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- Mixing gas - Pre Decoster KTM bikes - MIllsaps helmet neck roll - Bulky Gloves

Steel frames and their vanishing paint. Seat covers that could double as slip n slides. Subframes that would bend in a tip over. Having to use solvent to clean my air filters. Pilot jets.

Obnoxiously loud 4 stroke pipes. It seemed like every Tom, Dick, and Harry had an aftermarket pipe that would wake the dead.

Honestly, my Kickstarters, and changing clutches on my kids 50 KTM like every other ride...

Flaking electrofusion on the ports of my '89 KX 125 Broken power valves (twice) on my '89 KX 125 Exploding clutch basket on my '89 KX 125 Replacing untold number of head gaskets on my '89 KX 125 Having to replace the impeller and coolant seal every second ride on my '89 KX 125 The garbage swing arm bearing seals on my '89 KX 125 TLDR: My '89 KX 125 Edit: shit...it was an '88, but not editing all that.

1970s era Honda CR125 pistons that ran 18 hours and then scattered into the crankcase and pipe. At least it was easy to pry the pieces out of the crank, since they appeared to be made of a silver clay material..

Man, there are definitely less parts on new bikes that I’m immediately getting rid of. The steel handlebars with no bar pad 😭

surprised not mentioned yet but the guy that used to run this forum with the cop complex. guy b something or other. mullets. individually applied numbers. drum brakes.

Vince Friese, at least for now

I don't miss when race tracks were only open for organized races and never had open practices.

I know some old-schoolers won't agree, but I am so glad to be done with carburetors. I love modern FI so damn much.

I kinda miss steel handlebars on bikes. If you were riding a CR with white handlebars we knew you weren't "serious." lol

Steel handlebars on new bikes Spaghetti stock chains Handguards that mounted to the clutch perch and brake master cylinder Seats that had an arch like an old horse back Play dough clutch baskets and inner hubs

Hard starting 4-strokes. Man...those early days... I swear if you even looked at the bike wrong it wasn't going to start

gotta be somethign bike related. just statistically impossible for it not to be. some subtle linkage attribute or chassis geometry where the bike ONLY works at 10/10ths and bites your ass in practice.

It's tempting to say this too, but every team goes through a slump. I do think they have not gotten first rate talent in a while besides forkner, who is a human porcelain toothpick.

i don't know. I'm not part of the team hahah but I just think of it as if its any other business that's going through struggles. Change of recruitment process. Seek up and coming MXGP or overseas talent and not focus on Loretta performances as much. Maybe look for riders they can develop instead of pure speed when at these Amature events. maybe seek different training facility/training programs. change of manufacture. change of contracts with riders and bonuses etc. not as result driven and less pressure? honestly all of them are just ideas on the topic. i wouldn't say any...

Its like PC needs a reboot.. cant be just bad luck at this point Not to say any of their riders suck or the bike etc... Amazing riders and I'm a Kawi guy. I just think that team needs a big change in some way.