In a nutshell.....we had a ball. Although I didn't venture too far from the dirt track speedway area I reckon the event had grown appreciably since last year. The dirt track action was far better with a few more flat trackers and a shitload more speedway tackle. On a personal note I'd like to thank everyone who went out of their way to find me a 4mm x 35mm bolt to solve the ignition problem on my flat tracker. I'd like to also thank Brian Clarke for bringing me three kick starters back from Bendigo after we stripped the spline on mine. Thanks to Tim for the Hodaka engine....it's on the bench already and will soon be stripped down for a freshen up.
The only downside was the $85 spent on a stone cold steak and veggies, pissy desert and cheese and bikkies at Saturday nights MA banquet. The speeches were dull as dogshit and I was angered that despite all of the MA back slapping 'good old boy' self congratulatory accolades regarding the event....the dirt side of the program, motocross and dirt track/speedway
didn't recieve one mention from the speakers (David White/Jim Scaysbrook/the "Slick Johnny" compere/Alan Cathcart et al. We left at the cheese and bikkies stage, bored and pissed off so maybe there was some credit given to the off-road element to the event but I wasn't going to hang around to find out. We had a couple of bottles of rum and some good (hot) food back at our rental digs which was more in keeping with our sense of a good time. We won't get sucked into that little revenue raiser again
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Having got that out of my system, The Klub Kevlar boyos had a ball. We couldn't keep Jonesy off the track, Jack wowed them with his wild speedway and flat track displays and Frank and I loved the opportunity to work on sorting his Greeves and my new Hindall 360 Yamaha tracker. Despite my being in a bit of pain, I loved the event, loved catching up with old friends and meeting new ones and will definitely be back next year (
avoiding the road race fan club dinner of course). Now....bring on CD8.
