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: Ahhhhh...feels better just typing the title of
: this post. It feels good to talk about four
: strokes without the constraints of factory
: politics, aftermarket company profit margins
: or political suicide.
:
: 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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