Post by Tim29s on May 28, 2018 22:45:30 GMT
I’m not proud to voice such negative feed back but as a vet rider i believe i owe it to the sport i have dedicated a large part of my life two to speak up and voice my concerns.
First of all the way i was treated by the ladies in sign up was not acceptable and has never happen to me in 40yrs of mx.
The comment that was made to me by some of the people who where involved in designing the new track layout was also a bit harsh and uneducated.
First of all if i didn’t know who i was speaking with i would quiz them to see if i was talking to a guy that has some skill or a bellow average skill rider so i could place there input and gauge the worthy ness of there insight vs the betterment of the program.
I also wouldn’t be quick to spout out a response telling the guy who just laid down the weekends fastest lap time that it’s not the track layout you just don’t know how to ride sand is the problem.
Fernley has been my favorite place on earth to moto for some decades, and though with each year that passes i see less and less of what i once could do, i still have a love for the speed and flowing turns that has made Fernley an icon to motocross.
The big rolling sand whoops in high speed corners, long flowing jumps that tend to be into or with the prevailing winds, the outside to inside or inside to outside lines that made for dicing and racing that few tracks in the world can have without the roost destroying you.
The sand allows for competitive lines as the roost is managble like few tracks in the world.
You have a large space to build massive track with some natural terrain but tend not to utilize what nature gave you to work with.
There a few facts about sand that cannot be denied,
It’s alive, everylap is almost a new lap, every corner is different with each lap, jump faces are going to degrade, the landings are going to degrade, the outsides are going to get rolling whoops and insides choppy deep ruts, there nothing you can do about it, sand doesn’t glue together like hard dirt or clay.
But knowing this fact The sand box has always had long tracks, with speed flow and grace and lower lap counts but long track times. The tracks held up better as each obsitcle saw less traffic but the riders got the same track time.
Making commitment jumps right out of a corner for 5 decades of age groups and 4 skill levels is gonna make for a very unpopular obstacle. The faster classes run the speed to glide the kicker and have to flat land to miss the bounce hole and the slower guys get kicked half over the bars lap after lap and no one enjoys the obstacle.
When you have multiple days of rain you don’t build a new section to the track that has no integrity on race weekend, the obstacle should have been built for days or weeks and cut into play on it’s designed day, or not made as an ultimatum gap jump that you roll until you feel you know the proper speed and technique only to find out on impact it has no integrity, but the gap made it impossible to slowly increase your impact speed to gracefully find out just what the jump can or cannot do. In my case on my 4lap of masters practice i attempted it and it was so soft in middle outside line that it folded my two stroke pipe around my frame and almost put me over the bars. The fact that i didn’t crash tells me that i had all the riight rider dodiligence in my execution the jump face just failed me.
The sport of motocross is ever changing and evolving, RC showed world that hard work, guts and dedication to an open mind over comes vertically challenged, bubba revolutionized the sport with mandating a scrub to have a podium shot, Rv proved the kawi didn’t have to be the best turning bike to win Supercross with blinding outside line speed, Dungey showed being the physically strongest and mentally stable rider wins championships and ET3 has changed how you need to ride a motorcycle for ever, with his feet on the pegs on his balls is without question the fastest way around virtually every track made indoor and out.
So as you can see i have no fear of the change in Mx, it’s very welcome and adds a new challenge that i hope to adapt and hold on a few extra min to the speeds i once rode.
But what i can’t accept is not voicing years of experience and being heard and accepting that when you change a legendary track like the sand box you remember it’s roots, what made it famous, what keeps its heritage and what can new things you can bring in to improve on a legends stats.
But always staying true to what you have! A true outdoor sand track that is legendary for its speed, grace, flow and big air! Which every one of those legendary iconic parts of the track are now gone! No speed, no flow, no grace, and no big air.
First of all the way i was treated by the ladies in sign up was not acceptable and has never happen to me in 40yrs of mx.
The comment that was made to me by some of the people who where involved in designing the new track layout was also a bit harsh and uneducated.
First of all if i didn’t know who i was speaking with i would quiz them to see if i was talking to a guy that has some skill or a bellow average skill rider so i could place there input and gauge the worthy ness of there insight vs the betterment of the program.
I also wouldn’t be quick to spout out a response telling the guy who just laid down the weekends fastest lap time that it’s not the track layout you just don’t know how to ride sand is the problem.
Fernley has been my favorite place on earth to moto for some decades, and though with each year that passes i see less and less of what i once could do, i still have a love for the speed and flowing turns that has made Fernley an icon to motocross.
The big rolling sand whoops in high speed corners, long flowing jumps that tend to be into or with the prevailing winds, the outside to inside or inside to outside lines that made for dicing and racing that few tracks in the world can have without the roost destroying you.
The sand allows for competitive lines as the roost is managble like few tracks in the world.
You have a large space to build massive track with some natural terrain but tend not to utilize what nature gave you to work with.
There a few facts about sand that cannot be denied,
It’s alive, everylap is almost a new lap, every corner is different with each lap, jump faces are going to degrade, the landings are going to degrade, the outsides are going to get rolling whoops and insides choppy deep ruts, there nothing you can do about it, sand doesn’t glue together like hard dirt or clay.
But knowing this fact The sand box has always had long tracks, with speed flow and grace and lower lap counts but long track times. The tracks held up better as each obsitcle saw less traffic but the riders got the same track time.
Making commitment jumps right out of a corner for 5 decades of age groups and 4 skill levels is gonna make for a very unpopular obstacle. The faster classes run the speed to glide the kicker and have to flat land to miss the bounce hole and the slower guys get kicked half over the bars lap after lap and no one enjoys the obstacle.
When you have multiple days of rain you don’t build a new section to the track that has no integrity on race weekend, the obstacle should have been built for days or weeks and cut into play on it’s designed day, or not made as an ultimatum gap jump that you roll until you feel you know the proper speed and technique only to find out on impact it has no integrity, but the gap made it impossible to slowly increase your impact speed to gracefully find out just what the jump can or cannot do. In my case on my 4lap of masters practice i attempted it and it was so soft in middle outside line that it folded my two stroke pipe around my frame and almost put me over the bars. The fact that i didn’t crash tells me that i had all the riight rider dodiligence in my execution the jump face just failed me.
The sport of motocross is ever changing and evolving, RC showed world that hard work, guts and dedication to an open mind over comes vertically challenged, bubba revolutionized the sport with mandating a scrub to have a podium shot, Rv proved the kawi didn’t have to be the best turning bike to win Supercross with blinding outside line speed, Dungey showed being the physically strongest and mentally stable rider wins championships and ET3 has changed how you need to ride a motorcycle for ever, with his feet on the pegs on his balls is without question the fastest way around virtually every track made indoor and out.
So as you can see i have no fear of the change in Mx, it’s very welcome and adds a new challenge that i hope to adapt and hold on a few extra min to the speeds i once rode.
But what i can’t accept is not voicing years of experience and being heard and accepting that when you change a legendary track like the sand box you remember it’s roots, what made it famous, what keeps its heritage and what can new things you can bring in to improve on a legends stats.
But always staying true to what you have! A true outdoor sand track that is legendary for its speed, grace, flow and big air! Which every one of those legendary iconic parts of the track are now gone! No speed, no flow, no grace, and no big air.
