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Is it good for the sport? Maybe it will be if its good for the sport but bad if its bad for the sport. But trust me, i know whats more goodest and baddest for the sport.
The Shop
If only I could take my speed and skills and this bad ass spaceship of a bike back to 2001, I would totally clean up bro.
Four strokes made riding so much easier that every yahoo could twist the throttle and get a good run at a jump....and crash and knock themselves out. Track owners had to make it easier so that morons on 250F's didn't kill themselves....and in the process kill the art of learning to jump rhythm sections.
Pit Row
Guys now have amazing skill and timing. But I'd say they have it easy with the bikes and tracks.
The bad asses to me are the 80s/90s guys that had the skills to ride a 125, 250, and 500. Those are all 3 completely different animals that required very different techniques. They could ride anything from real sand to real blue grove hardpack. Now all the soil is loamy and pretty similar...they haul sand into the hard tracks to soften them up and haul clay into the soft tracks to firm them up.
If you had a time machine and took the old school guys into today they'd figure it out and compete. But if you took today's riders back to Carlsbad and on a 500 2 stroke they'd be on their heads in the 2nd corner.
You grow up watching 70s moto, you're wandering if you can double or triple that.
You grow up watching James Stewart, you think life is a video game.
On a related note, it looks like Dean Wilson was doing his homework today by watching this clip (from his IG story):
https://youtu.be/mYlmr9mLb2c?rel=0
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