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I was headed up a canyon last fall, and a guy on a white R1 pulled up next to me at the stop light before the canyon….He goes 0-100 on the four lane straight after the stop light, before it merges into a narrow two lane road…I figured he’d go rip the canyon, dragging a knee…
I wasn’t 5 turns into the canyon before I caught him…in my wife’s mini-van…he’d pin it on the straights, and then slow way way way down for every corner (slower than I was going in the mini-van). I laughed….
It is.
1) Practice track at a local pro's house.
I was able to ride the track. I could not execute all the jumps until late in the afternoon, because the runup to them was so short, and the jump lips so vertical, that there just wasn't any way to generate speed.
2) Practice track #2 at another pro's house.
Also difficult to master, but this guy's doubles had more room. This was more of a "semi" SX track. I shorted one of the doubles so hard that my bars rotated in the triple clamps down into my lap.
3) 2003 San Diego Supercross, amateur day.
Even with half the jumps removed and the whoops mowed down, it was hard to jump the obstacles. There was a single-table-single combo that went into a 180 and back over the same group of obstacles. Nobody was doing it right. I felt like a goon and had to single it all day.
4) Castillo Ranch SX track.
I could not get going fast enough to jump even the doubles that I knew I could do, because the rhythm required to land in the place I needed in order to get enough speed to do so, was impossible for me. The whoops were so big and steep I could teeter-totter on the frame rails with both wheels off the ground. It was seriously like trying to ride over a big line of bike stands, all about 10' apart. I could barely even roll the track.
To answer the OP, yes, Supercross is seriously THAT difficult.
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