Riders with no team

Nick Lorenz

Hunter Patenude

Other changes include :

Stahlsten from Elite to Scheuring

Theo Porier to Elite

Jamey Chaney makes a return to Elite motorsports

Other news :

CSRA is under new ownership

ISR is having a how to tech school in August for all racing disciplines

 

Silly season is starting early this year.

On 11/27/2024 at 3:06 PM, Crnr2Crnr said:

 

the buffering a few times last year was as bad as the Paul/Tyson fight... 
 

I'll likely re-up the subscription just before the first race...  don't know if I'll be reporting results as in the past  though.   unless you want to buy a results subscription.     

Went through to cancel my account online and got this surprise.  Looks like they will take 20% off so $127.20 instead of $159.

3 hours ago, teamgreen02 said:

Kenny Mandryk done racing snox.

Always enjoyed following his progress.  Had a rough couple years there where injuries really plagued him, but last year I thought he  really showed a lot of improvement.  I'm sure though the vlogs will still be worth watching.  Those guys seem to always have a good time.

5 hours ago, teamgreen02 said:

Went through to cancel my account online and got this surprise.  Looks like they will take 20% off so $127.20 instead of $159.

anything for existing customers who've consistently paid them through the bullshit?  

will have to check my actual expiration date but like everything else in this world it was far more justifiable at a reasonable rate.

5 hours ago, teamgreen02 said:

Kenny Mandryk done racing snox.

this bums me out a bit, but I've had to walk away from things I love and worked to be at the top level of as well.  such is life... 

 

Edited December 3, 2024Dec 3 by Crnr2Crnr

 

Kenny... where are these Yamahas?  

Edited December 4, 2024Dec 4 by Crnr2Crnr

Going to give this a listen next... 

 

5 hours ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

 

Kenny... where are these Yamahas?  

He seems like a nice guy but WTF? How gullible can him AND his buddy be? 

6 hours ago, AK440 said:

He seems like a nice guy but WTF? How gullible can him AND his buddy be? 

Idk if it’s really a gullible thing, sounds like everything was set up how it was supposed to be. You can run a legit snocross team and still have some shady criminal shit going on. Interested to hear the rest of that story if/when it comes out.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1169216721875212&id=100063606849384&__n=K

and then there were two... 

I mean, when has Textron EVER been a good thing for sledding?

13 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

I mean, when has Textron EVER been a good thing for sledding?

they make jets and helicopters... what could possibly go wrong?!!!!? 

 

remember that shit?  

1 hour ago, Crnr2Crnr said:

they make jets and helicopters... what could possibly go wrong?!!!!? 

 

remember that shit?  

There are 2 wars going on right now. Textron makes money on defense contracts. You think they are going to fiddle fuck around with arctic cat anymore? Selling one guidence system for a bomb to the military probably makes them more money than cat has the entire time they have owned it. 

2 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

There are 2 wars going on right now. Textron makes money on defense contracts. You think they are going to fiddle fuck around with arctic cat anymore? Selling one guidence system for a bomb to the military probably makes them more money than cat has the entire time they have owned it. 

Then they need to sell off asap.  Or, Cat will end up a totaled line item loss on their balance sheet.  Honestly, I'm not sure this wasn't the plan all along.  They certainly ran it like that was the plan.

3 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

Then they need to sell off asap.  Or, Cat will end up a totaled line item loss on their balance sheet.  Honestly, I'm not sure this wasn't the plan all along.  They certainly ran it like that was the plan.

The way they have ran cat is standard operating procedure for textron when they buy a side show company like that. IMO there is must be some kind of tax advantage they get for buying a tanking company, gutting and keeping it afloat to show a loss on the books. 

2 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

The way they have ran cat is standard operating procedure for textron when they buy a side show company like that. IMO there is must be some kind of tax advantage they get for buying a tanking company, gutting and keeping it afloat to show a loss on the books. 

It's certainly a big tax advantage assuming they are doing well enough in other areas to throw it away.  Not sure if they are or not but, just looking back at every step they took, it looks like they wanted the write off.

13 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

It's certainly a big tax advantage assuming they are doing well enough in other areas to throw it away.  Not sure if they are or not but, just looking back at every step they took, it looks like they wanted the write off.

It’s exactly what they do. I also don’t think they actually wanted to release the catalyst. They either couldn’t find a buyer or a deal fell through so they had to release something to keep the company somewhat relevant. That’s probably why they have fiddled fucked around with bringing catalyst to market. 

1 minute ago, Not greg b said:

It’s exactly what they do. I also don’t think they actually wanted to release the catalyst. They either couldn’t find a buyer or a deal fell through so they had to release something to keep the company somewhat relevant. That’s probably why they have fiddled fucked around with bringing catalyst to market. 

Or, wanted to dump inflated and pretend losses into R&D off their spreadsheet.

Honestly, it's almost better to think that was the plan all along.  If it wasn't, they are just inept as hell.

4 minutes ago, Zambroski said:

Or, wanted to dump inflated and pretend losses into R&D off their spreadsheet.

Honestly, it's almost better to think that was the plan all along.  If it wasn't, they are just inept as hell.

It was all planned. If it wasn’t textron themselves would not be in business. Remember when then they put that lady as the president and I called it that day saying she won’t do shit, wont be there in 18 months, and will be moved into their aerospace side because of her background. Sure enough that happened. History repeats itself 

Word on the street is the plant shutdown in TRF is going to be longer than what they have announced.  They now have less than 20 engineers.  A powersports company can't run on 20 engineers.  I'm sure Textron is cutting anything but absolutely necessary costs so they can put the business up for sale.  It will certainly go for pennies on the dollar with the market conditions right now.  Argo purchasing them makes a lot of sense.

Polaris has also had many rounds of layoffs this year also.

20 minutes ago, teamgreen02 said:

Word on the street is the plant shutdown in TRF is going to be longer than what they have announced.  They now have less than 20 engineers.  A powersports company can't run on 20 engineers.  I'm sure Textron is cutting anything but absolutely necessary costs so they can put the business up for sale.  It will certainly go for pennies on the dollar with the market conditions right now.  Argo purchasing them makes a lot of sense.

Polaris has also had many rounds of layoffs this year also.

 

 

19 hours ago, teamgreen02 said:

Word on the street is the plant shutdown in TRF is going to be longer than what they have announced.  They now have less than 20 engineers.  A powersports company can't run on 20 engineers.  I'm sure Textron is cutting anything but absolutely necessary costs so they can put the business up for sale.  It will certainly go for pennies on the dollar with the market conditions right now.  Argo purchasing them makes a lot of sense.

Polaris has also had many rounds of layoffs this year also.

Maybe CF Moto is bringing their own engineers in...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facebook rumor mill is alive and well.

2 hours ago, Sled_Hed said:

Maybe CF Moto is bringing their own engineers in...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Facebook rumor mill is alive and well.

Their fancy new headquarters is right down the road from St. Cloud 

2 minutes ago, Not greg b said:

Their fancy new headquarters is right down the road from St. Cloud 

Yep.

Probably one of the best current realm SX podcasts I've listened to in quite a while.    

 

first race tonight.