OzVMX Forum
Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Graeme M on February 03, 2010, 08:16:23 pm
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OzVMX is the place to talk vintage MX, but where do you go if you still actively race and are Over 40? Somewhere you can talk to like minded people who are racing into their more *ahem* advanced years?
Well, wonder no more. Old Racer is the place for you. Share the news, gossip, tips for flogging the young pups and techniques for staying fit and racing into decrepitude... Check it out now.
http://oldracer.ning.com
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Interesting.. I thought that's what this forum was meant to be but lately it's anything but!
Hardly any Vintage Motocross talk on here unless it's bashing a track or the rulebook.
Sounds good so i joined up, could be the new place to hangout..
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I'm giving it a go.
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Welll... Old Racer is aimed at guys riding modern bikes. MX, enduro, trials, trail, dirt track whatever.... So it's not intended to be about vintage. OzVMX is vintage. I am not even really aiming at the guys on OzVMX, but I am guessing some or many will also race modern bikes too.
So, if you are a vintage racer, you're welcome at Old Racer. But I am not trying to dilute the flavour of OzVMX, rather I am wanting to support the older guy who loves his contemporary racing. And by the way, that's racing. I am not trying to cater for trailriders or social riding...
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But I am not trying to dilute the flavour of OzVMX,
Sadly, others have done that for you Graeme.
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How are you going to stop young guys from getting on this new sight? They'll be pretending that they're cranky, middle-aged men with receding hair-lines and a distancing memory of just how quick they really are.
Having re-read the last paragraph, that probably won't be a problem.
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Sadly, others have done that for you Graeme
I wrote the above immediately prior to going to bed last night after reflecting that a lot of the variety and spark seems to have taken leave from the forum. While laying in bed , during that hazy period before I dropped off I realise that what I'd posted had the potential to start another shit fight so I made the mental note to pull the post off when I got up in the morning. Unfortunately Ross got in earlier than me and made my withdrawl impossible. It wasn't mean't to incite any argument or to criticise anyone, it was merely a passing thought as I went to bed after a really crap last few days. Perhaps its more a reflection of me than the forum.
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I've joined up, even if I haven't started racing again yet.
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And as for Billet YZ putting his competition prowess down as "Clubman"........ ::)
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And as for Billet YZ putting his competition prowess down as "Clubman"........ ::)
Clubman it is for now,
i was reminded daily in the first year of my apprenticeship what an expert was. Something along the lines of X is the unknown quantity and spurt is a drip under pressure so from that knowledge i try not to use the word expert. ;)
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So therefore the lesson is "think before you post!" Jerry
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No worries Firko. The forum has certainly changed (or evolved), but I guess so too has the scene in general in some ways. 'Old Racer' came about because my situation has changed. I can't really travel too much these days due to circumstances so getting to a vintage meet is a rare thing. Plus the ACT club dropped its old bikes class due to lack of interest. So my riding now is mostly on a modern bike, and I wanted to create a site for older guys riding modern bikes...
That said I still love my vintage and do hope this year to make it to the Canowindra Classic or whatever it's called, CD7 and maybe Double the Dirt in Brisbane. I will keep OzVMX going as the new ning website makes it so easy for me, and it's fun to watch how things move along.
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So therefore the lesson is "think before you post!" Jerry
In reference to what Jerry ???
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Firko,look on the bright side mate,no more fugging pre 90 "discussion",they have their own site now(hopefully ::)) ;D, :P
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Pre '90 is inevitable mick.. and by the way they are not a modern bike, they're 20 years old.
Try telling a young guy he needs to race an '89 CR250 instead of his 2010 CRF250.
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Firko,look on the bright side mate,no more fugging pre 90 "discussion",they have their own site now(hopefully ::)) ;D, :P
Pre '90 is inevitable mick.. and by the way they are not a modern bike, they're 20 years old.
Try telling a young guy he needs to race an '89 CR250 instead of his 2010 CRF250.
Don't even bother with the wind up over Pre 90 JohnnyO, its not worth it.
if they cannot see it coming it doesn't matter. i agree with you it's inevitable.
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Yeah true :)
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C'mon guy's,
I've only been on the scene for 5 minutes but it's my opinion that this particular thread was started for obvious reasons and it's disappointing that some people take every opportunity to get personal and twist the knife.
Luv Ya's All.
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could i at least have my swivel & sinker back please? :D ;D ;) ;D, :P
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Funnily enough Mick but I didn't mean you, but I think I've got lead poisoning.
I've done a bit of foot in mouth just recently.
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Not meaning to get personal and i'm almost too old for pre '90 but love it or hate it one day it'll be in.
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yeah,but thanks to Grahame we won't read about it on here! ;D, :P
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Plus the ACT club dropped its old bikes class due to lack of interest.
This is Not True The A.C.T Mcc Change the Track to Be the First Out Door Super Cross Track in Australia .
and Then no one Came to Race .
Dennis
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Plus the ACT club dropped its old bikes class due to lack of interest.
This is Not True The A.C.T Mcc Change the Track to Be the First Out Door Super Cross Track in Australia .
and Then no one Came to Race .
Dennis
and it is not the only club -- you can only try and then we learn ;D--such is life in mx/sx/vmx
The Maffra-Sale Motorcycle Club would like to advise that the two Arena Cross events scheduled for this month have been cancelled due to lack of interest.
Only a small number on entries were received and as such the club made the decision to cancel the event.
For any further information please contact the Maffra-Sale Motorcycle Club. www.maffrasalemotorcycleclub.org.au
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yeah,but thanks to Grahame we won't read about it on here! ;D, :P
Geeez.......... ???
I'm 44 and I must say an '87 YZ 250 is more revelant to me than some obscure, leading link four-stroke with half an inch of suspension.... ??? ::)
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Not meaning to get personal and i'm almost too old for pre '90 but love it or hate it one day it'll be in.
To Old for pre 90 ??? wash your mouth out John, by the way you were riding at Conondale a few weeks back you are just getting started ;D
By the way I was on my pre 90 bike that day (which is in pretty good nick) and no way I could keep with the faster vets on the 250 four strokes little lone the 450's!!
Oh and thanks very much for the new site Graeme I have joined as I do have a 450 as well.
Shane
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Firko,look on the bright side mate,no more fugging pre 90 "discussion",they have their own site now(hopefully ) ,
Jeeeez. I'm so f**king tired of being the poster boy for the "I hate pre 90" brigade. If anyone would have stepped out of their personal red mist for a few seconds and actually read my rants on the subject you would have understood that I'm totally in favour of the pre 90 class, love the bikes, regard the era as the golden era of motocross and actually own two pre 90 bikes.
My whole opposition to the introduction of pre 90 is purely based on the timing of the classes introduction. I'm not the evil " pre 75 for ever" ogre that I've been painted by people who should know better. I merely think that classes are being introduced way too quickly and not allowing for the existing classes, in this case pre 85 and Evo, to reach their full potential. You think I'm full of shit? When has the Evo class had enough entries to run a 125 class in HEAVEN events? When has there been full grids in all capacity classes in both Evo and pre 85?
In the end it's inevitable that pre 90 evolves but I still don't think it's time yet. Now can we get back on focus and discuss the Old Racer forum before it turns into yet another shitfight.
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Look out Firko, you have just mentioned Pre 95 in your last post.
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Look out Firko, you have just mentioned Pre 95 in your last post
All fixed. ;D
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fuggg!!,i've been spooled ;D, :P
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Confuscious say "Do not do today that which maybe put off till tomorrow"..hmmmm :-X
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That's true Dennis, the main reason for the drop in numbers at ACT is the new track design. But that said you must admit that the Old Bikes class was staggering even before that. In any case, I hope they make some changes so that we can maybe get it happening again, but from what I've heard even the Over 45s class won't be appearing this year... That's a shame.
Now, sign up to Old Rider and join Canberra Scramblers. And come on down to Balallaba on the 14th.
As for Firko and his seditious Pre 90 stuff, I reckon we should band together and force him to do 10 laps of Conondale on a stock TM400 for that sort of heresy...
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Nothing personal Mick....just nipping it in the bud before I again get accused of being "an obstructive old dinosaur, standing in the way of progress" as one puppy described me. Feel free to debate the pre 90 cause but please leave me out of it. My fightin' days are over. ;)
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Graeme, I'll loan Firko the mighty TS400MX and you just watch the big fella go! :o actually I'd be a bit of history in the making but in all seriousness, I rode my TS125 and F11 at Connondale and they carved it up, particularly the TS. No problems anywhere excepting the bloody hill before it dropped down into the slushies on the run up to the bridge ::) not the bikes fault. simply couldn't get my shit together no matter how I held my tongue ::) hmmm...speaking of holding tongues, sometimes biting it works too :D
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Hey Chris, I know what you mean. I followed you for a while when you were on the F11 and that thing was cooking along. Reckon I need a helmet cam this year!
Now how's this for wandering off topic...
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Confuscious say "Do not do today that which maybe put off till tomorrow"..hmmmm :-X
Better still: "Don't put off till tommorow, what you can get out of doing altogether. " ;D