Thanks Petard, can remember my wage as a paperboy, 10 shillings for the week including Saturday afternoon Herald deliveries, was enough to buy two packets of cigarettes and a bottle of Brandivino, still can't believe Vozos bottle shop sold grog and cigarettes to paperboys in the back laneway but there you are bad habits start early, can remember my first pay packet $14.10, spent nearly a third of that on a new pair of Levi's, when I got my first car super petrol with real lead :-) was $.17 a litre, can remember when my wife disappeared and I had two little kids and $12 in the bank (and no credit cards back then), lucky enough now not to have any real money worries (and the best ever second wife who has a full-time job :-) :-)), the trip to Port Campbell is about 880 km there and back and I'll have to leave Saturday lunchtime to get a good sleep Saturday night and won't make it home Sunday night because I will be to tired so will camp on the side of the road because it sticks in my throat to pay over 100 bucks for a bed, anyway what I'm trying to say is that although 90 bucks is a fair whack in the scheme of things it's just what you have to pay for things these days, if there were 30 or 40 bikes on the grid in each class then the costs could come down, price we pay for an unpopular sport (I know I know I will get trashed for saying that), and although it's a variation on the old saying "if you're so smart why aren't you rich" that I still get from my 90-year-old father I reckon that if I was upset about 90 bucks I would get in and do something about it, anyway enough for now.