ohmygewd
Husqvarna
Pro Class
IMO, no difference. I've done drugs and while they give ya buzz, it's nothing like adrenaline and that sense of overcoming/facing your fears.
I use to ride road bikes on the street like it was a racetrack until l started track days and roadracing. It was at this point that l my view of 'racing' on the street changed when, funnily enough, l started to realize that there isn't much run off on the road. Put me on a road circuit on a 600 and l'll try my hardest to beat my laptimes and race you into the first corner
The one thing that l took from the roadracing and onto the dirt was humility, at the tender age of 42, l can still hang with some of younger blokes but there are some ridiculously quick guys but is it really worth it if you aren't conditioned (like fletchman45 said in post #80) to run at that pace? Doesn't mean you can't give it a crack but you have to know the consequences that riding at or beyond you limit will sometimes equate to pain.
That's the question you need to answer Kriegy..do you want to ride at your limit all the time or just in bursts?
Frankly, for the dirt, l've substituted the need to go faster with the challenge of gnarly hillclimbs and technical terrain..still fucking hurts but l've had one big off on a firetrail (cracked my helmet and had to ride concussed back to the trailer), to know that speed on the dirt doesn't really thrill me anymore, if your faster, go for your life but l ride at a pace that l feel is flowing or rhythmic - and riding alone also taught me that l had to get back home and no one was there to help me if l was in a ditch hurting.
I know l sound convoluted but everyone has a tale to tell, the important thing is whether you can change the way your ride to continue this passion called dirt bikes.
I find no bigger inspiration than this relatively unknown bloke
