I recently raced my first motocross in 27 years. I found out the tracks are not natural terran like they used to be. I found the quote from Super Hunky at OFF ROAD ,COM that I would like to share with you. Jim Foster
I'd like to relate a story to you. Back in the mid-80s, Saturday Saddlebackgot shut down. This left a huge gap in the SoCal racing, as racers could go there and get in two 45 minute motos and still get home by 3 o'clock. They used to run a bunch of classes together and score them seperately.
Alexander Conrad (ACE/Alexander Conrad Enterprises) decided to run an Indian Dunes Saturday race, just like Saddleback. Since I was the editor of Dirt Bike at the time, I decided to back this schedule when asked by ACE. The first Saturday was great, with big crowds, lots of racers and a full schedule.
The next Saturday, the races went off as scheduled, but this time, they put in three sets of double jumps in the track. The day of racing barely finished before dark, and the second round of motos was only 30 minutes long.
Why?
People kept getting hurt on the double jumps and the ambulances were busy hauling injured bodies to the hospital.
The next Saturday, another half-dozen doubles and triples were built into the track. They finished one round of motos and never got to the second.
The ambulances were very, very busy.
I dropped the magazine's support after that Saturday. The course got more radical and more and more people got hurt. The motos got shorter and shorter. Then the lawsuits started. Shortly thereafter, Indian Dunes closed up for good. The lawsuits, you know.
This is where current motocross is headed. Stupid tracks, crazy jumps, immature kids trying to show off in front of their friends. More injuries. More closed tracks. Insanity. The end of racing as we know it.
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I'd like to relate a story to you. Back in the mid-80s, Saturday Saddlebackgot shut down. This left a huge gap in the SoCal racing, as racers could go there and get in two 45 minute motos and still get home by 3 o'clock. They used to run a bunch of classes together and score them seperately.
Alexander Conrad (ACE/Alexander Conrad Enterprises) decided to run an Indian Dunes Saturday race, just like Saddleback. Since I was the editor of Dirt Bike at the time, I decided to back this schedule when asked by ACE. The first Saturday was great, with big crowds, lots of racers and a full schedule.
The next Saturday, the races went off as scheduled, but this time, they put in three sets of double jumps in the track. The day of racing barely finished before dark, and the second round of motos was only 30 minutes long.
Why?
People kept getting hurt on the double jumps and the ambulances were busy hauling injured bodies to the hospital.
The next Saturday, another half-dozen doubles and triples were built into the track. They finished one round of motos and never got to the second.
The ambulances were very, very busy.
I dropped the magazine's support after that Saturday. The course got more radical and more and more people got hurt. The motos got shorter and shorter. Then the lawsuits started. Shortly thereafter, Indian Dunes closed up for good. The lawsuits, you know.
This is where current motocross is headed. Stupid tracks, crazy jumps, immature kids trying to show off in front of their friends. More injuries. More closed tracks. Insanity. The end of racing as we know it.
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