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Do I think he will qualify? No, but it is cool that he is trying.
I do think it is very telling that as talented as Bernard obviously is, and with how methodical he's been (at least in all the vids I've watched) he still knocked himself out last week. I give him kudos for having the balls to try, but I simply do not see it ending well. He will not have time in first practice at A1 to work up to stuff...these kids will literally jump everything on the track on the first lap.
That's reality, not anyone criticizing Bernard's talent and will (which he obviously has boatloads of). I wouldn't be so worried about failing to make the night show, but the very real potential of life-changing injury. SX is a meat-grinder....
The mtb forums have been abuzz with this endeavour for a while now.
Whether or not he qualifies it already got alot more non moto eyballs paying attention just to see what happens .
I dont care if someone's day job is a plumber or WC DH racer.
If he can make the cut it's all that matters.
Its a tall task for sure but i appreciate his zeal and dont feel he is dissing the sport.
Simply put if his attitude was all wrong then icons like MC wouldn't be helping him out with equipment and their time.
The Shop
The easiest place to get new motorcyclist is from current bicyclist. It's crazy how against cross-over of participation or coverage some of you guys are.
If red bull isn't going to do straight rhythm anymore, they should do a 3 event deal where each guy competes in bicycle downhill and cross country and a motocross race. Combine scores for overall winner. Get men and women from each discipline to mix it up and cross polinate the fan base.
Unreal how messed up the high level of this sport is sometimes.
EDIT: the post I was referencing was deleted
Are you all completely fine with any B or C rider from around the world with a shit ton of money just paying the right amount of money to get a pro license from another country, then trying to race SX?
Regardless of how fast he is or isn't, our up and coming kids that have raced their entire lives and made it through the A class at Loretta's are still subject to having to go through SX Futures before they can race SX. To me, that is the biggest issue with this whole entire situation.
He has a rad bike to try on that's for sure!
"Downhill is for fags, the guy's a total POS and I hope he dies": THAT is what hate sounds like.
Not "I think he bit more than he can chew, I hope he won't get hurt" ...
He had an FIM licence and has been deemed qualified, I dont beleive he has bought this with money or fame. You cant just go an buy a pro licence i other countries.
He looks better than other riders who have lined up in C qualifying for supercross.
The kids requiring supercross futures should be grateful to get a soft welcome to supercross, this dude isnt chasing a career just a one off race. Yeah there are probably exceptions with the young gun amatuers and this ruling but thats an AMA issue got nothing to do with this bloke.
Bet most of you fools talking shit, with your racing experience and all, wouldn't huck a SX triple or practice skimming whoops and if you did, it wouldn't be nearly as clean.
Scarcity mentality on display and it's quite sad.
Rooting for Bernard even more now. Fuck the haters.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Pit Row
That's such a juvenile response and has absolutely nothing to do with this thread or the concerns expressed here
If he can just rock up and get an fim world championship start permission with out racing ever before it makes our sport look pretty bad
Hope that never occurs, but the criteria for a license should be there for a reason. Changing those criteria for a single person based on celebrity is a very slippery slope.
Over in aus and nz there is a big difference between having a pro grade licence and racing professionally. Plenty of fast blokes race the pro classes but defiantly aren't professionals. Kind of like the guys over there who race rhe outdoors and struggle to qualify, except our field is no where near as deep.
Hammer
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