Am I not entitled to my opinion??
Of course you are and so am I. I'm merely stating mine
without insulting anyone, that's the difference.
Cemoto, I presume your rant was aimed at me so I'll reply. I think you miss my point about restriction. If MoMs told me that I had to run with trials tyres only I'd gladly go with the flow but they don't and flat track tyres have been a part of our sport for 30 years so why the big deal? This is an Australian Championship and whether you like it or not, money doesn't come into it. It's a contest to see who can win with 1: their available talent and 2: on the bike they've developed using the legally available technology and the bike owners skills at setting up the bike. I get a little pissed off at being called a cheque book restorer, for one I've never had a cheque acount and 2: I do all of the work on my bikes myself except some machining, only because I don't have a lathe or mill. You don't know my financial or social circumstances other than the fact that I'm a self funded retiree....nobody pays me, government or business. I do it with the money I worked my arse off for 50 years to get enough to take early retirement, so don't throw that rich boy, cheque book bullshit at me buckaroo. You are obviously not up to speed in the process here. I/we are discussing this situation
before the GCR's are written up. Saying that
Ultimately the final should decision should be with the steward of the course" is just pain wrong and not in his table of duties. You say that not everyone has the cash to get rid of their Chen Shins is very true but it's been true since the day two motorcycles decided to race each other around a paddock. Back about 15 years ago I was using a daggy old Dunlop trials tyre and a 10 year old Carlisle 19" on front because I couldn't afford a Michelin, I ran 20 year old shocks on the bike because that's what I had but I didn't whinge about the blokes up ahead of me using Michelins, Dunlop K190's or Goodyear S/Ts and the latese Works or Ohlins shocks, I just raced for the sake of racing, not caring one iota what the rich blokes were doing. ...I was buying my motocross tyres second hand off the local bike shops modern race bike team FFS. My whole argument is about
choice and nothing to do with safety, or cheque books.
The thing i cannot understand is we are unable to run classes yet we can have support classes ,as for the age groups ,what a joke that is ,there is never enough entered to have a race always canned or combined . Lets get it back to the way it used to be .
I couldn't agree more, the split was a much needed commodity in Vintage Motocross but due to lower entry levels and slightly different class structure it's not neededin DT at this stage. Some folks on here are confused in thinking that clubs are forced to split the divisions but that's not the fact at all. If they want to run everything from pre 60 through to pre 90 it's their perogative.
