Fair enough; but can you explain the CD concept to me?
I understand the bigger than big Carnival atmosphere but how do the bikes operate on the track?
Is it like a practice day - classes as usual?
Given that I've been asked an almost identical question via PM, here's how CD4 worked:
1. Everyone turns up with (or without) their bikes and gear.
2. You pay a smallish amount of money to get in.
3. You pay a small amount of money to ride, if you want to ride (and a small amount extra to get a MA recreational licence if you want to ride but don't already have a MA competition licence).
4.
Everyone walks around to meet people, talk bikes, talk shit, buy stuff, sell stuff, and generally check out all of the different bikes people have brought along.
5. Most people get on the grog at night.
6. Track is made 'vintage friendly' - most jumps were very gentle, no whoops, etc.
7. The riding sessions were run with a "get out there and enjoy yourself" approach. There were fast guys, slow guys and everyone in the middle, all with big grins. Blokes with flannos and jeans on old DTs, through to guys with 85 model 500s who know how to pilot them.
8. Nothing remotely like formal racing, although boys being boys, there was a fair bit of dicing going on within the pack. But all very polite, I should add - VMX racing is far less intense than moderns, and this is much less intense again.
9. Everyone gets turfed off the track for the Legends Laps, and then the heroes go out and ride and we all get to comment on how much faster we are than them...
10. There's educational/memory lane talks from guest speakers in the evening.
Think Summernats for old dirt bikes, but without the egos or the drunken louts.
The positives are many, rules are few and far between (and are not there just for the sake of making rules).
Downsides? Getting roosted by instant heros who are taking new Suzukis for a test ride and suddenly think they're god's gift, is the only one I can think of.
