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Ever looked into what club soccer or basketball costs? How about a traveling baseball team? Well over a grand just to register...then all the travel, camps, etc.
LL’s is the premier amateur race in the nation...it’s for the best of the best...that seems pretty reasonable.
It’s not cheap to do anything at a top level.
If I couldn’t afford $575/month for ballet, I’d put my daughter in a weekly combo class at much lower quality studio and pay $70/month. Is hate someone to look at what I spend and have that prevent them from putting their daughter in ballet...because for 99% for dancers that $70/month studio is all they will ever need and would be perfect for them. For 99% of riders...the cost of LL’s shouldnt scare them.
I've also figured out why there were so few Civil War battles in south Georgia and north Florida. Can you imagine being in those heavy ass wool uniforms marching around with a rifle that weighs no less than ten pounds, plus your gear, plus if you were fighting for the south you had to forage half the time for your food. In these woods? There's vines that will hang you (happened to me once riding in the woods!) There's funky looking spider webs hanging in the trees at about face height, blackberry bushes with their nasty thorns every dang where, strange insects no one has named, giant mosquitos and the relentless heat and humidity. Nah, the Yanks and the Rebs me thinks said, "Let's fight a bit further north."
The Shop
Or maybe just Glen Helen will have free practice that week
MX is still less expensive than every other motorsport.
Here is some perspective I just encountered: Yesterday I went to Hershey Park, an amusement park in central Pennsylvania, for a single day. Two kids, two adults, but since the kids are over 9 it was full-pop, which is $68.95 per ticket, $275.80 before taxes. It also cost $25 to park a car. So that's a little more $300 for one day at an amusement park, and that doesn't count food, which you are not allowed to bring into the park in your own coolers or bags. It was hot all day, and it ended up being another $95 in food and drinks. The park closed at 10 p.m. so we stayed in a hotel.
Loretta Lynn's is not an ordinary event, but I think it's a fair price for all that comes with it, given that it's a weeklong motocross event with all of the best riders in the country. I appreciate that you are coming this year and I hope you and your family have a great time there at the ranch, and good luck in your motos.
DC
Racer X
DC
Racer X
So it’s a rich mans sport and white trash fans at southwick...I’m so confused
My family is middle class and calendar year 2018 was our best ever. And this year is on pace to do better.
Real estate is slow? My sister is an agent and she is absolutely killing it right now.
Could it all tank and change tomorrow? Yep, absolutely. But, that is the nature of the beast. Always has been, always will be. Right here, right now though we are doing better than ever.
I also don't agree that someone like Stewart wouldn't have made it. LL's is the pinnacle of the amature scene. Unless you have a good shot at doing really well what is the point of going unless it's just for the experience? If you are going for the experience and have the dollars than that's fine but chances are if you have a shot at doing really well you are getting some help on bikes/parts/gear etc.
Pit Row
$100 a class, and a week camping for as many as you can bring for $375, what are you expecting?
I would much rather spend thousands racing some Canadian nationals or AMA nationals, but I let my son make the decisions and he loves going to LL's so we agreed to go one more time. Some people love it. I just happened to be one of those that doesn't. To each their own.
And on that to each their own concept, I saw in another thread about the costs of riding facilities that you pay $50K a year just to have your son live and train at a place down south. That's $1,000 per week. I would rather spend $632 to spend a week at Loretta Lynn's racing than $1K a week anywhere else because I'm sure I would learn much, much more about what I need to do as a racer at the ranch than I would anywhere else. Granted, it's just one week, but I am one of those people who loved it as a racer, and now as one of the organizers.
I hope you and your son enjoy your last time there and have a great week of racing, then hopefully we will see you soon at some of these outdoor nationals.
DC
Racer X
Are you an axe grinder by trade?
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