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All riders scrub, make jumps that were not thought possible 20 years ago and are riding faster/lighter/meaner machines.
What new obstacles will we see in the future? How will riders get faster than they are already going?
Discuss
What new obstacles will we see in the future? How will riders get faster than they are already going?
Discuss
I would like to see the riders get there entry fees waved.. DC was all about that before he took the series over. I hope he can make it happen. WAIT!!! He is driving the car now. I guess he had a change of heart.
But, Chassis? Are they better?
Suspension?
Btw, what did Roger's RH250/370/400's wheigh? (35-40 years, ago?)
The Shop
The tracks will be mostly flat with slight rises in 20 yrs.
As far as the riders, just scrubbing harder. Really depends how the bikes/tracks evolve.
The whiz-bang 4-strokes have pushed the costs of participation out of the range of the typical family. It didn't used to be that way. And they only get more expensive every year.
The first Chinese manufacturer that produces a somewhat reliable copy of, say a 2002 YZ250 and sell it for $3000 will save the sport from itself. The value will be too hard to ignore. While there will still be many who spend what will be $10K on a new EFI, electric start Jap 450, it will be in very small numbers overall.
A cheaper price of basic participation will lead to a bigger influx of new and returning riders, which will be a huge positive for a somewhat sagging industry.
Tracks and riding styles will change in small ways, but nothing major. It has been slow evolution in that respect since the suspension revolution anyway. There will more of an emphasis on safety.
I don't think that electric bikes will make that big of a dent.
A promoter should be making money off the front gate, not the back gate.
But no matter how hard you work, how much more there is to do........there is still only so many hours in a day. DC will get there, but it will take time.
For now, I am going to enjoy the sport for what it is.........not the negatives, lord knows we could find that in anything and everything.
I also feel the amateur system is terrible but that's another story...
Pit Row
There are a lot of things wrong with this sport and I think a 125cc 2 stroke resurgence on the amateur and professional level would solve a few of them.
Professional riders at the national level paying entry fees has baffled me for a long time. Can't understand why that hasn't dropped to a minimal token amount or gone away altogether. That one is simple and doesn't require years of research and careful consideration. Charge a dollar more per ticket if you have to. I'd pay it, who here wouldn't? Also, who pockets the 20-40 bucks people pay for pit passes?
DONT kill the messenger, i am just calling it the way i see it, NOT the way i want it!
http://www.allisports.com/alli/video/slighly-uncut-redbud-recap-780
I think RC+RED BUD+ 2 SMOKE+WHIP+LAROCCOS LEAP = Motocross
When these guys wad themselves up today it seems like it always results in missed races if not missed series. I hope the sport devolves back a little to where we were in the 80's and 90's as far as riders realizing it's important to go really fast but it's also important to be able to finish a series if the goal is a championship. Maybe I'm getting old or maybe I'm still mad at that kid on the 85 who chased me around the track for a couple laps and then took me high last Saturday and roosted me mercilessly as I watched him disappear. It's probably the latter.
They've got the technology for cleaner 2t emissions. They've had it for years on Merc and Yam 2t outboards, but they've bowed to pressure from global/environmental elites. No...they wanted to kill the 2t from pressure from the "greenie crowd". Nothing more.
Make no mistake, that was a pure political move. And no amount of common sense points/made or attempts to talk them into going back to 2t displacements will be heard. We're preaching to the choir here boys. Shame, cause some of these ideas are good and good for the sport.
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