BriarcliffMx
PR Founding Father
My thoughts are with the Hoeft family. Manufacturers drop the CCs and the track will have to conform, just like they have expanded because of these modern 4 strokes.
Inflatable jackets. By the time it inflates it's too late.
What you wanna bounce on air after the initial heaviest hitting impact? What's that gonna do?
Why don't you read about it before you make a comment!! You don't even know how it works.Inflatable jackets. By the time it inflates it's too late.
What you wanna bounce on air after the initial heaviest hitting impact? What's that gonna do?
That's just a false sense of security to let the 130lb kid on the 450 Go even harder.
These guys at Detroit today are struging and that track looks scary. It doesn't even look fun for how difficult it is. Does it need to be that difficult of a track?!?!
I can ride a 450 in shape. But when I'm tired that thing will hurt me. I can ride a 125 or 250 2 stroke tired and it won't hurt me like the snappy 450 will. But as a rider you have to realize this. And as a parent you have to realize putting your 130lb kid on that 450 is just as stupid as me riding a 450 out of shape. One millisecond tank slap away from injury or death.
Ok, what do you think can be done to help protect the rider? You cant sell a racer a slow bike and no factory is gonna build a slow bike. If you build a track that us vet riders think are safe no one under the age of 50 will want to ride on it. So I think that leaves us at riding gear. Any more ideas?Its the bikes, the track designs and riders all combined in a prehistoric stew. Its all connected.
I ride a 450 AND and 125. I can tell you that the only difference is the "whiskey throttle" effect. Other than that maybe a rider wont jump 250' on the 125 but he could still hit a 150' jump on it. Crash on either the right way and your dead. The rider makes the choice to jump something not the bike. But on the flip side if the jump isnt on the race track the rider isnt going to jump it. If the jump on the track isnt a high speed jump the rider wont go as fast.
Then we have the incidents where riders have been killed because they were n the track and hit a tractor or water truck. Then we have riders getting landed on under caution.
And of course then we have the fluke crashes where neither the bike, rider or anyone else is at fault. Sometimes *!*!*!*! just happens. Those are much easier to swallow.
We can beat this one to death also and we will until ALL of the possible causes are addressed. Of course the track designs and track safety workers/initiatives will only help at the organized events.
We need some air bag deployment that is activated by tether, like an atv kill switch. Which be a riot in the pits if someone accidentally pulled the air bag tether.
missing the pointMaybe we have to go a step further and say:
I'm not advocating for THOUSANDS of debt in college. But I'm saying EDUCATE THESE KIDS AND STOP PULLING THEM OUT OF SCHOOL AT 8 TO RACE IN A SPORT THAT ONLY PAYS LESS THAN 10 GUYS.
NOBODY IS MAKING MONEY RACING A DIRTBIKE. 0.00000000000001% of the worlds population is.
I have no idea how to even attack this dynamic because at 17 I would of loved nothing more than to risk my life for a supercross race. Now that i'm 28 I can see how idiotic I was.
wow can we just go play stick ball. wait someone will get hurt because its the nature of of human race to be competitive. someone is going to train harder work harder. so that raises the bar for everyone else. is it right or wrong don't matter. im not going to let you beat me. is the attitude taken. I for one know about injuries my son had about all of them. it sucks yes it does. but every time he waunted back on that bike. for me to stop him would of hurt him worse than any crash he took.this is a very unique sport its not for the weak no matter what age you are. nascar has roll cages. monster trucks have roll cages .mx has alot of thrill junkies. I don't think its the riders or the tracks. its what we do. its what we love. its a passion that only the ones who do it understand. why there is no why. does anyone want to loose a loved one no. but its a part of life. so enjoy it while you can. and lets not even get started on freestyle mx.