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1/5/2020 7:59pm
Ok so I have been thinking about ways to help our sport. First I would attack the low hanging fruit. I've been thinking about this one thing for a while.
Today out at village Creek MX ft worth TX. Although I don't mind paying 30 for organized practice I would like the facility to put the effort in.
1 no more porta potty bathroom. My wife and daughters are so much better than that. Come on how can we be taken serious when we don't even provide brick and mortar bathrooms at the local levels.
Before anyone says anything I have owned and operated my own MX facility. Yes I had porta potty. I had a women's only and two for men.
30 per rider should equal proper track maintenance, flaggers, and medic staff on site. Which village always provides.
What are some other suggestions y'all can think of.
Another thing it our attitudes it's either win or nothing, we should recognize that all participants are doing something they love, we love and treat each other with respect. At the professional level why do we only concentrate on the podium finishers. All of these guys including us lay it on the line each time we go out.
Interview 4th 5th and so on get their take on things.
Ok I will stop rambling
Today out at village Creek MX ft worth TX. Although I don't mind paying 30 for organized practice I would like the facility to put the effort in.
1 no more porta potty bathroom. My wife and daughters are so much better than that. Come on how can we be taken serious when we don't even provide brick and mortar bathrooms at the local levels.
Before anyone says anything I have owned and operated my own MX facility. Yes I had porta potty. I had a women's only and two for men.
30 per rider should equal proper track maintenance, flaggers, and medic staff on site. Which village always provides.
What are some other suggestions y'all can think of.
Another thing it our attitudes it's either win or nothing, we should recognize that all participants are doing something they love, we love and treat each other with respect. At the professional level why do we only concentrate on the podium finishers. All of these guys including us lay it on the line each time we go out.
Interview 4th 5th and so on get their take on things.
Ok I will stop rambling
TIA
The Shop
In my opinion it all comes down to money and with less and
less people joining the sport financially the sport is struggling.
If they need to raise prices to do it, they’re doing it wrong.
I don’t know about you guys, but if a facility is supreme and the track is bogus I’m going riding elsewhere. I want good soil, fun obstacles, and line choices. Doesn’t bother me if the pits aren’t mowed, there’s no shade, bad shitters, poorly marked entrance... whatever. Spend every possible second on the thing that brings me there in the first place.
My number one gripe is promoters not cracking down on people riding the wrong practice. But that doesn’t prevent me from going riding at the awesome tracks.
Are more people really needed or necessary?
I mean, is that not a big part of the problem?
People riding on land not their own, tearing the woods up, pissing off just about all that aren't into it?
Ask yourself, why do I race?
Is it to impress others? Or the love of mixing it up.
Will more people get me more seat time, or more time waiting in line?
I think what we are missing, if u want more numbers,
is the rebel without a cause, #338, somewhat daredevil, or devil may care attitude.
Snowboarders have it. What are the bicycle guys that do the big tricks stuff called. BMXers? They have it. Surfers have it.
None of those guys seem to care about hot running water and flush toilets.
Why do we?
I say what the sport needs, if u want more people,
is a bit more of the Burning Man attitude.
Somehow, get it a little less politically correct, straight laced and proper, and a little more wild, and how can I put it, fun. In a rebellious kind of way.
Just my 2 cents.
Pit Row
Like I said I was the owner of milamceeek MX park in Denton Texas, also ran Athens MX park in Athens TX. Septic tank is 3500. Cinder block rr 8500. 12k investment. Also not singling out one thing wanting to help the sport grow new ideas and the fact that I'm getting this kind of response is exactly why it is going to fade into the sunset.
Just some words from the newly crowned Douche
Breezewood is fun with the only downside being youll have to share the track with quads. I miss having Mondays off and riding there. I had the whole place, track and pond, to myself. It was like my own personal facility for only $40 at the time.
Its seems in Australia the local cricket/AFL fields are managed by the local councils, which means parking, playing and bathroom facilities are mostly covered.
I lived as the caretaker of the motocross track in Alice Springs in the middle of Australia and any piece of building or infrastructure came from government grants, either local or state sports, infrastructure, or community development grants. Without this it wouldn't have been possible for the club to have descent and accessible facilities. Is this how it works in other states in Aus?
Are community development or sports grants something thats available in America?
Politicians and track requirements needed by them and their engineers made it not feasible.
Felt sorry for the guy, he put a lot of time and effort into it.
His motivation was the shutting down of legal riding areas in the Western part of the state. This was done so Maryland could classify the forests out there as virgin or whatever, which increased their value and raised the bond rating the State now gets
for it. So they, the State, can borrow more money.
Sure, Annapolis, the state Capitol and their zoning/grant money paid him lip service for a few years, but they just killed him with rules, regulations
and applications till he just gave it up.
Shame really, he had plans for half a dozen tracks,
that would have been kinda State run, but they really did not want it. Not like they did the forests and bond ratings, that's for sure.
So they killed it, in a nice kind of way.
This sport will always be a stone age sport.
Roczen of all dudes ive been around is one of the very few class acts out there and for awhile there a few years back I thought he would single handedly change this sport. He has done a lot!!
With guys like Dungey and Dean Wilson who go around and bring awareness not to just grow our sport but to make change in community is what this sport needs. Both of these guys do it with selflessness and from different perspectives.
We need guys in this sport with a big platform to step up like the guys mentioned who bring in outsiders. This is what will bring awareness to our sport and attract the viewer to want to tune in.
Shut down in 08
The part of your post that mimics the "same trophies for everyone" dogma isn't even worth engaging about......
Listen all, what I'm saying is that we are in the 21st century the simple things like indoor plumbing is a good thing. Not the only thing mentioned.
Point of the 15 per rider is now it's doubled and I own a battery distribution business that for 28 years I have put money back into and is very successful.
Point is there is opportunities for track owners including myself to put money back in to their facilities. However this topic was started so that we could think together not point fingers at one another.
Have we moved past the ability to just have a open discussion about improvements. Damn, and if you know me you know how much I support MX
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