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Then...TAKE SOMEONE RIDING!
Yup, a total noob that's told ya,"Man, I'd really like to try that!"
Well, go "get them on a bike" & take'em riding! Take a kid riding. Take a friend riding.
Show someone TOTALLY NEW...take'em riding. I'm gonna take my daughter's BFF's dad out to the track and teach him the basics. At the track...probabaly Pala on a Monday...on something REALLY easy to ride and I'll probably Rekluse it, too. I'm gonna show a total noob how insanely fun our sport is.
I'm gonna share Moto with a total noob.
I done reading and listening to all the whining and bitching. It's time to go old school like the Nike ad's from back in the day...and...
Just Do It.
Yup, a total noob that's told ya,"Man, I'd really like to try that!"
Well, go "get them on a bike" & take'em riding! Take a kid riding. Take a friend riding.
Show someone TOTALLY NEW...take'em riding. I'm gonna take my daughter's BFF's dad out to the track and teach him the basics. At the track...probabaly Pala on a Monday...on something REALLY easy to ride and I'll probably Rekluse it, too. I'm gonna show a total noob how insanely fun our sport is.
I'm gonna share Moto with a total noob.
I done reading and listening to all the whining and bitching. It's time to go old school like the Nike ad's from back in the day...and...
Just Do It.
Someone gets it!
I ride because my dad rode...my brothers (all 5 of us) ride because our dad rode. My sons ride (and both my girls want to ride) because I ride...my nephews all ride because their dads ride.
The Shop
A friend of mine always rode streetbikes. He wanted to try one of my dirtbikes. He rode it down the street and back. Fast forward about 6 months him and his friend went and got a quad to ride in the trails.
Not exactly MX, but it does work to get more guys riding offroad.
I did this a couple of years ago and it was awesome. Two guys from my neighborhood ended up buying bikes within the year to go riding with me in the woods behind our house.
And and i dont know if it was just because of the 2 stroke or not , but when watching them ride ,all 3 of them i would just cringe when i whatched them try to jump , it would either be air wheelie or endo every time. And none of them stuck with it. I definitely think it helps to start young.
And maybe partly just a personality type because me personally,i was jumping on bicycles before ever trying to jump a motorcycle and judging by these guys and most newbs it seems like they didnt.
Found a nice 08 CRF 250 brought it back cleaned it up. Took it to our mechanic for a check up. Kid rode for an hour. Wouldn't listen to any advice. Bike sat in the garage for month and half until he payed my friend, for the bike only not the mechanic because he said, "he didn't ask us to take it over". Told us it was too boring doing laps. Kid and his father ( born loser) took the bike then told us a week later that the mechanic we've known and used for decades must have done something to the bike because it won't run.
Some kids you just can't reach. Hopefully others will have better luck.
Only problem is Florida sucks for play riding. If your not into mx or harescrambles sand gets boring.
Not like victorville back in the day!
In motocross years, Boomers are very old, Generation X is old, and Generation Y is over the hill. Generation Z will likely no longer participate when Mommy and Daddy are no longer footing the bill. Increasing in age typically means other responsibilities, less time, and less willingness to take physical risks.
Sprawl has reduced riding opportunities, making the sport less accessible.
I wish you luck in fixing all of these to the point where we will have a net gain in participation. I suspect we have less and less participants by the year. The times, they are a changin'. Given the new economic landscape and generational turnover, local motocross may be on the way out.
I enjoyed the sport very much, but accept being priced out of it. I'm content to ride my mountain bike and be happy with my memories.
Most don't even have a real dedicated peewee track. Parents are not going to spend $4,000 on a 50cc bike to put a 6yr old on the big bike track to practice with 450's. Have peewee/mini only race events if nothing else.
Most tracks are still running 35 classes (with 6 riders on the line), etc. Drop this already. It's not 1990 anymore.
Cater to the classes with the largest turns outs. Have Vet +40/50 only race days.
The answers are very obvious to the racer turn out problem. Until the tracks realize times have changed more and more people will just ride.
Pit Row
The cost to race is not cheap but many people today will not give up their 100$ a month cell phone and their 125$ a month cable. Drop those and brown bag a lunch will support a dirt bike habit.
My boys much younger (pw rider now taller than his older brother)
All of my kid learned to ride clutch bikes on this 87 XR100 I bought for $400 bucks. We don’t need cheaper bikes; we have those options. We need land convenient enough for parents or groups like above who can bring people along. This is the gateway to involvement; people who learn to ride discover racing, and support it even if they never themselves race.
You can see my daughter’s smile in her eyes. Dirt biking is great for kids.
For $2000 you can have your kid on a new bike.
Tired of you people thinking bikes have to be brand new. I can go on facebook right now and find 20 yz250s and 125s for $1500.
I rode my entire life on $1500 bikes and had a blast. My nice ones i have today are just luxuries
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