Dutch twin shock racing

[Maico31]

That defeats the purpose of racing a vintage bike by using a later model bike and grafting 2 shocks onto it and late model forks, must have pretty loose rules. They do look like '99 or 2000 RM forks on the second bike from the top.

[TM BILL]

Is the name twin shock to do with the suspension or the fact that you have to look twice beacause the bikes are so ferking  ugly   

[dave king]

they started a evo mono group last yr, i think 2 entered.  The problem was guys wanted to race the big open aircoolers but there was no class back 10 yrs ago.  Now they all want a  Honda 84CR500 twinshocker.

[geraldo]

never trust the common sense of anyone who lives BELOW sea level

[firko]

Words fail me. This goes against every principal of vintage racing. Long live pre '65.

[holeshot buddy]

shit i would take pre90
over that any day

[Wombat]

....... They like there old bikes but they like winning more. They want Big Horsepower for there sandy tracks and they want strong bikes thats why they convert air cooled monos.     The ethos is all about the racing more than the historic value of a bike.

If their passion is racing and winning, it stands to reason the 'vintage' thing has nothing to do with it.
Perhaps these older bikes are chosen because they're cheaper than moderns.
Cheaper to buy and cheaper to convert to twin shock?

I didn't say I liked it - I'm just trying to understand it...

[Nathan S]

Is the name twin shock to do with the suspension or the fact that you have to look twice beacause the bikes are so ferking  ugly   

Quoted for truth.

The only thing that stops the same happening in out Evo class is a lack of imagination/desire to push the accepted interpretation of our rules (and old fashioned Good Taste).

But anyway, what really confuses me, is: If they butcher their bikes in the name of winning, why are they fitting Maico front brakes?

[evo550]

There was a guy at C.R.C a few years ago on a '82 cr480 with twin shock set up racing in the evo class
I was confused on a few levels
(1) Why was he allowed to race in the evo class, when there was a pre'85 class.
(2) Why would you want to do the above.
(3) Why do that to a perfectly good pre'85 bike.
Now I think about it I could have beaten him on a protest

[paul]

walter asked me to post this pic

[Maico31]

Nathan someone has turned up to a race with a twin shock setup on a pre '85 bike here before and the scrutineer jumped on it straight away and the bike was banned.

[Tim754]

In no possible way I could ever ever ever agree to those bikes being a VMX class . But am I a hypocrite as my home built VMX and Speedway sidecars are basically butchered road bikes? At least all their parts are pre75 stock.

[TM BILL]

walter asked me to post this pic

Tastefully done , wrong but tastefull 

[Nathan S]

Nathan someone has turned up to a race with a twin shock setup on a pre '85 bike here before and the scrutineer jumped on it straight away and the bike was banned.

The someone just needed to argue it differently.
(Which is not to say that I want to encourage that sort of thing, 'cause I don't!).

[YSS]

I only asked Paul to upload this pic for me , because I am not smart enough to do it. It does not mean I support those type of bikes ( Except when they have YSS shocks LOL).  It all went wrong about 5 years ago when it got more and more out of hand  because the rule only said twin shocks. If it was nipped in the buds then it would have been OK , but now there are too many of them to ban them. I can not see to much spirit of the era in this , but the conception has also shifted and with that  purists ,( if you want to call them that) are slowly disapearing unfortunately . Maybe we can learn something from that in Australia before its to late.