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I am just asking an opionion. Do you guys think with the falling economy here in the us and the fact that nascar teams are finding it very hard to find sponsors to pay for everything.http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2008/10/18/sports/doc48f9a905c4763215566777.txt.. Would our big sponsors in sx,mx end up pulling out.
Personaly I would love to see the entire mx industry tank and resurface back to the grass roots, obscure, no money, low cost, way of things.
Old school? Bet your ass. This sport was f'en awesome 20 years ago. Great 10 years ago. And a pathetic moist pile of shit today.
10 thousand dollars for a parent to put a kid on the line in 250C class? Get a f'en clue folks!
For what it cost to race 5 seasons of amature mx in the B class you can pay for a 4 year state college education. Any guess on where the smart money is?
Next year we are no longer racing. Buying 3 memberships at local tracks and riding all day every chance we get. No more new bikes. No more AMA memberships, No more district fees. NO more race entries. No more 10 hour drives for 15 laps of riding.
It is not only the economy.
It is the big 5 thinking the average racer has $10 thousand dollars to race.
Very few of the changes are for the better. Costs are out of control, tons of idiot families leveraging themselves to the hilt just to participate.
Progress!
The Shop
Must.....get....trophies.
A used two stroke and an old pickup truck is all you need.
4 strokes caused me to quit racing MX. . . just too damn expensive for the upkeep, and they sound like shit too. My love and motivation died when the 2 stroke was phased out.
Kawasaki does'nt even make a KX 250 any more!
You should see what dicks we look like, coming to the track in our pick-up, parking near the 6 figure RV's. And our busted ass cooler - it's not OUR THING any longer. That's all I know.
The next couple years are going to be very interesting in a lot of motor sports.
Thank you Yamaha! I'm a YZ owner!
Pit Row
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that English wasn't your major in college.
I do have to agree with the general cost sentiment in this thread. Add in the danger of today's tracks, and it's no surprise my son and I are much more into trailriding, with the occasional run around the MX track on practice days only.
I am surprised that a 125 only series hasn't popped up in the US like it has in GB. I know the 250F's are faster, but if everyone is on a 125, then it really doesn't matter if the 250F is faster, does it?
That's a big reason we've gone to racing Hare Scrambles more! My 15 y.o. gets 1.5 hours plus a practice lap of 6-8 miles, depending on the course. I get 2 hours plus a practice lpa of 8-12 miles depending on the couse in the Vet class! I have a much more relaxing, fun time at the scrambles than the MX. Hell if we want to ride MX I have a professionaly built track on the back part of my property and 3 tracks within 2 hours! As far as racing goes, the off raod stuff is really fun!
What a great thread.
I have been around the sport since the early '80's.
Started promoting races in 1995.
It is a completely different sport now run by the most incredibly short sighted idoits imaginable.
$3000 rebuilds
Bikes with no resale
From the 50cc's to the 450's, Beginners riding bikes that require absolutely no ability to go fast enough to get messed up.
no noise limts until 2010? Opps....10 years too late.
Every new race track I know of is in danger of being closed.
Existing tracks can't even pay the bills.
Our sport most get simplified and return to it's place as the most affordable motorsport.
make the 50 class affordable again. High end machines require 10-15 hours of maintainance a week. Who can do that?
Tracks need to offer classes that make the 125s competitive.
I currently offer 150 B, C, & D classes for 125 2 strokes & 150F's. They are growing.
Next year I might add a class or two just for 250 2 strokes.
We have to do something to keep our sport from turning into freaking Polo.
The polo comment was exactly what i was meaning with the elitist thing.
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