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1/18/2019 6:21pm
1/18/2019 6:21pm
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It may seem a little contradictory, but the part on bikes settings is definitely factual.
https://www.mxlarge.com/news/dirk-gruebel-interview
Dirk Gruebel: What I don’t like, is they say we changed their track, this was no tour Redbud track, but that is BS. It doesn’t matter if you change 30% of the track. The most honest guy was Roger. He said he could turn his back and tell when the American riders go past, because they rev their bike like shit and the bike goes nowhere. Prado on a 250 stayed in front of all those 450s, because he was shifting and riding in the correct way. It is lame and they blame the supercross, but I can tell you, their bike set-ups were wrong in Lommel, and they were wrong in Latvia, and they were wrong in Redbud. I saw it with Dungey who was in our tent, and you try and help them out, but they stick to the supercross settings. The front is too high and the back is too rigid and they can’t make the turns on a normal motocross and that is where it all starts.
https://www.mxlarge.com/news/dirk-gruebel-interview
Dirk Gruebel: What I don’t like, is they say we changed their track, this was no tour Redbud track, but that is BS. It doesn’t matter if you change 30% of the track. The most honest guy was Roger. He said he could turn his back and tell when the American riders go past, because they rev their bike like shit and the bike goes nowhere. Prado on a 250 stayed in front of all those 450s, because he was shifting and riding in the correct way. It is lame and they blame the supercross, but I can tell you, their bike set-ups were wrong in Lommel, and they were wrong in Latvia, and they were wrong in Redbud. I saw it with Dungey who was in our tent, and you try and help them out, but they stick to the supercross settings. The front is too high and the back is too rigid and they can’t make the turns on a normal motocross and that is where it all starts.
Mud riding
The Shop
MX means so little to us that we forgot how to set up a bike for it. In reality, the US teams have no time at all available to them to do outdoor setup. SX ends and nationals start two weeks later and you're supposed to have a everything all set for an entirely opposite form of racing? Fat chance. So September rolls around and outdoor season is a faint memory. All eyes on A1. What are we training for? What are testing for now? You bet saturday night freak show pay the bills cross. Essentially, our riders are never fully prepared to compete on an outdoor MX track with each other, nevermind a bunch of dudes who do it year round as a focus.
They were pulling poles outta the ground
To get people out of lot A1. Poles! Road dividers outta
The damn ground!!!
That’s as American as you get.
Prado and coldenoff were literally floating across the surface. Smooth as butter on hot cornbread . They had the set up. Everyone else was fighting the shit out of every breaking bump and roller.
It is a great comment about how the sport evolves and how the bikes are adapted to each environment.
But the little critic on Dungey is also not super nice, because you don't change the rider style and half of the bike on race day, it is a longer process to make the rider feel 1 with the bike.
I do agree that the US is a little behind in certain area pertaining to MX.
Pit Row
Euros ride differently. The ruts and lines in general Form completely differently to what Americans are used to, no matter the track conditions
Why did not MXLARGE ask Grubel that?
Journalists are sometimes very friendly, too
People had too much faith in ET and when it came crashing down everyone had this knee jerk reaction that has perpetuated. It was one race. ET finished near the same place in A1 that he did in MXDN by the numbers. Is that indicative of his ability? No. Neither was one wet offseason race.
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