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The Dutchman Jeffrey Herlings has banked two MX2 World Championships on his resume but in both of the last two seasons, the Red Bull/KTM rider has lost triple digit leads in the MX2 Championship due to some gnarly injuries. The big quest now is, will the #84 move up to the MXGP class in 2016? The twenty-one year-old still has two more seasons in MX2 if he chooses, but we think he has nothing more to gain by staying in the MX2 class. He has proven many times over that he is one of the fastest men in the world on two wheels and it’s time to race the big boys.

Yesterday, Jeffrey sent out an open letter via his @Jeffrey_Herlings84 Instagram account to keep his fans up to date on his latest happenings, and he dropped some subtle hints. In the end, though, he still says his class of choice is undecided. Read what Jeffrey wrote below and our MXGP connection, Geoff Meyer, will try and contact the Dutchman this week for an interview.

Just would like to give all my fans a quick update as its been so calm around me lately. Man, this is a long road back. Since July 2014 its been a dark moment in my career and life. At this time its mentally as tough as physically. We are working hard to get back on the bike.. Roughly planning says I should normally be able to be back riding in 4 to 6 weeks from now.

All injuries are taking care of and now its only my dislocated hip who is still recovering and next week my plate on the collarbone will also be removed. So we hope to be back on the bike somewhere half/end of november. Its hard knowing where we come from and thats winning in 2013/2014 27 GP’s straight and then having such a though come back time and being on the ground as much as I was last year.

Obviously its hard mentally from knowing where I come from when nothing could go wrong to where I am right now. But it also shows me how hard life can be, and how fast things can turn around. Also, I lost a person who meant a lot to me and was a strong person in my life the last 2 years but due some stupid mistakes I lost her. @brittvoorn thank you for helping me the last two years and you will be missed in our team, team84.

But I learned from many things as I am on the sideline right now and I got so much motivation to show all my fans. I really wanna show you guys I am still being able to win championships. I hope all my fans are still believing in me like I believe in them. We are all in this together. We will come back, and we will win.

Which class for 2016 is not decided yet. Just wanna say a big thank you to my great team Red-Bull KTM Factory racing team and all other sponsors and partners for still in believing in me. And my family and close friends for never giving up on me. I love u guys.

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Dan Lamb is a 12+ year journalist and the owner of MotoXAddicts.