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Bending over is a lifestyle choice of yours Dennis and no vasoline was a personal request. Thats Linkass not Jackass, what were you thinking? Our year end tropies were 6 feet 2 inchs. The only time a Biland got away with being lite was when you used our rental with no weight!
Enough is enough.
Blink (Brad) do you even consider or think that your customers are reading this forum? It’s one thing about the incident at the 2004 Supernats and your comments about it on EKN.
But here you are taking jabs at your customers and other track / kartshop owners on this forum.
Plus! Your comments about how profitable you are. (Could this mean Dennis is right?)
How arrogant and lacking in integrity can you possibly be?Youv’e shown your colors.
I don’t care if the CSC or Supernat’s for that matter come to your track.
Based on your actions and comments, I have no intention transacting
any further business with you.Dave, are you selling your Easy karts and all of your other stuff for a profit? Or do you sell them at your cost as a service to the karting community? Every time you post at the end is a commercial for your business:
G-RPM Galegor Race Performance Marketing
– Developer of the RaceJet Weather Pod
– U.S. Distributor of MaxJet Jetting Software
– Worldwide Distributor of ProVision Borescopes for Karting
– Colorado Easykart DealerHypocrite!
Your still mad that I did not give you a free Biland engine to use two seasons ago.
I have a very good reason not to like George Durdin. He claims to be an expert on track design and safety, volunteered himself to be an expert witness against my business in that lawsuit last year. He gave a deposition that was nothing but BS and lies. Talk about arrogant, the girly man will do anything to try and put me out of business so I owe him one. I will be dancing in the streets when he finally closes down. I would not even consider testifying against another track owner in a lawsuit. But George seems to have no problem with that and even enjoyed the chance to try and take me down. He is lucky the case did not go to trial, as my lawyer would have exposed his fraudulent claim of being some kind of expert. My lawyer and my expert witness attended one of his races last year and everything he claimed I was doing wrong in his deposition he is doing at his track. We took video to back it up in case we went to court.
I am saving it in case I may have to testify against him if he gets sued. My customers know me and how I do business but there is always one Dennis Garwood type every few years that you have to deal with, just as there is one George Durdin we have to deal with, for now anyway.Blink,
Since you want to open up Pandora’s box……..and of course you’ve continued to run your mouth about your private business by blaming the racers that were very seriously injuried in an accident that should have never happened………why don’t you tell the public what you paid the plaintiff’s to keep the case from going to court? Your concerns weren’t for the health and welfare of your patrons but your bottomline as usual……..remember ” If Moneys Involved” Motorsports? Its unfortunate that the public can’t read your deposition as I’m sure you have shared mine with others, just so that they could get an insite on just how little regard you have for anyone else but yourself and your money machine. Your expert witness wasn’t a kart racer and all the video of a safe track design and operation, if it existed, wasn’t going to save you from your own very smug deposition. You had a very savvy attorney that saved your Money Machine by convincing you to settle less than thirty days before it went to court. Remember your insurance company denied the claim……..
I was subpoenaed in to the case as a witness as were several others who held the same concerns as I did. If the plaintiffs hadn’t had the courage and the few that got involved when they did you would still be running one of the most dangerous karting operations in the country. Speed is fun but it also can kill……….and sooner or later you are knowingly, by your own words in your deposition, going to kill someone. An amusement park manager was convicted within the last two weeks for felony negligence because he knew there were hazardous conditions that could injury the public and he took no actions to avoid it.
The end result of the lawsuit is that you were forced to address safety issues that you weren’t concerned about and the plaintiff’s walked away with a tidy sum, I’m sure. If for no other reason IMI is now a somewhat safer facility now than it was a year ago even though you still have competitors giving you suggestions on how to make it safer. NOBODY was trying to shut you down……just get your attention about public safety.
Your case was settled last December and this is the first that I’ve have openly mentioned it in public and ironicly it is in response to your own big mouth. What was in my deposition was priviledged information that you’ve tried to use the last year to put me out of business and now YOU have made it public and it isn’t private anymore. I think I still have my copy of your deposition………
I hate to say it again……..but as Paul Harvey says….”now you know the other side of the story.”Hotwheels,
You don’t change the spots on a leopard or the stripes on a zebra…….you were selfish, self centered and made a TOTAL fool out of yourself at CRE and you’ve carried your spots and stripes with you to the CSC. You’ve got to be crazy not to think that the good folks in the CSC haven’t already seen the spots and stripes for themselves; I’m sure they know what their dealing with by now.
By the way most of the racers and their families that were here to endure and were embarassed by your childish behavior are still here supporting the effort to build our communities karting program.
I hope Bob has gotten the well intended message about scurilous lies and gossip……..you are the last person to preach about being disgusted with lies, gossip and backstabbing; the garbage that you’ve been spewing over the last two years borders on slander.
Once again, I would ask that now that you’ve found Nervana that you would give up the ghost and go on about your business. Enjoy kart racing with your son and family and drop the slander against CRE. I hope you understand this well intended message.Sorry, streets.
This is a warning to all. You need to keep it clean, and preferably considerate. There are other karting forums that may thrive on this kind of thing, but not this one
Thank You
Angie MacEwen
[email protected]George,
Your right the people at the other tracks have for sure seen my stripes and spots as you put it. I don’t try to hide who I am or what im about. If its slanderous what I have said about you or your track “take me to court”. I do have the documentation to back up anything I have put on this forum about you and C.R.E.. I know you want me to quit being a nemesis to you, but in your case think of me as an S.T.D.. I never go away and can re-occur at the most inconvienient time. Why don’t you post the email that you sent to your followers about me? If anything is slanderous it would surely qualify.
Brian Moore
father of Brandon #77 comer 80 and novice shifterP.S. might want to look at your computers mailing list. I am sure you wonder how im getting emails from you??? Bet you can’t figure it out. Wow a new challenge for you to work on.
I work all day and unfortunately miss the Jerry Springer show, so I appreciate being able to read the transcipt to the show on this forum. Maybe we could start our own reality show and see who is the last track owner still standing.
You two need to take your fight to the back alley instead. Just let me know the date so that I can come watch!
Blink (Brad),
Sorry I haven’t had time until today to respond to your statements.
Since the theme to this thread seems to be, “Now for the rest of the story”.
here it goes:3 Seasons ago I found out about the Biland in talking with the manufacture in Switzerland. Interesting enough at that time Biland was based out of a small town south of Bern in a region that we have several relative live at. My interest in the Biland was soley because I like Swiss engineering. Being married to a Swiss citizen and having a son and daughter who are Swiss / American citizens thought it might be a good idea to put Bret in a Biland, promote it in the U.S. and possibly get some media attention in Switerland.
The owner of Biland was bummed out that I had not contacted him sooner because he had just signed the distribution agreement with you.What we were looking for was the opportunity to help promote the product in the U.S. and possibly get some media play in the U.S. and Switzerland.
The second result would be teach my Son hands on about promotion and marketing. For this we were willing to give up a season to promote the Biland.
If you will recall my offer to you was:
You supply the motor, we would supply the chassis (Birel CR-32X).
We would man a booth at races and event’s promoting the Biland,
had out brochures, answer questions, provide demo rides, etc.
Sending the prospects to you for purchase.
We would cover: race fee’s, fuel, oil, event fee’s (for festivals & shows),
any breakage on the motor, etc.
And at the end of the season, we would give you your motor back.
Your response was a VERY smuck, “What Do I Need You For!” as you turned your back and walked away. (Which is by the way the way you
and your “friendly” staff usually communcated with us)Now this worked out VERY good for us because………
After this event we decided to run Rotax.
In working with the Rotax package, I found out about MaxJet software.
Bought it, was very pleased with it.
Liked it so much I negotiated with the owner of the company to become the United States Distributor for the product.
The system needed good reliable weather data and at the time the only two options were a very pricey weather station at $400 or a cheap unreliable consumer weather station at $200.
I looked around and found a firm that was building weather devices for Lockheed and Boeing. Took their device layed out the modifications needed for our application, and went under contract with them to build what is now know today as the RaceJet Weather Pod.
Thus, G-RPM was born.
Today we have 33 US Dealers and 16 overseas dealers with the list growing every week.
Since the inception of our products we have has 2 software upgrades to MaxJet and 1 to RaceJet. And have provided these upgrades at no charge to our clients.
(ref. MaxJet: pretty good value for a product that retails at $64.95!)
All of our products are based on keeping the cost of karting affordable by providing the best method of obtaining thebest performance without modification of equipment or risk of damaging equipment.The other reason this has worked out great for us is let’s face it,
I’m glad not to have my name associated with the Biland.As I’m writing this I’m thinking to myself, maybe I should thank you for being an ass! (sorry for colorful language boys & girls)
Yes a business has to be profitable to stay in business.
The question is the value that is brought to the customer.In reference to Easykart (beginning of this thread referring to spec. class racing)
The reason I brought Easykart to Colorado is because I am all about
keeping the cost of racing affordable.
Spec class racing works, I love the ability to put the focus on driver ablity and not the checkbook.
The Easykart class has a lot to offer on the National level and now
here in Colorado.
Again value for the money: a Birel chassis, with a IAME motor, that you can take out of the box and have on the track in 15 minutes.
You can take on nationally ranked drivers and have a shot at winning because they can bring all the tech’s they want, their semi trailer and so one, it’s still a spec. class and it comes down to driving ability.
Plus at a price point of $4395.00 (btw: Easykart MG White tires retail for $155.00 per set (price set by Juan Pablo Montoya))
How can you get better value than that!Finally keep in mind that the:
STAR Mazda Series, the Infinity Pro Series, the Toyota Atlantic Series,
and many others are SPEC. CLASS RACING.
Just because you don’t believe in it doesn’t mean it dosen’t work.Truth is Brad, you don’t know me.
I was a loyal customer, I gave you my money took a lot of crap and didn’t say anything about it.
Up until your recent post, I would have still raced at your facility, and paid you money to do so.
The problem for me is your post are filled with venom for other karting shops (I as a customer really don’t give a crap if you have a beef with someone, legal issues or not) and your customersDave
I find your story interesting, exactly who was the owner of Biland you spoke with? The company was a Corporation with shareholders, not owned by any individual ever; there was not an owner of Biland. What were you offering to him that he would be bummed out about that they did not sign a contract with you, because your wife is Swiss? I really don?t think that you were in a position to invest in 175 engines, thousands of dollars in spare parts, a machine shop to do service for the engines, technicians to do the service and $80,000 marketing program for three years.
I get dozens of requests from racers every year for me to sponsor them for tires, fuel, engines, etc, whatever. What would I get out of giving everything away to them? The answer is, not much in return. If telling you no thanks, not interested, makes me an a?hole then I guess I?m a a?hole. It was not necessary for me to have someone promote the Biland in Colorado. There was only my track and Bandimere at the time that you could race one anyway. I did not need help for Colorado as I was doing fine on my own; everyone knew who sold the engines and where to get them. You and your son just started racing, had only one year of experience and were not running in the front with what you had anyway. I asked you what it was that you could do for me that was worth a $3500 engine. Your offer was not very convincing as to what you and Bret could do to help me set up dealers in the USA, which was my main mission at the time. I could tell you were really disappointed when I was not interested if your offer. I don?t know what ?crap? it is that you took from me, other than ?sorry, not interested?.
There is always a place for a cheap go-kart like the EasyKart and I have no problem with them racing in TAG. I just do not think that they should have their own class when it is really a TAG kart, so what. It would have been great to have a class for the Biland too but I gave up on that idea before TAG was even started. It always comes to driving ability and I don?t think the $400 difference between a Margay/Leopard package at $4800 and a $4400 EasyKart makes racing any more affordable in the long run. You usually get what you pay for and the EasyKart is a perfect example. The soft MG white tires do not seem to me to be a tire I would have picked if economy was the primary focus of the EasyKart package.
You say I have this venom for other karting shops. That is not true, I only have a problem with George Durdin which has been going on for years and he has made his own bed and is going to have to sleep in it, even if it is under a bridge. You seem to give a ?crap? more than anyone else has about this subject and if you choose not to race at my track because you do not like my opinion, than don?t, this is the USA, land of the free. I guess you won?t be going for CSC points if it means that much to you to try and get back at me for saying ?NOT INTERESTED?. This is just go-kart racing and I think some people take it way to serious.
If your going to be a turd, you might as well lay in the yard with George.
@blink wrote:
Dave
I find your story interesting, exactly who was the owner of Biland you spoke with? The company was a Corporation with shareholders, not owned by any individual ever; there was not an owner of Biland. What were you offering to him that he would be bummed out about that they did not sign a contract with you, because your wife is Swiss? I really don?t think that you were in a position to invest in 175 engines, thousands of dollars in spare parts, a machine shop to do service for the engines, technicians to do the service and $80,000 marketing program for three years.
I get dozens of requests from racers every year for me to sponsor them for tires, fuel, engines, etc, whatever. What would I get out of giving everything away to them? The answer is, not much in return. If telling you no thanks, not interested, makes me an a?hole then I guess I?m a a?hole. It was not necessary for me to have someone promote the Biland in Colorado. There was only my track and Bandimere at the time that you could race one anyway. I did not need help for Colorado as I was doing fine on my own; everyone knew who sold the engines and where to get them. You and your son just started racing, had only one year of experience and were not running in the front with what you had anyway. I asked you what it was that you could do for me that was worth a $3500 engine. Your offer was not very convincing as to what you and Bret could do to help me set up dealers in the USA, which was my main mission at the time. I could tell you were really disappointed when I was not interested if your offer. I don?t know what ?crap? it is that you took from me, other than ?sorry, not interested?.
There is always a place for a cheap go-kart like the EasyKart and I have no problem with them racing in TAG. I just do not think that they should have their own class when it is really a TAG kart, so what. It would have been great to have a class for the Biland too but I gave up on that idea before TAG was even started. It always comes to driving ability and I don?t think the $400 difference between a Margay/Leopard package at $4800 and a $4400 EasyKart makes racing any more affordable in the long run. You usually get what you pay for and the EasyKart is a perfect example. The soft MG white tires do not seem to me to be a tire I would have picked if economy was the primary focus of the EasyKart package.
You say I have this venom for other karting shops. That is not true, I only have a problem with George Durdin which has been going on for years and he has made his own bed and is going to have to sleep in it, even if it is under a bridge. You seem to give a ?crap? more than anyone else has about this subject and if you choose not to race at my track because you do not like my opinion, than don?t, this is the USA, land of the free. I guess you won?t be going for CSC points if it means that much to you to try and get back at me for saying ?NOT INTERESTED?. This is just go-kart racing and I think some people take it way to serious.
If your going to be a turd, you might as well lay in the yard with George.
Field a driver in a race down at CRE in a Biland and I will beat them with my Easykart.
Track Owner Vs. Track owner
Spec Vs. Whatever level “Suitcase”, ala, “Cheater” motor you want
I would have probably bought a Biland too, but obviously you’re more interested in putting yourself out of business.
How many motors do you sell a month? 1?2 ?
Last time Alex Speed, Alan Sciuto, and any top level shifter driver checked, BIRELS WHOOP margay’s behind. PERIOD
You’re an embarrassment to Colorado Karter on Ekartingnews for your SuperNational Fiasco.
Need I say enough Dave?
:cheers:
other than electric start the easy motor looks and acts about like the old kt-100 can motor and seem to run good for 1or2races and that it. what is the life before overhaul? we raced against them last season at imi and bandi and if i recall we finished behind them once. that was the first race against them at bandi and idont think they did very well at imi either. didnt see any at last years supernats in tag. not dissen just curious .i say the next csc at imi on 6-19-05 could settle alot of this tag sr or masters are waitng for folks to put up or shutup on the track. no bull , jed
Actually I have sold seven Bilands this month, four on Margay karts, not embarrassed about that or the Supernats.
If you seach for Margay wins you will find out the only class they don?t dominate is shifter.
Margay Dominates With Nine Wins at Daytona (1/14/04)
Margay Drivers Score Eleven Wins at WKA Gold Cup Opener. (5/18/05)
Margay Products is considered to be among the most successful kart manufacturers in the United States. Based in Saint Louis, Mo., the family-owned and operated company has been a leader in the karting industry since the company?s inception in 1964. Margay supports drivers in all divisions of karting and has produced the winning karts for countless local, regional and national champions. Celebrating their 41st year, Margay is now guided by third generation family member, Keith Freber.
Bring your EasyKart to the next CSC race and see how you do against the Biland, Leopards, Sonics and the other TAGS.
Boys boys boys there is no need for name calling and let each other run their own business as they see fit. If it means so much to YOU than settle it on the track. Most of us karters do this for fun, and some are more serious, but either way every person has their OWN opinion about which equipment is better, but if ya’ll wanna have some sort of show down, aarange it and be done with this, Please 😆
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