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Post by beaupre716 on Jun 22, 2006 2:14:17 GMT -5
OK. Deep breath. Here we go: www.mx775.com/addiction_potential.htmlA disclaimer: While blame for our ailing race scene is ascribed to a certain type of person in this article, no names are named. You know who you are, so please just stop it.
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Daniel816
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Im all jacked up on Mountain Dew!
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Post by Daniel816 on Jun 22, 2006 11:07:24 GMT -5
That was a really good article!
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Post by ridermom on Jun 22, 2006 11:31:09 GMT -5
what a great article!!! you have hit the nail on the head so to speak. the riders SHOULD be the most important consideration. i hope that your article will others to think about their actions. good job!!!!
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Post by Bob716SR on Jun 22, 2006 17:49:53 GMT -5
Nice. Really nice!!! So true and so much to be done by people of foward thought. I think the climate might now be right to move forward at a remarkable pace. Bob716Sr
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Post by icarus on Jun 23, 2006 2:53:26 GMT -5
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses." James Polk
"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." Harry S. Truman
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" Theodore Roosevelt
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" John F. Kennedy
"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking" Woodrow Wilson
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something." Thomas Wilson
"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." Franklin Roosevelt
"I never saw a pessimistic general win a battle." Dwight D. Eisenhower
"A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself." Richard Milhous Nixon
"America is too great for small dreams." Ronald Reagan
We can learn a lot from our dead Presidents
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” Benjamin Franklin (not a president but still a great quote)(a little humor never hurts)
As always, a great article. Thanks Robert
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Post by racergreg on Jun 23, 2006 16:45:38 GMT -5
There was a time. Like a year ago when the races were full and the riders had plenty of places to race, the prices were reasonable and 99% of the riders had a good time. Funny how fast things can change. racergreg
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hiya
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Post by hiya on Jun 23, 2006 23:30:02 GMT -5
YUP - i dont remember to many weekends off -
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Post by tony on Jun 24, 2006 5:48:47 GMT -5
Unless all of you see something I'm not seeing I see it all getting worse before it gets better. I hate to sound like the constant bearer of bad news, but things are not in the works very well at being fixed. All of us the racers and track helpers, the local shops and local companies are keeping up a good job in doing our part. I think I said it one of my own recent posts how easy it's been for me to get caught up in all the BS from having an inside eye to it all and it's blinded me in looking at all the good people we do have doing not only good but great things in an effort for us to keep things going.
The existing problems that are holding things back though are no more closer to being resolved than they have ever been, if anything, they continue to get worse and not even at a level where one can just say things are getting twice as bad, three times as bad or any simple multiplication factors can be aplied to. Instead it becomes a triganometry problem where all angles and aspects need to be calculated to see the full value of the problems presented to us.
I'd love to see things from the side of a single person out there who can just say I have the solution or even there's hope that things are just going to get better by the next series or even the next year, but I don't see it happening. Instead I think it's all going to come down to just going back to basics with us the riders going only where we like best and giving things a chance to grow over once again from that point.
I think we've hit the peak of the point right now where the promoters have gotten by with just putting on a race, people will show up even if they aren't happy with the race or the promoter, but instead just show up because it's the only race they have to go to and under that same reasoning everyone else is there so you have a full gate and plenty of people to race with.
I don't think we should look at the current situation as certain doom for the sport in our area though. Certainly even I'll agree things look bleek for the moment, but I'm optomistic in my thinking that things while all mixed up right now will settle and all our area racers will eventually end up once again on the same tracks on the same days. We are all going to end up going to the tracks and promoters who offer us the most and those that want to just rely on being the only game in town or have the wrong objectives will get weeded out and suffer a just death.
That's just the American way, it's the very basis on whats been around since 1776 and grew to make this entire country as great and uniqe as it is, and there have been some tough times along that way to get us there, but we got through them and in the end, things just kept getting better as a result of it all. It got there not because the people in control had any say on the matter, but instead because the people involved continued to go above and beyond the call of duty and wanted no more or less than to make it work for all the right, true to heart reasons.
In the long run, I don't see diversity as a dividing factor for all of us, I see it as a single factor bringing us all togeter in unity. There isn't a single one of us that has or even can produce the solution to this no matter how great our efforts or how hard we try. It's all going to come down to where and how each one of us as individual riders come together and place our race entries that's going to resolve all this.
That's going to make for a split in the rider counts initialy, but eventualy, it's going to settle to a point where us the local riders who all either know each other directly, or know each other as a friend of a friend, all end up once again on the same start gates together and when that day comes, which it will, all will be good. It's all going to be good not only because we are all once together racing again, but because we as racers will have weeded out the problem promoters to the point where they will have had no choice but to fix and prevent future problems, or suffer a long over due death from their inability to offer us what we want, or at least better than the others are offering us, and instead just expect us to take what they give us.
I just hope all the people who make up the unnoticed backbone behind making all this possible can keep holding in there long enough for it to happen, and the good tracks can also hold in there long enough for the ones nobody wants to ride, or the problem ones, to get weeded out.
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Post by icarus on Jun 24, 2006 8:36:29 GMT -5
All is not dead in Camelot.
After getting off to a rough start I believe Bud, Sierra's President, and Myself, MX West's President have finally got our bikes on the same gate. It is my intent that Bud and I can hammer out a working solution between ourselves, then sell it to our respective clubs and promoters. Hopefully if all works out we will be back on track (literally). Don't misunderstand me, there is a huge mountain of work yet to be overcome. If we are successful our local racing scene will be bigger and better then ever without all the meaningless politics getting in the way.
The reality is neither Sierra MX or MX West is going to die off and fade away. There is room enough for both sanctioning clubs, in fact, it is my belief that we need two clubs. It would be a step backward if either did fold. Friendly competition is healthy and helps to keep everyone on their toes.
The issue everyone must understand is there has been a lot of questionable moves in the past by both clubs and a mutual trust has to be rebuilt. That alone takes time so please be patient and trust that the shadows behind the curtain are hard at work trying to fix what has been broken, or better yet, build what has never been built.
As a fellow rider it is my suggestion that we put a stop to any more stone throwing and finger pointing such as has been done in the past and remember what we are in this for; riding, racing, companionship, friendly competition and just an all around good time.
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Post by tony on Jun 25, 2006 4:25:21 GMT -5
Steve, Sounds like your on the right track and I can feel your motivation flowing. You certainly have your work cut out for you and it sounds like your all up to the challenge. I hope I speak for all of us when I say no one expects you guys to just fix things over night, that's a pretty huge task you've taken on that's been handed over to you that doesn't even leave you just starting from scratch, but starting from out of a deep hole you'll have to climb out of before you can even begin building a mountain over the top of it.
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