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If you read DV12's blog, he was making more in boot deal than what some of the premier class riders now pull in as salaries.
So the factories are tying to get riders on the cheap. At the end of the day, it takes 2 parties to make a deal, and having been in this position (in a different industry) I don't see anything wrong with saying no if you don't like the terms that are being offered to you.
MC makes it sound like Reed should have taken the deal because he isn't going to get the same kind of equipment than the Honda boys are getting. Time will tell if he is right or if Honda is going to be hoping they had opened the wallet a bit more. One thing for sure, he just gave some incentive for Chad to beat Trey and Grant...
That would reflect pretty badly on the factory team management though. Why have a factory team if you get beat by a bike somebody can just get off of the showroom...
If I'm in his shoes I start demanding bonuses to stop me from listing all the components I had to change to make the bike competitive :-)
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For me personally, I don't believe the question was. What do you think about JS beating your all time win record?
Now had he said "... and i guarantee you i bed way more chicks than he will ever dream of" i would admit that it would be straying from the question...
As for what MC said about Dungey... Yes Reed and Stewart probably wont blow the guy away.. but look what happened to Jeff Emig in 98 when MC came back after after his weird 97 season.
That's a great way to describe why being an "introvert" might not be the best way market yourself.
I agree with this, other than you feel that those of us here on motoboards, are the target demographic. I know that some are not going to like this, but it those who fill the seats at a supercross event, that the sponsors are targeting. The majority of those who fill the seats are not involved in the sport on a day to day basis like those of us on these boards. It's the same people that attend free style events and monster truck races, or just want to suck down a few eight dollar beers and be entertained.
People like us are really a very tiny dot on the demographic maps, when it comes to those who are paying the bills.
Stewart/Reed Show... its over... As of right now... You have 4 guys that are going to battle for the win every Saturday night during the SX season... Stewart, Reed, Dungey, and Villopoto... You have Windham that could snick in a win along with Grant and Milsaps. And you know they will always be a threat to the podium along with Canard, Tedesco, Short and maybe Pourcel if he has a ride for next year. And Pourcel is the real unknown what he can do if he is racing... If racing... I would add one more and make it 5 battling for the win every Saturday night.
BUT! If they all stay healthy. For the ones that are saying that one rider is going to dominate the season, if everyone is healthy... They are blowing sunshine up their own ass to make themselves feel better.
I really know what you mean, sometimes i feel the media gives the few motoboard jockeys way too much credit. What is there, like 200 of us between 3 or 4 boards that post with any regularity... hardly seems like something to even take into consideration.
Pit Row
The problem with Pourcel for me (if I were a team manager) is that he's very much an unknown quantity. Now don't get me wrong, I think he'll be good on the 450 right away and will win races his first year (before he get's bored with it). But as good as he is... he's also probably the most unpredictable person in this sport.
He's quirky. French quirky and then some. He might win 2 or 3 races in a row and then sort of plod around the next race doing his own thing in 7th because, y'know, he just isn't in the mood or something. That is just the way he is, he doesn't give a fuck. He does his own thing and to hell with everyone else. He's the free spirited type.
On the other hand he may go out there and wax everyone, so... Like I said, unpredictable.
Stewart was about 2 seconds a lap faster at 100% than Dungey the last time they raced each other in SX. That combined with one hell of a determination and motivation he must have after taking so much undeserved flak from "fans".... This is going to get ugly!
I don´t disagree with MC on most of his comments, but I think he´s playing head games with JS to keep his own record. He has to remember that today the riders actually train. They don´t party at Lake Havasu in their spare time, and James´s competition doesn´t smoke weed on a regular basis (except for Jlaw, but he´s not a competing much anyway). Times have changed, but James has the field covered and he is the most likely rider to beat the record in the next 5 years
MC was the King, but he had his peak at the right time. There is no way he would have 72 SX wins if he raced during the "training era" of RC and JS.
I want RV to win cuz he's my favorite rider..... but JS7 will be faster than ever.
funny huh? times are tough here in the US and we have a couple cocky foreigners trying to demand top pay when the entire industry takes a huge pay cut.
Time to wake up, this next year will wake up a few.
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