Kent,
Thanx for the advice and the invite. Probably can't make it this evening, but I'd certainly like to attend a meeting in the very near future.
The insurance carrier has given us considerable latitude re ambulance placement, but the BLM required us to be very specific in the Operational Plan addenda. We had to delineate with a detailed drawing where the portable toilets, dumpsters and fueling area will be.
When I first started this I didn't realize the enormity of putting on such an event. I certainly didn't anticipate the response we've gotten! This thing has taken on a life of its own. We have confirmed entries from San Antonio, TX, Memphis, TN, and San Francisco. We have a pre-entry from New Zealand! I thought we'd have fifteen or twenty scooters max, and that we'd go bonkers with the trophies, racing licenses, speed tickets, and what-not. The response has been much greater.
My law partners and I have pumped a lot of time and dough in to this event! We trying to do everything first-class. We're comping the racing licenses for this first event. We're running at an open venue so we can't (and wouldn't) charge admission. We're not requiring MSILSF membership. This whole event is a gigantic financial cluster-F. But there are a lot of guys (me included) with well-prepared high-performance scooters of various displacement who want to come out and play, and this is the only way they can do it. We're anxious to see what happens so we'll know whether to do it again in 2011 in a closed venue where we can charge nominal admission, sell memberships and racing licenses, get a pull off concessions, and attempt to recoup the dough we've spent on this event.
Alan
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The Ultimate Motor-Scooter Land-Speed Record Trophy is pretty kewl! So is Angela!
