What a horror trip. You were totally right to be pissed off. That explains why you came on all stroppy on the Ti thread on Monday morning.
. I'm glad your lad wasn't badly hurt mate.
There's no accounting for the dickhead factor and unfortunately a table full of rulebooks ain't going to mean a thing to a piss and testosterone loaded 20 year old on a dirtbike. Because of the high entry numbers and the non competitive style of these events, the wanker quota will always be a appreciably higher than at a 'proper' race meet. I've been to a number of these organised trail rides over the years but eventually gave them away after some organisers continually failed to address the bad behaviour. I remember Sydney's Oyster Bay club running some very well organised trail rides at Upper Colo and Sunny Corner used to be fun before it became too big. It's no fun waiting for half an hour at the bottom of a gnarly hill for the bottleneck to clear. Maybe the use by date is up for these type of events, ruined by their own popularity?
I wanted to discuss rules before CD7 and lots told me to go away and even asked if I was a public servant because I loved rules so much. Well chaps this is why we have rules to stop this kind of stuff. But rules are nothing if they are not enforced
I kind of understand where you were coming from Ji but you copped a load because of
the way you kicked your discussion off...."no open toed shoes", "generators off by 10pm" and other 'school monitor" style stuff. By the tone of your initial post it seemed that you envisioned that Conondale was about to be engulfed into a sea of drunken debauchery and that your family was in danger of being kidnapped by Bultaco riding crack addicts and sold to the Gold Coast Russian Mafia slave traders. In reality 99% of the participants behaved themselves admirably with not a sign of the evil you you were trying to prevent.
My dad was an old school arse kicking cop who hated rules and rulemakers.
His favourite saying was that "sensible people act sensibly and don't need to be told how to behave". After attending all seven Classic Dirts and
never seeing
any offensive behaviour at all, you grossly underestimated the "sensibility" of the vintage movement. That's why everyone arc'd up, we didn't need anyone telling us how to behave.
