Any word on Weimer?
Any word on Weimer?
and a punctured lung and i believe a neck injurySurgery on a broken arm......he stayed in Detroit to have it done. Don't know when he will be back.
Not good on Jakes part
http://motocross.transworld.net/1000174360/features/jake-weimer-injury-update/
Oh damn!
My prayers go out to him and his family and I hope makes a speedy recovery.
Amen
I hate talking about it. I don't like thinking about it but sooner or later one of these red flags will be fatal. I was just reading on another page that there have been 5 fatalities on 450's locally since the season began. Granted these are local
tracks that have been here since the 60's and 70's but sweet
Jesus 450's are just too fast now for these tracks and why
bare we putting 14yr olds on them to race?
here comes the dude with the russian surplus sniper rifle.I can't speak for off-road but there's a reason why there isn't a 500 class anymore. They got too fast and too dangerous for closed course MX. Around here 250f lap times are much lower than the 450 times. The jumps got way bigger. Now almost every track here has a 90' triple! Why?
here comes the dude with the russian surplus sniper rifle.
You're absolutely right! 500's died, because they were flat out too fast, 450's are getting to that point, though I'd like to think they're a little safer due to better suspension/frame and brakes. At the end of the day I have a hard time saying that a certain bike is killing the sport due to its speed, there will always be beginners who think they're Ryan Villopoto or Kurt Caselli buying that brand new 450 and decking it out with every performance goodie they can find and then wadding themselves up. It probably isn't the best idea, but I really feel like people should be forced onto a 250f/125 and forced to ride that while they're learning before they hop on a bike with 50+ HP on tap.
Granted I was never pro and I didn't do huge rhythem sections in a single bound, but I left stuff like Arenacrash in part due to the size of the jumps, could I hit them? yes. Did I feel comfortable on all of them? nope. That and not every rider was on the same page, and you could end up with situations like Trey and Weimer,
Alot can go wrong when you huck a 90' triple, or put it 5th gear tapped in the desert or any # of situations, and sadly, alot of people don't know their limits and attempt such things without respect for what they're doing.
The sport is inherently dangerous, it can be safer, but you can't eliminate all the risk, with that said, I'm not going to take a spot on the couch and watch tv till its my turn to die.
here comes the dude with the russian surplus sniper rifle.
You're absolutely right! 500's died, because they were flat out too fast, 450's are getting to that point, though I'd like to think they're a little safer due to better suspension/frame and brakes. At the end of the day I have a hard time saying that a certain bike is killing the sport due to its speed, there will always be beginners who think they're Ryan Villopoto or Kurt Caselli buying that brand new 450 and decking it out with every performance goodie they can find and then wadding themselves up. It probably isn't the best idea, but I really feel like people should be forced onto a 250f/125 and forced to ride that while they're learning before they hop on a bike with 50+ HP on tap.
Granted I was never pro and I didn't do huge rhythem sections in a single bound, but I left stuff like Arenacrash in part due to the size of the jumps, could I hit them? yes. Did I feel comfortable on all of them? nope. That and not every rider was on the same page, and you could end up with situations like Trey and Weimer,
Alot can go wrong when you huck a 90' triple, or put it 5th gear tapped in the desert or any # of situations, and sadly, alot of people don't know their limits and attempt such things without respect for what they're doing.
The sport is inherently dangerous, it can be safer, but you can't eliminate all the risk, with that said, I'm not going to take a spot on the couch and watch tv till its my turn to die.