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I think Ant wants to know how many were new riders?
8 or 9 motos of all new riders would be pretty good.Alright you guys have been having enough fun getting to know each other again, we need to start opening some new places to ride around here, come on! 😆 😆 😆 😆
Has it gotten so insane that anytime someone sees GHP, they think, Craig Wilson?
Wow, umm… congratulations?LOL!
The only thing njbmx needs is money for promotion and it’s end of year awards and a few supplies.
The tracks are their own entities, as such it is in each tracks best interest to operate as a 501c3 corporation. Which none of the tracks in NJ are. (there are only 3 anyhow, at one point there were about 20) By applying for and getting 501c3 status it can and will open doors to many new avenues for money and promotion and other things. As shown by Glen Knapper and the TPBMX track.
Becoming a 501c3 takes around 600-700 dollars. It is in all the tracks best interest to push to become 501c3’s.
This subject has been beaten to death but we have or at least HAD a very knowledgable person on this whole subject who was more than willing to help us all out and who did help us out.
I believe that the 5-10 volunteers who come out every single time to always help at the 3 tracks in NJ can keep them up, but in order to get that extra boost sometimes it requires that quantum effort to make massive change.
Ala CJBMX.
Who, strangely enough, amassed enough money to completely pay for its own makeover without being a 501c3. i.e.: Someone, or in my opinion everyone, there knows how to manage money.
Now that the track is completely redone the steady volunteers have an easier time taking care of things. (Not that planting fence and raking and soiltacing jumps is easy, but I’m hoping you get my point, sorta)
Dave, my brotha, a track director can’t do everything. He is supposed to make things run smooth.
Again, promote, bring in more racers, or families or whomever, be friendly, and people will want to help out. Become a 501c3 and suddenly the words “non-profit charitable organization” can be added to you tracks by-line.
Maybe Mrs. Knapper should post up the letter she sends out to businesses to get things rolling on donations.
If they can do it, why can’t every single track in NJ do it?um, call sc action sports…. —
Oh..so the pun was,
put your money where your mouth is
and of course this guy was willing to put a large sum of money where his mouth was.
oh hell, why refrain because of good taste. I mean jeesh, some people had a good time with me over the winter and didn’t think about good taste.
In reference to Legend’s comment. One of our alumni was going to donate everything to completely redo HC, but it didn’t pan out. And it should have.
Good news from all that though is that the groundwork of the state getting the grant it received came about from that gentleman coming on here and voicing his dismay with the situation.Not a fan of clips, but I’m also not a fan of people not riding BMX bikes.
So if it takes clipping into your ride to make you happy and want to kick it.
Then clip them toes in fellers. —put your money where your mouth is
oh man, I could think of about 20 things to say but I shall refrain because of good taste.
I hear what Loudogg is saying man. Plus l-dogg just went through a whole thing with being able to ride. i.e.: Doing what you love to do and having an over bearing parent stressing on ya.
Honestly though, I don’t think that there are a lot of kids that if you just have fun with them on a BMX bike, let them progress at their own rate and choose what they like to do, ride, race, flat, jump, ramps, wouldn’t be into it. At least for a little while. Riding a bike is fun, just plain is.
BMX also opens the mind to being creative in other areas of life.