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Originally Posted by paynep Just checked the calendar - the timing is spot on: 2 weeks after the last round and the winter pantomine starts! Characters: (in no particular order) Keen rider type with new idea Machiavellian behind the scenes string-pulling villain Disgruntled has-been with chip on shoulder Open-minded voice of reason slowly being ground down to cynical indifference "Q"-type techie who is always trying new gadgets Some ugly sisters** We just need a couple of superstar champions who we can yell "they're all behind you" at and we're there. The End |
PMSL!!
Brilliant Paul..and just about spot on.
Now I remember why DD struggles. Other clubs look forward with optimism and actively promote the new ideas they have (ThundersportGB even have a video on youtube about golden era) and reap the rewards of entries as a result. We manage to sit here and bicker amongst ourselves whilst putting a cotton wool jacket around what we have to protect it, which only serves to see in diminish while we do nothing about it. Perfect.
It's got nothing to do with diluting classes. A class is seeing a resurgence, which I think is down to more money being available and that's fantastic. Class B is still healthy too. I was heartbroken when I thought that A would go down the pan and thought about coming back to it, but I want a new challenge really. Plus I think people would pay the gate fee just to see me and the pieman try to kill eachother on 998's!!!
Where IS that unicycling clown anyway...this is HIS idea I'm trying to defend!
I think the Maxxis series didn't recieve support for a couple of reasons.
1: I don't think enough people had faith in the tyres.
2: I don't think people thought you were the right person to run it, David. Don't take that as a personal insult, I don't dislike you...I would level the same critisicm at myself when it came to something like that. If I ran it I just wouldn't have any patience with the moaners and would happily stab them on the spot rather than patiently debate their woes. That's why I'm a racer and not a series organiser.
Skids...always the voice of reason. I always take onboard what you say with respect and interest but I wish you could leave out the cynicism. It must get frustrating to have to explain the ins and outs to us morons EVERY year...but try to bear with us.
I'll start a new thread on the series and if we can have positive comments (including critisicms) that not only critisise and support but ALSO look to try and find a solution so we can perhaps get this off the ground.
I'm trying to help create a larger DD class that doesn't go to the extremes of ThundersportGB and hence will remain cheaper as DD has been for years now.
Fank yooooooooooooooooo