No top GP team interested in Regal?

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Edited Date/Time 1/27/2012 7:56am
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for a decent GP team....
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Shawn142 11/19/2011 3:13am
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Kyle is still a kid in need of guidance according to his step-father. He didn't even want the kid on his own in Cali, nevermind the other side of the world. The only reason the L&M deal got signed is because Brooks offered to take Kyle into his own home.
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Kyle is still a kid in need of guidance according to his step-father. He didn't even want the kid on his own in Cali, nevermind the...
Kyle is still a kid in need of guidance according to his step-father. He didn't even want the kid on his own in Cali, nevermind the other side of the world. The only reason the L&M deal got signed is because Brooks offered to take Kyle into his own home.
don't think Kyle needs anymore guidance after Valli and L&M, heres hoping LB isn't done with him yet!!
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SwapperMX 11/19/2011 7:17am
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I hope he gets something together as he seemed very cool, and was ultra fast outdoors in 2010
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RaceFace 11/19/2011 7:32am
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mccread wrote:
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for...
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for a decent GP team....
Is the question based on him complaining that he really wants to race in Europe but no one is interested? If he wanted to race the GPs I'm sure he could send some feelers out there and get offers. As far as the U.S. who knows what goes on behind the scenes. Who prices themeselves out of a ride, who has burned bridges, who has off-track issue we aren't privy to, etc. Some of the guys on satellite teams are paying to be there, so my guess is they get preference over those looking to get paid.

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GuyB 11/19/2011 7:47am
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I hear that Kyle is with the L&Mc team. I also just updated the most recent silly season update with info for Tommy.
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Hando 11/19/2011 9:11am
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If anyone deserves a shot its Kyle Regal.

If I was a team owner I would of snapped him up early. dude is solid!
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KAWboy14 11/19/2011 9:17am
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Hando wrote:
If anyone deserves a shot its Kyle Regal.

If I was a team owner I would of snapped him up early. dude is solid!
why does he DESERVE a shot at anything?
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Harry_Gray 11/19/2011 11:14am
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It baffles the hell out of me that no one here in the states is interested in him; I thought the McGrath/Brooks deal was gonna happen but I guess that isn't the case anymore with the grumblings in the internet. Damn shame, he is a really strong outdoor rider and in time could/will be a good SX rider also. Hope he can get something soon...
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Hando 11/19/2011 11:21am
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Hando wrote:
If anyone deserves a shot its Kyle Regal.

If I was a team owner I would of snapped him up early. dude is solid!
KAWboy14 wrote:
why does he DESERVE a shot at anything?
Podiumed twice on a stock crf450 in 2010

ran top 10 on a rmz he just hopped on this year at the last few nationals

am i missing anything here??

If he could just get on a good team, he could get better at super cross then KILL it outdoors
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Shawn142 11/19/2011 11:26am
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Podiumed twice on a stock crf450 in 2010 ran top 10 on a rmz he just hopped on this year at the last few nationals am...
Podiumed twice on a stock crf450 in 2010

ran top 10 on a rmz he just hopped on this year at the last few nationals

am i missing anything here??

If he could just get on a good team, he could get better at super cross then KILL it outdoors
Lets not kid ourselves, that CRF 450 was the best money could buy a privateer. Just because he went on the cheap and traveled in a Sprinter van doesn't mean that thing was anywhere near stock. And what Regal was missing is consistency. He had plenty of bad to go with the good the last few years.
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Sherwood 11/19/2011 11:28am
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So Blose falls through the cracks? It sucks for Blose but I can see a team getting one of a replacement rider when one of their guys goes down.
THE mx addict 11/19/2011 11:51am
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mccread wrote:
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for...
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for a decent GP team....
I'm afraid there isn't anymore place in a "decent team" for 2012 in MX1 GPs...
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MXMattii 11/19/2011 12:08pm
11/19/2011 12:08pm Edited Date/Time 11/19/2011 12:11pm
mccread wrote:
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for...
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for a decent GP team....
THE mx addict wrote:
I'm afraid there isn't anymore place in a "decent team" for 2012 in MX1 GPs...
There aren't that many free spots anymore ... Yeah he could get a bike with Sturm Kawasaki or with Team Salucci-HM Honda but the big teams ... They are full!
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burnside 11/19/2011 2:17pm
11/19/2011 2:17pm Edited Date/Time 11/19/2011 2:20pm
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
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burnside wrote:
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams...
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
And Lieb! The guy stayed here even through lots of problems that were out of his control. I think he deserves major props for it!
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Fat Fingers 11/19/2011 3:35pm
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burnside wrote:
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams...
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
There are 2 premier series in the world. If you can't get a ride in one, then it just makes sense to see what options are available in the other. This is surely better than sitting on the sidelines.

As for being home sick, how bad do these guys want it?
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MXMattii 11/19/2011 4:04pm
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burnside wrote:
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams...
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
Didn't Sean Hamblin came to Europe to for a full season and leave after two races to be back for the AMA Season because he didn't felt good? Also after the debacle with Ben Townley a top5 guy in the states...
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Hando 11/19/2011 4:41pm
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burnside wrote:
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams...
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
Fat Fingers wrote:
There are 2 premier series in the world. If you can't get a ride in one, then it just makes sense to see what options are...
There are 2 premier series in the world. If you can't get a ride in one, then it just makes sense to see what options are available in the other. This is surely better than sitting on the sidelines.

As for being home sick, how bad do these guys want it?
I agree to some extent but I think being home sick is more or less just dealing with the lack of emotional support.

You wouldn't think it means much but not having a friend or friends to confide in messes with your head after awhile.

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redalert144 11/19/2011 4:53pm
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GuyB wrote:
I hear that Kyle is with the L&Mc team. I also just updated the most recent silly season update with info for Tommy.
Tommy Weeck is out at MCR?
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burnside wrote:
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams...
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
MXMattii wrote:
Didn't Sean Hamblin came to Europe to for a full season and leave after two races to be back for the AMA Season because he didn't...
Didn't Sean Hamblin came to Europe to for a full season and leave after two races to be back for the AMA Season because he didn't felt good? Also after the debacle with Ben Townley a top5 guy in the states...
I think Hamblin did the full season from what I remember. Watched him race a couple of times at British champs actually.

Guess the UK based teams would be an easier transition than, well, any other team that doesn't speak English as their first language. ha.
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GuyB 11/19/2011 11:22pm
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redalert144 wrote:
Tommy Weeck is out at MCR?
I never knew for sure that he was in.
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sharkey 11/20/2011 12:35am
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GuyB wrote:
I hear that Kyle is with the L&Mc team. I also just updated the most recent silly season update with info for Tommy.
redalert144 wrote:
Tommy Weeck is out at MCR?
i think he was talking about hahn
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redalert144 11/20/2011 7:58am
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redalert144 wrote:
Tommy Weeck is out at MCR?
GuyB wrote:
I never knew for sure that he was in.
Just asked because I thought I remembered him tweeting about signing with MCR, but that was before the whole MCR/Alessi deal went down
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redalert144 11/20/2011 8:00am
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GuyB wrote:
I hear that Kyle is with the L&Mc team. I also just updated the most recent silly season update with info for Tommy.
redalert144 wrote:
Tommy Weeck is out at MCR?
sharkey wrote:
i think he was talking about hahn
I knew who he was talking about, when I looked to see where Hahn was going I noticed Weeck was not on MCR anymore on that list
Old School Racer 11/20/2011 8:13am
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Regal had a great offer to ride for a factory team in Europe and turned it down. I think he was so intent on getting the second slot over at LMC that he wouldn't even consider what he should do if that fell through. Now that they are only going to have Short, he is left with not much to do.
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Shawn142 wrote:
Lets not kid ourselves, that CRF 450 was the best money could buy a privateer. Just because he went on the cheap and traveled in a...
Lets not kid ourselves, that CRF 450 was the best money could buy a privateer. Just because he went on the cheap and traveled in a Sprinter van doesn't mean that thing was anywhere near stock. And what Regal was missing is consistency. He had plenty of bad to go with the good the last few years.
The 2009 CRF 450 was the worst bike out there according to all the guys who raced one and the 2010 is the best?
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Old School Racer wrote:
Regal had a great offer to ride for a factory team in Europe and turned it down. I think he was so intent on getting the...
Regal had a great offer to ride for a factory team in Europe and turned it down. I think he was so intent on getting the second slot over at LMC that he wouldn't even consider what he should do if that fell through. Now that they are only going to have Short, he is left with not much to do.
"Regal had a great offer to ride for a factory team in Europe and turned it down".

Which one ???
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burnside wrote:
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams...
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
MXMattii wrote:
Didn't Sean Hamblin came to Europe to for a full season and leave after two races to be back for the AMA Season because he didn't...
Didn't Sean Hamblin came to Europe to for a full season and leave after two races to be back for the AMA Season because he didn't felt good? Also after the debacle with Ben Townley a top5 guy in the states...
Not Hamblin he did ok, had a great attitude and the fans really took to him, would have probably cracked it in the second year but got kinda stitched up by Swift and left without a ride. I think you might have been referring to Ryan Mills, he seemed the polar opposite of Sean.
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holeshot100 11/20/2011 1:06pm
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mccread wrote:
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for...
Pretty strange he hasn't got a ride in the US, Hahn too, Regal is really fast outdoors I think he would be a good fit for a decent GP team....
I think they both had "ride offers" it is merely the terms.
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MXMattii 11/20/2011 1:40pm
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burnside wrote:
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams...
With some of the recent guys (Jimmy Albertson springs to mind)... importing a young American rider might seem like a high risk move for some teams, seems like a lot of them struggle with the culture + getting homesick etc. Brown & Osbourne seem to have nailed it though.

Gotta give Osbourne props for standing on his own two feet out here.
MXMattii wrote:
Didn't Sean Hamblin came to Europe to for a full season and leave after two races to be back for the AMA Season because he didn't...
Didn't Sean Hamblin came to Europe to for a full season and leave after two races to be back for the AMA Season because he didn't felt good? Also after the debacle with Ben Townley a top5 guy in the states...
Alex wrote:
Not Hamblin he did ok, had a great attitude and the fans really took to him, would have probably cracked it in the second year but...
Not Hamblin he did ok, had a great attitude and the fans really took to him, would have probably cracked it in the second year but got kinda stitched up by Swift and left without a ride. I think you might have been referring to Ryan Mills, he seemed the polar opposite of Sean.
Yeah that name says something Wink

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