David Mathis
1 day ago
I got no problem owning my distain for this. I'd have a better since of humor about it if we had more than 1 American rider in all 3 moto gp classes or if pikes peak still allowed bikes and if the main sponsor of this part unlimited didn't stop sponsoring Supercross last year in favor of comedy racing like this.
Sometime anger is the correct feeling.
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oldironnow
oldironnow
1 day ago
@David Mathis Okay, fine. I, too, drag some anger around with me everyday. That doesn't make it useful for me, but there it is.
Let me understand your issues clearly.
You're pissed because roadracing - always a tenuous sport here - has collapsed as a pastime in America.
Fans aren't coming out to roadracing. Grids are thin. MotoGP only shows in Texas. WSBK has left the building.
And dirt bike riding is still big for Americans. Huge. They love goofing off in the dirt. Whee.
Stadiums full of people watching SX. And Parts Unlimited has left that building, too.
So you're mad about it.
Armored-gloved hands balled in fists of rage and ill-humor.
Frustrated about being 'here,' when you want to be 'there', back in the good ol' days.
Before the days when the DMG and Great Recession, broke the American pipeline to the Series' of the World.
When the Europeans and Japanese decided to only gamble on riders they knew.
And not just familiar riders, but riders who could pay for their rides by bringing sponsorship money to the team.
Money became crazy tight for over a decade.
And this came after Suzuki and Kawasaki almost fold their motorcycle divisions together to survive ... in 2001.
Tightness. 20 years of tight money.
Then MotoAM bought in.
Established direct lines with the Series' of the World to create a trusted avenue to send American riders abroad.
Solid names in the business re-set the foundation of American roadracing, and established a legitimate broadcast system, so they can control their medium.
Because that's what this is - an entertainment channel (checked MotoGP's level of production? Yessir.)
And the same level of nobody came out to the tracks.
So they look around and take a risk where there's a lot of American energy and money, and MotoAm tries to bring that into the sport, to keep the whole thing alive.
And that's the end of the world?
You've decided to upset about American's love affair with dirt-based racing, and middle-of-America straight-road baggers, and the fact the Parts Unlimited spends their advertising dollars where they find the most eyeballs.
And that, I believe, without malice, is an irrational take on what's transpired.
MotoAm is trying to build a road out of the wilderness, and you're not only pissed about THAT, you're pissed that the wilderness even exists.
But i get it; anger can be sustaining. Like I said - I carry some around with me, everywhere I go.
Choose to Ride.
Supports splitting everywhere.
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