I have been sitting back watching the posts come in on this event and wondered when someone may touch on the “other side of the coin”
It was going to be a huge ask to be able to organize and run an event over 2 days with 7 or so disciplines all in the same location. With the high temps (it was high 20’s on Saturday and almost that again on Sunday) the dust in area’s other than the road racing area was going to be an issue. The organizers had the water truck going pretty much all the time, but 10 trucks would have not kept the dust at bay.
Looking at the Motocross side of things and having organized events for motocross and on at least 1 occasion at Broadford, I understand what amount of resources are required to stage an event there. For those who have not been to the Broadford MX complex, it is essentially a natural terrain track that runs up & down the side of a 3 sided valley and is without doubt a world class facility, however it requires a lot of flaggies and marshals to oversee the running of an event. With the Scramble, Trials, Speedway/DirtTrack & Enduro groups all vying for volunteers to run (and not participate) in an event, the organizers of the weekend where going to be up against it. It got to a point on the Sunday morning that the motocross organizers gathered all the motocross riders and advised that a fair % of the volunteers had decided not to turn up and that if we wanted a ride we would either have to flag ourselves or find someone who could do it on out behalf.
Having ridden the track at Classic Dirt I know that it can be Pre85 friendly, but it was not the case. Big table tops, double jumps and a set of whoopdies, that were bypassed during the course of the weekend meant that it did not flow for all but 2 young A grade riders.
Personally I would have like to have seen the Scramble crew on the main motocross track in the same way that they were at Classic Dirt and not stuck on the side of the side of the opposing side of the valley using a track 3 inches deep in bull dust.
From the people that I spoke to about the Vinduro, they were wrapped but not having a scheduled event on the Sunday had a few perplexed.
The concept was fantastic, the execution almost there but I got the feeling that it was to much for the overworked and underpaid organizers and volunteers. I hope that Drakie gets the guernsey to go again next year as the concept is a cracker of an idea.
The Positives.The overall concept
Broadford and all its facilities
An excellent watering system for the motocross track
Organizers & volunteers that gave up their time
The NegativesDickheads running their bikes at all hours of the night.
Volunteers that didn’t keep their end of the commitment
The track layout for Pre85 & Old fellas
Being run over Easter
