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12/22/2019 11:17am
12/22/2019 11:17am
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In italy, for the 2020 season FMI decided to ban tear off from its events to prevent pollution. If they catch you using them during a race, you have a 50€ penalty to pay at the end of the day.
In my opinion this is dangerous, lenses are better in 95% of the situations over roll off.
Limiting vision to racers is very dangerous.
Lenses are less than 10% of the pollution in a motocross track, if you consider the gas for the trucks to prep the track, the oil and gas the bike burn, and stuff like that.
What do you think/what would you do?
Has anything similar happened somewhere else and how did it end?
In my opinion this is dangerous, lenses are better in 95% of the situations over roll off.
Limiting vision to racers is very dangerous.
Lenses are less than 10% of the pollution in a motocross track, if you consider the gas for the trucks to prep the track, the oil and gas the bike burn, and stuff like that.
What do you think/what would you do?
Has anything similar happened somewhere else and how did it end?
The Shop
The world has gone nuts about plastic pollution in the last couple years, this is the easiest way for the moto community to address that
bring me to think how stupid/annoys me when these ama pros AFTER a race rip half a dozen tears offs off so pointless and see it every race
https://dirtmountainbike.com/bike-reviews/trail-enduro-bikes/rocky-moun…
-At the track used tires are everywhere, and sometimes they’re thrown in rivers.
-Track owner are using super old trucks, which consume as a V12 5000cc motor.
People at the stadium are throwing shit everywhere, at the end of the day, the stadium is cleaned by the promoter of the event. Why in motocross should i stop using tear off? I’m okay with paying a little surplus for a guy that at the end of the day walks down the track and pick the lenses.
Also, if talking about pollution, a pad/mat under every bike should be a must. But i see none using them, if not in their garages..
There are no track here in SA that allow them, with all but one metro track being near national parks or farm land, there is more than just the pollution to worry about, apparently eating tear-offs is not great for animals.
As far as I know it has been in place for Off-Road / Enduro racing in Australia for ever, as long as I have raced Off-Road in South Aus we have not been able to run Tear-Offs.
Pit Row
Anyway i’m surprised that they are banned in other countries, i didn’t know!
If something cannot be recycled don’t use it!!
Tracks under pressure and removing them could help ease the burden
Stadiums are cleaned up because some people are pigs and make a mess. They don't hire people to clean up, so you have the option to make a mess.....
As far as a pad/mat, I don't see how that makes a difference one way or the other?
Always makes me chuckle whenever I watch SX & the riders are pulling tear offs left, right & centre but the bikes don’t have a bit of dirt on them
Micro-plastics are becoming more prevalent in our food and water sources.
It's in 90% of table salt, found at every level in the world's oceans, they are even finding it beef products.
They yet don't know what the long term effect are through ingesting micro plastics, my guess is the answer won't be good.
Problem is there's so much of it, it takes a long time to break down and it stays in a micro state forever.
I agree that tear offs are probably one hundred of a percent on a global scale (if that), my guess is someone in moto is trying to do their part.
we have had tracks ban them for over 10 years here, but not at a national level yet, its just listed on the entry from for that event, a lot of our tracks are on farm land, and the stock can be back on them grazing the next day, so even if the tearoffs broke down in a week it would not be ok,
Rather logical.
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