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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: SUZUKI311 on December 03, 2009, 09:42:54 pm
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Gents, at this stage the proposal for the resurrection of the Ravenswood Cup is as BigK suggested in his post, a meeting ran early in the year, with proceeds going to the Noel Clarke Fund, a tentative date of March 6 and 7, 2010. Juniors Saturday and Seniors Sunday, and when Peter Clarke first spoke of the idea i suggested that the program include classes on the Sunday for classic/evo/pre85 machinery, with a very reasonable entry fee also. Classes not finalised ( nor is anything for that matter) and i will keep you updated as we go along. Oh,by the way Firko, presentations to be held at the pub across the road Sunday evening........(long weekend in Vico that weekend.)
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Any updates on this? I've already got pressure to do something more 'family oriented' on the Labour Day weekend...
Tex
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C'mon Tex what could be more family orientated than 2 days of Moto X at a Premier Venue Including ,Juniors,Moderns & VMX with a pub across the the road . They had me at Ravenswood.
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Nothing to report at this time, the club is having its annual short break for xmas, new office bearers/committe for the new year. The first club meeting is generally around the end of January. I will keep you all up to date when any new info comes through.
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C'mon Tex what could be more family orientated than 2 days of Moto X at a Premier Venue Including ,Juniors,Moderns & VMX with a pub across the the road . They had me at Ravenswood.
;D LOL!
I'll keep it free for as long as I can, until we get confirmation one way or the other.
Tex
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Any news? Jerry
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Details on B
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Try again!! Details on Bendigo Motorcycle Club website- practice saturday, racing Sunday, presentations/dinner Sunday nite at Big Hill winery just up the road from the track-with courtesy bus running from centre of Bendigo. Remember it is the Labour day long week end with lots of events happening in Bendigo that weekend, so accomodation will be scarce the longer you leave it. Modern classes, juniors and vintage classes catered for.
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That all looks pretty good. I couldn't find an entry form though. How do I enter?
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Have you got a permit yet? It is the same weekend as Monza 2 dayer.
Viper666
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The latest on the Ravenswood cup:
Open practise & sign in Saturday 12:00 PM-4:30PM.
Racing & trophy presentation Sunday, Gala dinner & Auction at Big Hill winery from 6:30PM, tickets $40.
The vintage (VMX) classes are: pre'78 all powers, evolution all powers & pre'85 all powers. 3 rounds each. Of course there are modern classes as well and the main attraction, the Ravenswood cup (qualifying & 4 x 4 points score), as well as an over 40 open class. You really should pre enter. You CANNOT enter on Sunday morning. You MAY be able to enter on Saturday afternoon if the particular classes you want are not full. Entry forms & full details should be up very soon and can be found at www.bmcc.net.au
Come along and have some fun while contributing to the future of a fallen VMX'er.
Cheers,
K
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The supp regs, entry form & race order are now available at www.bmcc.net.au The entry form is a tad confusing so here's how it goes: $35 per rider (not class entered), plus MA levy $11.00 = $44.00. If you want to enter the Ravenswood cup it's an extra $10. If you are not a financial member of the BMCC you will need to join the club, $50 for the year or $20 for the day. Example: If you want to race pre'78, Evo & the Ravenswood cup and are not a member of the club it will cost you $74.00 for the day.
Don't forget the gala dinner & auction on Sunday night at the Big Hill winery.
Ceers,
K
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The supp regs, entry form & race order are now available at www.bmcc.net.au The entry form is a tad confusing so here's how it goes: $35 per rider (not class entered), plus MA levy $11.00 = $44.00. If you want to enter the Ravenswood cup it's an extra $10. If you are not a financial member of the BMCC you will need to join the club, $50 for the year or $20 for the day. Example: If you want to race pre'78, Evo & the Ravenswood cup and are not a member of the club it will cost you $74.00 for the day.
Don't forget the gala dinner & auction on Sunday night at the Big Hill winery.
Ceers,
K
Gday bigk,
I know it's late but myself and a mate would like to come up on Sunday to watch the races and hopefully go to the Noel Clarke dinner etc. Will we be able to go to the dinner and if so whats the dress code for the night and is there any accomadation left anywhere or can we bring swags and camp at the track or winery?
Regards Stan.
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You can come along no problems. Smart casual attire, and yes you can swag it at the winery.
Cheers,
K
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It is with humbled heart that I apologise to the Bendigo Motorcycle Club for my earlier comments regarding the running of future Viper/VCM meetings.
It would appear that I didn't have both sides of the story and I was premature in my summing up of the situation. I wish I'd not said anything... :-[
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I'm impressed, 414.
Good on ya!
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Will we see you Sunday 414, should be a great weekend.
There is rooms at the "hotel" Saturday before the "moto" on Sunday
if any one would like to stay in Bendigo this weekend.
Hotelmoto
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Is there camping at the track Sat night? :-\
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if i was you id be staying home just in case you are killed
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Danger's my middle name mate. (It used to be Lorretta)..... :D
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Camping at the track no problems. Should be an unreal event, as of today there are 180 entries, so should go 200 or more with a few days to go. Riders will get 2 x 20 minute practise sessions on Saturday arvo. Sunday morning for the first round, riders will get 2 sighting laps before each race, then on the grid for the race.
See you there.
Cheers,
K
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Camping??? :o
I just heard you blokes got a couple of inches of rain this arvo........... :D
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Still raining, bring a raft, no an ark!
Cheers,
K
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rain , coool i,ll bring the evo class kwaka js 440
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Bring floaties too, from what I hear............. :-\
I can't wait. I can't remember the last time I saw real rain. :D
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AWESOME ........Mud ,cant wait to see these pics, :P might even beat the NZud events. 8)
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Yes I will head over with the Camera on Sunday,,,,,how much does it cost for spectator's to get in if anything??
Cheers Mick.
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$5
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Great value, I didn't think you could get into anything anymore for $5.00 and I asume the gate takings will go to Noel Clarke?
Stan.
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$5.00 no prob thanks BigK, I can afford to take the family then, I only ask because I had friends go to the Broadford Bonanza last year and when they got to the gate around lunchtime the bloke wanted $100.00 for the 4 to watch at a non race event :o Rip off
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Still raining, bring a raft, no an ark!
Cheers,
K
It coming down in buckets in Melbs. Too much to even make a run for the garage.
Wonder how BigK's Ark is going up at Ravo.
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Holy shit, I'm screaming like a little schoolgirl and almost wet my pants, the track is frikin' AWSOME! Man that track can take a lot of water, (granite sand), it's even started to dust up in spots. It is truly Ravenswood at it's best right NOW. The place looks like a full on national meeting with vans & pit tents everywhere, and it's only practise! If we get the dump of rain forecast for tonight the track will be awesomer for tomorrow. Even grumpy old Mr. Nimmo was having a good time. Tomorrows event will be one of the best for sure.
Cheers,
K
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Holy shit, I'm screaming like a little schoolgirl and almost wet my pants, the track is frikin' AWSOME! Man that track can take a lot of water, (granite sand), it's even started to dust up in spots. It is truly Ravenswood at it's best right NOW. The place looks like a full on national meeting with vans & pit tents everywhere, and it's only practise! If we get the dump of rain forecast for tonight the track will be awesomer for tomorrow. Even grumpy old Mr. Nimmo was having a good time. Tomorrows event will be one of the best for sure.
Cheers,
K
Goodo. Take it easy on Rosco .He was only grumpy(this time) because he luv's the place so much.Like most of us.
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Even grumpy old Mr. Nimmo was having a good time. Tomorrows event will be one of the best for
:D Roost him big time,while ya got the chance :D ;D ;)
Have a Bonza time the lot of ya :P
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At a shaming ceremony I had to sign a stat-dec promising that I wouldn't win any races today.
I didn't have a lot of trouble sticking to it...... ::)
I was then paraded in front of the whole club, made to lay on the ground and get roosted by kids on KTM 65's for the next five minutes. :(
I spent a fair wack of the day in the company of Hotelmoto. A nice guy with a very nice Husky CR 390. Pity he had to do the big head-plant into the gunge face first on his first race of the day. It was all down-hill from there for the guy as he had to ride peak-less for the rest of the day and as we know that just never works..... :P
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I didn't think anyone noticed the peak missing, 414, or is that now 465 Sh.t I'm hurting tonight.
But it was a great weekend, of vintage and modern racing, Congratulations to the Bendigo MCC
for the event, a huge crowd, I never had that many people watch me cart wheel a bike before and I hope we raised a heap of money for Noel Clarke.
Hotelmoto
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I was there taking photo's of you blokes and helped a few up from stacks, it was a good day I got around 300 photos in all, not as many old bikes there as I thought there would be, but I enjoyed watching both mod & old, I met up with TonyT who will have some very nice shots of you all, mine are only taken with a cheapo camera but I do have some nice shots just the same, I will get them up on my forum tonight.
Cheers Mick.
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Here is a couple I took the rest I will have on my forum, like I said they are no were near the quality of what TonyT does, but there something to look at.
(http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo221/MickSue2024/IMG_0172-1.jpg)
(http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo221/MickSue2024/IMG_0170-1.jpg)
(http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo221/MickSue2024/IMG_0171.jpg)
(http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo221/MickSue2024/IMG_0176.jpg)
(http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo221/MickSue2024/IMG_0177-1.jpg)
(http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo221/MickSue2024/IMG_0169.jpg)
(http://i378.photobucket.com/albums/oo221/MickSue2024/IMG_0178-1.jpg)
I have a heap more photo's of the VMX bike's on my forum.
Cheers Mick.
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Great stuff thanks for the pics. 8)
Also looks like a good track set up, the track watering system covers well too ;) ;D ;)
cheers
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You can come along no problems. Smart casual attire, and yes you can swag it at the winery.
Cheers,
K
Myself and a mate attended Ravenswood yesterday as spectators, the BMCC did a brilliant job under the weather circumstances. Racing was great but I would have liked to see more old bikes there. Young Lewis Woods was spectacular in the Main modern events.
We then headed to the Winery to find where we were going to put our swags as per "bigk's" assurance but was told that would have never been possible, so we went in search of a motel or caravan park. Luckily we found a vacancy at a motel. Got cleaned up and headed back to the Big Hill Winery for the Noel Clarke dinner and auction. The weather could of played havoc but it was really well organised and was well supported. They had 2 bands, lots of finger food, plenty of refreshments and a great catered dinner followed by an auction of some amazing goods that had been donated. It appeared that a lot of money would have been raised for Noel. We spoke to Noel and he seemed to be in good spirits concidering what he has been through. Bendigo sure has a really strong club and motorcycling support base. Thanks to them for a great race meet and auction night.
Stan.
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Sorry Stan,
I was told by the comittee that the swag thing was no problems, they even said same at one of the club meetings leading up to the event.
Unfortunately we got a tad too much rain Saturday night which made for tough going at the races, for me anyway. I must have looked like a squid with arms & legs flailing everywhere trying to negotiate the 1 million ruts, & mud. My highlight of the day was the first over 40 race where I got the holeshot by a couple of bike lengths, from where I diligently made my way to the back of the pack. I hope someone got a photo of the start. I saw Hotelmoto praying by the side of the track, (I thought he was praying), but I do't know why anyone would want to take the peak off their helmet that way, it would be much easier to just unscrew it. Overall a good day with the 430 performing well for the first time out and only a few tweaks needed to get it right, for the next one.
Cheers,
K
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What a great weekend! ;D
I spent too much time out on the track shooting you blokes falling down and didn't catch up with everyone I wanted to, but it was good to meet Hotelmoto, Mick and the infamous (notorious??) Clarke family. ;)
Unfortunately, I had to rush off to get back for work today and missed the dinner last night, but don't forget that I'll have the photos up asap for purchase with all money going to the Noel Clarke Fund.
btw Hotelmoto, I did get a shot of you sliding on your face, it really depends on the size of your donation to the cause whether everyone gets to see it or not................... ;)
Send me a pm and we'll talk business. ;D ;D
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P.S. Watching TC91 doing a burnout in that old truck of his trying to get out of the place was another highlight............... :D :D
And no, I didn't get a photo of that. :-\
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Easy on the old truck bit. She's a mean bitch. 400 hp, overdrive gearbox and no speed limiter means even new KW's dont stand a chance. I thought I'd bring my water truck along just in case the track wasnt wet enough.
Stan our drivers comment after we dropped you pair off was that they are nice blokes but I think trouble would be brewing given half a chance. I upheld your honour though and put in a good word for you, said it was someone elses fault but you always seemed to get blamed for it.
Tony
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Easy on the old truck bit. She's a mean bitch. 400 hp, overdrive gearbox and no speed limiter means even new KW's dont stand a chance. I thought I'd bring my water truck along just in case the track wasnt wet enough.
Stan our drivers comment after we dropped you pair off was that they are nice blokes but I think trouble would be brewing given half a chance. I upheld your honour though and put in a good word for you, said it was someone elses fault but you always seemed to get blamed for it.
Tony
Gday Tony, yeah trouble and us usually end up at the same place unfortunatley. Hey we had a great day and night, thanks for the hard work you guys did. I'm sorry I missed the truck "show".
Regards Stan.