Endurocross: Discourse Community

Sports have been around since the beginning of time but did you know each sport is its own discourse community? You may now be asking what is a discourse community? A discourse community is a group of people who share information and a way of staying connected with other people for a variety of reasons. I bet you didn’t realize that Endurocross is classified as one, well I’m here to tell you all about its community. Here is some background information in case you don’t know what Endurocross is exactly, it is a challenging sport that requires a lot of hard work and patience along with numerous hours of practice and determination.

Each Endurocross rider has different goals but the main goal they all share is to be a great rider. Every rider goes into a race with the thought of placing high enough to get the

But there are also things that are very scary. There is always that small possibility of getting hurt in whatever you do but in Endurocross the possibility is a little larger. You can lose control in mid jump and crash hard which causes some to be knocked unconscious, you could end up in a pile up, or your bike could simply just stop working and someone hits you. Most of the time place the most exciting things happen toward the end of the race when two racers are going head to head trying to win. Everything you do in life has some type of rules or guidelines you have to follow and Endocross is no different. In Endocross the rules are pretty much endless because there are so many different types of machines you can find the complete list of rules at http://www.americanmotorcyclist.com/Racing/Rules.aspx. These rules are made to make sure that every rider is treated equal and fair no matter of the type of machine you have, the size of your motor or whether or not you are male or