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"That is what a championship is, it's a reward
for the guy that this is the most consistent
over the entire year."
Leave Points Alone
This is in response to Ken
Bateman's comments about
the points needing to change
so that a championship goes
down to the final round. Nothing
needs to change with the points
structure.
Look at NASCAR, they
changed to these "playoff"
formats and popularity started
fading because it quit reward-
ing the guys that were consis-
tent over the long haul. That is
what a championship is, it's a
reward for the guy that this is
the most consistent over the
entire year. If you want it to be
exciting at the end of the year
lets just make a format that
you "qualify" for a final over the
course of the year and final
round becomes a winner-take-
all. Problem with that, though,
is that the rest of the year
becomes boring once guys
qualify into the final. Leave
things be and let the rest of the
riders work harder to beat Mr.
Consistency to win the title,
not change it to keep them
closer.
Chad Murray
Lowside: Learn
To Do It Right
I started road racing in 1985
when local racers were just
putting on homemade plastic
knee cups to touch the knee to
the ground. You could only lean
the bike so far over because
the engine width was so wide.
We scraped fairings, pegs and
knees.
There were no classes back
then because most of us had
raced before in dirt track or mo-
tocross. We knew how to race. I
experimented with hanging both
butt cheeks off the bike, and it
worked for me without anybody
telling me. Most of them thought
it was silly.
Not many people race
anymore in Washington, but
the track days are packed all
year long with people who copy
what they see on TV/internet.
They are posing to look like real
racers who push the edge and
sometimes die doing it. I have
seen multiple deaths on the
track racing, not posing.
Shawn McDonald
Eddie Lawson was/still is great.
I really liked watching him at
Laguna Seca on the Kawa-
saki 250. Smooth as silk going
extremely fast into turn two (the
old one not the new one). The
problem with the old two is there
was no run-off room until you ran
into an embankment at the out-
side of the turn, which crippled
or killed riders.
What I have seen is that some
of the riding schools are trying
to teach you the correct posture
on a motorcycle in a turn, which
seems to be to hang off. I found
you only need to hang off when
you start to run out of ground
clearance, but then I was never
a Kenny Roberts, Eddy Lawson
or Freddy Spencer either.
Lawrence Schenk
