QVMX race day Coles Creek 25 March

[STW996]

Sorry everyone! Just spoke to property owner due to problems with track access because of the never-ending wet weather, this event has been cancelled.
 

Next event:

ROCKSBERG! May 5 and 6.
May 5 - Practice and Vinduro
May 6 - Racing

Check out our website www.qvmx.com.au for updates.

Do you realise this is the May Labour day long weekend?

We will be just short of half way through the year without yet a race meeting

[Simo63]

Do you realise this is the May Labour day long weekend?

We will be just short of half way through the year without yet a race meeting

Thanks for that depressing reality check .... I missed the sign on weekend as it was cancelled and I couldn't make it when it was rescheduled the following weekend, this coming weekend is cancelled due to poor weather (or rather access to the track) and our next ride isn't until early May .... I'm glad I signed on with BMCC

[kim80y]

All people can do is plan and hope things work out, unfortunately not everything goes as planned. Between bad weather, busted bikes and busted bodies its a hard life for dirt biking.
Cheers

[worms]

what do we practice for? the next practice day, bloody hell its only tuesday and your allready calling it quits, or is it just that the committee lives south and it's all too hard, for f--k sake, the next race day is a long weekend, I tell you what. lets take a petition. Thats right, someone said this track is only for the later bikes, what a load of garbage, race in the rain, race in the mud, just toughen up princess's and run a race club.

Worms

[foxy999]

Funny you say that trev, i run pre 78 and pre 70 and have been to all events and love it. Personally being at Coles creek last time it rained it was dangerous for riders and then people needed to be towed out.   As I am not on the committee someone has to make a call and it was the correct one given in my opinion for safety. And the new track to say it would not suit the older bikes is wrong as it has not been set up yet. You can e-mail the committee and voice you concerns as putting post on here do not get directed to them. You of all should know of the processes to voice your concerns. Send them to the committee address on www.qvmx.com.au   

[worms]

yeah funny isnt it, no due process required I believe, it's too late for that, as the forcast is for fine weather for the weekend. and the other funny thing is I do know correct procedures, but is anyone listening? and I must say the comment about the older bikes is from a committee member in regard to Coles Creek, go figure.

never mind, it will be mid year before we race, or I mean practice again.

Worms,

[foxy999]

you should have seen me at biddadaba on the cz side pipe, lost 3 kg going around the track. any ride is a good ride in my book. have you still got your pre 78 yz400, if so you doing the the pre 78 nats this year. should be good.

[JohnnyO]

Do you realise this is the May Labour day long weekend?

We will be just short of half way through the year without yet a race meeting

Looking forward to the Conondale GP's Shane.. not much racing going on otherwise.

[CRTAD313]

Not good at all! Qvmx already has limited ride dates for the year to lose the first two in a row is not good at all ( couldn't make biddawhatever redo). May is a long time to wait from last year.Could we not reschedule coles creek like the sign on day?

[Simo63]

I'm am not going to join in and bag the club guys becasue I know they are working hard for us all.  And I'm sure the frustration shown ^^^ above is just blowing off steam because we all want to go for a decent fang. 

What we need is a Sunshine Coast version of the Slakewell Motordrome or whatever it's called.  Anyone know a farmer that has a paddock where a bunch of tired old has beens can blast around on their vmx blasters???

[shortshifter]

Reading this wasn't it the property owner who pulled the pin due to access problems? ???More rain on the way.

[Robo 47]

All, Just to clarify a couple of points:

1. With the second round of Coles Creek now scheduled (website to be updated soon),there is the same number of race events in the calendar as there was last year. The extra practice days are simply that, extra days to ride.

2. We spoke with the owner of the Coles Creek property prior to cancelling this event. He advised that there has been 250 mm of rain in the last 2 weeks, with more heavy rain projected for Thursday and Friday. He said the access to the track as it is now, would allow one/two cars through, and then everyone else would get bogged thereafter.

3. We also rang the owner of the Rocksberg track to try and organise an alternative venue, but we were advised by the owner that it was unusable also.

4. The committee members have bikes they would like to race also and we are just as disapointed as everyone else.

 

[Simo63]

All, Just to clarify a couple of points:

4. The committee members have bikes they would like to race also and we are just as disapointed as everyone else.

That's right Robo .. the committee are old has beens that want to go for a fang just like the rest of us 

[Davey Crocket]

I'll be diplomatic about this Trev....your full of shit.....I'm the person he's refering to that said Coles Ck was suitable for the later bikes (read EVO onwards) as the track has been used for years without any repairs done...grooming of braking and acceleration bumps etc. Now years ago Coles Ck was our jewell in the crown, best track to ride on....but previous commitees (you where El Presidenty at some stage wherent you) didnt bother to "fix" it up. The discussion was about  "I wonder why we dont get a big rock up of the early bikes anymore"...[pre78 backwards]....you admitted to me that you wouldnt take your YZ400D there because it was too rough...go figure?. Now having said that I have raced  my YZ250A,YZ125A and RM125A there for years...rough as it may be. Now you know that we where using the new paddock next door for this meeting and because of the continual rain we havent been able to mark out let alone slash the new track in (members have been checking on the property and committee members talking with the owner) and we dont have a paved driveway/ bitumum carpark/ pit area to get everyones vehicles safely on and off the property. We have members coming from Northern NSW and the Gladstone area (not 5min drives) and with the predicted further forecasts of more rain and the property owners (yes WE had plan B...Rocksberg...all approved by MQ) advising if theres anymore rain they would be unusable, we had to make a call....we want to ride as much as you guys. Now from conversations with you and Shane recently, apparently your not riding with us this year so "what the"?.....let it go boys....Just to re-itterate (fark thats a big word) eveyone, there are plenty of rides left for this year and the Conondale Classic will be the biggest one yet...watch this space....now back to the newsroom......

[CRTAD313]

Not good at all! Qvmx already has limited ride dates for the year to lose the first two in a row is not good at all ( couldn't make biddawhatever redo). May is a long time to wait from last year.Could we not reschedule coles creek like the sign on day?

My statement was one of dissapointment not an attack of Qvmx of course they cannot be held responsible for mother nature , i enjoy the events they provide and think they do a good job doing so. I do however wish there were more of them hence the limited ride dates comment.