Two Stroke Motocross
Two Stroke Motocross Forum => General Two Stroke Talk => Topic started by: JohnN on July 08, 2010, 04:27:32 PM
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A friend of mine, Terry Fraiser has a wonderful website, unfortunately he does not update as much as I'd like him too! lol But when he writes something, it's worth reading!
His view of the world is quite similar to many of us here on this site...
Read and enjoy!
http://www.muddywatersmx.net/2010/05/28/mx-spode-looking-good-while-losing/#more-909 (http://www.muddywatersmx.net/2010/05/28/mx-spode-looking-good-while-losing/#more-909)
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I found that site last week while surfing.
I was going to post up some stuff he wrote about smokers. Wont need to now. :)
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He hit the nail on head and drove it home! How true and yet so sad that true competition is frowned upon! I didn't spend my years in competitive sports to look good losing, if my team or myself did not win I was pissed, practices were brutal and tough, it was hard coming home with a loss. However, after going over the game or race, reviewing and pinpointing weak areas and endless practice to make corrections, I learned grew stronger and became a better competitor! I believe that kids should be taught fair play, but not that everyone wins!!!! why settle for less than greatness or mediocrity! Competition should be encouraged!!!!
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That's a good site, I will spend some more time reading it later. Thanks!
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Thats a pretty good story and so true, i couldnt agree more. Its the same here, it doesnt matter if you dont win as long as you looked good losing, that seems to be the mentality.
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Sadly happens in alot of youth sports now a days. I bet some of these youngins could be real good too. Shame that the ones who do put the work in as far as getting the basics down are looked at as lame. They will be the champs of tomorrow while the others are getting tats of the metal mulisha.
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That artical remided me of a close personal friend of the "MX SPODE" that I have too deal with just about every day... "THE FLATBILLER" >:(
Here is a link to a pretty accurate description of a flatbiller if you have never encountered one: http://www.dirtopia.com/wiki/Flatbiller (http://www.dirtopia.com/wiki/Flatbiller)
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That artical remided me of a close personal friend of the "MX SPODE" that I have too deal with just about every day... "THE FLATBILLER" >:(
Here is a link to a pretty accurate description of a flatbiller if you have never encountered one: http://www.dirtopia.com/wiki/Flatbiller (http://www.dirtopia.com/wiki/Flatbiller)
After reading the description of a Flatbiller.... I realized that the world has changed in a big way... all about the show. Very sad... will these folks become the street-bums of the new millennium?
(http://www.riversidescouts.com/pics9/jerry.bum.sm.jpg)
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My last job was running the railroad yards in Chicago. There,s panhandlers at most stop lights, alot of them are career beggers, alot of scammers. There doing just about anything you can think of, one guy at a stoplight says I,m not a begger, he climbs up the fuel tank steps, and has a clip board, the paper has lines on it, with people,s names and dollar amounts like 50.00 to 400.00 dollars. He said he,s collecting money, for a bum house and says everybeen homeless. I tell him yeah, I,ve been homeless since may 04, and it,s not that bad. I tell him creative scam, now get off the truck, really who is going to give someone hundreds of dollars,just sitting at a stoplight. If you go to warm weather states like Cal., Az., the beggers go staight to the truck parking lot, at a truck stop, there,s so many beggers,they bring there 4 person family. I had a women in Charolette N.c., begging so I help her out with some canned food, she wanted money, a few minutes later she shoots the tank twice, real smart if I had 6,800 gal. of gas, in the tank. There was gun fire all night there. I see people at a truckstop, asking for gas money, there usually young and don,t realize how much it cost to travel, in 08 I payed 6.09 per gal. at a Pilot truckstop, on the N.Y. thru way-I-90. There,s countless stories of people stranded at truckstops, they know they don,t have the money to make it, but there determined to make it to there grandma,s funeral, we drivers take care of folks like that, give them money,feed them, directions, snacks,water, etc. You corner for dough and jump for show, If you can turn and burn on a 125, you can ruin a 450 riders day.
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That's just why I support the NRA so us law abiding citizens can protect ourselves & families from all the crazies like her in this world!!%$?...!!! :o
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That artical remided me of a close personal friend of the "MX SPODE" that I have too deal with just about every day... "THE FLATBILLER" >:(
Here is a link to a pretty accurate description of a flatbiller if you have never encountered one: http://www.dirtopia.com/wiki/Flatbiller (http://www.dirtopia.com/wiki/Flatbiller)
We have plenty of these "Flatbillers" here in Oz. Most of the time none of em have a bike or have ever ridden one. The label over here is an Aussie brand called Unit. Every man and his dog wears Unit and has a Unit sticker on there car. They SHIT me to tears and 99% of them are so far up them selves they can barely breath.
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That's why I won't wear any Fox or Alpinestar clothing or put any of their stickers on my vehicles, most of the people wearing the stuff look like posers
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I had to laugh reading the wiki Flatbillers :D
Some of us are old enough to remember when guys with tats would smack you just for for looking at their girl.
Tats,leather,Harleys,ACDC,bourbon etc. I know some of them were possers but you wouldn't call any of them one.
The modern day version actually makes me laugh at them. They are as hard as jelly. ;D
They have reversed the whole tattoo culture into a fashon label for possers.
Style over substance. :(
As for riding style I agree with everyone.
Stop with the whip shit and concerntrate with actually going fast.
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That's why I won't wear any Fox or Alpinestar clothing or put any of their stickers on my vehicles, most of the people wearing the stuff look like posers
We think alike :). Come to think of it, people are ready to pay for the company so that they could advertise it with stickers, t-shirts and what not... My bike and car will stay nice and clean until someone pays ME to put a sticker up there :D. Otherwise, I'm a privateer and proud of it!
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I'm going to but some stickers on my truck (when I get one) but it's going to be simple. I'll have one logo on the rear window, either for every bike I own or every bike I've owned. So right now, I'd have two stickers, a Kawasaki logo (hopefully the old one they used in the '60s) and a Husqvarna logo. I'm hoping someday I'll have enough to obscure my rearward vision.
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I'm hoping someday I'll have enough to obscure my rearward vision.
I think you're rearward vision is obscured enough now jetz.Maybe it's best to concentrate on your forward vision instead ;)
As for whips and scrubs,I've pulled off a few wicked ones in my day.Unfortunately,none of them were intentional and they all just sort of kept going until impact :-[ I always found it was hard enough to work on your deficiencies without adding show stuff.
You don't see a lot of that around here though I remember a few years ago there was a guy that went around town,to work and to the track with his KX on the back of his truck.To my knowledge,no one ever saw him take it off.On the other hand,being a KX,maybe it wouldn't start ;D ;)
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Well yeah, after they removed the rotary valve it all went downhill! :P
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Heres one from superhunky. :D
http://articles.superhunkyforum.com/4/155 (http://articles.superhunkyforum.com/4/155)
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I disagree with Superhunky a bit on that one. While for the most part, he has some fairly solid rules of thumb, I think he's taking that too far. I have come in contact with enough people with weird things going on to know that not all of them are assholes. Many of them are, sure, but that's not always the case. One of the nicest people I know went around for two years with a gnarly set of dreads, and he's blond-haired and blue-eyed!
And on the sticker thing, that really depends on your own viewpoint, which is and important reminder that another person's assholery is entirely dependent on who's being asked. Everyone has friends and enemies, right? QED.
And one last thing. He also says you can't tell by the year, make, or model of their car. Bullshit. Toyota Prius. End of Story. :P
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I disagree with Superhunky a bit on that one. While for the most part, he has some fairly solid rules of thumb, I think he's taking that too far. I have come in contact with enough people with weird things going on to know that not all of them are assholes. Many of them are, sure, but that's not always the case. One of the nicest people I know went around for two years with a gnarly set of dreads, and he's blond-haired and blue-eyed!
And on the sticker thing, that really depends on your own viewpoint, which is and important reminder that another person's assholery is entirely dependent on who's being asked. Everyone has friends and enemies, right? QED.
And one last thing. He also says you can't tell by the year, make, or model of their car. Bullshit. Toyota Prius. End of Story. :P
I totally agree with you there jetz.