Re: How far are you willing to travel for a major SyTy Event?
I haven't voted for a couple reasons.
1) I never plan that far ahead for anything.
2) My truck has been down for years, and is still on the back burner.
Now, I will always want to go to Nats no matter the location. I would love to be able to make it to any SyTy event really, big or small. There are so few trucks and members that any gathering would be worth it to me. But if I was able to come to a future event, it would be in my daily driver. At least for the foreseeable future.
I applaud anyone, past and present that has helped setup and host the SyTy Nationals. Morgan, if you want me to vote for the DD option, just let me know.
Danen,
I never plan anything (personally) this far ahead either, heck I got engaged and had the wedding 3 months later :rotf:
but fact is, last minute planning doesn't work either, not for this, nor does sitting back and just assuming the event will happen on its own and that people will want to show up just because there is a date, a track and a hotel.
I'm doing all of this calculating now just to see how a simple location change will effect attendance in a "real world" scenario as I can get, which is why I asked people to vote honestly. Voting that you will 1000 miles but really you're only willing drive 500 doesn't do me or the community any good when it comes down to actually choosing a location.
The other reason I'm doing this now is to keep people talking, thinking, wondering what is coming up. Maybe all of this hype will get those back burner projects back on the road again, I haven't driven a SyTy on a public street in 9 years, I am hoping all that will change for myself within the next 3 - 15 months, maybe for other people too.
As far as voting goes, seeing 145 people actually taking the time to vote is great in itself, whats better is that 76 of them would actually drive to a centrally located event with an additional 22 that I feel would honestly come based on the mileage being just over what they voted (example, voted 200-500, actual is 534). That's almost 68% attending possibly with a SyTySGT of some sort and possibly more willing to fly in if they are part of the 32% or maybe they will caravan with someone else.
There is also a good number of people who I know HAVEN'T VOTED, like Keith G, Sportmachines, Ian T, Aaron K, Hood, Mike C and numerous other "OG's" that I know, that aren't on my spreadsheet that would probably be in the green to bump attendance up even more.
I've always been a big supporter of the statement, "it's not about the trucks its about the people" and I still believe that today, but at the end of the day the trucks do play a major roll in getting people off the fence and getting them to show up. It is about the trucks too, after all that is why we are all here.
As for your vote, you could vote Other or DD if you don't think you will get your Sy anywhere near running by next year. Being that you are in Lee's Summit makes you pretty central to begin with, we could probably push your Sy to the event :lol:, its too bad KCIR isn't there anymore. Either way as long as youre there, that's all that matters, maybe the bug will bite soon and the Sy can get off the stove. :tup:
