What Would You Do for MTB if You Won the $1,300,000,000 Powerball Jackpot?

Revise your dream players, jackpot is up to 800 million.

I'd fund all of the projects for my local organization for the next decade.

create or fund a program that takes under served youth mountain biking.

Since I wouldn't be working, I'd have more time for work parties.

I'd have velosolutions build a public pumptrack near my house. Then I'd have them build a private one at my house.

Interestingly, I was actually thinking about this the other day while sitting on the toilet.

I would certainly buy every E-Bike I could get my hands on,take the engines out and give them away.

Buy post office back.

Ok first off we need to clarify that $700mm Powerball = ~$400mm immediate pay cash value - 40% capital gains tax mean you are actually pocketing ~$300 million from this jackpot, and that is consider you are single winner (likely there will be multiple winners to split the pot).

That being said, I have considered this scenario after picking up a ticket at a crappy Fruita gas station on my way back home to Utah.

1) Start my own 'team' to do the full EWS and WC DH - we will be the most well funded, hardest partying, plushest living team. Team uniforms will be $10,000 italian dress suits. It will be all my mountain biking buddies living the 'pro dream' for a couple seasons.

2) Donate a good $10million to local trailbuilding to make SLC and Park City the ULTIMATE mountain biking destination in North America.

3) Invest in / purchase a heli/cat lodge like Retallack so I can heli-bike in summer and heli-ski in winter at my own gig.

The rest would be real estate / business investment / development.

OK, I'll play.

I'd pay to get a ton of kick-ass musicians together to do a supergroup album. Team 4-5 of them together at a time to do one song each as miniature supergroups. Proceeds would go to charity. We're talking strange but beautiful combinations, like David Bowie plays with Bootsy Collins and Buckethead.

For MTB, I'd spend a ton of money on buying stuff. Spread the wealth and all. Odds are good I'd have a pretty rad Fun Mover with a garage in the back so I can work on my bikes wherever I go, and I'd be going places most of the time.

Haha awesome. If I win I'll do the same and send u a million just so we can pay it forward!

This dude....

Make a US based series. Put 3 million into 3 accounts per mountain we use. 8 races for the year. That 3 million will cover payouts for men and women!

1st $20,000
2nd $15,000
3rd $10,000
4th $5,000
5th $2,500

Since most Pro courses do not scare the riders. The terrain would be DH bike only. If the public mountains are not steep, rocky and sketchy then the 4-5 private mountains with trails and lifts will be used. These would need huge rock gardens knee high at the minimum. 50-70 foot jumps, off camber marble turns, roots and rough as hell. The tracks would be 2500 feet or taller.

Donate to trail builders, establish some sort of mtb clinic for all levels of riders

I'd definitely by that Source fanny pack Vital keeps putting in my face. I'll tell you that.

And then I'll spare you the showing off of my business acumen and how smartly I would invest to say that I would...

Start a company that disrupts the current MTB business model to force some radical change because it would be fun. Make it possible to own a quiver of bad ass bikes. Screw one bike. I want people to have a garage full of bikes.

Then enhance existing trail systems all over the place. Sponsor a trail per month. Don't commercialize them, but make it easier for local builders to get it done their way. This preserves the character of locally developed trails, but at scale. Also try to connect them like a PCT for bikes.

Race series, of course...but more of an omnium so the racers have to compete in many disciplines to win. Many events in a weekend or several different ones in a series...and more events. Prize money$$$.

Bad ass systems to cover the races. Why not? The tech is there. Just need to bundle it in an affordable and portable package. I'd make this a complete business unto itself. And it would help to share the sport.

Trail, riding, and race advocacy foundation to market all this stuff at the rider level. Make it possible to have chapters and use them to fortify the trail building efforts. Cheaper bikes would make it easier to develop youth teams in schools.

I see all this stuff kind of working together as a system to develop the sport, help people and the trails, and stay busy making cool shit happen so I don't die a big fatso.

Probs pay for the food and bevs at my local trail build days....


AND THEN spend heaps on travel at whistler and giving to mtb clubs and parks and do heaps of shouts at the local pub and just do anything that puts a smile on a bikers face...

and of course, put some in a savings account just for the lols

I'm from Germany, can I join this lottery too or is this just for Americans?

Anyway, I'd buy myself a Formula 1 team and be one of the drivers and the boss at the same time. I'd also create a badass Dakar team and drive myself (most likely car, maybe Motobike).

I would build a few houses at the most badass riding spots in the world (Whistler, Queenstown, etc.) and also a house full of bikes.

And I would donate like 100 millions or so to various charities like Share the ride as well as projects to increase the living standard of poor people. I would also sponsor gamechanging companies like Tesla or the Hyperloop or stuff like that!

Helicopter dump soft dirt all over my local riding spot and build a chair lift

Invest in Bottled Water.

buy the local P12 trail system and kick out the one landowner who's a total moron....wait build my house up there too. Oh and find a way to avoid litigation if someone gets hurt. Umm support the Composite MTB Team(Kids MTB Team) for the next 100 years.

Same. Didn't match a single number.

Heard it's $1.4-billion now. I hope whoever wins it doesn't lose their minds.

Being an Aussie, will only equate to $750 Million (maybe less by the time Mr Taxman takes his cut) but hey.......lets start.

1. Buy Marzocchi off Fox and bring back the Shiver DC and SC.

2. Invest in Zerode bikes and Aussie Brand Bilt Bikes. Make more options and have a carbon option.

3. Develop the Australian Gravity scene, have a series that is more than 3 rounds long and held in more places than Victoria (or a 5 hour drive from Victoria. How can that be a "National" Series??

4. Revive a World wide 4X series.........or inject cash into the 4X ProTour to take the show on the road world wide.

5. Create my own team of riders for WC dominance, Sam Hill, the Hannah's, Troy Brosnan with Nathan Rennie being the TM and Indi Boer as the team trainer............and have them all mounted on.............whatever the hell they want to ride!

I think if by any chance someone in this forum wins the powerball they should do what they said with it and give a small percentage to everyone that has contributed here, yes?

I don't mean to unnecessarily bump my own post, but I just want to point out how bummed I am that I can't hire David Bowie now.

1. Start a fund for riders who are injured competing. Kind of like Aflac but they don't have to pay in to it.

2. Disappear

I would buy all of the bikes. For myself. That would help in some way, right?!

Small percentage to forum contributors? Nah, would just ask for a list of components for your dream bikes and have them built, customised in your own personalised graphics kits and sent out to you.......or just a photo of said bike :p

Glad it has been opened up to Australians now though....brought my tickets this morning.....gotta be in it to win it!!

But there were a few with the right numbers but no powerball number. Don't they get some cut as well? I don't Lotto, so I don't really know. That might allow a few Vital members?