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Will try and find a link to an article but Dave King and Doc Wob are running the show next year, at non other than the famous foxhills circuit. Also read there will be new more modern classes.
Can’t wait to see 90’s and hopefully early 00’s bikes charging up and down the hills again!
Can’t wait to see 90’s and hopefully early 00’s bikes charging up and down the hills again!
Where else can see you see you boyhood heroes like JMB,RJ,Herring,Cooper,Brown,Dr D,Dowd,Ramon,Bolley,Thorpe and Henry to name just a few ride,even if only for fun at times.
Even better you can just chat to all of them in a relaxed atmosphere at the historic Farleigh,add in Foxhill this year and its going to be epic.
Look forward to see which big names are signing up
2 weeks before Farleigh's usual date, a 4 day £1000 weekend x 2.
There is a need, for sure, more riders than can ever get in to Farleigh, and more people building bikes..
Maybe will let Farleigh go back to running the older stuff, like pre 83 125, and 4 Banger Twinshocks. and Evo's
Maybe will need an Evo overlap, to make it viable, i dont think there are enough post 89 guys out there to run a 500 rider meeting.
I'd rather ride Farliegh, its raceable, safe and fun, the idea of throwing 30 year old bikes round Foxhills , especially with period correct riders on them doesnt fill me with glee.
I guess i need to start buying new wheels.
I’m proper happy, my earliest Mx memory is mxdn 98 as a 7 year old so foxhills has a special place in my heart.
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So, prepare for some politics I’d say.
I saw that the people doing Foxhill's are the Langrish Club, and honestly, i would jump at the chance to race Langrish, very few chances to back in the day and its a classic venue.
I have commentated on loads of meetings at Foxhills, i remember it as a great venue for GP's and went to all of them and the MXoN ,
I was there a few months ago and it just doesnt have the same kudos as Farleigh or Hawkstone for me , despite it giving me one of my favourite memories, of Nik Fisk getting the crowd totally silent before the gate drop of a 250GP there, as Hells Bells played over the PA... one of my best memories and the gate hadnt even dropped.
I can see more folk being happy to drag there arses round Farleigh for 4 laps, and having 1 jump a lap , than wanting to huck blind tables down the valley at Foxhills.
I guess we will see.
A bit of competition is always good for the punters.
Who was/is?
Who was responsible for the prices going through the roof?
I'll be there though.
And when asked about a date for the 2022 event, he said it was nothing to do with him.
People will vote with their money, as is usually the case.
Whether the new event is ACU sanctioned or not will be the biggest indicator as to how things are going.
Tied in with the sudden switch of focus to sucking as much money as possible from the participants.
I believe that Dave has rights to the VMXdN name, as he used it first. But that didn’t stop the ACU from retrospectively trying to trademark it after the fact,
With no age limits, and enough bikes to run 2 riders in 2 classes , i am in.
Peoples points about the ACU, seem somewhat typical, and, I daresay, valid. At times - well, more often than not - I see 'controllers' of the sport, just (well, more than) a bit disappointing. The people at the 'lower' levels are usually, the salt of the earth, working their arses off for We participants. Things often sour the higher things get.
Farleigh is something I hope to perhaps participate in, one day. It would suite my old , battered body.
Foxhills?- well, I doubt it, but, that's My problem.
Hawkstone, now that really would appeal to me - even knowing it is far, far more brutal than Farleigh's VMXdN track. Hey, someone has to come last, and, to get to ride at that hallowed place, I'd be more than happy to be that bloke, way off the back......
I'm in - bring on 25th August!
Some will remember a heated debate on another [long defunct] forum about the origins of the idea for a VMX event at Farleigh Castle and who first thought of organizing it.
What can't be denied is Dave's passion. I wish him and Wobs well for Foxhill.
(And if anyone wants a fully restored 1991 CR125 for the super-evo class, I've got one for sale.)
Also, it was only a matter of time but i think the 99-07 class is a great idea. Dave King explained last night that when the twinshock scene kicked off it was 1991, and they were only c.10 years old. Now the 07 (last of the Jap 2 strokes) are already 14 years old. It brings a new lease of life to a currently defunct era of machine, although prices will soon begin rising for them - as with everything!
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