Evo will never be a pre '90 frankenbike class Nathan, you're using extreme, extreme examples of things that just won't happen. I still challenge anyone to build the mythical, possible (in your eyes) frankenbike & front up at a national with it. Wouldn't matter if you had a whole legal firm with you & got a spot on A Current Affair, it wouldn't get through scrutineering. We should be discussing real scenarios, not fiction.
K
There in lies the problem facing us (our branch of the sport).
The rules we all operate under are interpreted as we go not as written. The EVO rules as written in the 2016 MOMS, as you really should acknowledge for your own credibility, clearly allow the aforementioned Frankenbikes. I think that was intentional and not the work of the full CMX Commission read the minutes.
What are you suggesting? You feel that someone will stand as judge and executioner at a National meeting and reject what they or you feel is 'not in the spirit of the rules'. You suggest no one will be game to build a bike that takes the bike to the extreme of the rules because of the fear of being rejected if they are not in a click or look at the scrutineer the wrong way or like Honda instead of Yamaha. Surely this is not what we want our sport to be.
The rules should be clear but year by year our rules or being made more and more ambiguous. Take Pre65 you can use any frame as long as it is considerate of the era? For 2016 you can have an engine that does not have to look like a Pre65 engines as there is no requirement to do so. What about fitting a 4 valve cylinder head to a Triumph twin for Dirt Track. Is a '74 British B50 or CCM frame that much different to a '64 Metisse both very similar visually in design, same material, same welding technique. Who decides what considerate of the era is? Some people think fitting black rims to VMX bikes is a hanging offence others want to build bikes from scratch as they do in the UK and call them replicas. The rules need to be clear with only one clear interpretation.
The rules for EVO should ensure that bikes represent a period between the first generation long travel bikes (Pre78) and when 'modern' technology took over (Pre85). That is the peak of the traditional air cooled/drum brake/simple(non linkage) suspension bikes. The problem has always been the fact each manufacturer left that technology behind at different times.
We are a sport based on recreating a period in dirt bike racing history. Honda didn't build an open class 2st production bike with twin shocks/air cooled engine/drum brakes (the Mugen kitted 250 bikes accepted) that is a fact a simple indisputable fact but now we can rewrite history how wonderful. Our sport is not about taking components from up to 10 years into the future and fitting them because it is cool. What about all the riders that have '78, '79 models which are basically standard they will just put them away. EVO could easily become cheque book racing just as Period 5 HRR has.
Writing laws (rules) then allowing each policeman/woman to interpret or apply the law as they see fit is what you are suggesting. That is anarchy
I encourage people to read the minutes of the CMX Commission (both the April and final versions) and note what was discussed and compare it to the 2016 MOMS.
