Why ride on your balls of your feet? Tomac career ender

Edited Date/Time 5/7/2023 5:51am

I have never understood why everyone promote riding like that? I just do not see the advantages. Everyone rides with their heels lower than the foot peg cannot be a advantage. Who started this stupid trend? Go back to riding on your arches.  Career ender for Tomac.

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5/6/2023 11:20pm Edited Date/Time 5/6/2023 11:54pm

I don't think he made a mistake. Looked like a pitcher rupturing a bicep tendon on a pitch they have done a thousand times before. The G-forces in that transition didn't help any though.

If anything, I think it probably had more to do with him going for the win - which is heroic. 

 

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5/7/2023 12:13am

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5/7/2023 12:26am
nickorango wrote:
I have never understood why everyone promote riding like that? I just do not see the advantages. Everyone rides with their heels lower than the foot...

I have never understood why everyone promote riding like that? I just do not see the advantages. Everyone rides with their heels lower than the foot peg cannot be a advantage. Who started this stupid trend? Go back to riding on your arches.  Career ender for Tomac.

UMM, How many Championships you have?

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5/7/2023 12:52am

Bet he wishes he didnt have astars remove the rubber bumpers from the front of the boots. 

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5/7/2023 1:22am

UMM, How many Championships you have?

If I may Sir....he got fukol championships...and how many damn new threads do we need to cover the same bullshit?

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5/7/2023 2:45am

Hinge Lockout
Hinge lockout stops motion before hyperextension, supports forward and back movement, and gives lateral support around the ankle

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5/7/2023 2:55am Edited Date/Time 5/7/2023 2:57am

Could be it had nothing to do with the moment it happened.  Maybe lap before or heat race or day qualifying or last week he had a hard landing that set n motion what happened in the main.
 

because it didn’t look like a big deal , seen guys upslope stuff a lot harder

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5/7/2023 3:09am

Bob Hannah relayed it verbally in MXA 1977. I immediately went out on my Suzuki TS-100 (with rubber foot pegs, mind you) and put all 11 HP to the task. 

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5/7/2023 4:09am
nickorango wrote:
I have never understood why everyone promote riding like that? I just do not see the advantages. Everyone rides with their heels lower than the foot...

I have never understood why everyone promote riding like that? I just do not see the advantages. Everyone rides with their heels lower than the foot peg cannot be a advantage. Who started this stupid trend? Go back to riding on your arches.  Career ender for Tomac.

I'd bet you never understood much of anything.

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5/7/2023 4:21am Edited Date/Time 5/7/2023 4:21am

Career ender?  Please.  Kobe and Klay Thompson both tore their Achilles and made full comebacks.  He’ll be back. 

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5/7/2023 5:19am

Career ender?  Please.  Kobe and Klay Thompson both tore their Achilles and made full comebacks.  He’ll be back. 

Ya I don't think so. This was already looking like it would likely be his last year.

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5/7/2023 2:09pm

If achilles injuries happened regularly you might be able to make a point, but they don’t, so you can’t.

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