Could today's Nick Wey beat 2000's Jeremy McGrath?

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 12:49pm
Yes? No? Maybe?

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Outsider 12/30/2010 10:41am
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Not sure NYK could beat Jeremy today? Shocked
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bradmx421 12/30/2010 10:41am
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Outsider wrote:
Not sure NYK could beat Jeremy today? Shocked
x2

jeremy has the skills
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jeffro503 12/30/2010 10:45am
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No way in hell. If Jeremy would of been born 10 years later.....he would be battling Reed , Stewart and everyone else for podiums. I don't care what anyone says. He did what he had to , to win those championships back then.....he would of done the same thing now.

He was born with it.

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mccread 12/30/2010 10:46am
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No... wey is not better than he was 10 years ago...
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If you mean Jeremy from 2000 as in same bike, same speed he rode with in 2000, then yes. Jeremy from 2000 wouldn't crack the top ten with his 2000 season speed. But if you mean Jeremy from 2000 on today's bikes as if he was 10 years younger then no.
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bradmx421 12/30/2010 10:57am
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mccread wrote:
No... wey is not better than he was 10 years ago...
we will see at A1.....i like the guy and all, but i dont even see him in the top10
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kburgie 12/30/2010 10:59am
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TriRacer27 wrote:
If you mean Jeremy from 2000 as in same bike, same speed he rode with in 2000, then yes. Jeremy from 2000 wouldn't crack the top...
If you mean Jeremy from 2000 as in same bike, same speed he rode with in 2000, then yes. Jeremy from 2000 wouldn't crack the top ten with his 2000 season speed. But if you mean Jeremy from 2000 on today's bikes as if he was 10 years younger then no.
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burn1986 12/30/2010 11:21am
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He couldn't beat him with his bike and speed from 2K
BikeGraphixKC 12/30/2010 11:32am
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I think Nyk is a hell uva rider.

With that said, I think Jeremy Mcgrath would top 5 supercross these days still.

In one of his recent interviews at the honda track he talked about showing up at bercy, or somewhere else...and he said he was there to win, enough said.

they guy still has it and will never loose.

that's not to say Nyk Sucks at all though. Nyk is top10 all season with his consistency....
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mxbigd17 12/30/2010 11:47am
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McGrath said after a race back in the 90s "i smoked em". He would say the same thing today if he was 24 again. The man had heart no matter what era he would of raced in. He raced on tracks so diff than todays cookie cutter tracks that its really no comparison. The man was and still is brilliant when it comes to racing a motorcycle. Why would you disrespect him by comparing him to Nick Wey's speed. Im pretty sure Wey is fast but Give Me A Break!!!
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TeamGreen 12/30/2010 12:08pm
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Outsider wrote:
Not sure NYK could beat Jeremy today? Shocked
bradmx421 wrote:
x2

jeremy has the skills
True, and, as J-Mac has proven time after time...



When he's out there havin' a good-time...he Rails and get's up to the front.



He can still hang with the fast guys at the test track.
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mxb2 12/30/2010 12:11pm
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If everyone is healthy, Wey will be lucky to crack the top15!, Please don t put wey and MC in the same category.
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DJ KC 12/30/2010 12:15pm
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mxb2 wrote:
If everyone is healthy, Wey will be lucky to crack the top15!, Please don t put wey and MC in the same category.
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Prince1 12/30/2010 12:18pm
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Outsider wrote:
Not sure NYK could beat Jeremy today? Shocked
bradmx421 wrote:
x2

jeremy has the skills
TeamGreen wrote:
True, and, as J-Mac has proven time after time... When he's out there havin' a good-time...he Rails and get's up to the front. He can still...
True, and, as J-Mac has proven time after time...



When he's out there havin' a good-time...he Rails and get's up to the front.



He can still hang with the fast guys at the test track.
All of you are basing this off of MC in 2006 which was what 5 years ago?
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T-Fish 12/30/2010 12:21pm
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That's like asking if today's Carmelo Anthony could beat 1998's Michael Jordan.


But really, I think it'd be close if MC was on his two stroke of 2000 and Wey was his pig thumper of today.


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TerryB 12/30/2010 12:27pm
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No. And I'm not a MC fan.
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Torco1 12/30/2010 12:29pm
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Maybe not, but you have to give the guy some respect for being out there for as long as he has been and making a career for himself for this long.
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TeamGreen 12/30/2010 12:31pm
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bradmx421 wrote:
x2

jeremy has the skills
TeamGreen wrote:
True, and, as J-Mac has proven time after time... When he's out there havin' a good-time...he Rails and get's up to the front. He can still...
True, and, as J-Mac has proven time after time...



When he's out there havin' a good-time...he Rails and get's up to the front.



He can still hang with the fast guys at the test track.
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All of you are basing this off of MC in 2006 which was what 5 years ago?
Or, actually, Testing in 2010.

I'm jus' sayin'...
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mxb2 12/30/2010 12:33pm
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I think MC could still finish ahead of Wey today!
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Sparkalounger 12/30/2010 12:52pm
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TriRacer27 wrote:
If you mean Jeremy from 2000 as in same bike, same speed he rode with in 2000, then yes. Jeremy from 2000 wouldn't crack the top...
If you mean Jeremy from 2000 as in same bike, same speed he rode with in 2000, then yes. Jeremy from 2000 wouldn't crack the top ten with his 2000 season speed. But if you mean Jeremy from 2000 on today's bikes as if he was 10 years younger then no.
well then what track are they riding? a 2000 track or a 2011 track.



speeds were slower in 2000 because the tracks were tougher... not this fourstroke power tracks , jump on jump off 45 mph bullshit



motoxistence 12/30/2010 1:38pm
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TriRacer27 wrote:
If you mean Jeremy from 2000 as in same bike, same speed he rode with in 2000, then yes. Jeremy from 2000 wouldn't crack the top...
If you mean Jeremy from 2000 as in same bike, same speed he rode with in 2000, then yes. Jeremy from 2000 wouldn't crack the top ten with his 2000 season speed. But if you mean Jeremy from 2000 on today's bikes as if he was 10 years younger then no.
Yeah, that's what I'm talking asking.

Is Nick Wey (or another rider of his caliber) a faster supercross racer than Jeremy McGrath was in 2000?
motoxistence 12/30/2010 1:53pm
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T-Fish wrote:
That's like asking if today's Carmelo Anthony could beat 1998's Michael Jordan. But really, I think it'd be close if MC was on his two stroke...
That's like asking if today's Carmelo Anthony could beat 1998's Michael Jordan.


But really, I think it'd be close if MC was on his two stroke of 2000 and Wey was his pig thumper of today.


Yeah, it is like asking that. Could he? There's a line in this article that touches on that debate:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/LeBron-didn-t-mean-contraction-when-talking-ab?urn=nba-300875

"Players are better than they were 25 years ago. Sorry, but they are. For all the talk about how the kids can't shoot and only dunk, understand that shooting percentages from long range are better than they've ever been, and the league almost set a record for free-throw percentage last year as players get better and smarter and faster and work longer hours."

In the 2000 Olympics a guy named Pieter van den Hoogenband set a 200 meter freestyle swimming world record with a 1:45.35.

In the 2008 games Michael Phelps beat it with a 1:42.96. Second and third in that race also beat the former world record. In 2008, with exactly the same ability as he had in 2000, Hoogenband would have been the 4th fastest in the world instead of the 1st.

THAT'S what I'm talking about. Are today's riders fast enough that the guy who finishes 10th at Anaheim 1 in 2011 could have beaten the guy who finished first in 2000.

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