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1-Places to ride are disappearing. In Connecticut, there is really no public tracks. There's a few private clubs that you can join to ride at their tracks, and memberships to these clubs can be quite expensive but the benefits are there. Sure one of the tracks has open practice days, but those are very rare. The other tracks that we used to have here and were open to the public have shut down. So we either have to ride at someone's private track, or go out of state to ride.
2-Costs of bikes is high. Both used and new, it's hard to find even used bikes that are worth whats being asked for them. People are trying to sell their 15 year old bikes for 3-5k with a description like "runs perfect, except for (insert your choice of issue here). Then for a brand new bike, it's hard for a lot of people to justify spending 10 grand on a bike.
3-Racing in the pros can be boring to watch. Like stated multiple times, when the same 2-3 people are winning every week and that's where all the focus from the camera is, it can definitely get boring. I love tomac, but I find myself hoping something happens just so there can be some kind of battle. It's way more exciting to see the last lap on of a race when 1st place isn't 45 seconds ahead of the field.
just my $.02
Long way of saying, if the manufacturers sell fewer bikes, they have less money for racing.
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For example: F1 blew up in The Netherlands with the come of Max Verstappen, and all of a sudden everyone here is a F1 fan. F1 already had that high status so mainstream media blows it up when there's finally a Dutchmen doing good, and everyone buys the hype. MXGP finally gets some mainstream attention and news with Herlings now being a MXGP champion, but not nearly as much as F1 gets.
Do you think that SX will be huge in Netherlands if some dude from there becomes the 450 SX champ in 2030? I don't think so. What i'm trying to say is that our sport is too boring and too unknown to get much bigger at the moment.
Anyways, there will always be talented guys without spots in our small sport.
I want to see what the rookies can do, this is the first season in a couple years where there's a good class moving up, they need a place to go. Personally, I would have loved to see Brayton, Mookie, Wilson on MCR. That team would have been a powerhouse in SX.
The bigger question, to me at least, are the placing value in the correct places? Are you really getting a better ROI with better results? Or could you do better grabbing someone with some personality like Malcom, Dean, Chad, etc? If I'm putting my money somewhere I'm going for the guy with the personality. But I guess that's why I'm on here instead of signing the checks.
Duh. Well not exactly the same, but most of us are still paid wholesale and buy retail. And the retail to wholesale gap is getting wider every year.
And it doesn't matter whether you agree or not, things are costing more and people are making less relative to the increase in inflation.
(Forest for the trees bro)
Yeah, there is a time to be all positive (and there are a lot of positives in the sport right now), but you can't just put you head in the sand and say "I disagree". I've decided things are better today than ever.
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