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Moto is getting damn expensive, a local race day could cost a dad and kid $250+
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I got a kid that rides Supermini. It's only a class at LL. He can't ride with 85s (he smokes them) and while he's fast enough to ride with big bikes (and can beat many), the mass differential scares the $hit out of me. He gets one class at most race days (Schoolboy 1 & 2 add more classes right?) and often is stuck riding with slugs on 65s/85s that are just in his way at practice.
Me, I'm a 58 yo Vet Intermediate, not blazing fast by any means but very fit, and I'm fine doing 15-20 minute motos, 2x in a day. Most of the other old guys in my class are done in 8-10 minutes. But I don't want to line up with 40 year olds. Or worse, the 25+ Junior class they gated with 50+ Masters at a recent race I ran. Sheesh!
My other kid is slow as crap on an FC350. What class for him? Open Beginner I guess, which has no shortage of scrubbing sandbaggers feeding their egos.
It'd take a miracle to meet all my "needs", so we just go race, pick a class that seems to be safe, have a good time, and try not to bitch too much about the down time between motos or the $300 per day costs for gate, camping, and entries. We love to ride and race.
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There are a lot of problems in local MX as evidenced from the thread.
There is such poor announcing that only die hard people know what's going on. That's even if there is announcing. There is no announcing for a casual person let alone make the A class seem like something special to a local spectator.
I've been around since 1971. It has gotten way worse. There are no casual spectators. No body just shoes up to watch a show, like car racing, cause there is no show without a good announcer.
The sport has participants despite it having a very poor atmosphere for the participant. Today you need to get up at 4, leave by 5, drive, pull in at 730, sign up unload, practice ,sit around all day till 6 pm, then drive home.
You almost need a motorhome today where back in the day a pickup or van or God forbid, a 3 rail trailer would suffice. Try sitting from 930 till you load up all day in the sun in a pickup or van.
Wasn't like that in the 70's. Practice startedvatb11. Racing at 2 and done by 4. 6 classes. 125, 250 and open A and B. Usually had 300 to 400 races. And the sport grew fast.
Just spit balling......
Pretty much everyone here agrees the race day is too long, My point thru all of this is there's really no easy answer.
If there was we wouldn't be here talking about it.
And I'm not sure there is a good answer. As soon as you solve one issue it creates another.
Like I said earlier, as a promoter and a rider I see both sides. I don't like stting around all day either. But I love the sport, so I do it.
Our group has been promoting races since the 90's. We've brain stormed this until our heads hurt, And like many promoters we've never found a good solution.
There's only so much time in a day and when you have so many classes, and riders riding 2 or 3 of those classes it makes almost impossible to shorten the day.
Just remember, a track needs all the entries they can get to make it finacially. So if you cut classes you have to make that up somewhere, And I'm not convinced you could raise the fees to do it and not lose riders.
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