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Hey everyone,
As you all know, 2015 has been an incredibly difficult one and it has been great to finally get back to riding and training. 1 week ago I got an invitation to go race for Puerto Rico MXON team. This is an opportunity many people would kill for and something that few people get to attend as I am sure most of you know. The difficult part of this, I have a lot of travel expenses that will be my personal responsibility for this trip and quite honestly, I just I just simply can not afford it and will do whatever it takes to make this dream come true.
I thank you all for reading this and whether it be a simple good luck in France wish or a small donation, it means a lot to me. The link is posted below.
http://www.gofundme.com/beleibmxofnations?utm_source=internal&utm_mediu…
Thank you,
-Michael Leib
As you all know, 2015 has been an incredibly difficult one and it has been great to finally get back to riding and training. 1 week ago I got an invitation to go race for Puerto Rico MXON team. This is an opportunity many people would kill for and something that few people get to attend as I am sure most of you know. The difficult part of this, I have a lot of travel expenses that will be my personal responsibility for this trip and quite honestly, I just I just simply can not afford it and will do whatever it takes to make this dream come true.
I thank you all for reading this and whether it be a simple good luck in France wish or a small donation, it means a lot to me. The link is posted below.
http://www.gofundme.com/beleibmxofnations?utm_source=internal&utm_mediu…
Thank you,
-Michael Leib
but not quite sure why Americans should be interested in supporting a rider from another nation that is competing against the USA
would that not be like a rider from Holland asking the Belgian fans to support him because Holland is one of the three Benelux countries ?
Am I missing something ?
Imagine having the chance to ride the mxon but possibly not b able to get there, what a bummer.
The Shop
However, I think people would prefer a raffle or something similar to give you money. Signed Jersey or training day?? I dunno.
Also and not a slight towards you, but US to Puerto Rico..... I'd feel a bit funny about an Aussie representing Norfolk Is or a Frenchie to New Caledonia. But then again, my knowledge of sovereignty is probably way off.
Nevertheless, best of luck
It just seems to go against the point ---- of having nations compete against other nations if the riders are not even from that nation....
If Puerto Rico is actually a nation, then the riders should just simply be Puerto Rican otherwise the whole concept of the MXDN which means motocross of the nations would just start to unravel
Back in the day the French basically had two teams: the actual French team and one from Andorra, which is a tiny "tax shelter" up in the mountains near Spain. JMB told Eric Johnson this for his recent "The Invasion of France" story"
"There were two French teams at the race—Andorra is in France but it has its own republic (like Puerto Rico and the U.S.). My brother Christian was on the Andorra team..."
I am stoked that Michael gets to race, and I think I would do the exact same thing!
DC
MX Sports
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andorra
Beautiful place to visit, and the road from the south of France is awesome (doubly so on a motorcycle
like this guy shows)
Great skiing too. And you can (could?) buy duty free alcohol and tobacco.
DC
MX Sports
Micheal's scraping together the $ to go.
I'm contributing.
Dixon's supplying the bike.
Know this: I -WILL NOT- penalize Micheal simply 'cause he's Don's kid.
If it was your kid, & you're a black-listed persona-non-grata, I'd help your kid, too.
Know this II: if Jeff ALESSI shows us that he's "still got it"...
I'll help him, too.
I love racing, I love these kids & these opportunities to help a fellow racer make me feel pretty fuckin' stoked...
There's a name for this:
Sharing the Stoke
Besides, I got to where I'm at due to the tolerance, patience, guidance, continual-forgiveness and the help of so many people.
Pay it forward.
Still Stoked!
Manny
But, from here on I think I'm going to call him Meeeeshell like he's French!
I have my own priorities but I do wish him well in his efforts.
Pit Row
Msg sent
Andorra probably serves the same purpose for Spanish speakers. Mac Marquez moved there last year.
http://gpxtra.com/2014/12/08/marc-marquez-is-moving-to-andorra/
Nobody cares about motocross. Except us in the sport. So why pay for advertising on gofundme when we can get him just as much money (without taxing him 8% in fees) with a website campaign and gifting through PayPal. Or sending checks snail mail to his mailbox.
Politicians don't yse godfundme. Then they would have to give money to gofundme. They don't want to do that ! Use every penny for yourself If you can raise it.
Just asking for donations to an account is little lame IMO. Accidents are one thing, but funding a wish list is different.
If this is the same guy that tangled with Rhino I'll donate just because it's the thing to do!
Yamahuh
Its nothing but cheating.
Riders should only be able to race for the country they are from, not a technicality.
The des nations was formed to be nation vs nation, not nation vs technicality.
You know its rubbish DC. You know if you came from a country that was not the USA, you would 100% not support this, and its NOT in the spirit of the sport of fair competition that this should happen.
You just don't want to annoy anyone on the bandwagon.
(Just to be clear- I have nothing against ML and his funding etc - just not a fan of USA sending 2 teams all the time [1/3 of a team this time] under the guise of PR)
DC
MX Sports
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