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Edit- here ya go http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/07/16/unemployment-…
Or he's just grumpy...
The Shop
If you look at youth football or hockey, the participation rate is through the roof...the inclusionary attitude and "check you ego at the door" help to make those sports accessible. Current shitty exclusionary attitude in mx makes it the last thing you want to be involved in. When I was growing up as a kid I showed up alone at the track....people would go out of their way to help me up the learning curve. Quite the opposite of the treatment you'd receive showing up as a new to the sport 14 year old today.
Democrats scream we need to do something about words and hurt feelings.
We are raising a society of lazy pussies. It is no surprise that participation at the local level is down.
To blame that on the SX series is just silly. Sure, there are drunken idiots at the races, but each stadium is in charge of that.
I'm sick of hearing about how little the "20th place guy" makes. If more eyes are on the sport (they are) and riders aren't using that to make more money, they should find another profession. Ask 7DeuceDeuce about how to make money in this sport.
Sorry for taking the bait
Sad as it is Professional racing isn't pulling many people into the sport. The few that it may be attracting find out very quickly it's $8000 bucks to buy a new bike and a another $1000 for gear. Then they find there are few, if any places, to learn to ride (the local mx track practice day is a piss poor place for learning to ride) if they get to the point where they are ready to race a local event it's $75 dollars for 2 5 lap motos. Such a deal!! Even if you don't want to race, good luck finding a place to just ride.
My first ride on a DirtBike was in a open field down the street from my friends house on a Honda trail 70. We "built" some jumps with a shovel and spent all afternoon telling each other how awesome we where and then split the beer he stole from his dad's garage fridge. Freaking awesome and totally hooked. Unfortunately those days are over and I'm pretty sure the "sport" of motocross is doomed too. Pretty sad.
On 2nd thought maybe we should all be buying GuyB gifts since he is saving everyone from wasting their time talking about politics.
And of course this is just my interpretation of his article.
jimmie-accurate interpretations are not allowed here in the spin zone. First warning. Keep this up and the orange helmet posts will come your way
Wonder if we can get Shaun Simpson back for that? No GPs from June 26 to June 24, so he could do both RedBud and Southwick -- and he is excellent in the sand. Shaun would probably be stoked on getting some prize money too!
(And we pay our flaggers, as well as the riders, Rock.)
DC
I wasn't aware MX Sports paid the Glen Helen and Hangtown Dirt Diggers National flagging crews.
Pit Row
What that lib posted made no sense,bush's fault,minimum wage,socialist running sx, guess the squirrel needed another couple nuts to get the wheel back up to speed there.
And the flagger that everyone raved about at Loretta Lynn's got a nice bonus as well as some MX swag. He will be back and he will be a manager there, along with Ricky from the Brett Downey Safety Foundation.
And like SX, we are looking at helmet protection for flaggers as well.
DC
Flaggers are the oft overlooked backbone of MX.
I always look forward to the "real" motocross season, but Supercross has eroded the image and reputation of the sport in a way that can't be reversed. Supercross just sucks. Now that we have half-decent TV coverage of MXGP in the United States, I can ignore Supercross. Well, other than to see who gets hurt and misses the motocross season.
There will always be mistakes and mishaps, and we try as hard as we can to fix them and change whatever have to in order to prevent it from happening again. I am sure SX does as well, but there's a lot going on out there at any given moment.
DC
And add a 125 race to certain nationals...
DC
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