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But not in Casey, Illinois! Round 2 of the Fly Racing Showdown series is taking place here at Lincoln Trail tomorrow morning. As of 6pm tonight, there were already more than 1,000 entries for the race tomorrow. As a matter of fact, they have so many riders, they warned us that to expect the racing to continue into Monday to accommodate everyone and avoid cutting laps. Time to get to bed...
The Shop
Got a couple new practice tracks in my area dug fresh out of the dirt this winter/spring. It actually got me looking at what's around for used MX bikes. Just wish it happened when I was 30 years younger, not sure a bike buy is in my cards again.
Go out and hit some turns my man, smell the fuel, the loamy dirt, the atmosphere of people living, the ache and pains
still have been impressive compared to last years races.
Pit Row
Examples would be during the late 70's, especially the last 2 years of the carter administration when interest rates and unemployment were both in double digits.
Late 80's, saw a downturn and mx growth.
9/11 I was promoting races and other than the week after, numbers picked up.
The '07 recession was completely different, starting in mid '07, numbers absolutely nosedive and remained low into '09, and hadn't really shown any recovery until a year or two ago.
Even then the numbers were tricky because a lot of tracks had closed several years ago, so saying wow, 600 entries, didn't mean as much when 10 years ago several places within an hours drive might have been pulling those numbers.
I believe the big difference in the great recession was so many were racing funded by second mortgages and the transition to 4 strokes.
It is awesome to see strong numbers and certainly hope they stay that way.
Unfortunately after being an economic casualty of the great recession, I do have doubts that they will stay high when the long term economic reality of the covid 19 crisis really hits.
Aches and pains get a lot worse when you're knocking on the door to 60. Definitely have the urge, the body be another thing.
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