Simply because it increases the physical stress. With body armor-because motocross is such a physical activity, either taking place inside a stadium, which is hot, or outdoors, in the summer months-riders have been reluctant to wear a lot of close-body protection. Jeremy Appleton, Alpinestars: Safety's kept pace with the development in technology with bikes and tracks, every bit of the way. In the end what you get is a product that's gonna help protect you in a lot more variety of types of crashes. So we're doing more comprehensive testing in a development process. And that can cause connective-tissue tears, which can lead to concussion, brain injury, that sort of thing. A new system of injuries is rotational, where your brain is actually rotating inside your head. There's now a lot of focus on low-speed energy, protecting the wearer against low-speed crashes, mid-speed crashes.
So helmets historically have been manufactured to pass this standard that's pretty high-energy. And they kind of set the standard around that. They go after the worst accident you could possibly have, the energies you're going to see and actually possibly survive. So once again, gravity comes back into play! It's great when you're goin' good, but when you crash, you crash.ĬS: There's such a variation in crash energies, and the certification for motorcycle helmets-and when I say certification for helmets, it's the same certification for all motorcycle helmets, whether it's a street helmet, or a scooter helmet, or a motocross helmet. They run bigger foot pegs than they used to, to give guys more of a platform, and the suspension is so much stronger-but in turn, the guys are jumping 'em further and jumping 'em bigger. And so a lot of times, guys will get hurt on the bigger-displacement bikes because something will happen, they'll grab a handful of throttle, and the bike takes them either into something that they don't want, or takes them faster into a section where they were trying to slow down. And the first thing they say is, "I want a 450." And I say no, because when you have a newer rider, he panics, he doesn't know what to do to save it. I work with military special forces, and all these guys are very strong, very capable, very alpha male. RJ: No, a smaller displacement bike is definitely the way to go.
Is it in any way tied to the engine size of the bike? Or is it all the same-if you're on the beginning of the learning curve, you get hurt, no matter the equipment? But do it so that you're not throwing yourself on the ground. So you have to make sure that you're not overtraining, that you're not taking unnecessary risks, that you're trying to constantly be faster and better and better.
RJ: Your job every weekend is to show up. Conserve yourself physically, or also mentally?
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