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has become. Weird. Twilight Zone. You have linked taking other peoples money-socialism/communism(by
gunpoint)( to the tune of hundreds of millions of deaths) to religion or just "good community". And somehow
(to you) it just seems natural.
My wife and I worked our asses off to pay for my daughters education. Fact. Your solution is to take other peoples
money. "Good community". Our pay stubs will have a new tax: Save The MX Privateers-3%
WTF tells their high performing kid hang it up dude, you are not going to be good enough at this to make a career. Believe me, I know, I wasn’t and these guys are fast and you are not. You better go to school and become something else, maybe a teacher or something that you don’t want to be. Maybe someone should have told Seeley, Peike, McGrath Dowd even Dungey that. They all started late and didn’t start at the top from what I remember. I know there is more but can’t think of them now. You’ll absolutely never have a shot if you are not there. You don’t know til you know, one way or the other, but if you can finish top 20 you should atleast be part of the game and get compensated for it.
Mean...outright...damn mean...
But, TRUE!
The Shop
I am a fan
If there are 40 spots for 40 PROFESSIONAL riders. Treat them as such! If it needs to be cut to 30 I am ok with that too but make it worth their while for providing the show for the entire day.
I have been sponsoring by buying product and bikes for 40ish years and yeah I have donated to privateers as well a couple times over the years.
That is all
People keep spouting “haha MXGP is a joke, look there’s only 20 riders on the line”
And I’m like you... “unless you can find another 20 riders who can go the speed of the top 5-10, then there’s no point in them being there, they add nothing.”
Until every household in the street owns & rides dirt bikes there will never be the money around our sport.
If you want to fix the money issues at the top of the sport, first fix selling dirt bikes to every household in America. And fix it so they can ride em!
Instead of comparing motorocross to the PGA it would be much more appropriate (realistic) to compare ourselves with professional Dart Players or Curling pros. See how many of them get to live well from being the best at their sport.
BTW the participant pool in motocross is extremely shallow compared to any mainstream sport. So to be in the top 20 in motocross you will have to rise about much fewer other competitors than you would have to in Golf, Football, Tennis etc.
That doesnt make Noah any less of a badass. He clearly is a highly talented rider and his willingness to live tough like that will help him succeed outside of dirtbiking too.
I know my answer. Do I admire those guys back there? Without a doubt. Do I think they deserve to be paid? Absolutely not. They are worth their market value. Motocross is a small market. The smaller the market the less money there is to go around. Simple economics. The problem with them getting paid has nothing to do with the sport but the outsiders coming in to the sport. It's a direct reflection of how much money is in the sport... enough for about 20 guys to make a living in each class. Maybe SX is the culprit. Maybe companies invest their money in the sport because of SX and MX is an afterthought. I know I certainly wouldn't invest any more than I had to if I only cared about 17/29ths of the races.
Old Vital: “Privateers are the backbone of our sport! How can we help them? MXGP is a joke with 20 rider gates!”
Vital Now: “Privateers? Eh, fuck em. Why should they get paid? Nobody cares about them. 20 rider gates would be fine. They suck anyways why even bother showing up”
Unreal. . .
I saw someone comparing our sport to darts, or curling, and apparently bowling is bigger than moto...did the GOAT of curling make as much money in his career as RC? Is the-almost-3 time National Dart thrower making as much money as Tomac? Are the top 10 bowlers in the world earning what the top 10 best moto guys are?
I don’t know the answer to those questions...but I’d have a hard time believing the answers are “yes”. (Maybe I’m wrong?)
But if our sport is the same “size” (however that’s determined) as those sports...and our elite riders are making significantly more money than their elite "athletes" (?)...Are we even asking the correct question? Rather than asking are privateers paid to little...maybe we should be asking...are the elites paid to much?
Pit Row
*Scores ZERO championship points, wants to get paid for being tied in 88th place with 115 other guys* is what I read.
They want money? Score points. This sport supports about 20 guys in each class. The points stop at 20/22. If you can't do that consistently you'll never make money in this sport. As it should be. There's 100's of guys who score zero points every year. They all deserve something because they failed and pissed away thousands of dollars not accepting reality??
Guys who consistently finish out of the points should be doing it for fun, not a living. You should only be doing it for a living if you can consistently score points.
*you’re
Oh! I am out of my shell every friggin weekend in the real world. You should get off the computer and go see it sometimes. 18,000 posts speaks volumes...
Have a nice day!
You are correct. I would be delusional if I thought 20,000+ fans show up to Unadilla to see some lappers fight over 32nd place.
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