Harley Davidson Racing News
Why isn’t motorcycle roadracing not in the mainstream in the U.S. unlike other countries?
in other countries, such as Spain and Italy motorcycle racing is probably the #1 sport next to soccer. It’s mentioned in the new right along with other major new events of the day. THey show qualifying and practice on their major news network. We get nothing here. SpeedTV (NASCARTV) only throws race fans scraps, and ESPN doesn’t show it.
Legends like Kevin Schwantz, Wayne Rainey, Eddie Lawson, Freddie Spencer have made racing what it is and are revered all over the world for it, but they are pretty much unknown in their own country…sad.
Maybe it has to do alot with Harley Davidson. Most of the bike manufacturers are Japanese and maybe any promotion will directly compete with HD, and for the fans, maybe it will compete directly with NASCAR Which is hugh here in the states…I don’t know. It baffles me.
Its under promoted and expensive for ordinary people. If you want to blame anyone, Henry Ford pretty much killed any real interest from public by introducing model T. Motorcycle racing in US was real popular in 1920′s but as more people got cars less people wanted anything to do with noisy, dirty, smelly motorbikes. Most of american public automatically thinks of chopper when they hear motorcycle, and you dont race choppers (except stoplight to stoplight)
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