Seen on thumper. Paul Whibley upsets Yanks

[laserracer]

I think they should just get over it

What to do when your path is blocked


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This question is new to me, as I'm getting better at riding more people are getting in my way.
This weekend at an OMA race every hill for the first two laps was a parking lot. I must have hit it at a bad time but the hills are littered with bikes. I seen a lot of guys trying to thread the needle and go around fallen riders but they just fell on top of them and made it worse.
How much to to aggressive?? Paul Whibley was kicking riders over with his feet, clearing that's too much. I was waiting until I had a line I knew I could make, that was not enough. Where is the the balance, toward lap three I was rubbing tires bumping bars and maybe running over some tires and toes, is that too much???

I didn't damage anybody or bikes, might tick off the rider a bit, but they were stuck on a hill I needed to climb. These hills took all of my skill to get up, I can't thread them like the pro's.


ANOTHER POST

Why do spineless people get on a public forum and try to make people look bad? Why not b a man and settle stuff on the track? this sort of stuff drives me crazy.. What part of these guys racing for thousands of dollars don't u understand?

Do you honestly think they are gonna sit at the base of a hill and wait for a bunch of c riders to make up their minds what line they are gonna take?! For the love of god! put yourself in there shoes for once. They are racing for their lively hood, not a trophy.

I know everyone pays a entry fee, and everyone has a right to be on the course. But c riders have to understand they are riding for fun, Sunday is Paul Whibley's David Knight's Joshua Strang's and so forths day at work.

Honestly I think your exaggerating the whole scenario myself, I don't know one pro rider who has time to "kick" riders over at a base of a hill. Run over maybe, but kick several riders just don't make sense to me. I've rode OMA'S GNCC'S National Enduro's... and have never been "kicked" by a pro rider, and if i ever get "kicked" by a pro rider i will prolly in the damn way! If i feel I wasnt I will deal with it at the track, not on some faceless web site

[takitimu]

Interesting, mind you one persons unprovoked kick is another's Oh crap you just fell into my line & you are not going to make me fall off, so they get kicked out of the way :).

I've been to a few GNCC's in the states & I've never heard a bad word about Whib's, from the pits or the fans, what I have heard especially in the pits is massive respect for what he's achieved, in a race in New Jersey there was a girl with his T-Shirt at a local Hare Scrambles ( NJ is East Coast, but not a state Whib's races, in fact nearest race is 8 hours drive easy from where that local race was ).

I wouldn't say he has a following like Knight or the US racers, but then again he has had a short time at the top, really two years, before that he had no profile to speak of & support like Knight has I think takes time at the top.

[laserracer]

i kinda found it interesting, i think p.w is a great guy and a very talented rider .. and i kind of agree with the second statement .. if its your livelihood and someone gets in the way accidentaly well then you may have to nudge them a bit after all its your paypacket that you are racing for

[scott411]

Cross Country races are like that at times, even here in NZ, when you are leading or running high up in racers and come upon bogs or back logs you have to push your way to the front, sometimes that involves yelling, pushing and the off bit of force, but it is a race in the end,

trail rides are a different beast and 99% of poeple will respect that, but a race is just that,

[CHOPPA]

Cross Country races are like that at times, even here in NZ, when you are leading or running high up in racers and come upon bogs or back logs you have to push your way to the front, sometimes that involves yelling, pushing and the off bit of force, but it is a race in the end,

trail rides are a different beast and 99% of poeple will respect that, but a race is just that,

Sometimes I have to remind myself when im at a trail ride, usually its after i get through.....