wheeler0801

yes. and no. if you don't break much then not tooo much, when you break a lot, it costs a lot.

with two of us racing, it gets pretty expensive, and now that gas prices are higher...here's a breakdown of what we will spend this weekend, we leave Saturday afternoon, camp Sat night and race Sunday:

*Diesel in the truck to get there: $100 bucks roughly
*Gas in the wheelers to race: $40 bucks....yea, I can't believe it's that much either. Just to ride it costs that much.
*Food/drinks for the weekend: $50 bucks or so
*Gate Admission: $14 bucks ($7 bucks a person, but...this goes up at National events)
*Race Admission: $50 bucks ($25 a piece, this also goes up at Nationals)

So race weekends we spend about $200 bucks....

but....that's not including anything thats broken or just general maintenance. We both just busted our bumpers and got new ones from PRM, we've found they really do last the longest, but spent $235 bucks on two of them....my husband needed new swing arm bearings this week...that's another 50 bucks...and now last night when we were getting things ready we found the swing arm is cracked so we're going to have to buy one of them now.

SO, it does get expensive....but, at the same time, we don't go out and eat, we dont go to the movies, we dont go partying on the weekend. All the money most people spend on that kind of stuff goes towards racing for us. It's what we love :)


Someday maybe you'll see one of our names in the magazinesssss!!! Ohh..and I forgot to mention, sponsors help. Even if they give you just discounts on products, it really helps, you'd be surprised how much 50% off on goggles makes a difference. Anything helps. :)

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