Having racers forced to volunteer will reduce the number of entries at that race, which will reduce income, and reduce track time for people who want to ride.
Why? You say it will, but never gave any reasons why. I can easily make the claim, "forcing racers to volunteer will increase the number of entries." See how that works? If you want to ride, you'll make it work. Why? Because you have no other option. There's nowhere else to race in Edmonton and Calgary.
If fees go up $25 a day, and you have to add $100 in parts, and take 2 days off work to volunteer, and drive further to get to the track, etc. etc. all of the sudden maybe you cant make the last round or 2. If this happens to %25 of the membership, how much does it cost the club?
Drive further for who? It took me 40 minutes to drive to Strato before. Now, it'll only take me 15 minutes. I already had the part so it costs me nothing. Having enough volunteers means that you can split shifts and work around your racing schedule. You're complaining again.
Lack of participants - Try to cater to as many classes of machines\racers as we can?
Having more classes means that you have to feather more races amongst a fixed amount of time. So, this might mean that when everybody has to pay, say, $400 to register, you might only get one or two races in a day due to the club having to accommodate so many more race classes. It doesn't necessarily mean you're increasing the number of races a person can register in. You talked about losing riders? This will definitely do it. I imagine that one of the goals to restricting races would be to maximize the value of racing for the dollar; that is how you get racers on the grid. Decreasing the number of races they can register in and increasing the rates is one sure-fire way to reduce your entries.
Lack of volunteer hours for setup/tear down - Can we hire people to help? Offer free gate pass\dinner or reduced membership costs to those who do help?
So, you don't want to shell out $70 for a brake lever guard but you want the nonprofit club to fork out money for something that can be had for free by volunteers? i.e. something that you have no interest in doing. That's awfully hypocritical. So, you want the club to shoulder all the costs? They're non-profit you realize?
Increases in rental costs - Reduce costs elsewhere or increase fees, bring back membership renewal fees?
Weren't you complaining about a $70 part?
Need for airfence - Again, increase fees or add donation options (For those who have an extra $500 laying around)
Did you think racing was cheap? If people have $500 laying around to donate, the club will happily accept it. That's nothing new.
Shorter allowable rental time - Combine grids to reduce session numbers while still allowing people more track time.
That's... that's what they're trying to do. There goes your suggestion to max out the number of classes. This also becomes a safety issue as well -having too many people on a track of various skills and speeds. How much fun would it be for a racer to be constantly held up by slower racers because the track was trying to make it all about money by maxing out the number of registries?
Guess I would just rather see people spend money towards the club and air fence than at a dealership on parts
Didn't you just write this previously??
Lack of volunteer hours for setup/tear down - Can we hire people to help? Offer free gate pass\dinner or reduced membership costs to those who do help?
Hiring people costs money yet you'd "rather see people spend money towards the club and air fence". If you really had the interest of the club in mind, you would understand that the brake lever guard (again, a $70 part) is for safety (not even theirs -yours). Moreover, you would rather see people spend money towards the club and air fence yet you sound adamantly against volunteering.
How, pray tell, do you think the track is prepped and readied for racing when you arrive to a track? Do you think magical little bunnies come out and sweep the tracks, move pylons, wave flags, plan grids, clean the garbage leftover by spectators, etc.?
When you leave the track, who does the tear down? Who collects all the pylons, flags, boards, chairs, etc.?
It sounds like you want to party, but you have no interest in staying and cleaning up.
The club is moving to a less accommodating track that has higher fees and that's something you cannot change. Help the forward motion of the club by complaining less.