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One day he said the wrong thing to me after I had a bad day and I exploded on him. I threw a bunch of pictures away and broke a bunch of trophies and told him I never wanted to ride or talk about motorcycles again. I went back to school and didn’t even sit on a motorcycle for years.
I raced again in 2012 and 13 but I’m very competitive and it became not fun again, so now I just ride.
After riding inconsistently (4-5x per year max) over the past 6 or so years, I finally said enough and bought a new KTM 500exc. I am riding about 4-5x a month now and I couldn't be happier! Totally revived my love for dirt bikes again. I did a hare scrambles on the bike and signed up for a sprint enduro this weekend.
As others have said on this thread, the off-road scene is way more fun, it's laid back, and I like making a weekend of it vs. just showing up to the track, racing and going home.
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Or 5-6 pm and have it be a night race under the lights
Especially if its in the summer in a hot climate
I started racing late (23-24 yrs old), after a few seasons, getting in to shape, attending moto camps/schools I was getting some speed, started to collect the plastic, and then the injuries started. I had 3 straight seasons in my late 20s/early 30s where I was seriously hurt, broken bones, back injuries, some crashes that required surgeries etc.Really started to take the fun out of it. Then I started racing vet classes and the fun came back.
Started hare scrambles after someone got me hooked, bought a yz250x just for them, and took on a tree at 40mph 20 minutes in to the first race of the 2018 season. Swore I was done with riding as I laid there in the trees with my lower leg off at an unnatural angle. Took a long time to get me out of the woods, when I finally made it to the ER, it was obvious I had been through the whole procedure too many times, it seemed routine to be put under once again, for them to fix me up. A year later, the knee is still not 100% with many hours of physio and gym time put in to recovery.
Sold the mx bike that summer because I will never ride with my previous confidence ever again, and that is an accident waiting to happen... And honestly, who wants to go slower?
The gf is not happy as I went from saying I will never ride again, to I'll just trail ride with the guys and now I want to keep doing hare scrambles and to do the toughest 2 day race in Canada.
Looking back at MX I did a rough estimate of what I had spent in about 10 years of racing... With all the travel, weekend camping all weekend every weekend, all the fees, bikes, maintenance, gear etc etc I had spent at least 100g... I could've spent that money and time building my future airplane and my body wouldn't be shot... But I wouldn't have had the fun.
MX is way too much money for the time spent on the track on a race day... spend the day before making sure everything is ready to go and packed, leave at 3am in the morning to get to the track in time, pay my $120 entry fees on top of the gas in the truck... Get to ride about 40 minutes over the next 12 hours and then drive 4 hours home. I've now spent about $400 for some fun with a huge risk to my safety.
Off road I spend less time driving, I show up at 11am, ride my guts out for a couple hours, then by 4 I'm on my way home all for like $100 including gas, and it's less of a risk (just stay off the trees).
I will never seriously ride mx ever again, might turn a few laps at a friend's practice track but that is about it.
3 kids in major college back to back to back with 4 years of overlap is massive on the bank account. I can’t chance another injury that will prevent me from working 600-800 hours OT each year.
Pretty sad actually, I’ve had bikes in my garage almost continually for the last 40 years. Told my wife I may as well sell the KTM 350 and I actually started tearing up and almost boo-hooing! I don’t think most women can ever understand the physical and emotional attachment to Motocross.
They turned MX tracks into SX tracks... RACING happens ON THE GROUND!
FROM MXA today
2019 DAYTONA SX: 106 RACERS BROUGHT TO THE LOCAL HOSPITAL BETWEEN THE PRO & AMATEUR SX DAY
I never stopped with motorcycles. But decided to focus more on my career. I had street bikes, cruisers, bobbers. Did some street bike stunt riding (as if that was safer than moto)
Spent the last 3 years building a house with the wife. Now we live on 10 acres that’s slowly turning into a motocross track and wooded trails. At 31 I just got a bike after 12 years out of the sport. I’m in the best shape of my life and continuing to work on my fitness and ride 2-3 times a week. There are GP races within an hour of my place at a couple different tracks once a month. I’m going to try one out in a few weeks. And hope I’ve learned from my mistakes of pushing too hard. Just want to have some fun. I don’t have any friends that ride so I’m hoping to get to the GP’s and meet some cool people this summer.
Then when I tried to make a "come back" my body said "fuck you"
Pit Row
Most of the crashes l've had have been caused by ofher riders stupidity and it is purely for my joy at this point.
Personally l think 4 old guys racing slow as fuck is kind of lame. It means nothing but if it floats ypur boat have at it. But never mistake that it makes you cooler or more hardcore or faster than dudes who don't race. Oh and jacking yourself off because you do race and trying to tear down those that don't tell me all l need to know about you.
Also I will say when you did your best, put in 110% effort, raced to win, had tons of battles, won some, lost some, met some of your best friends and even made some enemy's it's nice to have a few 3 dollar reminders years later when none of it even mattered.
Last 2 years shoulder injuries totally stopped my riding ability.
Turns out shoulders also stop a lot of other activities most MXer's like too!
I personally think the rising cost of healthcare - and IMHO the absolute shitty quality crap shoot you get (great healthcare out there - but not easily accessible for everyone) - are hurting this sport bad.
If it was no big deal to get something looked at - or fixed - and it was done right the first time from a true expert in that field - I think more people would stick with it.
Now I have time to post on vital
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