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By szkocjasid · Posted
Totally agree, riders say you have you pay X amount because that's what bikes cost. But really it should be riders get paid based on how much income clubs get from the gates & sponsors. Clubs willing to run at a loss is bizarre to me. Riders won't like it, but as other have said they used to have to work & ride. Maybe it's best the Champ goes back to what it was like when Workington returned? You could say ideally the Champ is for riders who live & work over here. Prem riders can chase Poland etc. -
By THE DEAN MACHINE · Posted
Well yes we can and it’s not difficult or expensive but and here is the problem, how do you police it, a classic example is the GT140 grasstrack which has become very popular, a standard engine costs around £450 and was seen as a bit of fun and entry level to bigger things but now as it’s popularity has grown riders are buying heads for these engines that cost more than double the cost of the engine, all for that little edge, one tuner has been banned because he was putting all sorts of trick stuff in the engines, it can be policed but it is hard -
By szkocjasid · Posted
Just read on the updates Sonny Springer is retiring. Big shame, he certainly had a lot of potential. -
On Phil The Aces FB page, Phillip Lanning goes into great detail about what the Aces are doing, (at some cost), to attract new fans... Sadly, they are missing the point.. Getting the "lapsed ones" back is what should be being focused on.. Dean says cost of living is an issue, and I agree.. I say Mickey Mouse WWE rules keep people away in 2025, (you could get away with it in 1975 to 1995, now you cannot)... (Four guests and RR anyone? Lovely, form an orderly queue, no pushing in)... Some say the overall entertainment package is poor, and they are correct.. The sport is trying to attract a younger demographic. And it is not the right target market.. These kids are either at Uni dreaming about a zero hours contract somewhere at the end of it... Or, already working on a zero hours contract, with a maximum 16 hours a week guaranteed... Those of us, of "ahem" a "certain age" had full time jobs, and pensions which had full time earnings feeding in to them... "We" (the many thousands of us), who used to go regularly, and still passionately follow the sport, but attend "now and again", are the ones to target... We have the disposable income to spend, the Under 30's often don't... First though, instead of reading and listening to "conjecture and theory" as to why crowds are down... EFFING FIND OUT!!! Get the facts!!! Dont waste marketing money on attracting a cash strapped younger singles and family demographic, who they expect to go once, spend £25 and upwards on something they have little knowledge of, and be immediately hooked, (again folly but that's for another time).. And instead, spend the money on market research to find out why more passionate Speedway fans WONT attend meetings this week than the numbers that will... Find out the collective generic 3 biggest barriers to attending... And fix the b*stards... -
Apparently over 120 expressed an interest in coming from Worky town centre on a bus in the first season. Andrew duly organised a bus running at set times and only 20 or so used this over the first 2 meetings. As Geoff100 stated it was deemed unsustainable. -
Agree, but the riders need more and more money to be able to compete, its a no win situation, we can't just change the sport back to the times when you can run an upright and be competitive on it.
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