Motocross Riding History

Video Transcript

"In this clip I want to talk to you about some history of motocross. Motocross pretty much primarily started in Europe. Back in the; kind of in the late sixties, early seventies it really started coming over to America and getting more popular. Bringing on the days of say Bob Hurricane Hannah and Rick Johnson, you know, those are guys who just dominated during their decade. You know, come into the nineties it would be Jeremy McGrath in Super Cross, you know. Still the all time Super Cross wins leader. You know and then here Ricky Carmichael who just retired last year. Motocross it's just been growing so much. It's just; it's such; you can totally see why. It's just such a fun sport, such a great sport. In their growing not only are the riders getting faster, the tracks getting harder, but the bikes are really coming along too. We've got like big forty-nine, forty-eight millimeter forks, you know, compared to what they used to be. You know, down to like the forty millimeter. You know, single shocks or mono shocks, you know, that's not exactly it's been around twenty or thirty years. So, just the bikes these days can just withstand so much more of the abuse and so much more harder tracks and bigger jumps. One of the really cool things too is Super Cross has been; the Las Vegas is the series finale, is the premier, it's been actually live coverage. That's a really big thing because motocross and super cross alike they really haven't been under main stream media coverage, but they're really getting to it these days, you know, as far as next day coverage on ABC or ESPN or Speed. It's really coming along."