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Afterwards I walked the track...every turn was pretty much like these....I found a small child down in one of the ruts and said " get out of there ya little Bugger !,
But to the credit of the Goulburn Valley Junior club, the track and amenities were well prepared. The track isn't really very old, they've just been building it up from a flat cow paddock.
Their old track at Waii was much better dirt...sandy loam..
Still, the track offered decent racing...there were so many ruts in the corners that it couldn't help but offer multiple lines.
Saw a few guys with bad starts come up through the pack quickly.
Problem was, there was never that much of a pack .
MX1 had 21 entries, MX 2 about 30. MXD about 30 and the 125 gold cup was twenty odd...that's it! If I'd known about the 125 race a bit earlier, I would have entered myself and skipped the flagging.
The sport...that is racing...serious racing rather than just club level, is in dire straights here...the divide between juniors ( or rather their parents ) and seniors is getting worse...We hate having to endure race days that have too many classes, juniors and seniors combined...and the mini bike parents hate us for complaining about it...
I really don't think it's fixable...problem has got too far out of hand...Don't know where the riders are going to come from to run in the national races...it's a big leap from 4 lap club races to 30 min motos at national level.. Not much inbetween anymore .
I'm about done bothering about it..started the save Australian motocross page...got 50 odd members or so...nobody has much of anything to say
Saw the local tv news report on this race on Thursday..a promo thing for it...nice of them to do it...said they were expecting about 2 thousand spectators from all over.....honestly I think about 400 would have pulled it up..
Sad to see...
All the teams , their pit setups, enormous race transporters, equipment, personnel , bikes, etc... All looked really ,really good and really professional ..
I seriously wonder where they get the money...the sponsorship to do it..the sport seems so much smaller than it was a decade ago.
Oh well... Probably time I ceased posting about the Oz MX scene being in decline...the horse is dead, no point whipping it any more.
This is my last post on the matter
Make the most of what we have an hopefully there are a lot juniors coming through the ranks to change things.
After all we are hosting the world junior mx next year.
While a down turn in MX, the interest in Off - Road seems to be on the rise and in the VMX races.
750 entries at Hattah last weekend, if it is true what you say about only 400 odd spectators today at Shepparton, that is nearly double the number of people just in riders alone in Mildura last weekend.
Finke numbers are strong, AORC rider numbers seem to be strong, though those races are combined with state titles. Think there was well over 250 entries for the SA rounds of the AORC a couple of weeks back.
MX numbers here in SA have been on the rise for 5-6 years, biggest numbers were coming from Vets who were back at the track as their kids were getting into racing, guess it just made sense for dad to come back for a ride as well.
Then all of a sudden it has all died in the ass. We had 45 riders out for a clubday at MRA today, a track located 15km from the city centre in South Aus!
Though there were another 6 or 7 MSA sanctioned events on around the state today, go figure.
MX Nationals numbers have not really changed much over the years, especially since going to a ten round championship. Rider numbers start high, drop off by mid season then move up and down a little in the second half depending where racing is at.
Is what it is and as you said PJRAUS, not anyone really wanting to step up at a state level and try and provide senior only events, don't blame them, i would not want to do it haha.
To be honest for someone like myself who enjoys racing, but now has a son who is in the Demo class and will start racing next year, Im fine with mixed senior and junior events, prefer the state titles where the junior race sat and senior sunday, but had a ball today having a couple of races myself then watching as my little man rode.
See if I can get back into b quickly next year...trouble with that..apart from not being fast enough to win c grade races if that turns out to be the case...I think they only allocate grading points for the 4 vic title rounds...so even if I do well it might be another year before I could make it to b grade.and enter one of the main classes at a national.
I will for certain though have a crack in the 125 races if they have them next year and the rounds where they run a vet class too...wouldn't mind the travel...see a bit iof the countryside..
Raced all the Nationals and thumper Nats in 2001 and really enjoyed going to all the different tracks and states, especially going to Penguin in Tasmania and Conondale in Queensland...something to look foward to anyway!
I have raced it a few times, its good fun, I get smoked big time, its crazy to see how fast guys like Boyd or Cam Taylor still are. If I could find about 4 seconds per turn I could keep up.
I was thinking about doing it again this year, but can't really justify the cost this year.
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I'm really lucky in that my job keeps me really fit, I don't really feel any less capable of riding the way I did 30 years ago.
I certainly think I could get back to being as fit as I ever was, and certainly I could get back to being as fast as I was....not that I was fast...
Challenge for me is to learn how to ride that smooth , straight body, centralised , modern style.
Getting to watch people like Kirk Gibbs and Dean Ferris close up, really is a great lesson in riding style...so smooth and effortless , they never move their body that much on the bike.
My style looks like a throwback to the 1970's, which is when I learned to ride...Eveyone hung right over the back of the bike in those days....I'm trying to break the habit!
Do miss getting to the nationals, only been to two so far this year, might still get to Coolum and get the camera out. Looks like the MX2 title will come down to the wire so would be good to watch.
There old Waaiaa track was amazing national calibre for sure pity the farmer wanted it back from what I here
Camo is unreal for his age 44. He don't take it seriously now and gets a good kick out of helping the young kids out.
From what I heard...could be totally wrong...it was actually the farmers son that wanted the club out and the land back. When he took over from dad, first order of business was to kick the club out!
And apparently the son used to race....Dunno...just what I heard..
Mind you...it's super tough these days making a living as a dairy farmer...might have been a necessity for survival..
I raced there numerous times 84-94. Loved that track.
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