BriarcliffMx
PR Founding Father
To quote myself "Not that I don't think the mini guys deserve to ride the big track and get their time, but if it means waiting an hour inbetween my rides for a few 15 minute sessions, then I'm gonna have to look elsewhere to ride."
Here's where I get to say "not my problem". I have no problem riding an open practice with minis that are jumping the majority of the jumps. Heck I loved practicing with big bikes when I was on minis. If the parents are not comfortable with jr being out there for open practice, not my problem.
Some tracks used to have mini practice days(maybe they still do). Of course that won't work if dad wants to ride too. Again, not my problem.
If I have to look elsewhere to ride my open practice, isn't it only fair that minis (and dads) have to look elsewhere for their sessioned practices?
If track owners decide to switch to sessions, more power to them I'll just have to look elsewhere. I'm not saying tracks can't do that because I need my open practice. Any reason you have to support sessioned practice is simply not my problem.
This is why track owners shy away from sessions. I'm not bagging on John here, I'm simply explains to others. For example if I offer straight sessions the whole day, then I would guesstimate 30-40% of the riders I could have attracted will choose one of the other five practice tracks running open session. Right now a chunk of the riding customer prefers this setup. This is the demand. It's hard to pay bills with less riders. Again, if they didn't have five other tracks to choose from on any given weekend, well then that might be a different story. Or if there was a way to get everyone to agree to run practice the same, but that is never going to happen. Battle race weekends, sessions are accepted, not liked always, but accepted. Where are they going to find another Battle for Ohio race happening in Ohio that weekend that's running open practice on Saturday? Exactly. Over a barrel. Plus that's the fair thing to do allow people equal seat time for the race.