Next year, he repeated his jaw-dropping feat while riding a four stroke, proving that he was the best rider on the track.
Next thing you know, he quit motocross and Supercross.
The factories made him ride four strokes. Now the GOAT quit racing. Coincidence? You decide.
He moved on to car racing. If motocross and Supercross are going to sell themselves down the river, forcing pros - PROS! - to ride four strokes, if the factories are going to demand it, that's the time to leave the sport and take up basket weaving, construction or car racing.
McGrath quit before the four stroke pansies forced four strokes down his throat. Smart move, MC.
What have the four strokes left us? Well, Jimmy-Jim-Bob-Jimmy-James Stewart has been the poster boy for Four Stroke Injuries International, and Chad Reed isn't playing the piano much these days. The rest of the field looks like the Taliban after a bunker buster, with an injury list that is longer than the swingarm on a blinged out Hayabusa.
It's easy to guess that most of the riders who used to ride two strokes are still in good health, and that they quit when four strokes became the cod liver oil of the new millenium. Conversely, four stroke riders are usually healing up from a slew of major injuries as they sit on the sidelines, and if not, they've already quit the sport and moved on.
Strokes of two, ride 'til you're through,
Strokes of four, hospital door.
JA
--Previous Message--
: 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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