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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tossa on March 15, 2013, 08:31:18 pm
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Been reading the new MOMS tell me if I'm wrong, it states:
12.8.8.6 Other than CMX/CDT a chain guard made of a suitable material must be fitted in a way to prevent trapping between the lower drive chain run and the final drive sprocket at the rear wheel
that means to me no chain guard required!!!
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It also doesn't list a bar pad for that era as being compulsary
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That's terrific, I've been holding off welding a brackets on my nice nickel plated swing arms until I could get the nerve to do it, now I don't have to. That's great news.
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So Mark, are the moms the gospel or can your local club make you fit one and a bar pad to ride club events. Who overrules who basically?
Cheers
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Don't take my word as gospel but I think MoMs rules over all Ted.
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it's also the same with footrests
12.8.5 Footrests other than CMX/DT Footrests must be:
a) well rounded and designed so as to ensure that no dangerous edges are created due to wear
b) Not touch the ground at lean unless they are hinged or pivoted and controlled by a return spring
In CMX it states up to and including pre 90 Folding footrests must be fitted nothing about springs!!
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No chain guard, no bar pad, no peg springs, GMC ultra lite pipe combo....this 125 will top out at 50 kgs....pity about the pilot :o
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actually reading MOMs and I may not have found it including moderns the only bikes that have to have handlebar protection appear to be EVo, Pre85 and and pre90's and moderns i might well be wrong but if someone can find anything different i would like to know
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Pre 78 down....no pads
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Pre 78 down....no pads
Unless you punt them at a modern event ;)
17.2.1.3 Hooked brake actuating arms must have cable or rod securely fastened to prevent dislodgement........anyone got a zip tie?
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So Mark, are the moms the gospel or can your local club make you fit one and a bar pad to ride club events. Who overrules who basically?
Cheers
Ted your local club does not require you to wreck your freshly painted illegal swingarm ;D ;D ;D to fit a guard.
BUT your local club does require a bar pad if you want to ride. It is in your local club rules that you signed off on when you joined the local club. Your local club is thinking of your dental costs ;)
I actually disagree with that based on the fact that the club is a member of MA and is bound to follow the rules and regulations laid down by the governing body and if you challenged the club ruling they legally would be left without a leg to stand on.
Much the same as Sup Regs can have special requirements club rules can add extra protection. Many Junior clubs required neck braces even though they are not required under the MOMS.
I actually disagree with that based on the fact that the club is a member of MA and is bound to follow the rules and regulations laid down by the governing body and if you challenged the club ruling they legally would be left without a leg to stand on.
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Have never seen club rules in my life ?
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OK no worries sorry for the thread hijack :-X
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So......Is it 100% correct to assume that for my entries in the forthcoming Classic Motocross Nats and Classic Dirt Track Nats that -
1: I don't need to fit a rear wheel chain guard?.........My concerns being that I'd have to ruin the nickel plating on my expensive classic frames.
2: I don't need to fit handlebar cross brace pads? My concerns that as I run Jones titanium handlebars with V cross braces making it difficult to neatly fit a pad.
It's ironic that this arises today as I turned my Cheney and flat tracker upside down during the week to make it easier to weld the brackets needed to mount the chain guard today. I was extremely pissed that I'd have to wreck the nickel plating on the swingarm but had gone to some expense to buy special paint that "replicates" nickel plating but it's still not the same.
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Yeah it's amazing that last year it says every bike must have chain guards and now in this years MOM's they do a back flip. Not only that if you had only read the rules for CMX, nowhere did it state you needed a rear chain guard in last years MOM's. All those guys who have been busy making chain guards and destroying paint jobs on swing arms are going to be P***ed.
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ummm a shark fin made from perspex/nylon/aluminium sheet and cable tied to the swing arm is enough
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ummm a shark fin made from perspex/nylon/aluminium sheet and cable tied to the swing arm is enough
and it looks amateurish and like some sort of afterthought. Surprisingly, some of us take a bit of pride in our bikes appearance. If I don't need it, I'm not putting it on.
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CDT no shark fin` but if you run at a long/short track meeting?
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I made up ones for my bikes , I see it as a safety thing not a hassle might save your fingers or someone elses one day.
better to be safe than sorry in my book.
I cant work out how they change the rules from one year to the next.
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Yeah Baz - just forked out recently to have one specially made for the YZ swingarm :'(
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I had you in mind Rossco when I put this up!!!!!
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Who thinks up all this ,never heard of it before .