Getting old, grumpy & intolerant???

[Digga]

Is it just me or does the following rub anybody else up the wrong way???

1. VMX/MX bikes, where the seat climbs up all over the tank (just think it looks Ugly) 

2. Basball caps have always had a curved peak since they were invented in the USA back in the 30's/40's & yet now they wear caps with a flat "Stratco like" Vergola out front!!! Reminds me of Gomer Pyle (for those few of us who can remember him)

3. When you jump nowdays, you have to flip your bike around 90 degrees, look for a camera, smile, wave with some sort of gangland finger gesture signal & then land as normal WTF 

Things have changed for the worse & got far more complicated for my liking 

If Clint was a VMX'er, he would have his M1 carbine firmly aimed at of those offenders above to "get of his lawn"

Disclaimer - for those who may take offense (& I am sure some will be), chill bro's, I am just having some fun & taking the piss (but I am serious about the seats & caps) 

[Ted]

That's nothing compared to the sticker kits they throw on them.

They call them GRAFIX

[pmc57]

That's all the helmet and phone cams everywhere, it's all about getting airs, triples and  quadruples upside-down, fall on your face back flips pasted all over youtube that counts.

By the way, Clints' best line was "go ahead, make my day" with his 44 Magnum at the ready, I think he tried to invent another iconic phrase with "get off my lawn" and the M1  but it never really took off.

[Hoony]

That's nothing compared to the sticker kits they throw on them.

They call them GRAFIX

I'm with you there, i don't know what is what with those souless bikes, but they all look the same to me and have lost their identity once all the graphics have been changed.

[topari]

I think we had more fun in our youth than today's youth. We did not have the type of injuries or number of deaths which seem common today.

Age 54.

[albrid-3]

Paint them all white and they will look the same, I do like the riding gear on the trial pilots.

[brent j]

Getting old??

[Richo52]

I JUST love motocross OLD OR CURRENT PERIOD!!!!! Cheers Richo and I ride VMX to modern vets 50 yrs young.

[TooFastTim]

That's nothing compared to the sticker kits they throw on them.

They call them GRAFIX

But they haven't changed the oil in 6 races 

[kdx 175]

have you tryed to buy a plan helmet (one color ) you cant or pants there all multy colored pain in ass i think 

[TooFastTim]

Paint them all white and they will look the same, I do like the riding gear on the trial pilots.

Yeah, lycra suits so tight you can tell the riders religion 

[William Doe]

I do think that if you are 50yrs +and to a lesser extent  45 yrs + and lived MX in the 70s and early 80s then generally todays version of the sport is very beige .

In the 70s MX was the new exciting sport ( although it had been a well followed sport for decades before ) with the arrival of relatively inexpensive and reliable bikes available to the average Joe.

Development of bikes from the early 70s to the mid 80s was at a pace not seen before or since and the arrival of the latest models always caused a flurry of excitement among the faithful.

An aftermarket industry that grew from nothing and sold everything from performance mods that actually worked to the down right bizarre .

The only media was in print at your local dealers and news stand and we had to wait to see what innovations the latest models would bring , and the aftermarket industries would soon have new offerings to help you keep last years model in touch with the latest and greatest .

To put in perspective between late 1974 and early 1976 (approx. 14 months , Suzuki offered the TM 125M  then the RM 125M , followed by the updated RM 125S and then the all new RM 125A  and each model was a big improvement over the previous one .

Todays MX scene is what it is and the young people enjoy it , you cannot compare what is today to what we had  back then 

[FourstrokeForever]

If only I knew then what I know now......Maybe I wouldn't have thrown myself around so much because it does get hard to get moving these days.

[Nathan S]

I do think that if you are 50yrs +and to a lesser extent  45 yrs + and lived MX in the 70s and early 80s then generally that era of the sport was very beige.

 
Seriously, everyone has their golden era. I am very cautious of dismissing anyone else's golden era.

Imagine that you could only buy one model of dirt bike, and it didn't change at all from year to year - that the newest model was exactly the same as it was fifty years ago.
As old blokes, we'd still be arguing about which was the best era - and 99% of the time we'd argue that it was the time when we first discovered MX for ourselves.

There's no doubt that the sport has had it's high points and its flat times - the boom in numbers in the early 70s, the technology boom of the early-mid 80s, the SX & recession driven dive in the early 90s, the CrustyDemon inspired resurgence in the late 90s which lead into the financial boom of the early 00s, and the current tapering off as the economy slows.

None of that makes any period "beige".

The most important and exciting MX race ever is the next one.

[80-85 husky]

spot on Nathan, we are just getting old and cant cope with the new things.... face it, I remember listening to "daddy cool" and the old man shaking his head and saying..."its not music..."

he is a big jazz fan. the interesting thin is that I now have an appreciation for jazz..... ce la vie