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I dunno, Bobby, that Dean Wilson kid managed a 4-1 overall in lites at Swan last weekend. What's so great about that? Well, rumor has it he broke his wrist in practice. That's pretty damned core if you ask me. He was hauling.
The Shop
We need the Race in racing again.
me and a friend drove 5 hours down to keysville and dove springs area, my dad lived in lake Isabella and the first 1/2 mile i went down hard and broke my wrist. it was cold and sleeting. my bud sez " i didn't drive 5 hours to turn around and go home". so i rode for the next 3-4 hours...it wasn't bad either, i was so fucking cold i couldn't feel my wrist.
What ever happened to the days of Guy and Jayna Cooper driving to the races in a beat up old gas guzzlin 4 door sedan, towing a U Haul trailer, sleeping in the car and living day to day literally ?
Privateers today have it better than most factory riders did back in the day.
If only those days were here again the racing would be so much better. Maybe we could make it even better if we required all of the riders to wear the old style Bates leather riding pants and open face helmets.
The older generation of riders really had it going on and today’s riders are just a bunch of little sissies.
Pit Row
Back in the day there was no money in it, you rode you ass off even when hurt just to try and make some money to get to the next race. There were only a couple of guys getting paid to go racing and that made everyone else try harder to get that 1 spot...
Today there are a lot of fast guys that have been getting support or $$ since they were kids... They know that if they are fast some sponsor will want to tie their name to them. They dont know this sport without someone helping them? Probably wouldnt do it on their own dime.
There are a few guys out there that are hard core and going racing on their own money, just very few top pro's.
And RC racing with a broke hand and David Bailey said he would never would have been able to do that
"moto111 wrote: The older we get the more hard core we were"
Absolutely
Is it possible to race professionally on your own dime like it was then?
Would the "hardcore" racers of yesterday say no to the money offered nowadays to be more "hardcore" and for the love of the sport?
I dont think the "Hardcore" guys would say no to money... Most took the money when it started to come in, but they were a tougher bunch of guys that were on ground floor of the sport.
I think if you look at our sport from the amatures up to pro there is still a lot of Hardcore riders... but now you have a business of having pro riders that are paid very well by a team that has obligations to a sponsor so a rider does not ride hurt and jeopradize getting more injured and end up out.
Do you think the tem pays a riders salary when they sit out?? or is it insurance money?
Anyway.... I know a bunch of guys trying to make it to the top of our sport, and they ride hurt all the time. There are Hardcore guys out there..... Ask anyone how hardcore Sean Hamblin is.....He had his shoulder put back in on the side of the track, taped it in and rode 2 moto's...
Today's riders are tough no matter what some of you old "core" guys think.
I do remember seeing Decoster wash up with a small bucket of dingy water after a moto at Lake Whitney back in '74. I think the factory Suzuki mechanics got the water out of the Brazos River.
I said what I said earlier because I think all boys in general are not as tough, not just MXrs. I know I had it easier than my dad. The guys in the pictures above look tougher and more like men than my generation. The guys in the pictures above were raised by parents who lived through the great depression. It makes a difference.
Here's my take on this and I might be waaaay off base. People are having children at early ages and are more lenient (sp?) with their kids. The older you get, the more hardened you become and it's 'your way or the highway'. I think you mature quite a bit after your parents have passed, but a lot of us don't really grow up until then.
Bobby, "Soft Motocrosser" is an oxymoron, if I ever heard one. Kind of like "pussy bullrider". There simply ain't no such thing.
You can't participate in this sport, at any level, then or now, without being one tough mofo.
I think that's what most people like about it.
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