I know that area well. We used to stay in Waters at Lake Guthrie, when we would snowmobile up there. Then ride the whole area between Grayling and Gaylord. Fredrick, Lovells, Twin Lakes, the bombing range.
Bottom line. Deegan absolutely could have and should have raced. Guarantee you it had to do with Money. He thought he should have been paid to race.
I used to follow Brian Deegan and watch his videos. He must have blocked me. I don't see his or Hailee's videos anymore. He probably did...
Professional motocross starts are nothing like they used to be. You have hole shot devices pulled down 8 inches. Launch control. Metal grates. And the starting blocks.
I am ok with the launch control, that's just bike technology evolving. I am ok with hole shot devices even. But other...
Perhaps I just use a little more common sense. Too many parents are like jump that, jump this, and have never even raced or rode in some cases. Most of these riders will never make a living racing. Hell 3/4 of the kids racing 50s and 65s are not even in the sport by the time they are on a big...
lets let the kids do whateveer they want in the parking lots too on pit bikes. They ae little kids, and someone needs to be an adult and think about safety. There was zero safe about a 65 hitting htat double. You see the one kid flat land the double they took out? Suspension bottoned out and...
They even took out another big double before the motocross section because so many of them wrecked on it, including gray. Bottom line they didn't want a kid leaving a televised race on a stretcher. It was the right move.