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Oh well. I'll be watching, and team USA I'm sure
Will be there.
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Some of you guys are clueless when you name all the other places that the mxon should be held.
They are all part of the npg. They have talked to Beasley and know exactly what the scope is.
Beasley dreamed of hosting that event and just wanted to have something special in us MX history. He did, and does, but none of the other tracks named are likely to feel the same.
It's sad that people believe their country should pull out because they can't host the event.
Lots of participating countries have never hosted the event.
I feel that the top US riders just don't want to do the MXDN anymore. In the past when they seemed pressured to go it really showed in their riding. I salute the guys that went this year though.
Considering Glen Helen was pulled entirely over promoter profit how can you possibly ask the riders to go for free and claim patriotism and love for the sport? I wouldn't say the US should boycott but I certainly wouldn't pressure anyone to go and I think if they skipped it Youthstream would see a financial hit.
Very true fans of the sport, that only get one race a year, just like Washougal, Budds Creek, etc. These non SoCal events is where I've felt like the best and truest fans of the sport reside.
Glen Helen is one of the worlds great racetracks, but for paying spectators, it is dust and heat and mud and no surrounding restaurants or bars or anything for that matter.
It's a racer's facility to be sure, but not so much a spectator paradise. If Dr Feldkamp planted some trees and grass then had some shade sails put up then maybe it would help.
I am lucky that we get across in January each year to attend a couple of SX's and do abit of riding.
I was planning for my son and I to come across for Glen Helen. ( we were in California for the non de nations in 2002, still have tickets somewhere)
As well as racing I try to attend as many races as I can, get across to Australia once or twice a year to watch the Oz nationals as we have a friend who has been racing in the MX2 class the last couple of years, he was also in this years NZ nations team.
Might just have to fly over for next years USGP if it still goes ahaed.
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Dude when you lie down with dogs you get up with fleas.
Bud was hard headed and backed out on MX Sports. I won't say he didn't have valid reasons of his own (although I don't know what they are) but it's clear MX Sports has done a wonderful job turning the nationals around. Bud didn't wanna play ball.
Ok so he went looking and made a deal with the devil and he failed miserably.
So he make another bad deal to bring the MXdN to Glen Helen. Difference is he caught his mistake and backed out before he lost his "shirt". But he made those deals on his own. So no, I don't need to bail him out.
He should tell Luongo you wanna have a race here this is "MY" terms. Not the other way around. Pretty sure Bud needs another GP like he needs a hole in his head.
Oh and what killed local MX. 4 strokes and cost. The Japs missed their price point by just that much and then the economy took a dump. Sorry guys.
Don't sweat it though. Not starting the old 2 stroke 4 stroke argument. As soon as scale ramps up and cost come down electric bikes will take them both out shortly.
Unfortunately, that is trying only, and not what is/was needed. As Beaurano says, he's a plague on the sport.
I'll just put this here, that I just put on another thread:
"I think the only way to have MXDNs in the US, with any regularity, is for Luongo / Youthstream to assume the risk themselves. That is, he / they rent / hire a track, and then He / They spend the money in running it. Then THEY can take all of the risk, and, for once, deserve all of the profits coming from the event, if it's a success.
But no, it won't ever happen - He / They have a good earner on their hands, whilst leaving a trail of destruction behind Him / Them.
I wouldn't piss on Luongo / Youthstream if they were on fire."
PS : What happened with the stolen bike? Getting another?
If the US guys dont come, its thier loss, the event is huge with or without them, if matterley is anything like the last one there , it will be off the scale.
And the event is definitely not the same without the US. It's effectively a team GP plus some gypos who can't ride for squids.
The reason Matterley was so huge in 2006 was because everyone wanted to see RC, Stewart and RV and more specifically RC ride in Europe for the last time.
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