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I don't buy the millenials only watch tv and play video games either, I think the kids born in the 80's play more video games then kids born in the 90'sand 2000's. Tons of kids still playing stick and ball sports. Soccer is growing, basketball is growing, lacrosse is growing etc.. Mtn biking is growing and is expensive as fuck. In utah i can drive an hour and have half a dozen choices on where to ride so it's not accessibility, in this state, some places are only 20-30 min away and there are atleast 3 private tracks within 30 min that Im not including because I don't have access to them.
theres other reasons as well but not worth getting into.
The Shop
Without derailing this thread, dare I say an "Alta"-like approach would at least help resolve some of this? No gas, few tools, minimal noise, plug and play. Don't get me wrong - I love my 450, and don't plan to abandon ICE moto anytime soon. Still...it'd be cool to have an e-bike in addition to the normal fleet for situations like that. Everyone creates this "either/or" argument about stuff like that, but I think there's room for both. Offroad racing, adventure, etc. will always make sense for ICE, but messing around locally, MX, etc. would be great applications for e-motion, and at least help to solve a few other issues of access, convenience, etc.
Anyway...carry on....
Step 1 My point was in watching De Coster on the black and white with the antenna is that have we made the sport more or less accessible for people to accidentally discover our sport while channel surfing and actually many of the races over the years have been televised on the basic cable channels. In 2016 I think it was many of the Supercross races were on the basic Fox sports channel which is commonly included in a basic cable package that you would find in restaurants and hotels the point was that a potential new enthusiast might not get the app proactively we might have to show them the sport maybe after that they might get the app I hope anyway it's good to see that some of the motos will be televised to those people.
For example: nobody knew how to really scrub a jump until James Stewart came along. Because kids wanted to mimic him, they learned how to do it. Kids see pro's doing big jumps and whips, so they want big jumps at the local tracks.... so a lot of outdoor tracks have a LOT more jumps now than they used to. People wanted an easier to ride dirtbike without lightswitch power - so now we have 4 strokes. Motocross has evolved..... in some ways better, in some ways worse.
I can rewatch that race a week later if I want to. The app is WONDERFUL and paying 89 bucks for a FULL YEAR of supercross and motocross is a good deal to me.
Some of these idiots bitch about 89 bucks but they spend 1200 on the latest titanium pipe for their bike and quite honestly can't go any faster even if they added 5hp to the bike, when instead they should be out running to get in shape or dial in suspension settings.
I agree moto might be alive and well in certain geographic locations like yours, all of which are rural. This probably won't change much over time as long as the sport of moto is passed down from generation to generation. You guys have the undeveloped land and tons of tracks/trails which makes access to the sport very easy and convenient. But keep in mind, Utah has only 3 Million people compared to 40 million in California. The rural areas comprise of a sliver of the population. In more populated areas like California, the millennials are more interested in watching content from "influencers" like this one below. Note the amount of subscribers this YouTuber has....nearly the whole population of your state!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzco9CewPf0F-SP1p6LhWrw
Now, does anyone in their youth recall having the urge to watch something like this?? No, it did not exist and if it did none of us would have been interested. We were more interested in stealing our Dad's Playboy and Penthouse magazines and taking them to share with our BMX buddies at the track. Life has changed and it will only get more crazy. Take a look at Black Mirror or WestWorld. These concepts will become our reality soon and it's right around the corner.
Pit Row
1.) What channel are people watching motos live on TV?
2.) Who is DC? What is his connection? I see him mentioned all over the place. I noticed he posted some inside videos in the Gate Drop thread.
I was born in the early-80's and compared to my siblings, who were born between'90-'98, our childhoods were completely different. My childhood was MUCH less technological. Sure, computers were coming along and such but they were still quite expensive. Summers were spent playing sports and building jumps to ride our bikes. We had video games but I can't imagine the wrath I would have incurred had I tried staying inside and playing them during the day in the summer if it wasn't pouring outside. Even if it was pouring we probably would have been out there playing football. Bicycles led to motorcycles, scooters, and go-karts. Cuts, scrapes, bruises and lessons-learned were an everyday occurrence. Different times I guess. Heck, I live in the Midwest and not a single time this year did I have a kid knock on my door to offer shoveling snow or mowing the grass...that's how I bought motorsport parts when I was a kid.
I do much prefer the app though, I haven't paid for cable in almost 15 years. I pay a decent amount for internet but that's for gigabit speed and it can outperform pretty much any streaming we want to do within the household.
The money squeezing schedule fosters rider burnout.
People like Matthes that get bored and push gimmicks trying to make moto jump the shark, maybe literally.
If more people dropped the ego of needing a 450 and picked up a 125, these people would have so much more fun racing and couldn't stop talking about how great the racing week after week. This enthusiasm would catch one to someone who never even thought about mx but now had to check it out. Word of mouth is always better than TV.
By introducing someone to the sport in person, they could see the beginner class out on the track. Watching the sport on TV, this person would think twice about jumping 80 ft.
Supercross was born to be a gimmick anyway, but I like having both disciplines and both seasons.
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