| Author | Message | ||
     Doerman |
Their mission statement is: The mission of the American Motorcyclist Association is to serve the interests of motorcyclists by pursuing, promoting and protecting the future of motorcycling. AMA segments this into: Rights, Riding and Racing Rights On the first topic of rights I think they do a great job. They are alert and actively debunking any budding bone head legislation and on the task of protecting our rights as riders. Grade: A Riding I think this section s weak. They are supporting but not directing any events that I can see from their web site. They have a toe in the water but not really involved. Grade: C- Racing As a sanctioning body, they are doing fine. As an organizing body, they have thrown in the towel it seems and left it to other organizations. Grade: B- I think there is so much more that AMA could do. What say you guys? | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Racing As a sanctioning body, they are doing fine. As an organizing body, they have thrown in the towel it seems and left it to other organizations Team Jordon may think they have some work to do in this area. All factory parts and goodies should be available to all race teams | ||
| Slaughter |
AMA is FINALLY stepping away from Racing promotion. I have heard the France family is likely taking over Superbike... and if what they did for NA$CAR is any indication, that can only be good. AMA and Rights is where they need to be - museum, special honors... I don't think that a national organization really ought to waste time and resources in organizing rides and more social events | ||
| Glitch |
Gotta agree with Slaughter. | ||
| Molly_hatchet |
educating the public would be great...isnt there a campaign in the UK now about watching for motorcycle riders...some billboards and such to remind the idiots that we are out there would nice....kind of like they do for highway workers now that so many of them have been killed...educate the public thats my vote. | ||
| Reepicheep |
Their museum is loosely affiliated. It's really a separate entity, but they get a sweetheart deal on rent on an AMA owned building. I'll decide if I want to join this spring, when I see where they put Dave Barr's bike. That'll tell me what I want to know about them. | ||
| Socalbueller |
I have heard the France family is likely taking over Superbike... and if what they did for NA$CAR is any indication, that can only be good. Uh, you mean having all the cars/bikes be exactly the same regardless of manufacturer and have no resemblance of actual production vehicles? Superbike is already 1/2 way there. With them racing around the track now I can't tell the difference between the Japanese big 4. Use to be kind of interesting when there was a Ducati or 2 out there but now it is not that exciting. They have made NASCAR into a money making machine though and it would be nice to see a more level playing field in Superbike. Instead of the classes based on displacement why not try HP levels. I think you would get more variety of machines other than the inline 4s. | ||
| Slaughter |
Something to read in the current issue of American Motorcyclist - ALL the Buell line - down to the Blast - are classified by the IIHS as "performance bikes" or something like that. They group those together with the Hayabusa and all the generic inline 4 "killer" machines. IIHS stats are being used to start investigating options for restricting manufacturing and licensing. Good read. This stuff is what AMA has a pretty decent history of taking care of. | ||
| Doerman |
I've seen AMA as getting to be more and more an organization to serve its own preservation interest- inward looking instead of looking for opportunity. There is a new President and in his statement to members in the February Motorcyclist issue he seemed to take a fresh look at what the organization can do for motorcyclists. It seemed to be heading in the direction of working on more offers for the member which seems to be motel discounts and services which already is better served by other organizations (AAA for instance). I know the new prez means well, but concentrate on AMA's core competencies: rider rights and racing sanctioning body. If they want to offer more services to members they would do well to expand a rider education program - on the street as well as on the track. A well executed program would also carry weight in their rights battles. AMA should be able to pull off track education programs. Buell did. (Message edited by doerman on January 16, 2008) |
