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5/13/2013 7:10pm
come back to ride another day? I'm mid 40's and am still riding weekly. Having been riding for 30+ yrs, you see and experience incredible highs and lows. The best and worst of times. Winning your first race. Watching your best friend suffer through a life changing injury. Mounting up a fresh set of tires and just feeling it out there on the track or trails. Knocking yourself the FUCK out. Etc.
I hope Ryno is able to come back and ride again someday, perhaps at a notch below his current comfort level. Then again, this is what I've been told is the underlying reason some of the best in the world have simply given it up, because they can't turn it down that notch. Get well.
I hope Ryno is able to come back and ride again someday, perhaps at a notch below his current comfort level. Then again, this is what I've been told is the underlying reason some of the best in the world have simply given it up, because they can't turn it down that notch. Get well.
I have raced, at least one race, every summer since 2003 ( sat out 2007 though ) and I just LOVE it. It would really suck to have to hang up the boots.
The Shop
The first time was due to injuries, the second time I figured it was smart to buy a new Corvette C6.
I have a break now (the third) since I was involved in a startcrash last year that took me out pretty bad.
After that I promised my self to stop riding for good but now Im starting to come around again and it has changed to never race again but I guess that will change aswell to never stop riding again :D
Im addicted to the poison motocross!
I quit for a 7 years, until a friend invited me to go ride around with him on a trail. I then realized that I didn't like racing as much as I thought. I simply loved to ride, and haven't quit since that day
I have been considering taking a break from motocross (and possibly getting a street bike) for a while now. The cost and time required are part of the reason, but I have also kind of lost my enthusiasm for the sport. My riding buddies have virtually all given it up, so I often end up at the track on my own. I also find my loss of fitness and speed from riding infrequently is frustrating. Being self employed, the injury risk is now more of a concern too (although I have been reasonably lucky so far).
I think I would end up coming back to motocross sooner or later, though. I have recently employed a labourer to lighten my workload, so maybe I will again have more time to put into it.
I know this post was a bit off topic. If you don't like it, GFY.
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Pit Row
I tend to get frustrated finishing below my ability, as a result of poor fitness and reduced speed from being unable to ride very often. Waiting around all day for 3 x 15 minute races can get boring, too.
Riding is an addiction but that last accident slowed me down a LOT. I'll ride until I can't throw a leg over a bike anymore but I really don't want to get hurt again and it shows in my aggresiveness and willingness to try the largest obstacles.
Then went to college, and rode on and off for 6 years. Got a job and was totally disconnected for 4 years. I remember looking at a Cycle News in a Honda Shop in Clarkesville TN (I was there to get some moly lube, completely unrelated to MX, but at my job at the time, I knew it would do the trick) and I saw the headlines "McGrath wins another: or something like that......I said to myself "whose McGrath?".
Anyway, bought a 94 KX250 and rode it about 10 times. Then I started having kids. 3 of them. That bike went to 4 different houses and 2 different states, without being started.
About 2005 my oldest son, about 10 at the time, started to look at MX and riding a motocycle. One thing led to the next and we raced or rode all the time. Probably rode 2 times a week and raced 20 times a year. for about 6 years.
That son is in college now, and we dont ride very much now (maybe 4-5 time a year) but i wouldnt want to do anything else. I sneak out every now and again and get a ride in by myself.
There is really nothing else, that i know of, that gives you that same "feeling". That head inside that helmet is the happiest head you ever get. Thats why we are all here.
college- too broke to ride
right after college, picked it up and made a lot of gains
injury forced sideline and focus on career.
got the jones to to ride again, but reality of age, fear of injury and ultimately sacrificing a paycheck forced me to check my ego. with a wife a kiddo on the way changes everything.
railing berms and rolling big jumps is my style. just gotta live vicariously through the fearless youth, and also the fearless old schoolers who chance the shit i care not to. honestly, just paying the $20 and suiting up on a Sunday is pretty damn gratifying.
Rolling into work on Monday sore is questionable though, haha. But I do it, it clears my head, and it always has. I've never got satisfaction from any other sport. Can't wait to pass it on the kiddo.
Now I have returned the riding seems so much better some how. Not sure why? Maybe I appreciate it more.
Problem is none of my riding buddies race, so I do that solo.
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