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We have a LeMans start in FTR HS where we run to the bike, start and go... Many times a rider doesn't have someone to hold his/her bike but there is always someone willing to help out. That is also the case for fuel stops (if you need one). Someone is always willing to help out, they feel good about it and enjoy it!
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I think there are less douche bags in off road because its harder (and by that I mean there is no riding two laps and sitting on the tail gate for an hour, you're out there for three hours) and, for the most part, you're out in the middle of nowhere, with nobody around, so there is nobody to impress...so you aren't out there for the image or to look cool...you're out there because you love it. And there is nothing better than to spend time with other people who love it just as much as you do.
I was once this guy, and I'm embarrassed I once thought this way...but I do get a chuckle out of the MX racers who shows up at a desert race thinking the only reason dudes race off road is because they aren't good enough to race MX, and thinking he's going to win the overall (yes, that was me, when I lined up for my first desert race~hangs head in shame~), only to get absolutely smoked (that was-and still is, lol-me also).
Your typical offroad events aren't very spectator friendly events. Even with the race day coverage we do have like the GNCC shows that air on TV or race day edits don't do a great job of capturing the action. Watch the GNCC tv show and most of the action happens in commentary and hardly ever in onscreen action. That's even with a pretty large camera crew and they miss a lot of exciting parts of raceday. It doesn't make for exciting stuff when you're not a part of it or weren't there. Smaller scale series coverage typically just a bunch of random shots and not an actual representation of the race itself.
From my understanding and I believe Weege mentioned on a review podcast, much of the audience that shows up at the races are riders, their families, and friends. Except a few exceptions where locals come out in droves there doesn't seem to be a lot of interest out there from the general audience in the US. You can see this in a lot of US offroad coverage vs international events. Outside of riders, families, and friends no one seems to really care.
Series like the Full Gas Sprint Enduro and Jdays I think are making huge gains in growing the offroad audience as those series are figuring out how to have fun offroad race while being spectator friendly. Both of these series are some of my personal favs to attend.
But like it's been mentioned in this thread already offroad is just awesome and full of some of the coolest folks youll meet on a dirt bike.
All of this is just my .02 and that .02 is strictly based on time spent at East coast based events.
Most everyone wears a camelback. I use water only or 50/50 diluted sports drink. Straight will get really sweet.
As for passing/bein passed, you can tell how fast someone comes up on you. Either hold your line in the open or drift wide in the woods. you can give a point to whichever side you want to let them by. I usually give a guy one chance, and if he don;t take it then he's gotta work for it.
Pros will blast right by ya, just don't make sudden moves or you'll do like my buddy as he took Steve Hatch down while leading a GNCC. Doh!
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I also believe that action camera's (GoPro's, action cam, 360 fly) should be used more to follow riders like they did back in the day. Of course keeping up with the pros wouldn't last too long, but it's not out of the question task to keep the same pace of them for 30 seconds for a local or retired pro.
The sport of off-road will never grow if the action can't be viewed by spectators. The closest thing to seeing the action in person, is to watch the action on camera/tv.
I think it would be rad if they required guys to wear a POV camera and used that for the live stream. I also think it would be awesome if they had large screens setup at the races showing their live web cast instead standing around the live timing at the finish line. There's definitely a lot of things that could be done to help increase the spectator friendliness of offroad. But there's not a lot of money out there to make that happen from my understanding.
That being said...I love it just how it is. I have nothing to gain from a huge TV audience, or thousands of spectators...so I'd prefer it small anyway.
Content wise there's highlight episodes for all 13 rounds of GNCC Racing action with 13 additional episodes on RacerTV.com. Last year there were 33 repeat airings in addition to the 13 premiere episodes for a total of 46 total airings with over 2.1 million viewers. All of that is on top of what aired live online which had over 8 million unique views.
Here's what you can expect this year out of RacerTV and of course, you can catch everything from last year and multiple years before on RacerTV.com
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