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Wait so you went there, stayed there, paid dry camping and left the next day? I have to be reading this wrong.
I used gas as a metric more so. Diesel is down too.
What I’m trying to say is that for regular dudes the juice isn’t worth the squeeze often times. If prices rise your clientele does too. Ferrari doesn’t have tons of dealers because not many can afford it and our sport is going the same way.
You can defend the tracks and call me broke if you want - but guess what? Neither of us will be riding.
The business owner in me would rather take a loss on people who think like you anyhow. The fact that 10 dollars makes you ride one less time per week shows you don't have the type of customer/brand loyalty I would want to cultivate anyhow. I get your point, but from an owner standpoint see you later.
Riding Pax tomorrow…don’t care how much they charge…see that dirt! Be cranking some tragically hip on the 3hr drive…
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Regular dudes can afford $8k-$12k for a bike, hundreds, if not thousands of dollars for accessories, but can't afford $50 to ride? Come on. What do you think is a fair price to ride several hours on a MX track?
And from a real life standpoint, see you on the MTB trail dawg😂😂😂
They’re dirtbike tracks. Not everything is about cultivation these days.
You paint the picture as if guys are yearly cutting $8,000 checks to a dealer in cash then crying about $5 at the track.
Most of us have been building bike equity for years now. Have been gifted some gear, saved for some parts, splurged on that pipe.. etc.
the rub comes in on the slow bleed. It’s hard to justify more and more and more every single month to do this. For me, I’m on the verge of just calling it done because of the amount of financial territory that motocross keeps demanding on me. I’m not sure why this is a hard concept to understand. If your insurance went up 20% every 6 months would you never ask questions?
And puts Rotella in his bike too.
You know what I would do if my Insurance went up at a track I ran? Raise the rates....
If you ride 30 times a year at 40 a pop its $1200. Rates go to 50 its $1500. That is $25 extra dollars a month over 12 months.
You talk about the slow bleed but have absolutely no thought about the track owners dealing with the same thing. Tractor parts go up, labor rates go up, taxes go up, insurance goes up, inflation goes up. But yea, Owen Jakes is the only one that deals with it i guess.
I have a small business. The products I install had 3 price increases from the manufacturer this past year. By your logic I guess I should just eat the price increases and not make a living....
Oh and I see you chose not to answer the question. How much should a practice session cost to ride? You must not have an answer that satisfies you.
I forgot lol relax. I think depending on the area it differs. I’m not going to comment on California because I’ve never been and am ignorant.
Here in the south I think $30 is reasonable. Maybe as you trend to more expensive areas $35. Florida maybe $40.
What isn’t mentioned in here are places like motobros that have gate fees. If you bring your wife that’s $70. Kids wanna come? $90+.
Jealous!!!!
Pax is only 10-15 minutes from my house, but I broke my ankle there Thanksgiving weekend and am still on the shelf.
Serious question, what percentage of tracks do you think actually have insurance?
One thing I appreciate at tracks that are a bit more expensive (besides the fact they’re usually well prepped and maintained) is very little if any squids that pull their duct taped clapped out marketplace deal of the week bike outta the shed looking to come get that d class factory ride while they torpedo anything that moves on the track. Generally you’ll find serious moto people with better track etiquette and bikes that stuff isn’t falling off.
When tracks hit the $40 dollar entry fee as a single guy it was kind of shocking but then look at all the variables you’ve all mentioned and it makes since. These are business’s not charities. But now that I have three young boys all falling in love with motorcycles themselves I knew we couldn’t ride but maybe once a month as a family. $200 bucks to get in the gate before all other expenditures is just not feasible. Not even going to get into the cost of racing mx, again not bitching this is a luxury activity. So we just completely pivoted to off road. Race weekends are a few hundred dollars in entry fees for well ran cross country racing with more seat time you can handle. If you’ve never given it a chance and your kiddos aren’t chasing LL then I highly suggest a family weekend in the sticks!
Only my 2nd time ever at Pax….it was very soft & rutted today….I sucked….
$50 is the limit for me. I’m happy to pay $40 for a good prep.
I shredded berms and jumps for 3 hours on my e bike today, it cost me 0. But some moto every now and again is good.
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I might head down in March. The SE is heating up by then. Any tracks in the SE hv a lot of open riding & racing on the weekend? Club MX or a budget place ?
Hot club mx. you should start a instagram and post daily footage.
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Is golf that expensive? My kid just got into it, seems pretty cheap so far. We’ve gone to the range a lot, $10 for 150 balls. Then we’ve gone and played 18 holes 3 times so far, was like $45 total with golf cart. I’m sure the nicer courses are a lot more, still seems way cheaper than moto.
He only needs one set of clubs for golf, right now he has 6 85’s to train/race full time
I personally think $50 to ride for 5-6 hours, for a well maintained track in this day in age is a bargain.
What im about to say isn't apples to apples, but its a reality today. Life in the states has gotten expensive. I used to be a service manager at a local shop, we had 7 lines. I made a good living, but due to a extremely stressful environment and losing love for the sport, among other things, I decided to walk away after 11 years.
I had a part time business during that time, in which ive now been running full time. Im a small guy, 3-5 employees at any given time. But let me tell you something, I feel like I bleed money out of every orfus of my body. Running a business is expensive. Im grateful for what I have, and all my clients that support me. I have a 3 man mowing crew, my minimum to drop my tailgate is $50. Thats about 8-12 minutes with 3 guys. I dont live in a high end area, most people don't hesitate to pay it.
Be grateful these $50 areas are around to ride. And the owners that invest their lives into them. Tracks and riding areas are closing everywhere. Theres a reason for that. $30 isn't cutting it. And to be honest, i bet $50 isn't even xlose to making them earn nearly as healthy a living as you may think. Some may be just getting by.
I understand your concern, just understand why these facilities are $50 now, I agree with others. Anything else is a bargain or its not well maintained. Good luck in finding some other spots.
I,m not worried about the 50 , I make it back on the weekend. The rides all week are Free then. Would b nice if it was 10 bucks on wed, Thurs & 20 Fri- sun . Like Dyracuse in Wisconsin Rapids. Deep sand hills threw the woods main track, I ride the SX track , 700 acres of trails too.
I am a Canadian from Ontario and have been to many trips down south. It does suck to have to exchange our dollar but where else are you able to ride on really nice or decent tracks during the winter months? We would usually stop at Tomahawk MX on the way down and back for a couple days, Chad is an amazing owner and the track is basically a national type track. I think he has bumped his fees to $60 or $100 CAD but well worth it in my opinion. North Carolina is probably the best State because of the amount of tracks ranging from $25-$50. West Craven, Weinerts, Countyline, NCMP etc.. For Florida we have sampled almost all of them and would end up just going to PAX because it's the best track and it's open during the week. As far as the $50 fee, you can go to a track like West Craven for about $25 but I would much rather pay $50 for PAX or Tomahawk.
and we wonder why tracks and track owners disappear on a regular basis. thinking the only cost is maintaining the facility. didn't see any thoughts about property taxes, payments, or any of the other vested interests in their programs let alone the mere fact that anyone of them has the broad exposure to a legal battle at any time. insurance...............etc staff, then you get to equipment. now is 50.00 to much who knows depends what you like to do and what you can afford. But if you think 50 is high, get ready as nothing in the last 15 years has stayed the same and if so won't be around long.
Don't want opinions, careful what you ask about. Seems that opinions are like. well you know the saying.
We live the dream, with 2 facilities, we don't charge that much and don't complain about what we do charge or what others do. just seems to me that it's pretty damn cool to have options. It won't be long and those options will be few and far between.
Without tracks we have nothing but private backyards and trails. Get to know your track owners and most will be happy to share their burdens with you. Those that think its just diesel to flatten a track are not even worth arguing with here.
Most every track owner is charging as low as they can to stay afloat. I'm sure there is a greedy few but I've never met one. Even at $50 a practice day, its $10 per time you hit the track if you do 5 motos. That's dirt cheap fun. I get everyone has their limits, but i can tell you I would sure hate to see the track owners hit their limit of not being able to afford insurance then me have a extra $10-20 in my packet at the end of a ride day.
Hey guys these responses are wild. Please read the very first post I started. We can justify pricing in so many ways and most understand the costs associated with motocross riding. I,m looking for tracks,trails or even nice free areas with some sand pit fun(Croom is just ok)that offer affordable riding at around a $30 usd fee I can afford. I don’t need perfectly groomed at all, I ride at a vet A level and love the rough track workout and skills involved. MX191 for example is perfect.The $50 plus 42% currency exchange is too expensive for me as I plan to continue eating,driving,camping out and riding. I appreciate the referral to Styx River in the post. Will likely start some winter riding off at monster mountain and then around 2 hours south and I’m at mx191 Milton.I will be visiting as far south as Pax trax driving from west Florida to east then north. Damn no Tampa sx this year, that was definitely a highlight of visiting last winter.
As this sport thrusts upward into higher 'echelons' of earners and coagulates towards the top, those of you who do continue to participate can look forward to exponential price increases as time goes on. Less participants means the revenue per participant needs to increase - the customer bears that burden. If you're defending at 50 today, be sure to defend at 80 in a few years also (:
Ironically enough, you're paying that exchange rate for every single thing you do when you're down here. I'm sure it sucks, but the track and other facility owners have nothing to do with it. That's a problem our respective governments have created. Your money is at a 42% discount to ours. Our money is worth 25% less in real purchasing power than it was 5 years ago. It sucks all around.
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