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I’m sorry mr. scooter but aren’t you the same person that complained about the double on the second straight? That was the first time I saw it and that jump looks bad ASS! I so want to hit that. It looked awesome from the announcer’s tower because the guys were floating right past me. I could almost reach out and touch them. That looked awesome.
I’m sorry but this is BMX. Stop complaining and ride it.
Brett’s totally right. Some older guys with too much testosterone and something to prove look at this and think it’s a stupid kids sport. “This’ll be a piece of cake. If little kids can do it, it will be nothing for me” I’ve seen guys that have never been on a bike before bring their kids to tracks on non-race day, go out and WRECK themselves.
Too much testosterone, too little brain.
Yeah, those guys were screaming in the last turn. They were the most excited people at the race.
And I´m missing it!?!?!?! I´ll be back tomorrow. Is that too late for the celebration?
Dude, I leave the country for one week and all hell breaks loose back home! How bad is it? Do I want to come back?
What did he do? Insult some people? People do that all the time but they don’t get fired for it. They probably made a big deal out of it because it was a slow news day. No new popes being sworn in, Brittney’s laying low, and it’s not election time.
They say sex and violence sell but they need to add a category. Racism. We love racism. We feed off it. (for the record, I prefer sex) Guys like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (what a joke) would shrivel up and die if there were no racism. Without it they wouldn’t get the chance to appear on TV and act so self righteous. I think that’s why this was hyped up.
But I don’t think it was a racist comment. And what’s this all over anyway? Basketball? Please. Who cares? When you can jump a 30 foot set of doubles or ride 26 mph for 156 miles then we’ll talk.
I think I will jump some things I’m afraid were too much for me. Starting with the little honey that works in finance. Why not? The world’s gonna end in 25 years anyway.
I think the younger riders care about points. I can’t say the older ones do. I certainly don’t anymore. I just race for the sake of racing. I’d race a non-sanctioned track. But I wouldn’t drive very far for one.
I just recently woke up and realized driving one hour to my “local” track is ridiculous. Probably like most of us I started racing because there was a track fifteen minutes from my house. Then when tracks closed I went further and further. The day of driving hours for a local are over for me.
it was messy to bite the heads off the real ones
Thank you, Ozzy
When that groundhog comes out of his hole next year I’m gonna punch him in the face.
“but let’s leave Bob out of this” I’m sorry, that’s BS. I’ve talked to that man and he’s an imbecile. He runs the NBL and he calls the shots so I find him to be the reason it’s run so poorly.
“If you don’t like what is being offered, find an alternative.” More BS. That might be okay for someone like me who has raced for 22 years and is pretty much over it. But what about the young BMXer who is starting out and is dying to race. Are you gonna tell them if they don’t like what is happening to just forget about it and do something else? “Gee, I really like racing in fact I’m not interested in anything else but since the sanctions that control racing suck I just won’t race. I just won’t do that very thing I want to do so bad.”
I started out racing ABA then discovered the NBL and switched to that primarily. When I turned pro I rediscovered the ABA and was racing both. Finally in 98 I realized how much the NBL sucked and was ripping the Superclass off and how much better the ABA was so I quit racing NBL nationals and just raced ABA nationals. There were years when Egg Harbor’s national (only 40 miles away from me) went against an ABA national in FL and I went to FL. Since then, the only NBL national I’ve done is the Egg Harbor one once or twice but I won’t be doing that anymore. I’m back to my total NBL national boycott. The NBL sucks, and the ABA is better so I’m doing ABA.
When it comes to organization and professionalism, anybody that has raced both knows the NBL is a joke and the ABA is twelve times better. But when it comes to promoting the sport and trying to make it grow I find both sanctions to be the same, pretty bad. BMX is the coolest god damned sport in the world and could be an honest ten times bigger than it is right now but BOTH sanctions have dropped the ball.
Hell, I’d like to start my own BMX company but then my business would be dependant on the two sanctions and BMX’s numbers are not increasing so I’m probably going to decide against it. I think it stinks that I have to give up on the one thing I love because the sanctions are killing it but I’ve been doing it for 22 years and I can get over it. The same can’t be said for the kid just starting out whose passion is brand new. To tell them if they don’t like it to find something else is not fair.
Anthony, the sanctions schedule races against each other because they are competitors. They have no interest in working together. If you try to talk to Bob, he’ll pretend he feels your pain and give lots of excuses but if you’re there at the national he has your money so he won’t care what you have to say. Where you live it’s not very realistic for you to race ABA nationals so my advice is just race your local NBL races.