2026 LL Regionals

[Vet261]

Is that a microwave on the table? What typa program you running over there.

Well yea she needs her coffee maker and microwave.....sold camper but still need a few things.

Like Jerad stated, this is the most bombed out track I've ever raced on. And I've raced Regionals at RedBud and Millville. It's just plain not fun riding a track like that.

They never once even prepped the first turn the entire day so every start you are going wide open perpendicular into 3 foot deep ruts and trying not to crash.

Most everyone is complaining about it, not just us old farts.

 

[Meister]

 

[Carlisle]

Sounds like excuses! Everyone on the gate has to ride in the same conditions. Not every track is gonna be groomed perfect, not every track is gonna have perfect soil! This is what separates the riders. Loretta’s is rough as hell by mid week. You think the racers at thunder valley thought that track was fun? This is motocross !!! The fact that you’re posting what ferrandis thinks of thunder valley on pitracer while you’re at a regional is enough said! Shouldn’t you be focusing on tomorrow and the motos ahead? Aren’t you there trying to qualify for the biggest amateur national in the country? Quit worrying about the conditions and what’s on social media. Pump your chest at the gate and focus!!! Turn your phone/computer off and focus on the task at hand!!!

 

[Meister]

Till you come ride these tracks 2026, stfu lol.. it isnt 2002 rough. I loved that rough.

I'll give it my best effort, but that doesn't mean its fun. I ride/race my bike in hopes to have fun while riding. Winning or losing. Not asking to be handed a spot at the ranch because i know this stuff is tough. I know my competitors are dealing with the same stuff, and i also know most of them feel the same way i do, they just don't have a place to pitbitch other than in person. If this course was naturally rough, it could be bad ass. A foot and a half deep of mulch thrown down with half the Mississippi's water put on it, its a complete bombed out s**t show of survival. Go look at all the vids vurb has been posting of Lorettas in the 2000s. It looks incredible compared to today. Thunder valley looked 10x better than this s**t show for the record. Dylan would load up if he saw this place lol.

 

[Carlisle]

Make the best of the

Till you come ride these tracks 2026, stfu lol.. it isnt 2002 rough. I loved that rough.

I'll give it my best effort, but that doesn't mean its fun. I ride/race my bike in hopes to have fun while riding. Winning or losing. Not asking to be handed a spot at the ranch because i know this stuff is tough. I know my competitors are dealing with the same stuff, and i also know most of them feel the same way i do, they just don't have a place to pitbitch other than in person. If this course was naturally rough, it could be bad ass. A foot and a half deep of mulch thrown down with half the Mississippi's water put on it, its a complete bombed out s**t show of survival. Go look at all the vids vurb has been posting of Lorettas in the 2000s. It looks incredible compared to today. Thunder valley looked 10x better than this s**t show for the record. Dylan would load up if he saw this place lol.

don’t tell me to stfu homie!!!! Your crying! Stop crying!!! This isn’t 2002!!! There are others out there that would die to be in your position and your complaining. Don’t like it then pack up and go home. Don’t ever try to qualify again. Your taking someone else’s spot that would love to have it but just wasn’t able to qualify for the regional because maybe the are qualifier was to rough or stacked or whatever!!! Here you are still worried about what someone might be saying on pit. If you’re over your head then just admit it. This ain’t the motocross of 2002, 1995, 1988. You’re having a bad weekend and that happens!! Deal with the adversity!!! If you ain’t fast enough, in good enough shape or just uncomfortable, that’s on you not the track owners!!!

 

[Meister]

I get your sentiment and I am grateful I am here because I busted my ass to be able to without adding burden to my family. My comments are merely my opinion on track prep tho. Not because im having a bad weekend. Im not making excuses either, im just plain sayin the track sucked and pit clearly thinks the same. Was just funny DF sayin the same stuff about artificial race surfaces. If i get a gate filler position at Lorettas, it will come earned. 2 motos today baby, n were gonna giver hell.

 

[Meister]

Track today is much more raceable because they didn't go as deep or water as much due to potential weather. Its all in the prep.

 

[Mcaupp22]

Weekends over and I woke up this morning completely smoked. 450 pro was 3 20 minute motos and 3 5 lappers which are about 13-14 minute motos. I got there Friday night and got 3 laps of practice on Saturday morning and got sent straight to first moto of collegeboy. Track was gnarly like I’ve said previously these regionals are rougher than any national idc what anyone says. Saturday was by far the worst Lincoln I’ve ever rode. I good with rough but this was just a whole different beast, it was so bad that I was bottoming out my forks the breaking and acceleration bumps were so big along with over a foot deep ruts. Everyone always says how when it’s that rough it’s safer but in reality it’s not whatsoever. When you have jumps with ruts and every rut has a kicker it’s just not good and not once fixed. First moto of collegeboy I was inside the top 10 and dudes were going down everywhere riding over there heads which is why I got p31 because every lap I got stuck or caught in situations where someone went down and I was stuck in the rut and couldn’t escape and everyone else’s mistakes ruined my whole moto and I didn’t touch the ground one time that moto or all weekend. They always say get a good start and you’ll be in a good position well when the track is blown out by moto 3 of moto 1s it just doesn’t work. Got p17 in the last moto of collegeboy and it was stacked was in the top 12 both second and third motos but I’m not risking going down when I know I’m out of the top 6 and the first moto ruined my overall.Pro sport was gnarly with a 20 minute moto on that track but I did my laps and felt much better on Sunday still insane but not as bad as Saturday. I’m with meister I was the third last moto on Saturday for collegeboy moto 2 and got a good start and it was insane close to the roughest track I’ve ever rode and kreps was the moto after me and I know he will say the same thing it was like a gncc. In fact I bet you’d have a better chance of passing at a gncc. I know typical us bitching about the track being rough but there’s levels to it and when it becomes unsafe it is trash especially when you’ve rode the track when it’s been gnarly but safe. They just went to far into the “national prep”. I like the track and flow but it needed touched up and not once did that happen for safety reasons. This is the whole reason a few years ago a kid died at Baja so call us babies but that’s the reality of it. I’ll go back cause I like the track but really feel like they failed themselves Saturday

 

[Vet261]

Well my foray back to LL regionals is complete. It was fun, I did ok I guess finish wise and came out healthy. Would have liked to have done better but mistakes cost me.

As we've all said, Lincoln was just inexcusable on Saturday. They obviously got a lot of flack for it because then on Sunday they went around and touched up the track (of course while I'm sitting on the gate for 45+ moto3 in the sun for 20 minutes while they soak it with water). It's easy to sit back and say "motocross is for MEN and that's a MAN'S track!" and all that crap, but it was dangerous and totally unsafe the way they left it and then just kept watering it and making it slick. Muddy Creek did so much better of a job keeping the track safe and raceable for their Regional.

The one moto, we go off the start and start going up the rollers, Davey Jones is literally directly next to me on the left....some dude in front of us cartwheels diagonally across right in front of us! Davey veers into me to avoid him, no idea how he missed him, and I pinned it and shot directly off the the track to the right. Crazy stuff for sure.

Crashes held me back at Lincoln. First 50 moto of the weekend for me I was running in 10th and lost 3 spots by falling. One of the 45+ motos I fell over about 10 feet from the transponder line and got passed by less than a tenth of a second. Another moto I fell at the bottom of the Bomber downhill and was stuck under my bike. Of course there are no track workers down there and I had to struggle while pinned on my stomach face down in the ruts and finally freed myself, but lost a bunch of spots and about 25 seconds. I still ended 13th o/a in 50+ with a ton of mistakes so I guess that's ok.

It's interesting to hear Matthew say that about his forks. I was bottoming my forks so bad there and there was nothing I could do about it. I had everything cranked in, and it got so bad I'm starting to wonder if something actually broke inside my fork, like maybe my SFF spring broke or something. I'm going to disassemble them and make sure they are ok. It was a confidence killer for sure, I'm actually hoping something is broken that's how bad they got.

Fun times overall and good to see everyone again at the races!

Man it sucks not having a camper anymore! But we are making due.....we originally sold the camper planning to buy a new one in retirement, but I'm already finding myself looking around at them!


Thanks Willy Browning for the pic!

 

[MX955]

Well my foray back to LL regionals is complete. It was fun, I did ok I guess finish wise and came out healthy. Would have liked to have done better but mistakes cost me.

As we've all said, Lincoln was just inexcusable on Saturday. They obviously got a lot of flack for it because then on Sunday they went around and touched up the track (of course while I'm sitting on the gate for 45+ moto3 in the sun for 20 minutes while they soak it with water). It's easy to sit back and say "motocross is for MEN and that's a MAN'S track!" and all that crap, but it was dangerous and totally unsafe the way they left it and then just kept watering it and making it slick. Muddy Creek did so much better of a job keeping the track safe and raceable for their Regional.

The one moto, we go off the start and start going up the rollers, Davey Jones is literally directly next to me on the left....some dude in front of us cartwheels diagonally across right in front of us! Davey veers into me to avoid him, no idea how he missed him, and I pinned it and shot directly off the the track to the right. Crazy stuff for sure.

Crashes held me back at Lincoln. First 50 moto of the weekend for me I was running in 10th and lost 3 spots by falling. One of the 45+ motos I fell over about 10 feet from the transponder line and got passed by less than a tenth of a second. Another moto I fell at the bottom of the Bomber downhill and was stuck under my bike. Of course there are no track workers down there and I had to struggle while pinned on my stomach face down in the ruts and finally freed myself, but lost a bunch of spots and about 25 seconds. I still ended 13th o/a in 50+ with a ton of mistakes so I guess that's ok.

It's interesting to hear Matthew say that about his forks. I was bottoming my forks so bad there and there was nothing I could do about it. I had everything cranked in, and it got so bad I'm starting to wonder if something actually broke inside my fork, like maybe my SFF spring broke or something. I'm going to disassemble them and make sure they are ok. It was a confidence killer for sure, I'm actually hoping something is broken that's how bad they got.

Fun times overall and good to see everyone again at the races!

Man it sucks not having a camper anymore! But we are making due.....we originally sold the camper planning to buy a new one in retirement, but I'm already finding myself looking around at them!


Thanks Willy Browning for the pic!

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You may have done better with two black wheels… haha

 

[jfalat]

Well my foray back to LL regionals is complete. It was fun, I did ok I guess finish wise and came out healthy. Would have liked to have done better but mistakes cost me.

As we've all said, Lincoln was just inexcusable on Saturday. They obviously got a lot of flack for it because then on Sunday they went around and touched up the track (of course while I'm sitting on the gate for 45+ moto3 in the sun for 20 minutes while they soak it with water). It's easy to sit back and say "motocross is for MEN and that's a MAN'S track!" and all that crap, but it was dangerous and totally unsafe the way they left it and then just kept watering it and making it slick. Muddy Creek did so much better of a job keeping the track safe and raceable for their Regional.

The one moto, we go off the start and start going up the rollers, Davey Jones is literally directly next to me on the left....some dude in front of us cartwheels diagonally across right in front of us! Davey veers into me to avoid him, no idea how he missed him, and I pinned it and shot directly off the the track to the right. Crazy stuff for sure.

Crashes held me back at Lincoln. First 50 moto of the weekend for me I was running in 10th and lost 3 spots by falling. One of the 45+ motos I fell over about 10 feet from the transponder line and got passed by less than a tenth of a second. Another moto I fell at the bottom of the Bomber downhill and was stuck under my bike. Of course there are no track workers down there and I had to struggle while pinned on my stomach face down in the ruts and finally freed myself, but lost a bunch of spots and about 25 seconds. I still ended 13th o/a in 50+ with a ton of mistakes so I guess that's ok.

It's interesting to hear Matthew say that about his forks. I was bottoming my forks so bad there and there was nothing I could do about it. I had everything cranked in, and it got so bad I'm starting to wonder if something actually broke inside my fork, like maybe my SFF spring broke or something. I'm going to disassemble them and make sure they are ok. It was a confidence killer for sure, I'm actually hoping something is broken that's how bad they got.

Fun times overall and good to see everyone again at the races!

Man it sucks not having a camper anymore! But we are making due.....we originally sold the camper planning to buy a new one in retirement, but I'm already finding myself looking around at them!


Thanks Willy Browning for the pic!

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got a brand new toy hauler for John... lol...

 

[Vet261]

You may have done better with two black wheels… haha

That damn black front rim probably messed up my forks!