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That heartless A grade ahole had his eyes off the road so much he's lucky he didn't kill someone.
Also...he legit reminds me of Nick Nolte's character in that Hulk movie with Eric Bana, except Nolte's character comes across as less insane.
The Shop
Every few years, when the cars become too fast, both organizations lower the maximum displacement, and reduce the speed a bit, and the danger and severity of injuries a lot.
The teams then innovate around the new rules.
In Motocross we just keep going faster.
And it seems there've been more deaths lately.
I've posted about this a few times.
We need to control the speed.
Yes, the pros can ride the crap out of a 450.
But the cost of a crash is becoming greater and greater.
The factories and racing organizations need to agree to a displacement reduction, and make it happen. Tracks will adjust to match the bike's capabilites, and riders will crash at slower speeds.
If not, bikes will become faster, jumps bigger and crashes more intense.
I have a plan on how to make this happen that will be good for the factories, riders, and racing organizations if anyone is interested. I've posted it before.
RIP Chris Ow. Your family is in my prayers
Radical
RIP to Chris. An awful accident to what seems like a great human being and a great motorcycle rider. It must be really tough for any family and friends to see something like that video posted at the beginning and not think "why would you do that now". So sorry.
"DON'T TREAD ON ME"!
A man died at the track.
Let’s extend a little dignity and respect to a fellow fallen rider and his family.
It doesn’t matter if what Ryan said was 100% correct, which it wasn’t correct at all....the way he said it, and when he said it, and who he was talking about was completely inappropriate and was an asshole move. I don’t care how long Ryan’s day was or how tired he was. It was cold and heartless and he should have just kept his ignorant mouth shut.
It’s far past time we take a stand against the poison people spew on social media. This is right in our own backyard. A well known ex-pro spewing his garbage in regards to a fallen brother.
The only positive thing in this thread is it’s good to see the amount of good folks standing up for a fallen rider and telling Ryan Hughes to take his garbage elsewhere.
Well his head has been up his ass as long as I can remember. And what is worse is the amount of people who give him a "pass" for this kind of continued behavior.
Pit Row
It is a very emotional experience. Ryno is already a fairly reactive person and I think this sent him over the edge where he needed to take action to try to prevent it from happening again. I get people's negative take on what he said, but I give him a pass.
If I lost a family member or friend in MX related crash, only to see a post the next day, talking about riding lessons and, how unskilled riders are and not even saying hey, my heart goes out to the family, I’d be absolutely pissed.
Ryan being angry about riders asking if the track will reopen is understandable but, it isn’t a good enough reason to not punch him in the mouth after everything else said. Maybe this time they’ll leave the wires in so he can keep his mouth shut about people he doesn’t even know.
I once tied a young man onto a gurney for helo transport (he died in the helicopter, basal skull fracture). I did not go on social media and rant about his friend driving under the influence which resulted in his death (and the other passenger losing both legs who I had to use my t-shrirt on as a impromptu tourniquet). And no, I do not work as an emergency worker, I was just at the right place at the right time to help.
I think what Ryno had to say about the riders continuing to ride that day is correct and it is in poor taste for sure. Other than that it was a bad rant/post. He knew nothing about that riders ability, if he had a riding coach, etc. Hell he did not even see the crash. And to do it while driving really shows a lack of judgement when spewing a rant about safety.
I also lost my best friend, and one of the best snowmobile riders in the country at that time, to an avalanche. He was smart, albeit crazy, had all of the proper gear and avalanche bags, but when that mountain broke nothing could have saved him except not doing that drop. We were filming too. Ive seen him die more times than anyone ever should see because we used it to teach people about what went wrong.
Ryno is and has always been controversial, but he is also smart and knows this sport better than most ever will or could. Hell yeah he's pissed, I agree, that man shouldn't have died. EVERYONE needs some form of coaching when starting out, even if informal. I used to have a track. I wouldn't let anyone on who's gear wasn't deemed safe, and I would personally work with certain types to make sure they could safely ride my track (personal one) before I set them loose and felt comfortable putting in Moto's. Especially since I built and rode that track daily. Nothing scares me more than a 30 year old meathead that just bought his first dirt bike.
I’m sorry, but after thinking on this for a week, I can’t support a business with a owner who had acted like this. It’s all in the context of it. What a shame.
You can’t have a nice bike because you aren’t good enough? Get the fuck out of here with that shit. All the vets you see out there 45 to 75+ years old are supposed to ride a piece of shit bike then? You don’t know how fast they used to be when they were in there 20s and 30s. And it doesn’t matter either. All that matters is they are having fun on their dirtbike, just like Chris was doing.
Rest In Peace Chris.
It is pretty crazy a total beginner can buy a brand new motocross bike and pay $40 to ride a track . . . Darwinism at it's finest I guess.
So sad for the family of the rider that lost his life (doing something fun) RIP
In modern times F1 and Nascar adjust the rules so no one team doesn’t gain a huge advantage. They want close racing. Somewhat related to what happened in 1986 with the production rule in MX/SX. Honda had the deep pockets and were kicking ass with works machines.
The way speed is controlled is with the design of the track. The more technical the track, the slower it is. Beyond the track design it’s your throttle hand that controls the speed.
I just can’t get with the idea that 450’s are too fast and they are dangerous. The rider controls the machine. Cars, trucks, and street bikes are as fast as you wanna go and people crash and die driving them.
A 450 is a race machine. A decent rider can safely jump all the jumps on a track. That same rider can do it on a 250 or 125 also. The 450 doesn’t suddenly give a rider a labotomy where he “just can’t control himself” and rides way too fast because it’s such a fast bike. It’s always your right hand.
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