Breaking Into the Mainstream, A Five Part Mini-Series {Part 1: Introduction}

December 25th, 2008 • Breaking Into the Mainstream, My Thoughts

The sport of motocross is at a crucial crossroads. The sport is gaining popularity, press coverage and active participants. We are quickly approaching the point where we must make a decision. As a sport, are we going to “go for gold,” and try to break into the mainstream? Or are we going to let our sport grow as it has been, slowly, but steadily. The decisions made by the promoters, sponsors and organizers of professional motocross events in the next few years will shape our future forever.

-Photo by Paul Buckley.

In this five post series titled Breaking Into the Mainstream I will begin to examine what going mainstream will mean for the sport, and whether or not it is truly good for the hard core fans of motocross.

Participation

The best part about blogs and other forms of social media is the communication between the writer and the audience. I want MikeMartinRacing.com and the Breaking Into the Mainstream series to be no different.

Throughout the series, feel free to comment on any of the posts, Email me, or offer to write a quest post. I would like this series to portray not only my opinions on the subject, but yours as well. Feel free to participate in anyway you wish in order to improve the quality of these upcoming posts.

Support the Effort

I really believe that this series of posts should provide a good insight into the future of our sport, and any support you wish to provide would be greatly appreciated. Here are a few ways in which you could help to support the series.

• Participate (See above)
• Tell your friends
• Put a badge on your website/blog/etc., …

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Thank you for any support you may provide, and I hope you will find a lot of value in this upcoming series. Please check back frequently for new posts in the series.

Tags: Breaking Into the Mainstream, motocross, My Thoughts, supercross

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