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acotrel
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Victoria
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 Posted - 03 Mar 2002 : 08:00:27 AM
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This web site just got a mention in the Feb issue of Classic Racer magazine. We should get a few more visits from poms and yanks. I suggest we should take the opportunity to thrash out a set of international eligibilty rules for classic/hiistoric racing. We should all have a look at the AHRMA and InCA rules and compare the MA rules with them. This month George Beale and Bob Blythe brought InCA to Eastern Creek and Pukehoe, what rules did they run under?
It's about time we got on top of this eligibilty thing. We can't go on with some groups only catering for pre 62 bikes, some 'post classic', some 'forgotten era'. Let's get together and 'get it right', before we lose any more interesting (including works) machinery. The cut off date of 1979 for classic/historic racing in Australia is bloody stupid. Time marches on and I suggest we should preserve race bikes from every era, even up to the nineties.
Let's take this opportunity to improve our sport, and when newcomers use this forum - pick their brains!
If we don't get it right now, we never will and the sport will fall into an even bigger hole.
Alfonso
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acotrel
Advanced Member
Victoria
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Posted - 03 Mar 2002 : 7:09:42 PM
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I'm serious about this international eligibility thing. The story in Australia is that it's much cheaper to race competitively by buying a 125 Honda than race an old bike in Historic. What I suggest is we should start a new class 'Premodern' in which any bike over five years old can race. If the bike is a converted road bike, it should at least have a handlebar race fairing. Some of these sit up racers are a disgrace. Perhaps we should approach Standards Australia to get the eligibility rules formalised this would lead to an International Standard. I spoke to them a couple of years back and got a positive response to the suggestion.
This business of relying on the union (Motorcycling Australia) to set up the eligibilty has got whiskers on it. There's too much money involved in historic racing to let the duds who just want to have a good time set up the rules.
A whole industry of aftermarket parts and machines relies on getting the eligibility rules right. If we are ever going to have international competitors in Australia - we've got to get it right!
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john
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Victoria
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Posted - 04 May 2002 : 11:26:26 AM
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"There's too much money involved in historic racing to let the duds who just want to have a good time set up the rules."
I dont agree with you!
I believe if you want to go faster you race Moderns, not ruin the fun of historic racing. There is no need to have so much money tired up in historic racing, in fact I believe that simple fact will actually ruin historic racing as machines are being "valued " at levels which cannot be bleieved and consequently nobody can actually get one to ride.
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Allan
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National
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Posted - 04 May 2002 : 10:26:44 PM
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i just don't know anymore "but" is any body realy thinking about the rules that come in place in 3/4 years time regards eng. cap. beening what is the manfur. size . will that include bore and stroke? it should except for any eng actually built in that time! why try to make new rules WHEN we carnt live with the rules we now have its only a few that have these special motors/frames , lets start with getting classic's back to where they started, normal production type motors as made by norton bsa triumph ajs matchless and many more STOP the use of over bored and stroke motors and police the 850 motors (norton twins) out of classic class, they are post classic. has every body started to work to get their log books ready, only 6 months left for US average types to get our logs together with photos and what has been done to their frames motors g/box etc this rule is in for state and australian title races this year and comes into effect 2003 for all classic also includes post classic and P5 race bikes WHAT ARE YOU DOING about your log book??
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