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Swann Added a reply to How to save motocross

8/26/2017 8:17am
Could you be any more melodramatic? Motorsports has historically and always will be about who can go the fastest. It just so happens that pursuit, historically, has required sound and smell. But to suggest that an electrically propelled vehicle somehow changes the "soul" of motorsports is just goddamn absurd. The soul of motorsports is to go fast and to be...

Swann Added a reply to Roczen Comeback

8/23/2017 4:01pm
WADA has some "therapeutic use exemptions" as it relates to the use of some banned substances to treat injury. HGH is still banned outright. If it weren't for all that tissue damage he would be fine. That will be his biggest unknown.

Swann Added a reply to Kurt Caselli Documentary?

8/23/2017 2:41pm
I donated $100 to the GoFundMe for that documentary. A total of $5000 or more was raised at some point. I'd like to see that money donated to the Kurt Caselli foundation. It's kind a hard not to feel taken advantage of when nothing has been produced and there's no explanation for where that money went.
I'm willing to bet Redbull makes more money and gets better exposure with their overly-hyped, one-off exhibition events and individual sponsorships than they do being the title sponsor of an entire professional racing series. Perhaps the value in title sponsorship has been diluted with the erosion of control over distribution channels. Perhaps title sponsorship shouldn't be the proxy for the...

Swann Added a reply to Tomac's Issue in Moto 1

8/22/2017 9:12am
I used roll-offs a lot in muddy desert and enduro races because they're better when contending with moisture. However, tear-offs are significantly better in mud mainly because of the larger field of clear vision.