Why bother??

[MadDuck]

They always think they can do better.

Also takes financial comitment. When it comes to track days. A fact that seems to have got lost on a few

[NUTBAR]

hey frosty, you do a great job with the track days etc.
if people complain as far as im concerned they can either put up & help or shut up!

[Xile]

Why bother? What a stupid question. I have seen the smiles and admiration of people you have helped over the years. Be it retreiving a bike broke or getting people on the track.

100% agreed here!!
Thanks Frosty for the gears you lend me when i get here in NZ, so I could go for rides even just as a pillion...thanks for the gears so I could ride on my first track ever...
You rock Tony!

[Quasievil]

Haha, I hear ya bro, got a bunch of baggings for doing my leather business , then got a bunch of Baggings over the Sportsbike.co.nz site.

End og the day mate two words I hold dear to heart they are (listen carefully) FUCK EM !!

lol, do what you do and do it well and those that bag ya can go get F....d

love you track days mate sorry this one didnt work, dont worry, and dont give up !

[FROSTY:Me]

Im not talking about me at all here.
An expat kiwi freind of mine came for a visit. He's overseas doing pretty well in a venture that could/should have been a Kiwi only deal. He told me he just couldn't deal with the petty beurocracy and lack of vision here.

[jrandom]

Im not talking about me in particular

We are.

[yungatart]

There are two kinds of people in this world...those who get off their arse and "do", and those that sit around and bitch.
Forget about the second category, they are not worth the mental energy.

[Motu]

There are two kinds of people in this world...those who get off their arse and "do", and those that sit around and bitch.
Forget about the second category, they are not worth the mental energy.

They are two minor groups - the vast majority of people in this world are happy to do nothing...and say nothing.To just live their lives doing what they want to do,and thinking their own thoughts....they are happy in life,and nothing needs to be changed.

[Paul in NZ]

Im wondering why people bother to organise or start anything in good ol Godzone?
Seems the tall poppy syndrome has gotten so out of control its unreal.

Oh for fucks sake - the tall poppy syndrome.... Sad excuse for people to behave poorly because they percieve themselves as 'special' and somehow deserving of special treatment. It does not happen more here than anywhere else if it happens at all. Do you think Michael Faye and his fellow robber barrons really give a fig what the press or others say about them? Pfft! So lets say you turn on an event, service or somesuch that you thought was needed - you go to extreme lengths to do it right (in your eyes) and all you get are complaints - well perhaps some of them are justified and some aren't - thats the way of it - some people are idiots but eveyone gets that, not just the tall poppies. On the other hand - remeber you might NOT have done a good job of satisfying your customers - return business will generally prove if you got it right. If you did screw up, no matter how hard you worked you simply got it wrong, tall poppies got nothing to do with it.

However - just because a person does one clever or good thing - it does not give them a free ticket to be a cunt in all other aspects of their life. What about the Russell Coutts etc? Hero to zero, was he a 'victim' of the tall poppy syndrome? NOPE he traded his popularity for more money and paid the price. I'll bet he is well satisfied.

[CookMySock]

Paul in NZ:

That is a fair asessment of it I think. Nice little reality check (for me).

DB

[Paul in NZ]

Sorry if that came over a bit mean - I'm talking in generalities, not specifics or anyone in particular..

[FROSTY:Me]

Paul your company sounds to be the exception. But why are people going elsewhere to make their money?
Just pissed that another opertunity for us has gone offshore

[rickjames]

Im wondering why people bother to organise or start anything in good ol Godzone?
Seems the tall poppy syndrome has gotten so out of control its unreal.

So many whingers and whiners how stuffs wrong. Not one of em is prepared to stand up and show how anythings soposed to be run/done.

What a whinging whinner you are eh!

[Coyote]

It's weird that we still have a culture that knocks down high achievers and suchlike because the general rule with American culture which everyone is trying to adopt is that if you have an asset, flaunt the fucking hell out of it and piss everyone off, cause you're worth it. Blang blannnnng!

Noi, noi I iz ze bleck. Ze Frosty iz ze snoman dawg.

Are you all French homies?

[Paul in NZ]

Paul your company sounds to be the exception. But why are people going elsewhere to make their money?
Just pissed that another opertunity for us has gone offshore

Bigger markets with different expectations. You have to deal with reality the way it is in your place - not the way you would like it to be (unfortunately)