More Bikes less NASCAR on Speed?

[PitterB4]

I'm sure that petitions like this have little to no impact.  I also know some of you have seen this already (I clicked on only one random page of signatures and happened to see our very own Red01's sig!   ).  But, throwing in my $.02 made me feel better!  I like this time of year when they have the Barrett-Jackson auction.  I certainly would like to see more coverage of MotoGP and AMA racing.  I actually really like Paul's suggestion of a second, NASCAR-free network.

Petition to increase non-NASCAR programming on SpeedTV

[Sven]

Too bad they spelled it "Motorcylce"

[land_shark]

I signed the HELL out of that petition!!!!  

"Wow, man.  You really like Tide..."  - the late Mitch Hedberg
NASCAR

[jwalters]

We must have crashed it with all our signatures... b/c I am getting an internal server error, when I try to submit my name. :-)
-j

[chevsuz12]

worked for me.

[jwalters]

Yep, worked for me too, it must have hiccuped when I tried earlier.  10451 signatures!

[tacoman]

Just signed it.  It seems that I've noticed some change.  A few months back everytime I turned it on there was NASCAR stuff.  I've noticed more car shows, old movies, and bike racing.  I was home with my ill daughter on a tuesday and all kinds of cool stuff during the day.  Supercross, some enduro coverage, Canadian motocross, Supermotard, and the usual 2 wheel tuesday stuff.  I realize the general population is into NASCAR and their advertisers pay the bills, but a day dedicated to bikes (2 wheel Tuesday) is great. Heck, the big 4 advertise like mad.  In the day of TIVO etc., time of programming is not that big of deal.

[Sven]

In the day of TIVO etc., time of programming is not that big of deal.

Yeah, I had set "motorcycle racing" up on Tivo and I think they are running 4 events on Tuesday and repeating them at other times during the week....more than I can keep up with, but since it's not live, it hardly matters when they run it, or when I watch it.

[jwalters]

The hard truth is, this country is NASCAR crazy.  I am not, but its amazing how big its become in the past few years.  I guess, I can't blame SpeedTV for capitalizing on, arguably, the largest sports market in the USA.  

My beef with their coverage is how they seem to ram NASCAR down our throats.  They have back to back to back NASCAR shows on TV.  Many times repeating the EXACT same show from just a few hours prior.  

Now its getting even worse.  They are covering the off season practises! WTF?  Come SpeedTV, even the NFL and NBA have offseasons, can't we have an off season from NASCAR..... PLEASE!  

During this time off from all the left hand turning, I would love to see more two wheeled coverage, SCCA or collector car shows, hell even some Monster truck now and then!  

Most motorcyclist get the "wrenching bug" over the winter, so how about a motorcycle version of "Shade Tree Mechanic" that shows real motorcycle owners with real bikes performing real maintenance such as clutch plate swaps, carb cleaning, throttle body sync, bore kit installation, timing adjustment, valve adjustment, track day preperation, etc,

That would be a show, I would tune in for!

[choppa]

it seems that speedtv is getting away from their two wheeled tues and are shoving nascar down our throats so maybe they should just have a two wheeled-two hours a day? thats all most of us have time for anyway...

[tacoman]

I personally don't get the whole NASCAR thing.  They're trying to build a track here (Wash state) and are trying to push all the economic benefits.  Something to the tune of a typical NASCAR fan spends over $1,000 on a big race weekend.  Of course, they want the taxpayers to foot half the bill.  They claim two big race weekends per year will pay all the bills.  Great, what happens if its a rain out (a more than likely possibility here).
Oh well, its big.  My little cousin is 16 and she can name all the drivers (the young, hunky ones).  I saw the Hayden brothers in people magazine in the "sexiest brothers" write up so motorcycling will become more mainstream soon.

[jwalters]

I don't get names like Tacoman? But I agree with you.  The only positve, I've seen lately is happening in our backyard, Newton, Iowa.  There they are building a large NASCAR oval track, first of its kinda in Iowa, and one of a few in the midwest.  The plus side is, the oval also has supporting tracks, including a few road courses which are suppose to have an AMA superbike event in 2007.  I can't say for sure, but I'd imagine the road course would make it on its own.  So I guess there is a trick-down effect as racing, in general, becomes more popular. These large NASCAR events make it fesieble to build a track in the middle of Iowa!
http://www.iowaspeedway.com

-j

I personally don't get the whole NASCAR thing.  They're trying to build a track here (Wash state) and are trying to push all the economic benefits.  Something to the tune of a typical NASCAR fan spends over $1,000 on a big race weekend.  Of course, they want the taxpayers to foot half the bill.  They claim two big race weekends per year will pay all the bills.  Great, what happens if its a rain out (a more than likely possibility here).
Oh well, its big.  My little cousin is 16 and she can name all the drivers (the young, hunky ones).  I saw the Hayden brothers in people magazine in the "sexiest brothers" write up so motorcycling will become more mainstream soon.

[Red01]

They claim two big race weekends per year will pay all the bills.  Great, what happens if its a rain out (a more than likely possibility here).

Those NASCAR pansies - no racing in the rain? What's up with that?
It has to be raining pretty darn hard for them to call a roadrace (F1, AMA, MotoGP)... It always amazes me that those MotoGP guys are still doin' 300 KPH or more in the rain... seems it barely even slows them down.

[tacoman]

A track would be cool, I got thinking more and we would probably get some motorcycle events.  We have Pacific Raceways but its more of an amateur venue.  The problem is the site.  Its typical Western Washington mentality, build and worry about roads later.  I think just north of Portland would be best, lots of empty space and I5 is right there.  Right now the Sonics basketball team are threatening to leave if we don't cough up a quarter billion (yes, billion) to redo their arena.  Personally, I'd take Nascar over basketball.

[jwalters]

I hear ya Paul.  I never understood why those F1 cars needed those blinky red lights on their tail until I saw them race in the rain!

Those NASCAR pansies - no racing in the rain? What's up with that?
It has to be raining pretty darn hard for them to call a roadrace (F1, AMA, MotoGP)... It always amazes me that those MotoGP guys are still doin' 300 KPH or more in the rain... seems it barely even slows them down.