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I guarantee you, if digging deep, one crazy person that dislikes loud motorcycles started the motion and it caught on. As if there aren't more important things they could be doing??
By the way, did you see Kingston Indiana is being sued by the ACLU for a Christmas tree because ONE person thinks it's offensive? It's the world we live in guys, I hope it changes.
And yes there are other things worse but this is an easy fix.. People are weird! Oh I won't be able to see perfectly for a little while so fuck the environment give me some plastic I can just throw on the ground
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I've walked around tracks, in reality the dozer works the tears offs into the ground just like a landfill and it's not a problem. There isn't plastic blowing around like Mad Max post nuclear war. The world goes on and Mother Earth is just fine with it. Here in the U.S. congress will probably now waste a billion dollars to find out it has no impact. I'm all for a clean environment, but this was never on my radar. I feel that motocross racers are very responsible. When we made a track here at home, we were the ones cleaning up beer cans and plastic bottles that kids throw around.
My guess is that track workers pick up 90% of the tears offs that blow off the track after a weekend race.
Not all cows get eaten could be dairy could be used as breeders for veal.. But the ones that are killed and eaten are bought so if one dies the farmer doesn't get paid
It is miniscule just use roll offs
http://www.kiro7.com/news/local/trash-left-littered-on-side-of-railroad-tracks-after-protests/285716209
The refinery I work at is the plume of steam you see in the background. They were given 8 hours notice that they were to be arrested. They also trashed two campgrounds nearby as well.
Me personally: I was a roll off guy my entire life, hell, I still have a goggle bag of the latest greatest 1993 smith offerings courtesy of R.T.
He's right. Motocross racing is so minuscule in the grand scheme of things that it's ridiculous. By the way, it's snowing and cold out here in Minnesota. I thought that was a thing of the past, according to Environmentalists??
Who pays for it and who does it plays a major part of this and its eveident that it hasnt been getting done.
Most tracks barely get by as it is, so this isnt as easy as saying they have to do it unless you are willing to A. Help or B. Pay a small fee.
Sorry Rick! Had to do it. Glad to see you here.
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Our sport throws up enough red flags to the greenies as it is, this is something we can do with little to no impact on the experience of racing and it shows that we are actually forward thinking and willing to work to improve environmental issues.
Why anybody would be against it is beyond me.
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This ban is in Australia where we struggle to get flag marshals and officials, nobody's volunteering to pick them up, and clubs aren't making any money so they're not paying anybody to do it either. So it will come down to the same 5 club volunteers that walk the track in the dark after every race meeting picking up rubbish because people don't want to move to the most logical viable alternative.
The only argument against this ban i'm hearing on here is basically "I like tearoffs, don't take my tearoffs".
I bet some of my 40 year old tear offs are still in the track, I think one of mine I negligently left behind after getting roosted on by Tommy Benolkin made Chad go sideways over the chad-a pault, makes me sad.
Do you remember the lead ban is the U.S. that was repealed? Apparently the government thought kids were chewing on engine cases, which in my eyes means you me kid has a bigger issue than just lead in his diet. So motorcycles couldn't be sold, or outboard motors, or ATVs.. Not even clutch levers
I've spent my whole life watching things get taken away. It comes down to "what next?" Lately it's been 2 lane streets where I live. Replaced with a single lane and dumb ass 12 foot wide BIKE LANE that nobody uses, as we have a foot of snow on the ground 6 months out of the year. I just tear my hair out. Sorry for being persistent on this, it's good in theory but won't end well as they assault on the next thing to change, like maybe using non-gender specific bathrooms. Oh brother I need to stay off here LOL
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