MotoAmerica | 2024 | Silly Season

you ain’t McWilliams age yet so you’re good! Get on it man!

I’ve actually offered to help a few guys that got me started run the Hooligan class at a track of their choice…

These guys were instrumental in my early years and crewed for me in my Daytona 200s over the years… so from homemade trailers to semis they’ve been there… so I figured giving them the “pro” experience on a hooligan will be bucket list level for them… they’re all nervous and losing weight and looking for bikes… it’s fun for us all as we relive our youth laughing and teasing like old times…

 

Thank you very much for the kind words. I definitely tried to make a difference in the sport and especially for riders. I never agreed with the secretive workings of the paddock and wanted an up front, clear path to quantify our results, be recognized, and appreciated for them properly. That’s why I still have an open source stance on all of my experiences. I want our sport to achieve greatness.

 

Let's just face the cold, hard truth. Until kids start riding CB125's to school, our fan base is aging out. Unfortunately, neither those kids nor the commuter bikes exist in modern day America. Road racing will always exist on the fringes. Just enjoy it while you can.

 

Apparently Rocco is testing a bagger this weekend.

 

I think this obesession with bigger is better is also a shitty objective. I would rather see a grid of guys that want to be there for the love of the sport than a grid full of guys being there just because they are getting paid. How many corporate sponsors do you guys want before the sport becomes a shadow of it former self?

There is guys from the "golden years" that made bank and fucked off after losing their well paid ride and were never heard from again. And then there is guys like Hayes, Yates fam, Ru$$ell and the like, that show up just because they can't help themselves and fucking love it. I know which ones I would rather watch and have leading the sport.

 

and there it is… I was in a meeting with the “leaders” of the sport and ask the most
Important questions… including “why” they were doing it… while they were honest… it was the wrong answer….. I’d already caught them with their pants down trying to backdoor a partner…

we need more racers that love it not bored ones that are entertaining a sugar daddy

 

And how many of those who hung it up did so because the bullshit they needed to endure just to turn a wheel in anger took any joy they got from racing away?

 

While I'm glad he's out there turning laps, and maybe getting a look at a ride...I fucking hate that I'm not hearing anything about SS/STK 1000/SBK for him.

 

How are all these passionate people going to afford to race when there isn't any money coming in?

 

For the eleventy billionth time, make stock 1000 bikes the leading class and fields will double and racing will get tighter. Follow that with marketing the riders better. Nascar didn't own the market because the farm tractors they were racing were leading edge tech.

 

Is your opinion based on the reduced cost of building a sstk1000 bike compared to a superbike?

 

1000% this.

 

Yes. The average fan doesn't know the difference between a superbike and stock 1000 bike. I'd bet most couldn't tell the difference between a supersport and superbike. What they all can see is full field with riders mixing it up and leaning on each other. Make the classes more affordable and they will grow. Up until very recently, Napcar was simple tube frames with 5 lug steel wheels. None of the exotic, expensive center knock off hubs and such.

 

DMG went with a more stock 1000cc “superbike” and between that, some other shit classes, some really stupid rules it almost killed the series.

and now for a tangent rant: flipping around espn last night and on espn2 they were showing the Microsoft world excel championship. Freakin’ excel!

 

I thought you were just being you. Perhaps not this time.

https://fmworldcup.com/excel-esports/microsoft-excel-world-championship/

 

Back in the old AMA Superbike glory days of unobtainium factory parts maybe, but not now with all the cost control measures in place. I don't think people realize how many restrictions are in place for superbikes. Cranks, rods, pistons, throttle bodies are all stock. Go to the Moto America competitor page and open up the excel spreadsheet showing all the homologated parts (suspension, electronics, engine parts, etc) with the price caps. If you look at the budget of running a full season in superbike, the increase in the cost of a superbike (x2 since you can now have a backup bike) over a sstk1000 bike is a relatively small part of the budget. Diesel fuel, rig insurance, tires, salary, lodging, travel, meals, etc. The cost of the logistics is crazy and that doesn't change no matter what bike you race.

 

So kill off stock 1000...

 

Good dramas, comedy that kind of thing. Interesting scripts. I had interest re a soap, good money , steady, but it would have been painful!