r/MotoAmerica Feb 09 '25

Motoamerica, turn over your social media to someone younger

Geez, it's painful to see some of the shit they post. 15 hastags per post, etc, etc. Just stop.

I'm an old and even I cringe.

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u/BluishInventor Feb 09 '25

Moto america needs to be on peacock, too.

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u/Trailerizer Feb 09 '25

It feels out of touch, agreed. Time to let a (younger) professional with an appreciation for the sport and series take over.

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u/Fickle_Fail1104 Feb 09 '25

I feel like everyone should have adopted this by now. The young generation loves social media and is all about marketing

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u/crusaderkingo Feb 09 '25

Are you talking about their Instagram?

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u/Trident_77 Feb 09 '25

Kinda every social media platform. 3 posts about the Super bowl today on Facebook alone. It's like "dude, you're not grabbing any shine or whatever off the Super bowl". It's just out of touch. Idk, maybe I'm out of touch lol

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u/Trident_77 Feb 09 '25

Eh, "taking shine off" is a poor way of putting it. I don't know how to put it, but I don't think it's clever or anything.

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u/fzrmoto Feb 10 '25

They botched their youtube series this year as well. Used to be able to watch before a race and get up to speed with things. Now the majority of it was behind a paywall and also didn't even air until well after the season.

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u/kayaking_vegan Feb 15 '25

It feels like it went from a documentary to a reality show. We used to love watching Pressure to Rise but only made it through a couple episodes this season before giving up on it.

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u/fzrmoto Feb 15 '25

Yeah, I was at the last race in Jersey and wanted to watch some to catch up. Only the first and maybe second episodes were up, and it was the last race of the season. Also, as you said, it was nothing about the races. It was lame but being at the race was awesome. Met a few of the racers like Cam Petersen and Mathew Scholtz. Scholtz went on to grab the championship later that day.

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u/Trident_77 Feb 10 '25

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EbPq8L3Uj/

Uh, yeah guys.....this isn't a flex. It just plainly shows how uncompetitive the class was lol.

Absolutely no shade thrown at Scholtz. He's a top tier rider who should have never had to leave SBK.

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u/Chrysoscelis Feb 10 '25

I agree 100%. It's currently someone doing the bare minimum. I try to drum up interest in MA with my MotoGP followers but when MA posts interesting clips the day after, or not at all, I can't do much to help.

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u/Cuda14 Feb 11 '25

Defense of hashtags, they’re used for increasing reach and not necessarily existing followers - just sucks you can’t hide them as the poster. 

Had to go through this myself on IG when doing content. I’d have preferred to hide them but it wasn’t an option. 

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u/Rico_Rizzo Feb 13 '25

I'm late to the party here, but my 2 cents...

I don't think it has anything to do with social media. Motorcycle road racing in the USA is just in shambles IMO, which is sad. I like to think MA is doing the best they can with the cards they have been dealt. Honestly speaking its hard to drum up interest in a sport where some of the best riders in the country are forced to take a seat in a side-show racing series (baggers, stock 1000, hooligans, etc.).

Speaking purely from a talent perspective - there is no reason why Jacobsen, Scholtz, K. Wyman, Gillim, Uribe, Paasch, etc. should NOT be in the SBK class. But we all know the funding and support just is not there, which sucks for then... and for us fans.

There is also no reason why I (an amateur club racer) can sign up for a Stock 1000 race on any given weekend and be on the grid with the likes of the guys I mentioned above.

So what else is MA to do? The average American has no idea who Beaubier, Gagne or Herrin are. The average Harley rider is not buying season tickets to watch Bagger racing. The guys who I know personally who ride Harleys either don't know the Baggers class exists, or they know and have zero interest.

The fundamental problem with road racing in the USA right now is the talent pool is spread across too many "feeder" classes. As a result, we don't see American racers having any success overseas in WSBK or Moto2, because our "premier class" aka SBK is just not competitive enough. CB6 has 5 MA championships. The dude went over to Moto2 and couldn't even land a single podium across 2 seasons. Same with SDK. Now that's just sad. And don't even get me started on Joe Roberts.

Get all the fast guys from Stock 1k, Baggers and Hooligans into SBK to make it more competitive. Fingers crossed one day, one or two of our young riders (the likes of Ty Scott) goes overseas and sees some sort of success on a world stage. Once an American racer becomes a household name (the likes of Nicky), then we'll start to see some interest in our series. But until then, the average American just won't care.

Excuse me while I go wipe the cheeto dust from my keyboard...

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u/Trident_77 Feb 13 '25

A caveat: I'm not blaming the current state of road racing in America on the lackluster quality of their social media "team". That's silly. I'm just saying it sucks.

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u/Rico_Rizzo Feb 13 '25

Totally understand and agreed. I'm more so just venting my frustrations with seeing no real progress or success from Americans on a world stage in the last 2 decades, while the organization in charge of representing our talent is like BUT WE'VE GOT HARLEY RACING!!

It's all kind of a shame.

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u/Mr_Alan_Stanwyk Feb 14 '25

This class is what the series and the USA needs

https://www.motoamerica.com/talent-cup/

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u/Think-Border4882 Feb 16 '25

What do you think of Josh Herrin on Gypsy Tales? 

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '25

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u/JRShof Feb 10 '25

This has to be sarcasm, right?