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[ecumike]

If you guys want rider profiles, build a site. Find a couple of people interested in it, get them together and plan it. Make it a complete community. charge riders $5 or whatever a year for their own section. Allow them to edit it freely with maybe a photo album. Give them a place to put a couple logos and their current stats. Let them edit the stats themselves. It would be a place where their sponsors could visit to check up on their team. If that's what you guys need, build it.

I know I would volunteer some time toward a group of people who might want to do it.

This is VERY easy to do... it's what sponsorhouse.com did. VERY VERY VERY easy.. create a profile, create an ID/PW and store it in a DB. When you login you can only access your profile. Just basic profile/database stuff. As well, regulating photo filesize and px size is easy with PHP.

[Super Dave]

If you guys want press coverage, find someone in your ranks, or a couple people where someone would go to each event. Write something up and submit it to Road Racing world and Cycles News and whoever else will listen. They'll gladly accept it and publish it. Talk to whomever is there taking photos and see if they will give you one good photo from the weekend.

I agree.

Trick can be that some have a really hard time getting any help at the race track, let alone trying to help provide "press" coverage for an event.

In other areas that I have raced at, the organization provided someone because it was in their best interest to get press for their program of races for a new racer or spectator point of view.  This is very easy to realize and not expensive.  

Hey, you go to big events and you recognize other guys from different places because someone wrote about them.  "Rosno Plays Ironman at Topeka" was good for me when I was pounding out my championships years ago.  That was valuable in that I could take that press coverage to a sponsor and say look...

Meanwhile, you go to some other races and it's just a sucking vacuum.  

I have a problem with which comes first.

Do I work on developing myself as a rider, my machine, and my program...

Or trying to find a person that will write about an event?

If you can pay a similar amount of money doing something someplace else and get similar value or promotion, well...  It's making it hard to justify.

[Super Dave]

Let's look at USGPRU.

Dedicated individuals with a very narrow niche market.  Honestly, GP bike have ran their course in the US professional ranks, more or less.  

But I've seen the USGPRU program thrive.  

There is a real finite number of machines available for the program when you compare that to all the 600's and stuff out there.

They have done their work.  When compared to what happens at the same location...

[Jeff]

I'm no K3, and I didn't stay at a holiday inn express last night, but I do enjoy writing and I'm told I'm okay at it.

I would gladly write race reports for a weekend and submit them to RRW.  However, I need some info.  It's easy to write my own, but I don't pay any attention to anyone elses races, so y'all would have to come to me with your stories/bits...