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7/5/2012 7:28pm
Driving up to go to Redbud Friday night to watch some amateur racing, and then of course to stay and camp for the national Saturday. Went on their site and just amazed that its $80 dollars to park a small VW gti and set up a tent to camp. Not to mention the $55 a piece for Friday night / Saturday pass. So for my buddy and self to go is $190, and that's just getting you in not counting food / beer! All I can say is wow... Your thoughts?
I agree OP, it really sucks. ( although not quite as bad here, but still........)
The Shop
What does it cost to go to a NASCAR event?
Ever gone to an FIM event?
It costs money to put these events on.
Why does EVERYONE expect this shit to cost little or nothing?
Do what you can afford and RIDE as much as you can!
Nice.
The hundreds of extra workers.....they cost money.
The permits from the town........they cost money
The extra fencing and security........they cost money.
Advertising the event........money
A couple hundred porta cans........money.
Police on the entrance roads........money.
The landscaping and clean up to meet the promoter specs........money
Shall I continue?
The folks that own Red Bud aren't getting rich off this one event.
many complaind the us series was a bush league, looked like one and was ran like one even roger decoster
complained budds was a garbage dump or something to that effect so when we won coombs went on a spruce it up
campain or so it seems and has been making the events look like f1 or the olympics to appease those that
bitched hell glen helen was a casualty of the movement when they wouldn't man up to what the masses
demanded this and the fact that a 16oc coke now costs $1.59 and a gallon of milk 4 bucks, well,what does everyone expect?
it really does boil down to supply and demand.
Pit Row
Now let's see if there is rain in the forecast, and 10,000 people decide not to come because there is bad weather on the channel 5 news..
After last year of running the sewer truck, water truck, trash collectors down the road cause they wanted to skim off their profits so they all packed up and left and left the campers with no services for 5 days (remember Fros comment on the podium, "this is the first shower these people have had in 5 days", he wasn;t lying) we will not be returning to camp or race at Red Bud after going to this race for the last 5 years.
A fair price Guy B, how about last years price with a 3% raise for inflation, although my paycheck didn;t get that same annual raise. That price is double what it was last year. 100% inflation, wow!
I am sure they are raising their prices to make up for the families they ran off last year. NONE of the people we use to go with or know say they are returning this year. That's about 10 families. Thats a several thousand dollar loss
4th of July weekend at the MX track, I can;t think of a better time to get shit faced drunk and howl at the moon, but this race has gotten out of hand and it is just not our cup of tea anymore and really no place to bring a family unless you are gonna leave every night and return the next day.
Just my $.02
thats what about $280 so you get 4 days for $70 each thats not to bad when you think of the price of a day at at a waterpark or zoo.shit even the cinema costs that over here
A weekend pass is 50 euro's for adults and 5 euro for kids below the adge of 12. And camping is 15 euro's a night. So with 2 adults and two kids for a two day's of racing is 150 euro's. That's about 200 dollars.
I'm doing fine right now and I assure you that is nothing like getting rich.
There are 16 rounds of the series and perhaps only Beto Carrero can be considered "SX"... but then that's in probably the best motocross facility on the planet so...
With tracks like Fermo, Sevlievo, Uddevalla, St Jean, Loket, Matterley, Faenza, Teutschenthal all being on hillsides/valleys and Lierop / Valkenswaard being sand... this whole SX-track argument is about 3 years old because we're not going to Turkey, Ireland or Donington any more
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