Anyone catch this article about AMA?

[budman]

Cool to disagree Kevin.

While I am not a friend of his I have known him from a far since the late 80's. you may well know more than I and I form my opinions from what I know. In this case what I know is all about a passionate Moto man.

If he takes a moment to swing it out on a forum that is pretty cool.

His slapping the fans is Ok by me. We need one. The sport needs some. And the racers deserve a slap high five for still chasing the dream when I would believe few can even call racing AMA the way they make a living.

If you have stuff you want to educate me on Kev happy to look at it. If you would rather slap me in person we could try that too.

 

[Zerox]

In addition, he wages war on Hos own fan Abd readers if anything he writes or puts on the website is used. There's a very specific reason why a site like Motomatters is so loved by hardcore fans, and is one of my primary websites

Some websites in the past would steal content off RRW then post it on their own website as self-generated material. Stolen content was stolen. :thumbdown

It's 100% legit to protect yo' stuff.

 

[Map8]

+1, JU has done so much for the sport it would fill a book.

Ain't nobody to blame in motorcycle racing for the world economy collapsing. The fringe sports (such as U.S. motorcycle road racing) are the first to suffer in such a scenario. And suffer it has.

But now it's a new era, a new game. The corner was turned a couple years ago, time to grow. And the racing is quite good. :thumbup

+1.

 

[stangmx13]

For many years AMA was THE superbike series, better than wsbk

Hrc running multiple bikes, supersport full of factory riders, and battles galore. It was awesome in the early 2000's

ya i know AMA had more cred than WSBK for a while, hence Daytona having such a reputation... though it doesnt/shouldnt anymore.

however, i thought the early 2000s were when all the factories poached individual series to each win titles?? one in FX, one in Supersport, one in Superbike, etc? or was that after Nicky left to GP?

 

[stangmx13]

maybe i should ask this guy how he feels about the article in question. his buddies were a little surprised when we asked to take a pic w/ him. San Diegans need to figure out how awesome road racing is.

 

[budman]

Be cool if you did.

Hell ... It would be great to get some good honesty a out it from the Sr. Racing guard and that would include Josh, Ben, Larry and... Maybe Jake.

 

[kevin 714]

I don't know. I hated Yoshimura and Suzuki for out spending everyone else like five to one. :laughing

Honda had no problem stepping up to win the Daytona. If their budget had more U.S. dollars, they could have done some serious damage to the Zooks. That little Canadian weasel was a pretty tough SOB, as I recall. And Jake has a 200 trophy, too. And he is pretty darn good on a liter bike.


I don't think this is anything new for AMA racing. It seemed like a good idea to have outside promotion. And the change may have made sense, if Rodger E. wasn't the principle.

Sidewazz covers this all pretty well, but as I have stated elsewhere, the timing was horrible. The manufacturers were cutting back racing money because of the economy and instead of trying to get them to stay, Rodger says 'screw-off'. I mean, really? The "Doug France method of success" is highly dependent on space and time. The spacing and the timing was all wrong to be a DMG class-ass savior of road racing with local support money.

I don't know, at one point Honda had three full on HRC bikes going, until America Honda decided to go in house with everything. Bad decision

 

[clutchslip]

If he makes decent money off it I would be surprised, same with Jordon, same with.. wait Larry Pegram can make a living off it.. hmmm.

Mr. Pegram is a master self-promoter. He has an amazing career.
And you thought you were good in your day, hey bud? :laughing

I don't know, at one point Honda had three full on HRC bikes going, until America Honda decided to go in house with everything. Bad decision

As I recall, the Honda liter bikes were never the same as the WSBKs. Where as the U.S. Suzukis were hinted at being as fast, or even faster than the WSBKS. From a business standpoint, it makes perfect sense to have the U.S. arm handle the U.S. racing. Teams really do matter, so you need the whole thing, rider, etc. Suzuki had it all going in the U.S., for quite some time. Funny how they popped and fizzled elsewhere, isn't it?

There is only so much moola to spend on racing promotion. I hope Honda, Yamaha, Aprilia, etc, keep selling bikes, or this little couch corner will be all R1 Limited and flat tracks, I tell ya' what. - (I like flat track, too, btw.)