Mitch Payton believes the 'rider is more important than the bike' | Title 24 | Motorsports on NBC

[@ddrowdy2]

So much truth in the old saying, "80% rider 20% bike"

[@robertrishel3685]

Absolutely! With motocross it’s very nearly all up to the rider. Same with every genre of motorcycle racing. I think with cars and car racing, it’s much, much more dependent upon the car. Cars are so easy to go fast in, you can take nearly anyone off of the street and easily instruct them to go very fast on a track, probably within very close relative times to what is possible for the given car. But in every discipline of racing, it’s those final tenths that are the difference.

[@YZ250ama]

Your Pro circuit pipe is my favorite on my yz300 2 str. But at age 53 it's difficult to still ride big jumps. Thanks for the effort you all.

[@joec9071]

Absolute best show ever, 3 legendary individuals- Yew!!!

[@patrickkillilea5225]

That's why we LOVE MX,,, it is all about the rider.

[@mikeandrews1899]

Mitch is superb at building the bike ..... AND the rider ! 👌

[@Brian23471-o]

Congrats Mitch!!! Always back in the day watching the races id explain how pro circuit always had the best program and bikes and produced true champions and it was obvious to the non- dedicated fans that that was a notch above the rest,so evrrytime after that they would root for P.C.

[@johnnyhotshoe1292]

Congrats Mitch

[@johndavis9454]

When Chuck Yeager was Commanding Officer of a Fighter Squadron in Germany he trained his pilots by flying against them in an older model jet. He waxed them every time simply because he knew more about aircraft control and tactical maneuvers than they did! It was the pilot not the machine that won!

[@bunnyman6321]

Interesting

[@kevinmiracle8233]

DUDE.. DUDE.. DUDE! RC.. DUDE

[@roversberg]

mitch rules..awesome guy 👍

[@steveutgaard9961]

Awesome video congratulations

[@davidjessee7701]

Ty is good but he’s no Deegan

[@rickystafford7433]

Same concept in photography is always said that “gear doesn’t matter”

[@DBENTLEY369ig]

Then what was all the talk about set ups during Tomac leaving. Like SpaceX and Tesla F1 racing DRS/KERS working principles in a Tesla is a Tesla with NO charging stations or cord Four wheels return productions into a 2nd battery pack "ALTERNATING BATTERIES" 15km@770mph is junk slower than Bonneville salt flats records. W.E.F. welding engineering fabrication

[@AlwaysBroken]

Old E 40oz in the background 😆

[@gawdszn302]

Some bikes were so bad like KTM mc was on then Honda & that Yamaha JS rode

[@OtisFlint]

For sure, but those days are gone. Now, they're all solid bikes.

[@Kyle-k4w]

They ride around standing up. LoL

[@soupbums]

Anyone has pro circuit pipes hanging in there garage for all the years of riding 👍🍻

[@ML-lg4ky]

Basically what Mitch is saying is non of the current riders has a set of balls. Not like the riders of the past. To many riders who need pampers these days.

[@matthunter1667]

Lol but the current riders are putting down the fastest lap times we've ever seen !!! The lights class is throwing down lap times on par with what the premier class was doing just a few years ago... Sorry but these kids today are faster than ever and the bikes are just on another level with suspension and power.

[@JoshJarrell-t9t]

I thought everyone believed that. It’s always been the rider

[@Kyle-k4w]

Nah more so today with the bikes being so close but in the 80's you had to be on a Honda to be competitive.

[@Forest-Monk-Outdoors]

nothing bugs me more then " working on the bike"

[@davidhuffines2052]

To beat Jett someone needs to Bob Hannah it and be out of control near all the time and then try to wrestle it like that all the way to the finish 😂

[@troydimsdale2331]

Yamaha has been beating you down Mitch in the recruitment department. You haven’t picked a true champion in years.