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Correct me if I wrong, but didn't U.S. Suzuki loose several billion dollars on the Automobile side?
Bean counters are looking hard at cutting cost to recoup some $$ somewhere.
We need the manurfacturesres to colude and slow down the model release times from yearly to two years.
Maybe allow works bikes back in like Europe, this way the average joe can play and the factories can still race each other.
especially being a Winning Program, but heard rumors 2yrs ago back when TwoTwo was closing! #BUMMER
It seems as though RCH was just one egg of many baskets, a pet project if you will..
If none of these guys had other options then maybe things would be different.
Honestly this announcement caught me by surprise
i never like seeing teams go, however i do agree with all of the points above
if privateers are already not making any money and the satellite teams or private teams aren't making any money, and havn't been for a decade- what are we worried about? the privateers are still showing up to race.
you guys act like there is some competing market to encroach upon, or more market share to be had. There isn't. This is it. if you want to race motocross professionally, this is really all there is. There isn't any money in it because it has very little value to anyone outside of selling motorcycles and motorcycle gear. go ahead and compare it to other motorsports all you want. Then ask yourself why ping-pong doesn't have as much money as pro basketball. the answer is so simple, yet so hard to admit (if your into ping-pong)...people are just more interested in football, the how and why are irrelevant on their bank statements.
you guys can't have your communist cake and eat it like freedom fries too. I say that because how else do you pay someone more than they are worth and others less than they are worth? there's only so much money to go around...
bikes are better and more reliable then they have ever been, and the price of bikes is exactly where they should be in relation to inflation. stagnant labor wages in the United States are why bikes aren't affordable.
those same people who used to afford bikes and racing, but now can't, are the same people who used to afford homes and new cars, but now can't.
are homes and cars, and everything else you buy overpriced too? how can everything be overpriced? do you think the 1%ers of wealth are buying up so many dirtbikes that they have inflated the price? one would have to assume, with this "grass roots" sport, as you call it, that the 1%ers aren't even buying 1% of the dirtbikes.
another thing is this, if it's a grass roots sport, then who gives a shit what happens at the professional level? well, the manufacturers do. the AMA production rule is the blade that cuts both ways. manufacturers aren't going to make two separate lines of motocross bikes (a cheap one to appease the masses and more developed one for professionals)
besides inflation, this is what has driven the price of bikes up if anything has. And you wanna know the funny thing, even if they sold cheaper bikes, would anyone buy them? You are selling bikes to a very specific type of buyer. Racers. Would you buy a cheap detuned version of a motocross bike? We're tapping into the very essence of racing here, which is to go as fast as possible within the confines of the rules. even amateurs of the lowest order aren't going to forget that.
the cost of racing is what it is. if you buy a slower bike, you just spend more money trying to catch up. The manufacturers aren't going to agree to be "fair". If you think the manufacturers are just going to go full spec racing, your delusional. These industries rely on refinement and technological innovation to stay ahead in the market place, along with winning races. the second one lifts their gaurd, the other pounces. until you can stop the manufacturers from competing with each other, then the technological wars will battle.
The manufacturers aren't going to save us. They don't sell dirtbikes like they used to. There isn't a lot in it for them to care about this one prefessional series. I wouldn't even be that surprised if a company like Honda just packed up and went home. they've done that with every motorsport endeavor they've ever been involved with besides motocross- there smallest market by a million miles.
Pit Row
I couldn't find a single digit of financial information from the company itself. Total black box. Maybe somebody else is better at it.
not unlike what happened with chad reeds team.
motorsports are hurting and mx sx are towards the bottom of importance.
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