In the dawn of VMX time, some Gods got together and found they had a common disillusionment with modern MX bikes.
Big 500 2 strokes of the day were a handful and only a few mere mortals could control them, and with everything else being so tall with over 300mm of suspension travel made the Gods long for the glory days of when they first raced on ancient bikes that had since long been forgotten.
They organized some days for these ancient bikes to be ridden again and in deciding what constitutes old bikes it was decided that the early short travel bikes was what they longed for again.
And so it came to pass that 7/4 was created.
It seemed to many that 1975 was a turning point in the evolution of MX development and so the new age of Pre 75 was named
Then with fire and brimstone some disciples announced that some long travel bikes had indeed been created for the world in 74 and wanted 8/6 to be created instead.
This went against the grain of the original intentions of 7/4 and much argument ensued with those that thought 1974.5 was more important.
It had now become apparent that these Gods weren’t Gods at all, they were just mere mortals themselves and had the same failings as every other human.
Every word they had written in the bible was now being scrutinized within an inch of its life. The originators knew what they meant in their writings but found their words now being twisted to mean all sorts of things.
They had foolishly thought that this only ever happened when arguing with a woman.
Some wanted to banish 8/6 into oblivion but many 8/6 believers, the most powerful being the unorthadox Maicoites, united to try to keep their beasts in the limelight.
A compromise came to pass, anything released to the public in 1974 may play with all pre 75’s so long as they adhered to 7/4.
Just like no one knows how or why the Pyramids were created the intentions of 7/4 has also slowly been lost in the sands of time.
So much time has passed that the modern bikes of the VMX creation days are now classics themselves.
Many followers still follow 7/4 and its many and varied content however some followers still only want to pray to 1974.5
Regular Sunday Masses are held all over and all denominations play together quite happily.
Then once a year a special Mass is held and representatives of the early originators try to uphold the original intentions of 7/4 but these profits, er I mean Prophets find themselves being attacked by some 1974.5 believers and much angst occurs.
Some seem to forget these Prophets are also just mere mortals with many human failings and they are just trying to uphold the wishes of the masses.
Some have predicted all will come to an end in 2012.
Most think this is hogwash and 7/4 will be followed for many years to come.
