2026 LL Regionals

Vet261 said:
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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My daughter said your in attack position.
MX_Implements said:
Does anyone know who that dipshit (Carlisle) is ?
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No but I like him. lol
 
For anyone keeping notes, I tore my forks down and nothing is broken. I do believe however that my spring preload locknut loosened up which allowed a little slop in the spring and not proper preload. I also spoke with Race Tech and I'm going to slightly stiffen up slow speed compression valving.....
 
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Obviously I wasn't at Lincoln trail but I've yet to find a pic or video that shows it was worse than Ironman last year. Or LL in places for that matter. I talked to a couple people who were there and said it wasn't as bad as you guys make it out to be. When you're in the 40+ and up I think you need to remember how old you really are. Matthew just has too much of his Dad in him lol. Austin said it looked fun, he loved Ironman and LL last year though. Last year the area qualifiers were something you'd enjoy but way too easy. Regionals should be as tough as LL, thats what you're all racing for. Austin did far better at Ironman than at the area qualifiers. They were smooth, fast and easy. Even Red Bud was the smoothest id ever seen it. Ironman was bombed out, super deep ruts and rough af. Put in the rough and ruts and the riders who are good come alive. Its all technique then, its slower and safer. LL would be a nightmare for you guys, why spend all the time and money to go to a track you will completely hate??
 
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