The problem is, 99% of everyone here will bitch, moan and complain and no one will actually get off their own asses to donate, participate and help shape the future of our sport. Everyone will sit here and type their glorious ideas out and tell us all how things should be done but majority here won't even take 2 minutes to sign an online petition to help save our sport from an impending land closure issue. Thats reality. And if anyone reading this looks in the mirror and realizes they are one of these people then do us all a favor and please just move along to another thread. As far as I am concerned the only people who should be here complaining or offering suggestions are people who are willing to actually do something to help the situation!
I believe that there are a few of us out here with the experience and willingness to help shape the sport in a positive direction. Unfortunately, the 'price of admission' for volunteering to do so has always been (and most likely always will be) to
leave what we truly believe in at the door..and that is the
true unification of the off-road community.
Every single time that a voice pops up to simply explain the hierarchy of why this necessary unity has not happened in literally generations or how communities are purposely divided even east to west in this respect it is quickly shouted down for obvious reasons.
Who would ever want to be a part of that?
Swear your allegiance to Tom, Dick and Harry...yet certainly don't ever
dare question
why we are continually on the brink of disaster in terms of losing it all due to the lack of a true unified voice that is relevant nationwide?
Why would I trust
any organization that slaps guys on the back
continually working to split us all part and keep it that way? I'm supposed to believe that we need to have 'exclusive' trails for every single machine with a wheel on it...
or none at all?
If a leading sxs manufacturer came in to
your state and tried to open up the entire trail system (largest in the nation at the time) to UTVs and the largest 'off-road rights' district
in the entire country angrily shut them down in less than 24 hours using nasty political pressure on
your legislators..what would
you do?...expect 'the BRC' to ride on in there
immediately with their lawyers and 'help'
crush the same guys that they lay on the beach with at convention(?)...are you
kidding me?
Just about everything in this country is broke for a reason and the primary cause has been those purposely
not solving problems for their own benefit nor possessing the attitude/general competence that attracts others to said 'cause' in the first place (see public service, charity and too many others to list here). If that is too 'harsh' for a younger generation about to be saddle with more problems than they could ever
dream of while their elders happily wander a beach all day long into the sunset..stay tuned.
I truly believe that you guys have been on the cutting edge of this sport and have done more good for it than perhaps anybody else in the nation on a large scale. With that said, please forgive some of us for not jumping on the traditional bandwagon here as we point to many (not all) of the gray-haired band
leaders who have angrily shut down any and all 'dissent' surrounding community unity (or even 'pay to play' for that matter) in the past.
They aren't heroes...they never will be (in my opinion)...and what we are about to experience in land closures/regulatory fiascos could have all been
avoided had they put the need to
unify over the desire to divide..and then tried to make a 'career' out of it.
Sorry to go off-topic yet 'cheaters' is the subject matter and these guys have been cheating our kids out of a "..bring what you have; let's all meet at the trailhead TOGETHER (experience).." that bleeds right in to these races and the sport in general.