This is just sickening. A pro level guy, riding an AMATEUR event!! How can these guys think, for one second, that they have accomplished anything of value? "I'd like to take home another Loretta Lynns championship." - give me a brake!!
And for anyone that thinks the Carmichaels, Johnsons, Stiles, Reynards, Dicksons, Tedders, Lindseys, & Randys(just kidding) etc, etc, are not getting equipment, TIRES, bikes, fuel, suspension, parts, on and on, that you and me can never get, well I take off my hat to you guys for being able to keep the blinders on so well.
Ricky and his marketability are so good, he will get handed anything he needs, plain and simple. - Just like that SPEC tire his dad was so proud of.
'cmon man!!