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The first thing to happen in a rider boycott would be a flood of new riders. "You mean I could qualify for a pro sx:?
I'm in!". "I have a chance at bonus money"? etc.
Horse racing in Texas can barely make it. Texas. Horse racing.
If there was a fan boycott and it meant the promoter going broke or making less profit, they would just shut it down
and do something else.
My parents were lower middle income at best. They did find a way for me to race(bless em) but if anything big broke
it could be along time before it was fixed. There is a lot of private money in mx(not always). Witness the Battlestar
Galactica motor homes at races. Their boy/girl might race for a few years and even have some success. But in the end,
nearly all eventually realize the chances of breaking even will never happen. Notice I didn't say make a living.
Lastly, ever notice "millionaire" champion mx stars have jobs? Villapoto, McGrath, DeCoster, Hannah...
Even for the best of the best(say retiring at 28), they are(hopefully) looking at another 50 years. If this is so(and it is),
what possible chance does the privateer have at ever breaking even? Close to zero.
before(70's/80's/90's). Less riders. A local race(now) will be very familiar to anyone that raced during the last 40 years.
About the same turnout, about the same amenities(porta johns), dusty, poor location, plastic trophies. Maybe a
difference might be more dangerous and costs more.
This notion of paying even more money so that a rider can make even more money is bizarre. Nobody comes to me at
my job and hands me more money. This just isn't reality. Why don't you give way more than $2? Like $2,000?
Guess what, it didn’t cost you $40 to get through the gate to the race back in the 70s. Guess what, it didn’t cost $200 to enter a national back in the 70s. Guess what, if you’re able to do basic math the only way the payout is going to get bigger without the promotor taking a pay cut is raising ticket prices.
Since nobody every pays you more at your job, I would assume you’ve never gotten a raise since the 70s, right? I mean, that would require someone to hand you more money and obviously that has never happened.
Why not just give $2000? Oh, I don’t know, maybe because if you add $2 on to each of the 10,000 tickets sold at the event, that $20,000 you just raised might go a long ways toward raising the payout making the one time donation of $2000 unnecessary? Or maybe because most people, myself included, can’t afford to just throw $2000 away, yet I’d bet a substantial percentage would be very happy to see a portion of their ticket price going directly to supporting the riders.
I wonder where TexasVet lives (I have a pretty good guess) where raises don’t exist, extra revenue cannot contribute to a higher purse, and motocross is smaller than curling? Must be an odd place.
There comes a point where you have to have some sort of compassion for people and maybe ever wish them an improved existence. I feel like the guys putting it on the line with ungodly amounts of talent each week should be well compensated. I’m sorry if your job pays like crap and you don’t want to see anyone else get payed better because you’re stuck wallowing in your own self pity. And don’t even come at me with the snowflake bullshit, I’m about as fiscally conservative as they come but even I know the payout is a joke.
Oh ya, and to anyone who doesn’t like privateers (not necessarily you TexasVet), fuck you.
It is solely up to them. They need to demand it. They’re accountable for their own actions. Get faster, get out or organize.
I’ve worked in a profession with a union and without a union and the one with the union is so messed up. It actually encourages employees to be slower, to not work together. Etc.
Riders organize: lap times go up. Fan base drops. Factories leave. Sport dies.
Tin foil hat!!!!! Also. In proportion there are nascar teams that are private and they’re broke. They’re just in another tax bracket. Proportionately winners get paid. And there’s only 1 Top spot.
Dean Wilson 600k+ Instagram followers. Dudes a marketing gold mine. Adapt and overcome. That kid will make more money than most people in the sport that have overall wins. He doesn’t even need to win a race. Adapt and overcome. This is America.
Bikes aren't 99% of the equation, but they are more than 1% also.
If the bike truly meant nothing then no one would spend any money on mods, etc.
Pit Row
From bowlingball.com: Bowling is played in more than 80 countries located in all five Olympic Zones. With more than 100 million participants, 10 million competitors and 250 thousand bowling lanes it is one of the largest and best organized sports in the world.
I hate it that this is true but it is........
A bike doesn’t have to take a mid pack guy to the top of the podium to make a meaningful difference. It just has to give him an advantage over the next group of otherwise equal riders.
Put Tomac on 3 bikes. The first is a bone stock KX450, the next with maybe an aftermarket exhaust and revalved production suspension, and the third his factory bike. There’s zero chance that there isn’t a noticeable difference in speed and reduction in lap times as he moved from bike 1 through his bike.
If there wouldn’t be a difference, they wouldn’t spend the money on modifying his bike.
And no, I’ve never had a bike slow me down! My right wrist did that just fine on its own !
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