“Just give us time to sell our old stuff and get the new stuff.”
“give racers time to sell old equipment or get new”
I don’t know but that to me is the number one problem with our local karting. JB is the only one that is convinced enough that the old stuff has any value to be sold and used again.
Maybe if the shops and tracks would some how strive to keep the new equipment from becoming old in a one to two year time period the old racers wouldn’t leave the sport after their new stuff became old in a couple of years. It just seems to me every time I hear about fixing kart racing the plan always means getting rid of the old stuff and buying new.
The advantage goes to the new racer that doesn’t yet know that all their new equipment will be old and just about useless in a couple of years, and we wonder why the once new karter leaves when it happens.
A long term plan for kart racing should include keeping a plan long enough for the new racer to become and old racer with out having to become a professional resaler of useless equipment.
Most of you seem to enjoy making fun of the almost extinct Briggs racers or even the extinct yamaha kt racers of Colorado. The rules, consisitency and price point that them two power plants had over the last 20 years brought in more karters to kart racing across the country than Rotax, TAG,Honda or Comer will ever think about doing. The reason it worked well was because it was the same crap year after year. I even stopped racing for five years and got back into with my old stuff and won championships from working with my old stuff instead of having to buy all new. I guess my main point is, while your fixing kart racing in Colorado to draw more new people into the sport for 2007. Try to keep things from changing so fast that they have no choice but to become an X karter when the shops and tracks have something new to promote to get more new racers in 2008 after 2007 doesn’t work out quite like you planned.