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9/12/2017 9:45pm
9/12/2017 9:45pm
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Colton Haaker was on Pulp last episode and they talked a little about his dominance in endurocross but also about him running Erzberg and Romaniacs and not having the best results. He basically said it just came down to experience. It got me thinking about what current riders I thought would do very well across all riding disciplines. If you had to name one rider you think that could go out and do reasonably well across a wide range of events like motocross, supercross, endurocross, GNCC, hard enduro, trials, supermoto etc. who would that be?
My pick: Marvin Musquin
My pick: Marvin Musquin
Casseli was probably on his way but tragedy struck.
Supercross is going to be hard to throw in the mix because it is SOO specialized. If SX is in the mix, the question
is basically "Who is the best SX rider that also is good at other stuff." Yeah, probably Haaker. Or Brownie. Or maybe Sipes? At least as far as Americans. It'd actually probably be a Euro dude. Like those guys that win at the Six Days. Dudes make riding across a field of oiled bowling balls looks like a walk in the park.
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I'd also throw Destry Abbot and Ricky Dietrich into the mix as well.
Aaron Plessinger is as good a bet as any. Osbourne got him this year in Moto but may go a little differently in the woods, his last name is Plessinger!
Ryan sipes- dude hauls the mail anywhere.
And if you don't mean currently then Doug henry for sure. Also raced snocross for factory yamaha in 99-00, medaled a few times in adaptive snocross at xgames. Supermoto xgames gold medalist. Won the Florida gncc like a boss.
May be funny to some but Pastrana is my winner if you meant all time. Put him on anything motorized(or not) and he can run the best without any practice, at least until he gets tired. Watch where he raced erzberg some years ago, led for a pretty long time. I think he raced supermoto a little and did well, at least he was fast. he raced the Florida gncc one year and had a yard sale in the first corner resulting in a broken radiator, bet he'd been fast in-between picking his bike up though. I'm not into freestyle but he was the first to do many tricks and double back flip which is pretty insane. Include 4 wheel racing and I can't imagine anyone beating him!
Edit- Pastrana led a lap and ran up front for a while at the gncc
Put him at Erzberg or Romaniac's and it would be a different story. Not saying he can't do it or wouldn't be able to succeed there, it would just take some time.
Look how good haaker is and he struggles at those events
Steve Wise...most well rounded motorcycle rider of all-time. IMO.
Look at Alex ray for an example. Top 30 supercross rider in the world and struggle to main a B main in a USA endurocross. I think it would be easier to teach an endurocross rider to ride supercross than the other way round.
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The extreme enduro boys struggle with MX/SX but they have all other disciplines covered. Musquin and Osbourne are good with speed but I'm afraid you put them both on a trials bike or an extreme enduro they would look kinda silly no disrespect but the skill set for trials and mx is waaaaay different to MX.
Another badass dude on a motorcycle is Marc Marquez and trials ace Toni Bou
Also Danny Laporte, GP champion, MX champion, won stages on Paris Dakar and other long rallies. Dude was gnar as well.
Colton haaker qualified for a few nationals around 2010 I believe.
Also seen a few videos of him on a slick sx track were he looked very comfortable.
Others would be, pastrana, casselli, maybe Toby price and Sam Sunderland- got to rip to be a Dakar rider!
To be honest there's quite a lot of riders that have switched over to enduro recently. Nathan Watson spring to mind as one of the bigger name to have gone recently aswel
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