Stuff you see in scrutineering

[211]

Thought I would give you a few of the oh my God your going to ride that? moments in scrutineering
From last weekend
Rear Shocks with 100% no dampening - sent away complaining loudly, retuned with shocks that worked.
Another guy missing 2 engine bolts, 3 remaining so she will be right!!!!
Broken front rim
at least 6 without plugged bars
at least 4 no countershaft cover
loose swing arm bolt - at least 3
Under size front axle - wheel really loose.
That's just off the top of my head that I saw let alone what the other guys pinged before it got to me.
Had a couple of rear suspension measures both local 125s both with at least 5.5"rear travel.
One from Toowoomba Post Classic - RM frame rusted out on the bottom frame rails; sent away, returned with satisfactory repair!
I could go on = it just puts the ice cream lid on the sprocket thing in a bit of perspective.

DT

[Slakewell]

Ive seen flat tyres , leaking fuel tanks. Missing sprocket bolts.

[Tossa]

what about Big Thumpa turning up with a fire extinquisher tied to his handlebars, didn't want the same thing to happen to his metisse as it did to the CCM.  Buggers wouldn't pass it, no sense of humour!!lol

[80-85 husky]

I saw a bike with a bottle finilec on the bars...burst during an endfor  :oand covered the guy and bike in fungus...looked pretty funny

[Iain Cameron]

When I was doing it down here in Tassie I had a lot of the younger guys turning up on their moderns with swing arm bearings soo buggered I asked what the hell they had been doing , Freestyle was the answer . some had 10 to 15 mm  play .

[vandy010]

No flywheel/stator cover
Like "derr"...
who in thier right mind would let that through???
Cracked/broken triple clamps!!!
SL100 tough sorta stuff...
who'd wanna be a scrutineer???

[oldfart]

A linkage bike converted to twin shock .     It was  a neat job, and yes he got to ride it in Evo class 
Hand grips that roll around on LHS
no kill switch

[KTM47]

Of course one of the worst things are dirty bike.  Take note Steve

Bikes without the numbers on them.  That is part of scrutineering.

Coins in grips instead of plugging handlebar ends.

and riders wearing thongs up to scrutineering.

Of course the other thing is scrutineers who don't know the rules.

[Nathan S]

Of course the other thing is scrutineers who don't know the rules.

Yep. Took my modern to scrutiny at a grasstrack meeting with a sidestand on it, the scrutineer's reflex was to knock it back. I tried pointing out that the MoMS specifically allows stands (and wrap-around handguards) at grasstrack MXes, but he stood his ground because "we're running MX rules, not grasstrack rules"....

The required level of tact was out of my grasp that morning, so I removed the stand, but it grates knowing that the scrutineer still thinks that sidestands aren't acceptable for grasstrack MXs.

[FourstrokeForever]

No ball ends on levers. Loose spokes. Broken spokes. Brake cables flapping in the breeze. Fork seals blown so bad that oil leaks with the bike standing still. The list goes on and on but the biggie for me was a cracked helmet. No brains and happy without them 

[asasin]

I find it strange that in the litigation state that oz is that you even have scrutineer . surly the scrutineer leaves himself open to litigation if he passes a bike to race and then it has a mechanical failure which injures the rider?
 I would have thought that log books as a minimum would have been required.
 

[John Orchard]

I think you're all Nazi's, if a guy wants to roll-up with an un-maintained bike that's his problem.  Maybe in roadracing where he could take-out someone else, at high speed and on hard bitumen, is a different story.

The only things I care about when checking peoples bikes to race are front & rear brakes and self-closing throttle.  Let em DNF, just moves me up a place  ;-)

[Ted]

I find it strange that in the litigation state that oz is that you even have scrutineer . surly the scrutineer leaves himself open to litigation if he passes a bike to race and then it has a mechanical failure which injures the rider?
 I would have thought that log books as a minimum would have been required.

Exactly my point about the sprocket guard. They introduce these rules, don't enforce them and then sign off on them. Crazy if you ask me.

[albrid-3]

Well, have any of you fellow every swallowed a handlebar going over a jump, well I have, the went though my mouth guard knocked out my front teeth and cut the roof of my mouth inside.
I have scrutineered bikes for any years, if a bike rolled up with bars unplugged, solid foot pegs, loose spokes, no ball ends on brake and clutch levers, (side stands removed), any nuts and bolts loose on the bike, headstem loose  if they where not right, see you later mate, go away and fix them.  plus Helmets where always checked, they must display the snell number. if not, was not to be used.

[asasin]

Well, have any of you fellow every swallowed a handlebar going over a jump, well I have, the went though my mouth guard knocked out my front teeth and cut the roof of my mouth inside.
I have scrutineered bikes for any years, if a bike rolled up with bars unplugged, solid foot pegs, loose spokes, no ball ends on brake and clutch levers, (side stands removed), any nuts and bolts loose on the bike, headstem loose  if they where not right, see you later mate, go away and fix them.  plus Helmets where always checked, they must display the snell number. if not, was not to be used.

 Thats all cool , but what if you missed something and it broke and he or someone else got hurt , would you not then be liable as YOU checked the bike and said it was OK.