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I don't understand..Is this something the rider plans before the gate drops? ..Why does everyone say this when the rider is the one actually twisting the throttle?...Who here has purposely gone out a ridden over their head?...
Some times, during a race with a guy right on your ass, it's not hard to.
You've never ridden over your head?
The Shop
Mo betta?
Trail riding, mixing it up for a bit with your buddies, that's one thing.
But if you've trained, have people there watching how you do,
spent a lot of effort on prepping for the event, and have to deliver
on a set time and place, that's another thing all together
Hell, I'm 59 and still ride the dirt sometimes.
No big deal.
But, to go back out there, and next year would be good for me, I'd be the young guy in the AHRMA 60 class,
I don't know if I want to risk it.
But, usually, 2 or 3 going at it for the win with 3 laps to go, I can see any racer getting out of
his comfort zone and taking chances.
Hey, it's 2 laps to go, Big Lenny is side by side with Joe Blow, who just brakechecked him the lap before.
His wife is cheering him as they blast down the straightaway.
His Son is yelling "GO DADDY!!".
The guy that owns the local bar is there, with a free pass for tonigh'ts SurfnTurf for 2, waving them at you.
And Big Lenny is just gonna, how'd you put it, stay comfortable?
Who here hasn't had some guy block you, or push you, when running freaking 14th and have that shot
of adrenaline hit your brain?
Btw I really wanted him to put it to rocZen
I think James just rides more on the edge, same as RV.
It's not like #7 had 4 close calls right before he ffell.
Faster you go, better the chances you'll get bit.
I would like to have seen James tone it down a bit when he got to Roczen,
but in the heat of it, that one was just racing imo.
Pit Row
you're riding over your head.
In the 80,s bikes progressed and one got the feeling of impossible to crash till tracks went super.
Once tracks went su per with big hucks you had to ride past the comfort zone to compete.
Now,when I came out of a 10 yr high aidist the bikes had come to a place past what my mind would let me charge.
You can now huck the gwaps with ease overjumping and such .But gaps are not were these guys go over the head or out of the comfort zone.
That place is the whoops in sx and corner entry/apex.
The front guys runs corners on the gas,steering with the rear and body.
Roxen is great at riding in the comfort zone,so is RD,
RV and Stewart can cut the mind off and push past the edge,both are better at this than anyone in recent memory.
If Roxen wants to win weekly he will have to push much harder,A1 was lucky for him.
Stewart had no idea if he was going to be on the bike at the end of the whoops when he turned down off the corner and upshifted,if he had made it,hero,winner,if not,forum fodder.
Stewart and RV have nerves of steel and have paid with long sits with injury,but that is the price of 1st place
I also think RV did something at A1 that he has not done before,settle for other than 1st,he wants another,bad.
got low in the turn where it was slick and lost the front.
I had the impression he was being too cautious on that one, not over his head/reckless.
Stewart and RV have nerves of steel and have paid with long sits with injury,but that is the price of 1st place"
Whole lotta truth right there.
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