New motorcycle sport. |
| 4/12/2008 7:14:08 PM |
New motorcycle sport on ESPN I watched today. The motorcycle riders were seeing how high they could jump their motorcycle and clear a cross pole. Sorta like the track and field event of pole jumping only these guys do it on a slightly modified motocross bike. Really fun to watch as they are only allowed a twenty five foot run before going up what looks like an almost vertical hill at least twenty feet high and then they are air born. Once the motorcycle clears this twenty foot ramp the rider just keeps going practically straight up and tries to jump over a horizontal pole set at twenty three feet high to start. As each rider clears this height without knocking the pole off the up-rights the pole is raised again until only one rider is left who can clear it. This motorcycle rider is the winner and gets a gold helmet. Very new take on our great sport of motorcycle riding and what made todays competition so interesting was retired motocross great Ricky Carmichael 
was one of the competitors. For those of you who are not familiar with the motorcycle sport of motocross Ricky Carmichael is possibly the best to ever race motocross, and has won more National Outdoor Championships and indoor Supercross events and Championships than any other rider. And this is quite a feat as these two motorcycle sports have seen many great champions. Jeremy McGrath, David Baily, Rodger Decoster and Ricky Johnson are but a few of the motocross greats who come to mind as great motocross champions. Jeremy was scheduled to ride in to todays event but injured his leg practicing for the event. Ricky Carmichael is known as the "GOAT" which stands for the "greatest of all time" in the motorcycle sport of motocross and he proved his extrodinary ability again today by winning the competition easily. He cleared the twenty nine foor pole height with what looked like six or eight feet to spare. I wonder just how high he can go and the record held currently by Jeremy McGrath is thirty three feet, six inches is well within reach after watching the GOAT today. |
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