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2/24/2016 6:30am
2/24/2016 6:30am
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, more money, more sponsors the sport gets "bigger". What's the up side of that to me?
Will it reduce the cost of bikes?
Will it open more riding areas?
Will it put a Monster Girl in every garage?
Will a grown sport help me with a 60' table top?
Other than those that stand to gain ($$$$$$) from growing the sport, I don't see the up side to the average rider and I don't buy that *insert your brand of bike, gear or accessory here* making more money helps me in any way.
Dirt bikes were huge in the 70's and look where we are today. Yeah, it's on TV live BFD. I'd take bikes and riding areas everywhere over watching TV any time. More "entertainment" based fans in the stands or sitting on their couch watching isn't going to help me one bit.
If you do stand to gain monetarily from growth, I get it. The rest of us, I'm not sure what we gain.
Carry on.
Will it reduce the cost of bikes?
Will it open more riding areas?
Will it put a Monster Girl in every garage?
Will a grown sport help me with a 60' table top?
Other than those that stand to gain ($$$$$$) from growing the sport, I don't see the up side to the average rider and I don't buy that *insert your brand of bike, gear or accessory here* making more money helps me in any way.
Dirt bikes were huge in the 70's and look where we are today. Yeah, it's on TV live BFD. I'd take bikes and riding areas everywhere over watching TV any time. More "entertainment" based fans in the stands or sitting on their couch watching isn't going to help me one bit.
If you do stand to gain monetarily from growth, I get it. The rest of us, I'm not sure what we gain.
Carry on.
Environmental lawsuits
Child endangerment lawsuits
Lawsuit lawsuits
The Shop
- More people trying the sport out
- More revenue to local tracks (which, in turn, hopefully means better facilities)
- Potentially more new tracks popping up to meet the demand (which would be great)
- More people buying bikes and encouraging manufacturers to continue to invest in the sport
- More external sponsors creating more factory teams (which, in turn, hopefully means more competitive racing)
You guys will find a reason to be bitter about anything, though.
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I loved the sport more when is was more of a private little secret community. The closer it gets to formula 1 (or monster trucks, depending how you see it) the less accessible and fun it is for the weekend family base.
Seriously though, if you're not growing then you're falling behind. There will always be issues, took me forever to figure out how to use these god damn handheld computer phones and I hated them for a long time but now I sit here dropping a deuce and typing something on intranet. It's god damned amazing. My opinion is its best to embrace change. With all the environmentalists and lawyers, shit was going to close irregardless of what this sport was doing tv wise etc. Prices of bikes have to rise, as well as gear prices. Manufacturing costs rises, rent rises etc and with margins tight to begin with a failure to grow might cause issues you would deem worse then what you're "hating" on now.
Pit Row
I bet you only liked the first Nirvana album huh?...you know, the one no one has heard of...the one before they sold out and released Nevermind. Oh wait...you probably like Nickleback. My apologies.
It seems to be that there are less riders now than before in the general public. With less riders that means the races have less turnout and thus the tracks want to increase the cost to still capture their same profits? Bike builders are doing the same. Parts companies also I would guess.
IF we could somehow jam like a 3rd camshaft into the engine, but keep the same HP and TQ I would really welcome that addition. Oh, electronically controlled cam timing with glitchy phasers would also be badazz
Do you think nobody gets into the sport because they saw it on TV and wanted to do it? That's how I got started...
Supercross is about putting on a show to make money, and there's nothing wrong with that. But to say it increases local track attendance is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.
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