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It's not a guarantee. It helps sure. You'd be better off coming from money with a million dollar motorhome and getting 6th, than being poor(ish), wearing mismatched gear, with a van in the woods and getting 1st.
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Holy shit . . . Man, I can't even afford to do Mammoth! Luckily I wouldn't even be able to qualify for either of them
so I'm cool!! But yeah, that's a fair chunk of change!
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And all you butthurt guys saying everything's great, North Florida averages $10 an hour. Right now. Trade jobs are hard to come by, so they can pay lower wages as there are so many people looking. Top scale is about $14 an hour. Try living and paying for your Four stroke rebuild on that!
Some of you live in areas that are doing well. Good for you. The bubble will burst, as it always does. Save and invest for those days ahead, or your retirement. It comes at you pretty fast. And pray you don't get serious health problems.
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Don’t think it’s a stretch to assume the same would apply to a sport like MX leaving us to watch the fastest kids of business owners that happen to be in the minority of wealthy/highly educated families that allow their kids to participate in a sport viewed as “risky”
Guess we should prepare ourselves for avg lap times of 2min in SX and 4min in MX by the time the 2030’s come around. Haha.
To me, that isn't a lot of money if you treat the week like a vacation. I've never been there, but if you think of the experience and all of the people you'll meet and bench race with, priceless.
I wish I would have spent more time trying to get there, but with kids that weren't that into racing, other priorities took over.
Spend it, enjoy it, and remember it. If you don't, eventually, you'll wish you did.
I very quickly learned riding with those guys that they are no joke. They are talented and riding between two trees with barely enough clearance on either side while hauling ass doesn't phase them. Stumps and tree roots do not bother them. If it hasn't rained it gets crazy dusty - doesn't matter - they plow through it. If it rains you get a sea of mud. No worries. They'll either find a way around or go through it.
One other thing I noticed when I was riding in the woods was just the joy that comes with riding. I could go for miles and not see anyone. It was just me enjoying a dirt bike like when I was a kid. No pressure, no kid trying to use me for a berm. So I'm not saying you should go out and try a HS, but you should just go ride those trails you were talking about and just enjoy it. If you do ride a HS - prepare to have your ass kicked and to be 7 pounds lighter at the end.
Been riding mx since 3, racing mx since 4, and racing xc since 10. Made it to LL in C class and 2 stroke in 2013. Hung up the boots for college after. Getting back into now as a fresh college grad with a nice degree and a good paying job and even today I don't see the reason to hit the mx track and pay $20-60 for 20-45 min of riding when I could do a local offroad race, enter pro class at $50 and get 2 hours of seat time with a chance to win $300 on the day. I won 250 pro at our second state series race in May and only made $80. Didn't even cover my entry and gate fee!
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