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Dirtbikes arent $20 like a basketball is.
Supercross racing is to grass roots racing what monster truck racing is to local car sales.
People aren't going to necessarily buy a ford truck because Bigfoot wins truck freestyle at a stadium.
For that reason, any observations about grass root should be separate.
Supercross has become a spectacle, and may continue to grow depending on how feld adjusts the program. They have a lot of work to do addressing problems with injuries and mostly mediocre racing.
Hopefully tweaks will help what is often a 3 hour snooze fest. I personally feel like the change that needs to be made is to stop concentrating so much on live for the undirty masses.
Do a high light show and have it in a better time slot that is consistent. Show actual battles with out all the filler. Make it something that people that are not already fans can watch. Put cameras on everybody and edit that footage to include in shows. Supercross is an amazing ballet of men, machines, and dirt and showing most of it from overhead cable cameras is such an incredible waste.
When compared to a lot of other options supercross ratings are pathetic. If you make a more viewable product ratings go up and the money will follow.
More riders ? Shit every sport kids are in these days is requiring 12 month commitments. Traveling baseball teams....traveling basketball teams. Blah blah. The list goes on. There’s so much activities available today for a reasonably LOW cost in comparison to MX that the sport will slowly die until it’s an exclusive club like....NASCAR. Might get to a point where I tell my grandkids: “I use to go all around with my father and race at amatuer tracks, sorry you can’t.”
Everybody in moto wants everything for free. Cmon now aren’t we cheap bastards that Haggle dealers until they make tree fifty on a new unit they sell to us?
How the hell do we introduce more into the sport ? I’ll introduce my child. BUT friends my age (I’m 30) that don’t race wouldn’t ever consider introducing them to mx. I’ve got physicians, CRNAs, nurse practitioner and physician assistant friends that make 160,000-500,000 a year and they’re like oh my $1,700 for a PW50? That’s too expensive we aren’t doing that. Whilst they hop in their $110,000 Jaguar. how do you entice mom and dad to sell their jaguar for a motorcycle for their kid when they don’t have any history in motor sports? That’s a tall order. And when you figure it Out you should be a millionaire.
Passion continues to the sport limping along. How do burn that fire of passion into newcomers without them experiencing it first hand ?
Free ride days ? Manufacturers offering intro days....they do demo days for current racers.....why not introductory days where everything is taken care so in the hopes that 1 out of 10 show up get hooked.
I hope the trades get a boom. Most guys that race come from a trade. Electrician, plumber, construction....good with their hands. Mechanical. We lost that in my generation. All my generation is managers. Worthless managers. We needs good old dirty hand tradesman back that have a passion for motorcycles. Not clean handed desk jockeys that are looking for adventure by stepping outside of their comfort zone ordering that extraordinary latte mocha sissy with an extra pump of worthless. But the tradesman income is gettin squeezed out of moto. $8,000 bike....hard to afford on a $17-26/hr salary.
Nobody goes to watch a supercross and is inspired to try the sport. But people who start riding motocross might well be inspired to go watch a supercross.
When grass roots racing is over ran by national programs all vying for the same riders, many who are not ready to go the speeds they are, or jump the jumps they try end up with short lived "careers" in our sport.
How fast are kids going today on 50's, 65's? Go big or go home they say, well many never start because it's just not what they do in 2017.
Want to see more, go out and invest your time at a riding club, teach young kids how to ride smart and be more aware of specifics to riding and racing.
The "road to Supercross" Sorry it doesn't start at the arenacross level. it starts at the local race tracks, riding parks and back yards.
Want to see even more. Will someone please build and affordable motorcycle that could be raced on an entry level basis. Please!
Want to "save" mx. tame down the grass roots and amateur tracks, promote a ton more safety in the sport keep the few new riders we are getting now healthy as long as possible.
it won't happen but we can dream.
Shrinking riding areas, faster, louder, more complex and expensive bikes, video games, instagram, stick and ball sports... it's all about participation.
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