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if you read this I guess it's settled, next time just show your tits.
What other professional sport that has as large of an audience as we do requires that of their athletes. Most other sports offer per diems, provide logistical support, pay their athletes a minimum and more. Feld seems to use them up and spit them out while relying on the factories, gear companies, and everyone else to pay for their athletes.
To me this may be the start of something bigger. If you get more guys to think like him you may some day get to have a union and have it better for all racers, which could help give us better racing to watch.
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They need to have a long term vision for the sport or we will die within the next 10 years. With the cost of healthcare sky rocketing every year, when will the parents of these kids tell them they can't insure them anymore? No insurance may mean no racing. I wonder how many of the racers under 26 are still on their parents insurance?
I know it's sort of off topic, but to me this is what Ryan was making a statement about. The industry needs these riders just as much as the riders need the industry. Nothing is free so why not try to make things better. The guys making all the money don't want to rock the boat. The fringe guys that may fill in or get a factory ride won't because it may limit where they can go, so it's only these guys at Ryan's level that can make statements like this and try to get change started. Without them, you'll have 15 - 20 person gates every week.
Does Wal-Mart sell golf clubs and that edition of sports illustrated? Asking for a friend.
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Ryan should wear the jeans again but this time put some chaps on over them or even some assless chaps without the jeans if he prefers. That may solve his problem and pull in LBGTQ viewers and support or possibly even sponsorship! Ha Ha
Back to Ryan. Would he be better off wearing his favorite gear and then composing an intelligent letter to that gear rep and ask them for some sponsorship? I just don’t see the jeans accomplishing anything to reach his goal
But will it affect the sport at all? I don’t think so. Look at F1....20 or so cars on the grid. NASCAR lines up with 40 and there r 10 of those that should not even be on the track. You don’t necessarily need quantity to make a sport work, it’s more about the quality. The gap between the haves n have nots at a SX race is way too large
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