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I know feld probably keeps that tight but at outdoors why none,just event shirts.
It seems like it would be easy for a company to make Webb,TC,RD,RV, t shirts. If they switch teams turn them loose at cost at end of season.
I'd buy a few ever race,just like i do at Bristol nascar and nhra. Would much rather have that than a event shirt.
Reed could have a setup right know since he controls all.
Anybody know why this is not done?
It seems like it would be easy for a company to make Webb,TC,RD,RV, t shirts. If they switch teams turn them loose at cost at end of season.
I'd buy a few ever race,just like i do at Bristol nascar and nhra. Would much rather have that than a event shirt.
Reed could have a setup right know since he controls all.
Anybody know why this is not done?
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God I kill me.
Give the fans some shit. If they want to get bigger start selling jerseys like the idiots at football games wear. Atleast Itll bring some non riding fans into the sport to spend money.
It would be such a disaster if a team had a dozen or so shirts that were left unsold.
Why would anyone ever think about supporting their favorite team or rider?
In unrelated news, I just decided to buy a new hat.
Imagine having t shirts from RD5 from his early days till now,or any kther.
My buds allen and roy johnson sell their stuff out of a mopar trailer with several other drivers,works for them.
And ,of course the big names are going to sell the most but say a dollar of each shirt goes in a privateer fund that would give some gas money to guys that loose huge all season.
Dunno,seems like a untapped source to me ..
If some or all of the corporate sponsors were absent (Red Bull, Suzuki, KTM, Target, Monster) would you still buy it?
I'm sure the big problem would be all the sponsors being on there and them having to ok it.
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The F1 teams have some cool merchandise that they sell and I'd love to see that at the pro moto races, especially if it helped fund the race team.
I always bought a shirt or two, even from guys I never heard of, just because the shirt looked cool.
As for the rest of the riders, it's hard to let every rider set up their own stores or tents at the races is because we lack the room and the demand and in supercross the building keeps 40% off the top, which makes it almost impossible for every rider to make money when they are all selling the same thing-- a rider T-shirt or hat. And If you want to see at NASCAR, or F1, you have to go through NASCAR or F1.
DC
MX Sports
Riders have lines for autographs... set up a small Point of Sale before the rider giving autographs...sell hats and shirts out of boxes... buy something or don't...move on and get the get your autograph.
Seems simple.
It's not hard at all. Space? They already have an 18 wheeler there. So, how hard is it for a team to bring one teenager along to sell T-shirts right at their pits? A guy like Jimmy DeCotis could fund himself. It's the Nick Weys of the sport that need to be slinging a stack of 20 dollar T-shirts, but they can't, because someone won't get their cut.
At Atlanta just saw that trailer by the event shirts and it offered nothing like what I'm after.
I guess the simple thing would be a online store but like i say,what i saw is not what I'm looking for.
Name number on back to start with then a likeness on the front maybe to not have to pay ktm or yamalube and such.
The building keeping 40% is quite the bullsheet,
When riders have stuff to sell, we do all they can to help them sell them, but we also have to manage our business and the infrastructure of the series as well.
DC
MX Sports
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