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Originally Posted by TIGGER
Hmmm... maybe, but one of the youngest guys (at the time) won 3 AMA championships in a row and one of the oldest guys has won almost all the rest in the past 10 years... 
I certainly have a "no way I'm going to wreck by myself" attitude but in my defense, in 30 years of riding I've only had one crash by myself and I was doped up at the time...  hell, I haven't had an "at fault" accident of any kind since I was a teenager.
I honestly see what you girls are saying, I just don't like the way it limits women believe it or not. I don't know but I still want to believe that it's similar as to why there aren't many black racers. I still think that it's because people aren't out buying their daughters pocket bikes or XR50s when they're 3 or 4 years old, like they do boys. I'd like to think that if your parents had bought you a pocket bike and took you to the races when you were 3, that you could be kicking ass in the AMA right now, seriously. |
Thats most likely very true Tigger. If our parents had gotten us into racing, etc when we were younger and never told us how unsafe and dangerous it was, we probably would be out kicking ass. Unfortunately, no matter how much of a tom boy we may have been, elders will forever be telling us "dont do that, be careful, its dangerous", and perhaps since lil girls listen more than lil boys we let ourselves be brainwashed. Knowing what I do of myself, and the way my mom raised me, she told me I could always do whatever I wanted as long as I set my mind to it, but climbing trees is dangerous, driving fast cars is dangerous, and riding motorcycles is suicide. So even tho I did and do all these things, I think about the things I was told and remember that I can seriously damage myself.
Look at the lil girls out doing motocross at 3 and 4 years old. Till they take their helmets off, you dont know they are girls, and they are out there tearing it up just as much as the boys. I would hope that we see them on the podium one day with the boys as well!