On Dec 10, 4:10*pm, Boater wrote:
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On Dec 10, 3:20 pm, Boater wrote:
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On Dec 10, 11:57 am, Boater wrote:
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On Dec 10, 11:44 am, Tim wrote:
Thanks for filling me in.
prayers are lifted for yor wife.
Tim
Thanks man, and for the other info too, I am looking into it now. The
Mouse has been hinting but again, it's hard enough to find places to
ride motorcycles thanks to the worthless representation of the AMA in
CT.
You certainly have problems with all manner of organizations that touch
your life.
Maybe the problem is...you?
Here is a thread as to how ineffective and useless the AMA is in CT..
We have only 1 publicly available riding area here even though we pay
the AMA a lot of money to represent us.
I think you missed the point.
You like to complain about organizations, but the way to resolve
organizational problems is to take over the organization. You and your
buddies should find out how to do what with the AMA, and if that doesn't
suit your needs, start another organization that does. That's what
community organizing is all about.
I thought the AMA was a sanctioning body, not a track builder, but I
don't know that for sure. I'll bet there are some interesting insurance
challenges.
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$30 bucks a year, and I don't really care much, but they are kind of
like AARP. Insurance salesmen who squash any competition with huge
lobby donations. The problem is, they do nothing really but stand
back, as soon as someone needs them, they dissappear and the track
goes down in flames...
What do you expect the AMA to do in your community for $30 a year? Or
even 100 times that? Buy real estate, build a track, and provide insurance?

Try times ten thousand.. They are supposed to provide representation
for tracks that get sued, and they have not.
You want a track? Get together with your buddies and first find out what
liability insurance will cost you. After you get up off the floor, think
about what you want to do next.

There are ways around the insurance, the track we ride at leases the
farmland to us on a daily basis to practice. It is zoning and lack of
representation that keeps most tracks from getting off the ground in
CT. We have less public area allowed for riding off road than any
other state, even though we have so many riders and AMA members.
Unfortunately, in order to race in any series with any participation
or advertising, you must be a member of the AMA...

Ways around the insurance, eh?

Not having liability coverage is NOT a good idea.

Maybe those who control the land you might like don't want it ruined by
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I put that wrong... The track is indeed insured, and also sanctioned
(protection raquet) by the AMA, but the AMA has never done anything
for them. As to noise, that's just the NIMBY attitude of a blue
state.. "We love our sports, but your's suck because I don't do it!".
The noise is a red herring, we have good pipes and most tracks have
sound checks before races... Just like Essex, we had no access or
consideration for paddlers until our first selectman started paddling
himself. Then the putin's got cleared, floating docks built, and areas
protected. The fact is, in a thead which has been going on for weeks,
in a group full of riders and track owners, we can not come up with
one example of the AMA coming to the rescue when someone got sued..