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Titan1 Liked a reply to forum topic Am I the only one that doesn’t want to “Grow our sport”?

5/26/2021 10:15am

This sport will never grow to be anything close to Nascar or NFL or NBA...to do that, it needs eyeballs watching on television...and that's never going to happen, because unless someone participates in the sport, its boring to watch on TV. (I participate in the sport, and have followed the sport for nearly 30 years, and I think its boring to watch on TV most of the time...so how can we expect some middle class, middle America family to be channel surfing on a saturday evening and come across a race, and actually find it interesting enough to not just...

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Gumby Started a new thread Am I the only one that doesn’t want to “Grow our sport”?

5/26/2021 9:26am

Unpopular opinion, but we constantly hear the same trope of “we need to do X to grow this sport into the mainstream” Maybe its just me but does noone else see that resulting in Our riders becoming more corporatized, Moto coming under even more legal fire from the outside, and having “Black Lives Matter” spray painted down the start straight...

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kage173 Liked a reply to forum topic Am I the only one that doesn’t want to “Grow our sport”?

5/26/2021 8:37am

I have no desire to grow the sport at the professional level. But I have every desire to grow our sport at the amateur and local level.

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OtotheB178 Liked a reply to forum topic Am I the only one that doesn’t want to “Grow our sport”?

5/26/2021 5:39am

It has to be accessible and not cost prohibitive. This translates to more tracks and cheaper grass roots racing. Now let's be real, motorsport of any kind is always somewhat elitist due to it's nature. However the current cost of new bikes has also driven up the cost of secondhand bikes, to levels that 'average' people don't want to spend. Especially not if their intention is for a weekend blast around a sand pit or woods. There's a financial, and therefore total, commitment to the sport that is too much for 'average joe'. This is without the cost of racing...

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