slides is right i think the penrith club maybe thinking twice about running the class.
Why would Penrith club even think of doing that? There are a number of eligible twins already racing with the club and while this year might be a bit slow to get decent fields, by next year I'm pretty sure there'll be full grids . I know of six bikes being built and how many others are there sitting waiting for something to happen?
If this Class is gunna have any chance of survival we need to produce evidence of competitive numbers
The concept of American style twins racing has only just got rolling so it'd be a bit premature to expect full grids (
or even half grids) this early in the piece. Now that the existence of the class is becoming more known, we'll get more and more race bikes coming on line. Besides the Caslick and Watto bikes that SON mentioned I know that Steve Gall is about to start on a Yamaha Tenere based modern and another well known former slider racer has vowed to return on a big bore tracker. If you count in the four bikes currently on the water to
my shipper alone and the bikes under construction or, like Phippsy's Shell Yamaha 750, just sitting in semi retirement waiting the inspiration to come out there is more than enough evidence of "competitive numbers".
We don't have to go very far back to remember the full grids of 750 flat trackers that were running in conjunction with the Ivan Mauger and Kevin McDonald promoted Long Track Speedway series'. Many of those bikes are still out there
(although Jack Stevens has his Nourish 850 Redline on the street these days Jack's indicated that he'd be a starter on another bike if anyone's looking for a gun for hire 
).If all of the balls fall in the right place there will be plenty of bikes up and ready next year.
One suggestion that makes sense to me is to include a class for single and 2 stroke framers like my new Yamaha, Phippsy's Champion SC500, Yamaico Pete's IZ465 Yamaha and Astro 360, Jimmy's Champion Elsinore, Piney's new Kawasaki and the numerous other Astros and other short trackers that are around. I know of six or seven of them doing duty as garage queens or waiting for an engine or a rebuild. As many know, short track style bikes don't handle our tracks as well as a motocross oriented machine so they often stay home in the pool room. Wouldn't it be great if a separate class could be included for these bikes, if only to get them out in public again? It's already passed that there'll be a class for short trackers on the Nepean speedway track to run in conjunction with the club speedway days which will be a lot of fun, I'm sure
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