Could Pocket Bikes Help Track-Junkies?

Holy $h!t! Someone who's actually on topic!



Wow! From what you've said, you could be blastin bears or pickin possies.



Honestly, without knowing the variables: location, age, compitition, traffic, income of locals and Profit From Retail: bike sales, Tshirts, fuel, garage space, blah, blah, blah...there's no way to give you a valid answer.



As for myself, I'd probably be willing to pay $15.00 per hr / $35.00 for 3 hrs (with me providing the bike and everything else) but I live in a depressed area (NE Pa). What the market will bear in your area is anybody's guess.



However, "Ride whenever ya damn well please," doesn't sound like a very good idea, if you want to get maximum profit vs track use.



But, like I said, I got no Idea what you're up against.

hmmm, it's all about perception I guess......Socialists have been in charge since FDR and have yet to succesfully solve any social problem despite the mountains of cash gleaned off of the taxpaying public for their social engineering/vote buying schemes. They have, however, managed to make many problems worse.



This is because they believe that central planning can fly in the face of all economic law and rationality and still work. News flash---it doesn't.



The modern political philosophy that the founders most closely identified with would have been libertarianism. They fought a war to shuffle off goverment burdens and restrictions that were but a tiny fraction of what is placed on us today. They also said that the public interest was liberty, not social services. If you're going to call libertarians selfish pricks then you are applying that label to the founders of America, the guys that set up the political system that made this country free and prosperous. Only because of the framework they built do modern social busybodies and collectivists have enough time to spout off about "economic injustice" on their high-speed cable connections from their air-conditioned homes. The rest of the (relatively, we're certainly not living in 1776 anymore) unfree world is too busy eeking out a living under tyrannical and semi-tyrannical rule to worry about what their neighbor contributes to their social security trust fund.

Re: KPail

Yeah, I watch the Daily Show and Bill Mahr's show, too. That seems to be where you're getting your material from. Keep thinking in sound bites. You'll be able to figure it all out in about, uh, never.

By the way, Bill Mahr had a guy named Andrew Sullivan on his show last night. He summed up the whole problem with your gang perfectly. He also ripped Mahr and the other Left wing apologists/conspiracy theorists/biggots/whiners real good.

By the way, Sullivan is gay, a Democrat, and was a Kerry supporter.

Mahr also had Noam Chomsky on, and treated him with extreme deference. So respectful was Bill of Chomsky, an MIT professor, an unabashed America-hater, and an ardent supporter of the former U.S.S.R., he probably would have humped his leg had he actually been in the studio instead of being on a video feed.

The Left likes to talk about the "hateful, biggoted, fear-mongering, close-minded Right." I think maybe they should look in the mirror for once.

All they've done is hate people who don't agree with them since the last election.

My only disagreement with socialism is the use of the govt gunbarrel to force people who work (and deserve the rewards of their labor) to contribute to those who won't.



The differences are apparent when you compare private charities with govt welfare programs. Private charities uniformly provide better help at a fraction of the cost. The problem with govt "charity" is simply that the bureaucracy is like any other bureaucracy in that it expands and takes actions that create a permanent underclass. And it fights as hard as any agency to protect its turf. The people it purports to help become merely pawns. This result of govt charity is inescapable, period.



A fine current example is the UN's Oil-for-Food scandal, the worst in known human history. Or look at UNICEF. They can't provide aspirin or penicillin to the poor in Africa but by God they sure can distribute all the condoms anyone might ever need (check out the writings of Malthus to understand why this is).



Then there's the US Social Security system that now gives free drugs to the richest demograpic group in the US (the elderly). It also supports heroin addicts habits. Funds Electro-Shock "Treatment" and.... well the list goes on and on.



The entire concept of "the poor" is a lie now anyhow. The "poverty line" in the US is about equal with the middle class in most European nations. The govt falsely labels people "poor" to justify our insanely expensive and ineffective social services.



Aside form a few simple functions like Fire Departments and paving roads the only thing the govt is uniformly good at is generating useless jobs for the sub-intelligent. Most bureaucrats would be fired if they tried to work at MacDonalds. (My apologies to any MacDonalds employees out there for comparing them to govt employees).