ASK THE MXPERTS: IS THAT A BLACK MARK ON YOUR CAREER?

blackmarkWe don’t know how anyone could actually notice the small black dot on the rear fender in this photo, especially with roost flying around, but it is true — we did put a dot on this bike and every MXA test bike.

Dear MXA,
    I used to race back in the 1990s, but had to give it up for financial reasons. I still love it and peruse every photo in MXA and on the website. I started noticing something while reading REM Glen Helen race reports? There was a black mark on the rear fender of every MXA test bike. Originally I thought it was just dirt, but I’ve seen it so often that I know that it’s there for a reason. I’ve enclosed a blow-up of an REM race photo to prove it.

This really isn’t a major conspiracy. We confess. “I cannot tell a lie Judge, I put those marks on the rear fenders.” And they don’t do anything important. We used them to help line up the sag scale so that every test rider measures his sag from the same spot as the test rider before him.

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KTM 350SXF.

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Honda CRF450.

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Husky FC450.

 

 

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