts was just becoming more practical around this period. I have weighed my bike and it only weighs a few pounds less than a production CR250 and that is with a titanium shock spring instead of the HRC steel spring, so I don't know how the factory bikes got down to the magic numbers that were reported in magazines back in the day. Yeah, the kevlar silencer is super light and the titanium bolts only add up to a little savings, even with the titanium axles, foot pegs...

One HRC part I was not really looking for, not only because it was rarer than the average HRC part, but also because if I ever found one, I expected the condition to not be so great is the HRC fuel tank used by the Japan team in 1999-2001. Knowing how hard it is to find 1999-2001 HRC parts like shifters, pegs and brake pedals used across all 3 Honda Factories teams, it is even hard to find an HRC part used by only one team. The US factory team used black oem fuel tanks, the MXGP team used fabricated...