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1/26/2012 2:44am
I was sitting 20 yards from the track on Saturday and couldn't tell who the Kawasaki rider was in third place for at least 3 laps. The front plates were muddy and the side plates are so small, us old guys can't read them.
Please help us geezers out and put some side numbers on the bikes that we can read. If thats not possible, how about passing out hand held scanners so we can read the transponders as the riders go past.
Please help us geezers out and put some side numbers on the bikes that we can read. If thats not possible, how about passing out hand held scanners so we can read the transponders as the riders go past.
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I like the fact that DC & Co. are trying new ideas.
That's how 1 & all improve & get better.
But from SX now to MX you can clearly see the differences,
in that the MX side plates do not work for me.
Just my opinion, but it's a no brainer !
Even the few that have sponsors on them, well you can't
really make heads or talis of them anyway, & still the
SX plates work & look to me more finished & professional.
Just look at a SX photo of Reed's bike. the #22 rings loud & clear........
In MX, a similar photo looks funny, "deformed" to me.
Bigger is better!
Dave O.
(someone smart photoshop this as an illustration please)
DC
MX Sports
All I know is I went to the Freestone national and my contacts fell out midway through the first moto and I had no trouble reading plates.
Did you have trouble during the first motos?
And I think if it wasn't for this crappy economy, the extra space would be filled with sponsors. Which, if I'm not mistaken, was the point, and once the economy turns I think they will.
(Aren't most of them blank just because nobody has ponied up the sponsorship dollars for the space?)
Maybe make the smaller numbers an option for the teams...if they want/have/need the sponsorship money, they might appreciate the extra real estate on the bike...if they don't have/want/need it, then they can run the larger numbers.
Anyway...
Pit Row
The sponsors are happy, the fans can see the #'s on the track. Everyone wins.
Maybe giving teams now a full off season of sponsor negotiations will allow them to use the sideplates to the fullest as was intended. But if teams dont use this space any better than they are right now, I would personally love to have them go back to the full size numbers. But Im old school, thru and thru.
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