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Edited Date/Time 10/13/2018 12:31pm
Been racing since 1974. Was Euros, then USA, now it's the Euros. Flame away bitchis.
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Achahoish 10/13/2018 2:17am
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Nice try. But you'll need more, bigger, juicier bait than that to catch anything around here.
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Johnny89superbike wrote:
l was wondering how the US riders are going to get through the sand sections at MEC? ;-)
it's ok...the sand is dry! :-p
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Ewan49 10/13/2018 3:02am
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ctbale wrote:
Been racing since 1974. Was Euros, then USA, now it's the Euros. Flame away bitchis.
The Euros only have it for one more year....move over boys, the Aussies are coming!! Lawrence, Lawrence and Beaton...can't wait!
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RichardLoots 10/13/2018 3:04am
10/13/2018 3:04am Edited Date/Time 10/13/2018 3:05am
sounds like Eli is ready for a rematch and is motivated



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Helda 10/13/2018 3:06am
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I just watched that, you could see he just wanted to let loose, bit of a shame he brought up about no MEC and A1, poor form from eli
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inthebadboycorner 10/13/2018 3:14am
10/13/2018 3:14am
ctbale wrote:
Been racing since 1974. Was Euros, then USA, now it's the Euros. Flame away bitchis.
Ewan49 wrote:
The Euros only have it for one more year....move over boys, the Aussies are coming!! Lawrence, Lawrence and Beaton...can't wait!
And dont forget Ferris!
inthebadboycorner 10/13/2018 3:16am
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Helda wrote:
I just watched that, you could see he just wanted to let loose, bit of a shame he brought up about no MEC and A1, poor...
I just watched that, you could see he just wanted to let loose, bit of a shame he brought up about no MEC and A1, poor form from eli
More excuses.......
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tempura 10/13/2018 3:21am
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The asterisk comment was funny.. He’s definitely here under a different name, it was typical Vitard speakLaughing tongue in cheek by the way
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Kawi15 10/13/2018 3:26am
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Helda wrote:
I just watched that, you could see he just wanted to let loose, bit of a shame he brought up about no MEC and A1, poor...
I just watched that, you could see he just wanted to let loose, bit of a shame he brought up about no MEC and A1, poor form from eli
I agree with this. I think it is good to see he is motivated, but he really should have left the MEC and SX out of it. Who knows though, maybe being put on the spot it is not always so easy to measure ones words and attitudes.

I do not blame him for pushing back though. With some of the current attitudes out there about them and their performance, and the state of American MX, well raises my own ire somewhat. It must be amplified for him.
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tempura 10/13/2018 3:36am
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I hope he stays healthy and hungry for next year in the Netherlands, I’m planning on being there.
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Welcome to the future
RichardLoots 10/13/2018 3:57am
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tempura wrote:
The asterisk comment was funny.. He’s definitely here under a different name, it was typical Vitard speakLaughing tongue in cheek by the way
WCRider ?? LaughingLaughing
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Yeah bad form to bring up MEC and supercross as an excuse. He didn't race 20 GPs, flying across the globe + 2 or 3 national championships that these guys do. People here seems to think the US guys race so much more each season when in reality it's not a lot more, if any. Think about how early the Italian championship starts and most of the top guys are running that, just as an example.
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GoggleFiend904 10/13/2018 4:28am
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Ray_MXS wrote:
Yeah bad form to bring up MEC and supercross as an excuse. He didn't race 20 GPs, flying across the globe + 2 or 3 national...
Yeah bad form to bring up MEC and supercross as an excuse. He didn't race 20 GPs, flying across the globe + 2 or 3 national championships that these guys do. People here seems to think the US guys race so much more each season when in reality it's not a lot more, if any. Think about how early the Italian championship starts and most of the top guys are running that, just as an example.
I've never heard of the Italian championship until just now lol
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Ray_MXS 10/13/2018 4:36am
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Yeah bad form to bring up MEC and supercross as an excuse. He didn't race 20 GPs, flying across the globe + 2 or 3 national...
Yeah bad form to bring up MEC and supercross as an excuse. He didn't race 20 GPs, flying across the globe + 2 or 3 national championships that these guys do. People here seems to think the US guys race so much more each season when in reality it's not a lot more, if any. Think about how early the Italian championship starts and most of the top guys are running that, just as an example.
GoggleFiend904 wrote:
I've never heard of the Italian championship until just now lol
Then you're not following the GP series very closely. Herlings injured himself there 2017, making his start to the season very suboptimal and Gajser broke his jaw this year, ruining his start of the season.
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Zalev 10/13/2018 4:43am
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FIM want's you to think that euros are faster to make MXGP superior series and take interest away from AMA. More money for them and they probably invested little fortune for that Red Bud sand. While I think Herlings is an animal you can just watch Italy MXoN again, Anderson dominated the field, I mean dominated, Anderson. He isn't a guy who dominated anything at all in the US. But it wasn't another sand track there.
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keinz 10/13/2018 4:53am
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Ray_MXS wrote:
Yeah bad form to bring up MEC and supercross as an excuse. He didn't race 20 GPs, flying across the globe + 2 or 3 national...
Yeah bad form to bring up MEC and supercross as an excuse. He didn't race 20 GPs, flying across the globe + 2 or 3 national championships that these guys do. People here seems to think the US guys race so much more each season when in reality it's not a lot more, if any. Think about how early the Italian championship starts and most of the top guys are running that, just as an example.
Like I told many times before. Every regular GP rider have to race at least 48 motos in the season. it's includes their national series (oblications to sponsors) +pre season races, like Italian, or French CC, and it's coing to be like 50 motos per year
I think thats a lit'l bit more than US shedule. 18 SX raace+12 nationals, and for some guys a MEC. Its total 30 motos per year.
So cut the crap already about how tight the scedule in Ama is compared to MXGP.
Get you facts strait guys, before you going to whine here how AMA guys is so exousted becose of the tight shedule
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biscuit11 10/13/2018 4:58am
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I was at WW last year and AMA riders won 3 of 4 motos. I remember being on the fence all day yelling at Eli and RJ as they got it done. The MXGP guys are fast but everyone has their good weekend and their bad ones. It was on our soil, but in their sandbox and by all their rules and they played better you could say. We prepared for the fastball and got thrown a slider. There are excuses and there are facts, I guess it depends which side you come from as which way you view them.

On another note I'd rather have a drink and talk MX with any MXGP fanboy over someone who doesn't enjoy watching dirt bike racing like I do. So thanks MXGP guys and AMA guys for giving each other something to argue about lol.

One last note, the AMA guys also make better 2 stroke videos...Grinning

Yo Keinz you know they do 2 motos at the AMA nationals right? Redo that math please...
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keinz 10/13/2018 5:04am
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I was at WW last year and AMA riders won 3 of 4 motos. I remember being on the fence all day yelling at Eli and...
I was at WW last year and AMA riders won 3 of 4 motos. I remember being on the fence all day yelling at Eli and RJ as they got it done. The MXGP guys are fast but everyone has their good weekend and their bad ones. It was on our soil, but in their sandbox and by all their rules and they played better you could say. We prepared for the fastball and got thrown a slider. There are excuses and there are facts, I guess it depends which side you come from as which way you view them.

On another note I'd rather have a drink and talk MX with any MXGP fanboy over someone who doesn't enjoy watching dirt bike racing like I do. So thanks MXGP guys and AMA guys for giving each other something to argue about lol.

One last note, the AMA guys also make better 2 stroke videos...Grinning

Yo Keinz you know they do 2 motos at the AMA nationals right? Redo that math please...
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Guys, at old school rough as hell MX, the Euros are better.

Gotta be from 2 day GP’s and limited grooming and overall amount of time in an MX track throughout the season.

SX Americans rule and and high speed flowing MX like the US nats provide it gets pretty even (see US GP last year).

That’s all. Just depends on what you like best maybe but it’s all dirt bike racing.

I personally could do with half of the supercross races and more nationals.
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MR. X 10/13/2018 5:15am
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It's a legitimate point ,why don't the faster guys come over and race SX ?
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acres951 10/13/2018 5:20am
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MR. X wrote:
It's a legitimate point ,why don't the faster guys come over and race SX ?
Probably the same reason the faster American supercross guys don’t go over to GPs and race those.
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crusty_xx 10/13/2018 5:23am
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MR. X wrote:
It's a legitimate point ,why don't the faster guys come over and race SX ?
Why should they?
If I was a GP rider making Millions in a known environment, living in my own house, close to my family and friends, getting paid to travel the world, etc... Why would I give that up just to try to prove something to people on the internet and risk my career by getting injured in SX?
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MR. X 10/13/2018 5:32am
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MR. X wrote:
It's a legitimate point ,why don't the faster guys come over and race SX ?
crusty_xx wrote:
Why should they? If I was a GP rider making Millions in a known environment, living in my own house, close to my family and friends...
Why should they?
If I was a GP rider making Millions in a known environment, living in my own house, close to my family and friends, getting paid to travel the world, etc... Why would I give that up just to try to prove something to people on the internet and risk my career by getting injured in SX?
It would be nice to see how an outdoor specialist would do on a SX track . It would cool to see if they could break into the top 10 or even finish on the lead lap.
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Huckster 10/13/2018 5:35am
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crusty_xx wrote:
Why should they? If I was a GP rider making Millions in a known environment, living in my own house, close to my family and friends...
Why should they?
If I was a GP rider making Millions in a known environment, living in my own house, close to my family and friends, getting paid to travel the world, etc... Why would I give that up just to try to prove something to people on the internet and risk my career by getting injured in SX?
Excuses!! Actually sounds a lot like the reason the American riders don't really hang it out in a one off race that they don't make a $1 to race. Just say'n.
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peltier626 10/13/2018 5:43am
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Dylan ferrandis, marvin moose can, ken roczen, zach ozborne, and soon to be (hopefully) thomas covington proves that after some time they can be just as competitive at sx as the gp's.
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Flip109 10/13/2018 6:09am
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The only thing worse than the constant america vs the world mx threads, is the stupid fact I keep reading through the fakin things BlinkLaughingLaughing
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