Here you go, my two bobs worth. I'll put it out there right here so's others can agree or howl me down. maybe with some discussion we can finetune some ideas for the HEAVEN executive to consider for next year. Before I start, let me just say I have no probs with HEAVEN at present. Plenty of events, lots of great people, a good executive, and more fun than you can poke a stick at.
A decent website. Find someone that can make it look good, and keep it up to date. It might be just me, but I like to see race reports, results and photos within a couple of weeks of an event. Also, it'd be nice to invest the site with some personality like Mark Austin did when he ran the site. How about some interesting stuff on there, like profiles of riders and bikes, stories of events travelled to, merciless rumour mongering and so on. Before you say who's going to do it, get the site setup so that members can login and post their own stories and photos. That is certainly possible.
More events on the southern side of Sydney.
Fewer events in total. So that the ones there are get better support. I said it on another thread, but HEAVEN only needs say 6 events a year. We already have a few that qualify as special - CRC, Evo Challenge, Canowindra Cup. Hype these events up better. Start with a calendar early in the year plus some advertising/marketing of the big events for the year. Then follow through with regular updates on what's happening and when. Actually, how about just 4 'major events' and have the club series decided on the results from those? Then add in several low key 'fun days' which don't require pre-entering. Days where you can take your bike along, look at it and others, talk crap, and go for a bit of a ride if you want. Hire a bike park for a Sunday/weekend.
How about a newsletter? A quarterly newsletter couldn't be too hard to come up with could it?
Classes wise, I'd love to see a major change here. Get rid of the million and one capacity classes. The Pre 78 classes are usually no more than 6-10 bikes. How dull is that? I enjoyed MUCH MUCH more the Canowindra Cup age races. I got to race my RM125 against some lumbering great British thing that flogged me. And I was surrounded by bikes of all sizes and shapes. But in the normal Classic 125, there were about 4 other bikes on the line... Yawn... Especially for me cos I am so slow that after the first corner I don't see any of those 4 bikes again. This subject could get a whole thread of its own.
A Pre-90 demo class.
How about a HEAVEN Dirt Track day at Nepean? Or even Canberra?
