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yz133rider
4/21/2018 8:15pm
4/21/2018 8:15pm
He was on the new bike right? He was running the pace in the heat! And last off the start and finished top 10 is solid!
The Shop
It sometimes bothers me to hear people keep referring to Reed with "at his age" Brayton is as old or dam close. Only Chad knows if his drop-off is due to age or his injury and being completely unprepared at the start of the Season he didn't train at all before his injury and then got hurt so I have a hard time believing it has anything to do with switching to thr Rockstar E-Dishhhhh....
IF he had been in Tip-Top shape and still got injured he would have bounced back a lot easier when it came time to start going full speed and wouldnt be hovering around 10th. The fact is because he didn't have a ride so he's not going to train and then all of a sudden try to put everything together deciding to rush everything with absolutely no conditioning and with a broken leg/ankle his ability to train was obviously hampered.
His fall off is WAY too rapid and sharp to attribute it to just old age .... If and only if he had gone thru his bootcamp at the start of this year and been injured AT LEAST his conditioning wouldve gotten him thru the first part of the season w/o the embarrassing results ... and now with such a depleted field and I mean depleted as it could possibly get, he's still pulling down 10th Place finishes all these top-level guys go out and his final position on average has not changed hardly at all he's maybe gone from 12th to 10th or 11th Place?
I hope when Reed comes back next year that he comes back 100% healthy no excuses and be somewhat competitive but if he's still really uncompetitive then there should be no question as to it being time for him to hang up the boots. Im all for guys continuing their career as long as possible but at times, Chad seems completely uninspired out there and you can see it in his riding style he's not even remotely aggressive on the bike his Corner speed is atrocious and he's racing guys that he could have beat with one arm a couple years ago
Pit Row
I always look at his turns... if he's good he flows through, if he does that stop turn start thing that you saw on a lot of blue four strokes he's not gonna flow.
Good to see.
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