You guys know I'd be in... haha! Now-- I've been in the scene since 2002. I fondly remember the glory days of 2005-2007. Those days were basically a fad. The days of having 60 riders turn out at 10 events isn't going to happen anymore. I DO think that it WOULD be a possibility to have a local series, but under certain circumstances. I will share a few ideas w/o writing a book. If anybody wants to discuss it further-- I'm available by PM or telly. I went through the TV land, Quaker Lube, and Ram Jam races-- so I have some ideas as to what I think would work, what wouldn't, and why.
IMO-- every local series we've had, has had too many individual events. EG; 10-12 TV Land events, 6 QSL events, a Ram Jam winter series with 6 events, plus Malvern, and the Fair races. I'm a pit-aholic, and I can't afford the travel and race related expenses to race all those events!
The RULES! Part of the past problems had to do with the rules of the classes- and the lack thereof or them being enforced. I personally don't care if I'm racing for first or last place-- I just love ridin'. Problem is that quite a few racers take the racing more seriously I've learned. We have to have some uniform rules for the classes, and enforce them.
With every manufacturer but Suzuki putting out a 110 now, and the hugely popular BIG trail bikes-- there should be truly stock Stock Classes for them. Gotta focus on keeping the bikes equal and the racing cheap in any class but the "Open" or "Full Mod" classes. Run the cheapos that are in the classifieds for $600-$1200. I think the expensive bikes stank up the racing last time around. The BC races are fun b/c they aren't really serious. Make the races half party/half racing.
Instead of having a bunch of races at each venue-- just have say... one round at Malvern, one at TV Land, one at QSL, OIR has a track-- there's a round, we had a ball at the Creekside spot in Ravenna-- there's a round. Make it a six round total series-- with different tracks for each race. I'd have the pit bike races in conjunction with the big bike races as sort of a side show, like what Pit mentioned. I'd rather race six big, fun events than 12 duds.
That's my dollars worth of advice-- I'd love to see it happen, and I KNOW BBR would want to be involved by offering gift certificates as prizes. The smart thing to do would be to get classes and rules set in stone first. Then get off and running from there. --L*64