Who cares, it looks great [almost as good as a Dutch Twinshocker]!
Smart arse 
I reckon it looks better than standard but Freaksters got a point. I'f I'm going to waffle on about others "getting it wrong" I've got to cop it back occasionally. To be honest, the bike's only going to see a few proper meetings a year, both Nats with a mate riding and the odd dirt track or two with me at the helm so if I have to change the covers over for the Nats events, that's what I'll do. For CD and HBBB action, who gives a shit!
Anyway...I best get back back to the shed or the bike won't even make it to CD7.
Yer im just mindful of how we jump up and down over period correct from the outside, and you have to draw a line somewhere, i think with the correct side covers you should be fine, internals are free so that doesnt come into it, but where do you draw the line on other bits added out of period and when does it become a part or not ??
IM just playing the devils advocate. IF its
'the bike you would have built in 1971' if you had the cash, cool what a great progect to get into and how you want it, but its still a pre 75 bike and would be just as competiditive so why put it in a period before it could have been ?
all that does is blurr the lines even further and then everyone takes a bit more. PAtterson had that PRe 75 MX 250 on the line at the canberra nats and his excuse and precedent was my dad road it back in the day. not entirely true for that model engine and thats fine but thats the issue is its a 1975 model end of story and the rule is in place for a reason.
Not that its going to effect me any , but i think fair is being consitant and its perhaps not the bike itself, but its the precedent it then sets for other to mold the rules 'cause they like to have built it like that' - when they (insert period here) had the cash if they rode in the time.
I'D just like to see it with the right Side covers on it, if it was on the national stage and the other stuff spec back so it looked like the period it is representing, after all its as much about the spectical as the racing and Jo public has the right to see what looked correct. Once the door gets too wide open, we have a dutch class.
Rubber bars, shocks etc etc the line is clear and we have to be consitant. on a national stage it needs to look like its right like we have all agreed, from the outside, on the inside you can cut in a 09 YZ250 in there for all it matters, ( hell the Period RR guys do) but if we dont get the outside route right ,everything else is just build on a falacy.
PRecedents are dangerous as they just keep getting moved around like statistics.
Im glad you can see im genuine and not being a dick, but i really like the fact that Vmx seems in the whole, to present period machinery like a working museum, thats what id like to see on the track, other wise it will be Blue/purple sx rims, FAt snail pipes, gripper seats, anodised shocks and forks, plastic tanks on em before you know it and the pre 75 looking bike is long gone.............. and then whats the point.
