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Originally Posted by roadkill
I take it that you are new to this motorcycle racing business otherwise, if you read something as silly as what you posted, you would be laughing at it.
Rainey, Lawson, Schwantz, Doohan, Sheene......those guys banged bars every race and would sell their own mother to get half a bike length in front of the other guy. I bet Schwantz was laughing his head off watching that show and pointing at Rossi and saying "damn, he rides just like I did".
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Well, in my day, I remember when motorcycle racers used to spend many months designing their own bikes and then even more months wandering the streets collecting scrapmetal to cast their own engine parts and they would actually build the bikes on the night before race-day. Practice? Nooo, none of that! Safety? Not much of that either. Helmets? The lucky ones were sometimes able collect old cast iron cooking pots and use these as helmets but the tracks then were not much more than goat tracks, which caused the cast iron 'helmets' to bounce violently up and down on their heads resulting in brain damage to many of them but they always fought hard and with happy smiles right to the finish-line.
After the race, the brain-damaged riders would gather together with their prizes of stale beer and cheerfully beat each other up. Now you tell that to people these days and they wont believe you....
