Respect to all MX racers/riders!

**Goblin** · 4th January 2006, 11:33

Originally Posted by Sniper

I have alot of respect for MX riders. They have bigger balls than I to race race so fast on gravel. Well done guys.

But they dont race on gravel....well I've never seen a gravel MX track

only dirt!

**cowpoos** · 4th January 2006, 11:39

I ride off road daily...not always hard....but I love it...its a safer way to be a hooligin than on the road...plus it hurts less when u crash!!! [not always though]
and the skills you learn in bike control...ballance...throttle control and using your weight does wonders to your road riding...and fittness...even though the styles at times are complete opposites...

**flash** · 4th January 2006, 11:43

Originally Posted by Goblin

But they dont race on gravel....well I've never seen a gravel MX track

only dirt!

trail riding has alot of gravel tracks (sometimes) and i race people around it, i just dont win anything

**Goblin** · 4th January 2006, 11:48

Originally Posted by flash

trail riding has alot of gravel tracks (sometimes) and i race people around it, i just dont win anything

Yeah, there's no prizes on trailrides but there is the satisfaction of doing ya best & having shitloads of fun

**Motu** · 4th January 2006, 12:54

Originally Posted by Goblin

But they dont race on gravel....well I've never seen a gravel MX track

only dirt!

Mercer is sand/pumic,builds some big deep berms,some places it packs down hard,some places thick and deep - but about the closest you'll find to gravel....not dirt atleast anyway.

**Sniper** · 4th January 2006, 13:24

Snipers dictionary:

Gravel (Gra vel) Noun: Anything that is not Tar seal.

**Brian d marge** · 4th January 2006, 14:12

The gym and LOTS of it ( now you have been bitten...can see the purchase of an MX bike?????)

I cycle on the bike for 30 min each day . and every 3rd day 100 sit ups , 200 bench presses with 5kg and 10 min with a stretchy band thingy, and squat till u drop with 10 kg ( around 50)

diet, I aim to be 80 kg this year -84 now

All that and I can last 20 min max at race speed , then I am starting to puff and wheeze ,

Try the jumps they scare the nuts of you ...they look like the side of a mountain and you accelarate into it ... next thing you know your airbourne @!

MX is a whole lot of fun ....LOve it and its so cheap to do ..

I usually wear a back protector and elbow pads /and or / shoulder pads depending on how slippery and hard the surface is ,,,

Its great fun ...You can be as anti social as you like wheelies ,burnouts psychological warfare ( along side another by inches into a heavily rutted corner ,,,oh yeah !!!)

Stephen

Current state of play suspension 5 crankshaft up in smoke Suspension( running to lean on heavy right hand ) front and rear revalved and the heaviest springs fitted ...Seat neads recovering for stiffer foam with more height.
and want to try Motard in the summer ........

**Motu** · 4th January 2006, 14:39

Yeah,body contact in corners is great,we used to do that on the dirt track - interlocking handlebars and rubbing front wheels together in the corners...if someone swooped in just as we laid it down I'd smack their left footpeg or rear axle...''I'm still here you bastard,and I'm THIS fucking close!'' You need confidance and respect in another rider to ride that close.

Don't confuse fitness and strength with big muscles - the top MX riders don't look like the Arnie,but they could run rings around someone like that in almost any area.I'm in the age group where you say - WTF happened to my body!!? Now I'm sweating and breathing hard just loading the bike onto the trailer....but after half an hour off road it's all forgotten.

**cowpoos** · 4th January 2006, 15:14

Originally Posted by Motu

Yeah,body contact in corners is great,we used to do that on the dirt track - interlocking handlebars and rubbing front wheels together in the corners...if someone swooped in just as we laid it down I'd smack their left footpeg or rear axle...''I'm still here you bastard,and I'm THIS fucking close!'' You need confidance and respect in another rider to ride that close.

Don't confuse fitness and strength with big muscles - the top MX riders don't look like the Arnie,but they could run rings around someone like that in almost any area.I'm in the age group where you say - WTF happened to my body!!? Now I'm sweating and breathing hard just loading the bike onto the trailer....but after half an hour off road it's all forgotten.

mx is one of the most pyhsical sports in not the most

**flash** · 4th January 2006, 15:46

its the second, right behind professinal soccer (which dosnt count for much)

**merv** · 4th January 2006, 22:08

Sparky if your muscles are sore, there is only one real cure, and that's do it all again. Use the same muscles over and over and the pain goes away. Back when I was younger I did enduros in the 80's and the usual go was: first hour feeling fine, second hour the pain starts (arm pump and stuff like that), keep riding and by the third hour the pain has worn off and all is sweet until the end - typically 6 to 8 hours they lasted back then - not sure what they do these days. Then the bad news was the day after the day after you feel real stiff. I'd had a few years break from competition when I started a couple of years of enduros and after the first one on a Sunday I could hardly walk up the stairs at work by Tuesday. The only cure was just do it more and more.

So you'll have to get a CRF250X and get into it big time (couldn't have a WR working for Motomart now eh!) and then you'll feel OK. Mind you, the same applies on the road. Try having a break not riding for a while, then the first time out again you find the muscles on the insides of your thighs will hurt a bit because they must be ones you don't use walking and doing other stuff and that's what happened to you riding the WR, you'll have been using muscles that you wouldn't normally use.