10/8/2018 7:26 PM
Edited Date/Time: 10/8/2018 7:30 PM
Thisusernameisavailable wrote:
Perhaps im not appreciating how relevant IG followers are? I dunno... does a huge quantity of IG followers translate directly ...more
Thisusernameisavailable wrote:
Perhaps im not appreciating how relevant IG followers are? I dunno... does a huge quantity of IG followers translate directly in to an increased salary?
From what I read here, superiors in America isn't hugely popular with the 'real' hardcore MX fans.. "Death-cross", "circus" are just a couple of names I read here.
What good is it having three times the IG followers if 'death-cross' is going to threaten the length of your career??
Interestingly, it'd be good to look in to how well Musquin is doing since moving stateside- he was factory KTM in Europe, moved to Factory KTM in US, lets assume he could be on Herling's type salary back in Europe.. Is he better off??
Fourth_Floor wrote:
Well, to simplify it, there are approximately 8-900,000 more people that know who Ken Roczen is and are interested enough in ...more
Fourth_Floor wrote:
Well, to simplify it, there are approximately 8-900,000 more people that know who Ken Roczen is and are interested enough in him to follow his page. It is probably safe to say that Roczen exposes motocross/supercross to more people than Herlings does. I don't know what these guys salaries are but I would have to think that Roczen has more sponsor and/or media related opportunities here than if he just stayed in Germany. After all, the US is the worlds leading consumers of media, by a lot.
The "deathcross" and "supercross sucks" stuff you hear on here are a select few chodes that just like to bitch. If the pro nationals here in America were "so much better" for the fans than supercross then they wouldn't be pumping so much money into and putting so much emphasis on SX, plain and simple. Supercross is a better "show", the racing is more intense (contact wise) and crashes are more extreme and frequent which makes it appeal more to your average person. Sad but true. I can get my wife to sit down and watch a Supercross race with me. Motocross? She could care less.
Motocross is like boxing and Supercross is like the UFC and what we seen this weekend was a dirt bike version of McGregor vs. Mayweather.
BMSOBx2 wrote:
Call me a chode then. SX is a bastardization of MX dumbed down for the masses who think hits on social media, more contact ...more
BMSOBx2 wrote:
Call me a chode then. SX is a bastardization of MX dumbed down for the masses who think hits on social media, more contact & extreme crashes to make it a "show" equates to popularity. That being the case these days I am glad I'm not an "average person". Wear your hat backwards, take your wife to SX where she can sip daquiris from the club level bar and not get dirt on her shoes & enjoy the UFC/MMA short attention span spectacle. Just don't call yourself an MX fan.
It’s not because of social media. Social media has only become important these past few years. America has the most MXDN wins, has produced the most winningest rider Jeff Ward tied with Great Britain’s Jeff Smith, RC destroyed your goat Stefan Everts, RV destroyed your other goat Cairoli, Roczen owned Heirlings then came to US, and supercross is what MXGP wishes it could immulate. Just look at Assen. Shit track but for the fans.
If you don’t enjoy seeing guys like Stew, RC, Reed, Windham, Rv, Dungey, Roczen, Tomac, Musquin put together timing and rhythms that fast and at that speed then how can you call yourself a “true”’ moto fan. Get out of here with that shit. I respect the hell out of MXGP guys, Heirlings and Cairoli are unreal, but respect the game on both ends and quit being a biased pompous ass. And that’s for all you euro haters, if you think sx is a clown show ask one of your euro gods to hit a Stew quad.
