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Cotter is NOT an AMA official and had a minor in a room for 15 minutes then allows Deegan to join who also had no reason to have access to the claimant. The issue is all between Brennan and the AMA. Cotter and everyone else should have let the AMA handle it and the AMA appears to have been handling it well. This is a terrible look for Matt Walker and Yamaha, but Cotter represents MX Sports and is the face of most important Amateur race on the planet.....that comes with responsibility and he now failed in that responsibility in...

Kid brought dough to track, bro didn't wanna let bike go. Team got mad, DC locked everyone in closed off basement for between 5min - 30 hours. B. Deegan and cash-kid had verbal deathmatch. H. Deegan rounded up goons and toured the town, spreading fear and chaos. A shopkeeper was strongarmed by international corporation to pressure cash-kid into regretting his bike purchase decission. D. Coombs wrote a story the masses did not agree with. Now everyone is canceling their newspaper and there will be a riot at every pro mx race. pretty much. Allegedly.

Oh ya, and Fuck Matt Walker*

Holy shit man.... Great interview. Yamaha puts it's name into "notorious" history once again.... Yeah....I came up with this and I gotta share this image in all the threads,

Craig Schofield has never hung his son out to dry, has been an amazing father, made huge sacrifices to help his son chase his dreams and ambitions. He’s also been a great role model by allowing his son to make his own decisions and accept responsibility for them. Most kids could only dream of having a positive influence like him in their life. You sound like a fucking idiot here talking shit. If you actually had an ounce of credibility on this board, it’s safe to say that’s gone.

What will you accept as fact? The kid told his version but you aren’t sure if he’s telling the truth. If Brian, Cotter and Yamaha tell a different story will that then be the facts according to you? Unfortunately I don’t see this getting resolved, someone would need to admit they lied or acted in poor taste and pushed the boundaries of legality. Right now all we know is the kids side of the story since he’s the only one talking. I for one believe him, at least the subject matter on how the events transpired. May be his details...

The Simple answer to this is because the other people involved they have not put out a long form interview for us to digest If Matt walker , the Yamaha rep and Tim Cotter do the same. Then we can

What a fucking pussy Brian is. Intimidating a kid for playing fair, working hard, and going about purchasing Haiden's bike legally. God, that irks me. Tim Cotter too - time for this old bag to be taken out back along with all the other filth involved in this incident. And while I'm at it, Weege needs to grow a set of fucking balls and stop laughing and/or shouting every time his smooth brains tells him to speak and start being a real journalist. Just taking Tim Cotter's word at face value and repeating the lie on Pulp is ridiculous. He...

I think we have all learned a few lessons about claiming a motorcycle at an Amateur national. * Wait until the desired factory motorcycle is lined up for THE last race * Walk into the AMA office with cash in hand * Ask the AMA official to take possession of the motorcycle as the rider exits the track * Load up the bike of your dreams, strap it down tightly, kick the truck into gear and wave goodbye * no drama, no interrogations, no motor swaps, no one losses a dealership, just a well-executed plan It would have been much...

1000% This!

Completely lost respect for; Weege Matthes DC Huge props for ML512. Very happy to see that he is interested in the truth and not sweeping this under the rug. See above “ journalists”. As others have posted, Tim Cotter needs to be terminated immediately. First and foremost. Clean out your desk, you are gone. Yamaha needs to have legal action brought upon them for illegal actions at the highest level. To threaten a dealership should amount to a multimillion dollar lawsuit. The AMA needs to see where theirs balls have been hiding and take over this situation and fix the...

Fuck Yamaha, Fuck Star, and Fuck Deegan........ Done with all of them.

Doesn’t matter what he said. He’s a minor and these adults have no business talking to the kid without his parent present. It’s ridiculous and makes MX Sports look like a joke. Not to mention a big black eye on future LL’s. Why would anyone want to dump all that money into a race that you now know is rigged towards the factory teams? Oh and go ahead and try to get Deegan’s kid in a room by himself to “just talk”. Good fucking luck. I’m sure this story is far from over…. Looking forward to more of it.

The next week is going to be a referendum on the objectivity of the Moto media, the AMA, and MX Sports amateur racing. If Pulp or Weege ignores it or takes the Mfg line, I can’t support any of them again.