Spot on Johnny, it's a great class, here in Victoria we can run Evo bikes in Viper and Evo bikes in the VCM, and that gives you 12 race meetings a year, generally every two weeks through the winter, bloody fantastic.
There is a good mix of bikes at the pointy end of the field, the later Yam's, the last of the twin shock Hondas/Suzukis, and a sprinkling of Huskies and Maicos.
And Evo bikes are not too hard to find for a reasonable price, although like everything you can spend big bucks if you want that special bike with heaps of bling.
As for Fox/Simm' forks, fully adjustable shocks, latest design expansion chambers, modern ignition systems with advance curve, modern tyres, modified reed valve inlets, wide foot pegs, flat slide carbies (of the period Of course
), fat bars, shock absorbing bars, titanium bolts (to balance out all the pizzas
) and a bagful of blingy billet parts and even gripper of seats, and a heap of other things that I can only dream about, they are all all quite happily within the MA Evo definition and how the class runs on most weekends in lots of places throughout Australia.
Overall Evo is a good class, there is something for everybody, there are always plenty of people fronting up to the starting gate, and the big tall fellow from Shepparton way that seems to win most VCM 250 Evo races is on what looks like a pretty standard 79 Honda, I'm smilin' that we only have 3/4 lap races because if it were 5 laps he would be lapping a lot of us and that's hard to explain to the wife on her inevitable "cost benefit analysis", she smiles when I seem to spend every spare moment out in the shed or on eBay tracking down that elusive axle spacer, she says my motto must be "best bike last"
