Eric made me aware of my oversight when posting about the current Supercross injury list, which is incredibly long. I've never in my life seen such a prodigious injury list in professional motocross or Supercross racing. The tracks are still relatively "formula," or "designed with the endorsement of insurance companies." The tracks haven't changed. They're still standard fare, nothing really creative. No super huge jumps, no six foot deep whoops, no loop-de-loops, no vert step-ups, no cliff drops. At the risk of belaboring the point, I might reiterate that nothing has changed to cause such a volcanic rise in injuries among pro riders.
Ahem...(clearing throat loudly and obnoxiously)...except ONE THING. ONE THING has changed. The politically pandering porkheads known as the FIM, combined with the simpering streetbike silly savages known as the AMA, who suck up to the FIM like star-struck skeezers and groupies, made it mandatory that everybody ride four strokes. Heavy, pork barrel four strokes. Expensive-to-rebuild four strokes. Hard-to-work-on four strokes. Those shut-the-throttle-off-on-the-top-of-a-jump-and-they-buck-you-over-the-bars four strokes. Those bikes which, when it's time to rebuild them, you just sell them instead, because it's too difficult and expensive to do. Let the next sucker pay the price. That's the four stroke way.
I would be fair to say that Villopoto might be leading the Supercross 450 class if not for the four stroke, which gave him bad luck early in the season, and in Atlanta, where he caught up to Dungey and tied him in points, his list of bad luck became almost as long as this run-on sentence.
He crashed (most likely because of his four stroke), then the overly long four stroke pipe was stuffed full of mud, rendering the exhaust incapable of exhausting. Maybe that's God's way of saying, "Thou shalt not ride four strokes." He does have a rather robust sense of humor.
If the FIM/AMA/factories had not caved in to limp-wristed, anti-motorcycle, anti-motocross tree-hugging Democrats, who drive around in SUVs complaining that motorcycles pollute, then Villopoto would have been riding a two stroke, and most likely would have had better results this year, not hampered by temperamental four stroke problems, and his crash in Atlanta never would have happened. Furthermore, the pipe most likely wouldn't have been stuffed full of mud, as it happened on the four stroke, which practically stuffed the silencer of his title hopes.
Four strokes. They're crushing the title hopes of many riders, breaking the banks of ordinary privateers across the country because of expensive top end jobs, and they're injuring the ever-loving SNOT out of our beloved pros.
Let's face it. Four strokes are ruining the world. They are in lockstep with our current administration in that regard.
JA
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