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Next thing you'll tell me is that my FMF and Dunlpp stickers don't give my bike 5 more hp.
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Keep up the good work Newmann.............we're startin' to wear them down.
The Shop
( it's a DRZ )
(I'm speaking of local MX) <--- You know the backbone of our sport.
How many of you Old Schoolers grew up just like me, having to fund everything myself because my parents didn't like MX (I'm sure alot of you did)
I afforded it by working after school and Summers on a Tree Farm for $3.00ph
I've been hardcore MX since the late 70s til now and have spent thousands over the last 32 years.
Back then if I had to deal with the cost's the current 4 strokes bring to the table..... I would have split by 1980 and spent my $ elsewhere
Imagine being the same MX crazed kid you were then but growing up now?
No Money to fix the F-Bomb...... so you sell it and get out and never come back.
(Actually prolly No Money to even buy an F-Bomb)
Years down the road you won't be introducing your kids to MX like alot of us have.
I know I would never have gotten my son and step son into it and we spend plenty of cash every year.
When the 2 strokes are gone for good....... Myself and my MX budget will be gone for good too
I'm not pissing and moaning here, just stating where I stand.
It's obviously going to take an "outsider" to come in here and change this sport, but then again with the Power Hungry people in this industry it will have to get much worse before it gets better. It seems SO simple, until you see the politics that go on at the PRO level in this sport. I think next year will be telling as far as kids that line up on the gate at a Pro SX/MX race. When the energy drinks pull out of this sport then it's Over! Are the Big Boys ready for that?
Some of theses "so-called" industry insiders actually end up doing more harm to this sport than good.
How does that saying go???? What goes around.........
We don't get into the Sport because it's supposed to be easy
If I wanted an easy Sport growing up I would've tried Football or some other Lame Ass stick and Ball sport.
Second, people will race anything with an engine if it has a good price point and the right set-up (meaning tracks).
The only problem with the low end 125cc without all the goodies is the lack of performance on the modern track could be hard to overcome.
Pit Row
What you bought was a fire sale. You can't draw a direct correlation between a fire breathing 450 that retails for $8,000 and an entry level bike that would retail for $4,000. This is about creating an entirely new segment of entry level buyers that are currently priced out of the sport and not stealing sales away from the other product lines that the manufacturers are currently building for guys like you and me.
My dilemma is this... We know California is the "8th largest economy in the world", it's splattered all over the place with every story regarding the decline of such economy.
We probably can assume that the eighth largest economy in the world, who is also known for an "extremely large per capita" motocross population, probably accounts for a significant amount of off road motorcycle sales globally. I don't know the figures, but it's got to be quite high.
And we know the state of California outlawed the sale of new 2 strokes a little while ago. Even if the Japanese manufacturers started producing them for the U.S. again, you couldn't get them in Cali.
So who killed the 2 stroke again? I don't think it was the AMA.
Where am I wrong? I'm serious. Where did I go wrong here? Anyone know the actual numbers?
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