Crawford River Classic

[oz555ktm]

IT'S GOING TO BE BIG !!

Entries are looking at triple figures     ( 100+) 

[maicoman18]

Somewhere along the line I have insulted the VMX Gods!!
First the Nationals in Tassie where I lived but lost my job and had to move the weekend they were on and now I am being sent to Tamworth for eight days work with CRC on this weekend. Just wanted to go and have a look and meet some people, but NOOOO off to Tamworth I must go.

bugger!!

Ed

[gorby]

ed,at least you might get to listen to some country music

[Stewart Allen]

Hopefully our budding Bruce Brown will be at the CRC and on the job of his next epic production (hope he does not go over budget) and if his Kembla production is anything to go by we should be looking good to make some people green with envy not Kawasaki.

[maicoman18]

Thanks a lot Gorby, that really cheered me up!!!!!!!!!!!!

[oz555ktm]

Well we all felt that the CRC was going to be big .
Entries all came in week before the cut off date only half a dozen on
the Last Day .

With just over 150 Entries and all but a few Grids are Full.
The Weather is warm .
The Track is looking the Best we have seen.
and Most seem to be turning up Friday Night.

I will be packing in about 20 old VMX movies for Saturday night .
and injoy a bottle of CRC port or two.

So Load the Bikes Pack the Bed Roll ..

Vintage Racing is Growing Fast and every One is having FUN..

[Nathan S]

WTF? No post-event posts yet???

IIRC:
Pre-65, Mark Austin.
Pre-70, Some guy on a 2005 Maico*.
Pre-75, Mick McMillan.
Pre-78, Pete Lovering.

Great event, will post more when I'm alive again...

*Seriously, good ride Rossco.

[Noel]

Home already Nathan,
Not much traffic,

top weekend ,as a pre75/78 rider I don't have any piccy's of those events but here is a few of the support races
on Saturday,

this fellow went on to win the Ray Ryan trophy on a YZ250C

Magoo was there

So was Nathan

The inside and out side riders are ladies

Our youngest evo rider Dylan

for our english viewers #157 is escapee Martin Russell with  #1 Damo

this guys just having fun

dinner Sat night

and this pretty little Penda caught my eye


Cheers
Noel

[Mark Austin]

Hi all,
Brilliant event - I had a great time, even though one of the Bully's didn't keep up its end of bargain and refused to run...

Here is a link to the gallery on the Red Devil Racing site: http://www.red-devil-racing.com//photos/index.php. Just click on the photo for the Crawford River Classic 2008.

Here are a few photos:












Check out the rest of them on the link above.
Cheers,
Mark

[Nathan S]

Thanks for the photos.

As threatened, here's some more dribble from me.

Saturday sucked for me:
The CT1 had fuel starvation issues = DNF. (Turned out to be a blocked breather in the cap)
I dropped the YZ-X in the first corner and it stuck in neutral = DNF. (Turned out to be an issue with the neutral detent ball)
The YZ-A wouldn't rev out in the pre-75 250 race = slow.
Then in the age race, the YZ-A barely ran = DNF. (I changed the plug and fiddled with a heap of things - dunno what made the difference)

But Sunday rocked.
In the combined pre-65 and pre-70 trophy race, I had a very-enjoyable battle against Roger Starkey for fourth place (3rd in the pre-70s). I eventually slipped past and earned myself a trophy.

Then the pre-78 trophy race, I was nowhere, but had fun.

Then in the pre-75 trophy race, after an abysmal start, I had a race-long battle with Peter Sharman on his 250 Elsinore. This was probably the most fun I've had racing ever, even though he got me in the end - dammit! 

After five races in a row, my training programme (five weeks on the couch) was definitely catching up with me, so I missed a few races....

Neville's iron man effort deserves a mention - he dropped his DT1 on his foot during practice on Saturday morning, and it grew a lump about the size of half a golf ball, plus an ominous looking dark bruise around his big toe. Didn't slow the mongrel down at all! He dropped the bike again in the John Hine memorial race, and then flew past me half a lap later, and also blitzed Sunday's Classic 125 race.

Anyhow, good racing, good people, good stuff.

[Damo]

Hey Noel AWESOME photo's

What a great grass track perfect for the BIG CR500, had a great weekend racing.

Damo

[magoo]

I missed the CRC last year and after the weekend I now remember what I missed. A top weekend with a top bunch of blokes (and blokettes of course). A few highlights for me was beating Damo in race one (he stalled his bike and took a while to start it) and Jeremy Irelands effort in the Geoff Eldridge Trophy race when he fell off about 5 metres from the finish line while leading by a mile. Macca just got to the line before him. Poor bastard.
3 guys I want swabbed by the doping authorities are Mark Austin who rode like an absolute champ to end up with a couple of 4th places in the 35 bike Pre '85 class, Billy Campbell who rode race after race in heaps of different classes and finished up the pointy end in all of them, and Dennis "the Manace" Myers who pushed club #1 Top Gun Damo all the way in the 125 class, finishing about 2 bike lengths behind him in 2nd place.
Unreal efforts by these guys and to the organisers, a terriffic, happy feel good meeting with a shit load of great riding amongst it. Also, great to meet our Pommy mate Martin Russell and his clan, what a top mob of people they are. After struggling to about 6th place in the Evo 250 race on Saturday naturally I had to blame the bike. I therefore gave it to Martin to ride on Sunday to rave and he went out and cleaned up the opposition on it. S'pose I'll have to find another excuse.
Another thing, how fast is Pete Lovering on that YZ250C, an absolute joy to watch.
Thanks again all on the Heaven Committee and your helpers, we oe you one.
And I know Firko was concerned with the respect the memorial trophies were treated with, worry not big fella, a great effort was put in by the club to treat them justly

[Rosco400]

Yes, a deadset cracker of an event, big numbers in force, top riding, the presence of Ken from VMX magazine taking lots of photos and getting to present the Ray Ryan trophy to Peter Lovering, great battles for all the trophy races, spectating the whole of the track an added bonus, Mr 555 running on adrenalin chasing Damo on the 125 and Nathan working on his bikes at each event seems to stick in my mind too, #446 riding like a man possessed in the final pre 85 open race could probably be added to your list Magoo, the big thumpers seemed to love eating up the grass track Forgot to add, those photos you keep pullin off Auscobul are truly amazing, clear crisp, focused, not that i know much about photography but like what I see

[Noel]

a couple of static shots of the older bikes that were there to contest the trophy races,

[oz555ktm]

Well guys CRC is all done .
 The photo show how much fun was had by all who came to the CRC.
With Big grids of 40 bikes has got us Thinking
how big will get .
we allso got Very good Numbers in the Pre 78 and Pre 75 .

I am just puting a DVD together on the Main Races and as I watch
the Great Raceing .
Will try and Have it all done to Show a the Next Round in Canberra .

If you Like what you have seen and Want to Have a Lot of Fun
Like the Rest of the Guys and Girls of the Heaven VMX Club.
Then go to www.heaven-vintagemx.com and down load a race and
member ship form and come to the
Next round at Canberra at Fairburn park on the 9th and 10th August
or just come a long and watch the FUN.
Dennis #555