If you are a Heaven VMX member your Inbox will have been hit hard this week. It is not as bad as it looks.
A group of members who believe after 7 years of discussion and debate, the timing is finally right to include Pre-90 as a race class in Heaven events, has petitioned the Committee to hold a vote on the issue, which has been called for Saturday afternoon Nov 1 at The Lakes circuit.
There are 2 main objectives covered by the vote,
1/ Update the Club constitution to align the classes Heaven VMX supports with the classes MA classifies as Classic and Post Classic MX. This would then include Pre-90 for the 2015 season and beyond.
2/ Update the Club constitution to revise the Committee's role to ensure no classes miss out as a result of including Pre-90 and all classes are catered for fairly and equally.
Here is a summary to simplify what you need to do,
If you can make it to the Lakes, just vote on the day.
If you can't make it to The Lakes, send in your vote by post, email or fax on the forms supplied. You would have received 3 voting forms.
The voting forms relate to 3 separate issues and each form needs to be sent in well ahead of time if you want your vote to count.
Form 1. A simple numbering anomaly in our constitution we would like to see fixed.
Form 2. Whether the club should change the existing club constitution to include a Pre-90 class from 2015 by aligning the classes the club supports with Motorcycling Australia.
Form 3. To ensure all classes are equally catered for and no class misses out, this clause is reworded in a manner where it is the written role of the committee to ensure no class misses out.
It is in the Heaven constitution that for the change to take place, 75% of the members that vote must be in favour of the change. If you are an active member, please exercise your right as a member and take the time to vote. It is important the voting tallies are a true reflection of what the majority of the members would like to see happen in the club's future.
Personally I am in favour of the changes. I believe as time marches on, it is inevitable this must happen for the club to maintain it's membership and remain strong. Those opposed have been successful in delaying the change for 7 years now. It is time to welcome the Pre-90 riders into our club and unite as a VMX community in NSW.
In 2015, when the bikes are more than 25 years old, there really is no argument that these bikes are not 'vintage'. They may not seem vintage to those of us who are 50 something and older, but to the many new active members who are 40 something and will carry our club forward, these bikes are the bikes they rode in their teenage years.
Other states are struggling as membership is diluted across multiple clubs. If we don't choose a united and strong future for the VMX scene in NSW, our future may be chosen for us, and I would hate to see that future for this great club to be drop off of membership and drop off of numbers at race meetings.
There are many Pre-90 bikes lying in sheds or just being ridden in the bush across our state. Let's get these bikes out of storage, off the paddocks, dust them off, and have some race fun with them.
If you would like to read in more detail why we support this change for the Heaven VMX club, please message me with your email, and I'll send you a PDF copy of our reasons why.
Thanks for reading.
