Seeing that we've got nearly seven months until the Canberra Classic Nats, lets all work together to try and avoid a similar apathy shown by the Post Classic fraternity towards their own Nats. If we can use the next few months to get our section of the sport working well and to build the buzz for Canberra we can show the neersayers and negative Nevilles* that the older classes are a long way from dead.
If you've got a bike you haven't used for a while, dust it off and get it prepared, if you've got a bike half finished but have lost the mojo to complete it, sit down on your milk crate with a cuppa or a beer in hand and just look at it for a while and I'll bet that enthusiasm to finish and race it comes back. If you're going to enter but have an extra bike or two, offer them to mates to race and, if like me, you've retired from motocross for whatever reason but still have a love of the sport and a bike in the shed, offer it to someone else to ride at the meet, you'll be surprised how much fun you can still have as an entrant/team owner. I'll have three bikes entered with three different riders as will a dirt track specialist mate who'll be offering a bike or two to guest riders.
It's truly up to us pre 75/78 competitors to make sure that this meeting succeeds, never before has the success of a meeting been so important to the credibility of our sport. It's time to start banging the Classic Nats drum as loudly and frequently as we can.
*With apologies to Nifty 
