NSW Vintage Dirt Bike Display UPDATED 6 / 7 / 2013

[the stig]

Good on you Ted.  Looks like it will be a great day.  Well done to all onvolved and hope you get a heap more heaven members out of it.

  Best of Luck for the day  Ted  i hope it all works out Great.. for you ..

    The Stigg

[Husabergpete]

Ted,

I heard Ernest Hemmingway has decided to come back from the dead to pen a book on this UN-obtainable Most Momentous period of your life.

The media will arrive

EH Junior

[Ted]

Thanks Ernest, you never disappoint

Unfortunately Robbie B is putting the finishing touches to his waterbed equipped box trailer and can't attend. :'(

[Wollongongwolf]

How did the day go, any pics?

[Slakewell]

Any media attending ? Wide world of sport, VMX magazine, ABC live ,choppers over head etc 

I did email Jim Scaysbrook from oldbike and suggest he head on over.

[Montynut]

No Pics but the day went good with heaps of people wandering in and having a look, the usual "bloody hell, I had one of those back in the day" being common. There must have been close to the expected number of bikes with a great cross section of VMX & CDT machines from several Pre65 including two Pre60 through to a few Pre90s  .

Heaven Club got a few new members one father and son signed up including entering the next race meeting. They rattled off their very large collection of sweet '74--83 KTMs two of which they had with them . Three Coopers from different owners is that a clutch of Coopers or a murder of Coopers? . We can all confirm that Purple Daves SC500 is indeed PURPLE and lives up to the scary reputation of massive HP just sitting there . Carl & Pete's CZ is even better in the flesh

There were guy’s from Raymond Terrace, the ACT and Wollongong.

Ted did a great job organising the day, he even showed his human side being a proud Pop  carrying around his grandchild showing them the finer points of VMX. Along with the generosity of Sutto's KTM and the other shops in the small immediate area it was a very positive day all-round.

[reg]

a coupla pics from the show

[Ted]

Further to Montynut's comments the whole day was a success despite 40 promised bikes not turning up, we still had 70 bikes in attendance spread across all eras and disciplines.

Due to the state motocross titles being held this weekend just up the road Suttos claim their walk in off the street customers were down by 80%. As Greg said there were still plenty of people making enquiries and generally looking around. I would of handed out approx 50 HEAVEN info packs.

Plenty of guys took advantage of Suttos generosity. One guy buying 6 tyres and another having a $170 bill reduced to $100.

I had a very interesting conversation with two young guys who ride modern bikes. It went like this:

Do these things go?

Yes they all go

I mean do they go fast?

Some of them do

Yeah , we'll I've got a CRF 250. Are they faster than that?

Point one out

What about this green one here? How old is that?

This 1983 KX 500 here....hehe

Yeah, do you reckon it would be faster than my CRF 250? ( other guy says, I wasn't even born then )

Well I'll tell you what. They stopped making 500cc two strokes years ago because they were too fast. There is not a bike in that shop behind you that would get near this thing in a drag race. Is your CRF faster than all the bikes in that shop? They look at each other and say "no way." When you go in there you will only find two stroke bikes up to 300 cc. Then these guys start to get keen and become inquisitive. Good pair of lads with absolutely no idea of what we do.

Took a heap of pics and will put them up in a couple of days.

Thank you to everyone that made the effort to make this thing a success.

[VMX247]

Then these guys start to get keen and become inquisitive.

They are just astounded when they come to a club day ........"Shite there fast"~"Cant believe how fast they are" !! etc


Great to read it was a success 
More pics on Sutto's MC Supply facebook page 

[Davey Crocket]

Well done to everyone, we need to put our sport out there like this more often, cheers.

[Rossvickicampbell]

what is on the front downtube of the XR 75?

[GD66]

Looks like an oil cooler Rossco, there's a line from it into the crankcase.

Great job you guys, hats off. 

[TM BILL]

Congrats to all involved  looks like a great turnout and a great event . The proactive attitude of you blokes will ensure the future of what we do .

I Can see a couple Klub Kevlar members in the pics 

[BETRIC]

Ted thanks for setting up a great day, I really enjoyed it , Rossco the XR75 runs a LOCKHART oil cooler kit, it's what they ran on them back in the day with a motor packed full of go fast parts .

[Mick D]

Good on ya fellas, great idea, inspiration and execution from a kick ass bunch of can dooers!

I would have loved to catch up with some old faces and generally be a part of the numbers.
But my voice reason prevailed! Instead a day from me would probably be better measured by heeding the call to arms, brush cutters etc and BBQ, of our revered NSW Generalissimo for the next Sundays 14th July woking-bee at the fast becoming all-weather Bulabedelah Complex.

As already suggested, somewhere, Many hands make light work and an earlier drive home And you can savour my culinary BBQing Skills