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Ran across this. Maybe someone can find the referenced interview in Dag Allemaal.
https://mx24.blogspot.com/2019/12/stefan-everts-jai-toujours-ete-fier.h…
Google Translation:
STEFAN EVERTS "I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO BE BELGIAN, BUT ... I AM NO MORE."
In a new edition of the Belgian weekly, Dag Allemaal, there is an interview with Stefan Everts. The legend speaks of the decline of sport in his country and the lack of infrastructure. His son Liam has only been able to ride three times this year in Belgium, while in the Netherlands he can ride much more.
Everts "Is motocross not part of our heritage? Belgium has produced world champions for over fifty years. What other sport can say the same? And now that doesn't mean anything anymore. It breaks me the heart. Listen, I've always been proud to be Belgian, but ... I'm not anymore. I'm rather ashamed. We are no longer a country made for motocross. The Belgians still lack French chauvinism and the respect that our northern neighbors cherish for their sports heroes. "
https://mx24.blogspot.com/2019/12/stefan-everts-jai-toujours-ete-fier.h…
Google Translation:
STEFAN EVERTS "I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD TO BE BELGIAN, BUT ... I AM NO MORE."
In a new edition of the Belgian weekly, Dag Allemaal, there is an interview with Stefan Everts. The legend speaks of the decline of sport in his country and the lack of infrastructure. His son Liam has only been able to ride three times this year in Belgium, while in the Netherlands he can ride much more.
Everts "Is motocross not part of our heritage? Belgium has produced world champions for over fifty years. What other sport can say the same? And now that doesn't mean anything anymore. It breaks me the heart. Listen, I've always been proud to be Belgian, but ... I'm not anymore. I'm rather ashamed. We are no longer a country made for motocross. The Belgians still lack French chauvinism and the respect that our northern neighbors cherish for their sports heroes. "
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Our religions with white bearded men are being replaced with people who "claim" to be saving the planet.
Scary.
Scary indeed.
Data is manipulated all the time.
Remember .........
1960's - Oil gone in 10 years
1970's - another ice age in 10 years
1980's - acid rain will destroy all crops in 10 years
1990's - The ozone layer will be destroyed in 10 years
2000's - The icecaps will be gone in 10 years
None happened, but all resulted in more taxes, less personal freedoms, and impacting our lives.
Remember, careful what you wish for......
In a new edition of the Belgian weekly, Dag Allemaal, there is an interview with Stefan Everts. The legend speaks of the decline of sport in his country and the lack of infrastructure. His son Liam has only been able to ride three times this year in Belgium, while in the Netherlands he can ride much more.
Everts "Is motocross not part of our heritage? Belgium has produced world champions for over fifty years. What other sport can say the same? And now that doesn't mean anything anymore. It breaks me the heart. Listen, I've always been proud to be Belgian, but ... I'm not anymore. I'm rather ashamed. We are no longer a country made for motocross. The Belgians still lack French chauvinism and the respect that our northern neighbors cherish for their sports heroes. "
it's all data manipulation.
And, if i don't agree with your philosophy, you'll probably call me names and spit on me because I don'e agree with you and you will feel threatened. It has become the new Christianity. Burn me at the stake like a so called witch....because I choose free thought and real science. most of those graphs on climate change can be debunked with real data, not just data from the last 30 to 50 years.
CO2 is good for the plants. Having plants gives animals food, like you, me and your pet dog. It was in our air and the old plants and mollusked pulled it out of the air a long time ago. It has become our coal, natural gas and crude oil.
I remember back in 2009 they were going to ban little motorcycles and back in 2008 on a KTM forum, I was called crazy. Then it happened. Same thing here with all the greenies that are always on a witch hunt. They will close our MX tracks if unchecked just like in Belgium
EDIT: Climate does change, always has. It's just not a man made thing.
Sad that these old archaic associations can't/won't do what they proclaim to do when they take our money to belong to the organization..........
I can't believe you actually buy that shit.
Your entire country is run by rich oil companies that buys out even your highest politicians. You need to open your eyes.
Pit Row
Whoever names the film where he said that gets $1.00 paypal'd to them!
Our country is run by whatever assholes are willing to spend the money required to buy our politicians, not just the “ rich oil companies “.
The ozone layer has recovered due to our response in the 90s. Polar ice is shrinking. Not gonna waste my time arguing about predictions made by floppy disks.
No one is arguing that climate change hasn’t existed before humans. My comment literally said “impact of humans”.
Try again.
(Sorry if the CDC and NASA don’t agree with your opinion)
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_07-508.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db330.htm
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2019-ozone-hole-is-the-smalle…
https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/
We just started on the downward slope.
Quality of life is starting to be diluted. And our sport is one of many that suffers.
If 99% of the world population dies, we are still at 80,000,000 people. Crazy!
Lower the world population and everything improves, even economies actually, and especially MX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no causation of climate change and life expectancy. Maybe a correlation. Same with the ozone layer. We have no concrete proof that banning R11, R12, certain aerosols, etc, helps the hole heal.
By the way, 3rd world countries like China and India still use those same products today ( they were left out of the Montreal Protocol, finalized in 1987 ) and the hole is better. So maybe there is no correlation either. So maybe it is a random cyclical thing.
Our government agencies have lost credit with the masses. I believe they are worse than any private corporation today. They spend my money foolishly, and they are not accountable or responsible with their actions either.
I hope Stefan Everts stirs up shade over there. Someone needs to stand up to these bureaucratic bullies.
Disclaimer...I’m far from trusting big brother but I also don’t trust corporations either. I like to think for myself.
Still hope Everts gets something done........
I really think it is that serious. Even E bikes probably won't help, hence maybe why they are moving so slow with the introductions........
So we're working with 3 federations BMB-FMB (virtual bancurupt) and then VMBB (Flemish side) and FMWB (French speaking side). All those have board members some are doing there best others are just dumb fµC§. So to get something moving on the Pro level of the sport, it's damn hard.
Then you have other federations like MCLB, VMCF, VLM, AMPL, ... they are federations for amateurs and are riding every week on a different track, but are a bit like Glen Helen REM races. But the problem there is that most of those federations didn't acknowledged eachother, for years. Neither did the BMB-FMB. (Now we're seeing that the VLM and VMBB (FMB-BM
I don't want to make this story too long. So long story short: We really need to rethink the whole structure of motorcross/motosports in Belgium. At the moment we've no Belgium Championship anymore, knowing that in the past almost all World Championship riders came to ride, earn some money and have some quality time with the fans. We've no real youth racing federation. You will find a few 85cc's at this amateurs federation and a few at the other federation. Centralizing all those kids in full, stacked heats would help us a lot to create new champs.
I hope Everts does too. It is a real issue and your concerns are valid. I personally agree that E bikes may not help, but for other reasons. There’s space to be realistic while also supporting our passions. I’d like to think we want to avoid another lead bike fiasco, by getting ahead of any potential threats, but not when all of us trip over the details of said threats. AMA isn’t going to lead the way so it’s on us Vitards to come together.
If there’s one thing that’s for certain, it’s that for better or worse, our sport will be very different one decade from now. Who’s going to drive that bus?
I haven't a clue who will drive the bus. The AMA certainly cannot, as they have decimated all forms of racing that they used to run by selling it off to the highest bidder.
MX is going the way of dirt track and road racing.
SX is here to stay ( for now)
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