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Racing the MXdN was probably a great PR move for him and im guessing gained him a fan base that he can cash in on later. Does suck that the result was he had to miss a couple of cool events, but im sure he'll get a decent pay day in Aus and NZ if he comes down again.
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You're just a fan remember. The only thing you stand to gain from it is entertainment. Once a year you get to pitch your country's best against the rest of the world- isn't that the biggest spectacle for you as a fan? Doesn't this create the biggest interest?
But you'd prefer to watch ANOTHER SX (bare in mind you've watched 20 this year already) simply because your favourite rider is cashing a cheque? Will you & family & friends be having celebratory drinks if your rider wins the Mill$??
If YOUR personal bank account benefitted from a rider doing certain races, Id get it. But, otherwise its just weird..
But we're all professionals at something.
How many of us would spend much time & effort to go do our jobs for free?
And skip our vacation time to do it? Be away from home for 2-3-4 weeks? And maybe work in conditions that are very much different from our every day jobs?
And put ourselves in a position to then have to skip 'paid' or 'overtime' work days?
Add to that the knowledge that your professional 'career' will be short (10-15 years) and each day you go to work carries a much higher risk of it being that last day of your career than most jobs.
Sometimes we need to take off our Fan hat & just try on the professional athlete hat for a few seconds.
Many things in life are enjoyable, but to take one of those things & do it as a job, would take a lot of the enjoyment out, at least I would think.
How did Villopoto feel about racing towards the end of his career? Was he having fun?
I just want it to be understood what we are really asking US MX racers when we say 'want to be on the MXON team'?
Agreed, general feeling was that RV was feeling despondant with the sport toward the end of his career- when he was racing for prize money and his salary... but look what happened when he just bought a bike and started riding! He's loving it again.. Maybe we could all learn a thing or two from that?! And perhaps thats just how Ando is feeling right now? He's had four weeks in Europe, different sights, people, riding tracks he's never ridden before, had a passionate crowd of US fans behind him, done a race, (FOR FREE) and now he's back home to the grind of SX- which he clearly couldn't give a f*ck about winning the money, so he's pulled out.
Maybe riders need and want the low stress? "Fuck the Million dollars- I have a couple already. Ha? A sand race in Europe? Three weeks away?? Sign me up!"
I'm just trying to point out how easy it is for one of us to say 'I'd be on the MXON team in a heartbeat and I would never turn down the offer' - and anybody who doesn't see it that way is wrong. That is a fan's perspective who will never have the opportunity.
Put yourselves in a riders shoes & just maybe you could have a different opinion. Maybe not.
Hopefully, riders do get something for racing MXON, but if a bonus for being on the MXON team isn't written into a contract, do we really figure that payout just happens?
And just how upset do you figure Kawasaki/Tomac/AC are with the decision to skip MXON this year?
Hopefully every year, our best riders go.
I'm just not mad at the guys who say 'No thanks'.
No Zach Osborne at MEC either.
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How do you know a riders contract doesn’t pay ‘start bonus’
Sit at home you get ‘x’
Enter a race and get ‘xx’
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You are putting words in my mouth - I have no idea what kind of or if they get start money and you will find no instance where I said I did.
I do know what the word Salary means, however. I didn't even bring up the word, someone else did.
You do see the 'fixed regular payment' part there, right.
Go work an 80 hour week & you get -Salary.
Somehow only work a 40 hour week and you get -Salary. Same Same.
3,2,1, go..
You also said “By still making their salary, then weren't they making the same whether they went or not?”
How do you know they’re “making the same whether they go or not”?
How do you know they’re not claiming start bonuses?
If you guys don’t think that 6th place was depressing to those guys......you have never raced before!
If someone wants to go into work over this weekend to do something and not get paid or want to volunteer somewhere etc good for them,it's their choice
I agree with KX500 that hopefully every year best riders go and also not mad at the guys who say 'No thanks'.
Afterall we'd all like to see them there battling it out
I don't necessarily buy all the excuses some people try to justify them not going though as there are always other riders actions that debunk these arguments but it's a personal choice,riders have their own reasons and it's how each indivual feels, it's their prerogative and we have to accept it.
At the end of the day JA or others may well get paid every single week regardless of what they do or don't do,maybe someone can confirm pay structures? In this case he's might have opted out of start money or place money,with respect his chances of a million are slim
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