Junior Road Racing needs to be more attractive

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...its pretty easy for us lot down here to crack on about how easy it is to get kids in...thats because the hard work has been done... over the years, watching Pete Jones and his helpers do their stuff with the young riders has been fantastic...there were detractors down here too...dont get it wrong...older moaners worried about losing their track time to bloody kids...bloody Streetstock,like watching paint dry...I'm not paying an entry fee to come to kindergarten...etc, etc...times have changed and so have the attitudes towards our younger riders.

...I cant imagine a day at Ruapuna without our young racers being there...seems desolate without them...and to have watched them grow from little learners to complete racers over the years, has been a bit like watching your own kids grow up...to see the numbers who have made it to the top in NZ road racing is just wonderful...suits us one eyed cantabrians, also...

...Scout Fletcher , to name just one, and there are many, is just about 16...has recruited and trained other young riders...rides around a lot of older, been there done that riders, me being one of them, races classics and post classics on the track and on the street circuits and is in my eyes, one of my peers....

....only a couple of handsfull of seasons ago, they weren't there....it took a man with an idea and the love of what he was doing to get it going...the rest just follows...and the young riders keep turning up to give it a go...

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A round of applause and few other commented. Then Chris Costello of Auckland stood up and said "We could never have Streetstock here, they're so slow it would be as boring as watching paint dry" Fair enough, he was honest about his club's stand on this. And it was true, about this time I bought a 150 from a family up there who'd got all set to go and even went to meeting only to be turned away. So they sold the bike and went Karting instead

Which is why Chris has stepped back I suspect.There is a more open minded RR comittee at amcc. Which is the point I was making to Billy. I genuinely feel there has been a MAJOR culture change at AMCC.
ON THAT FRONT --One BIG issue is that AMCC run bloody fantastic training days at Pukekohe. (ART) They would be totally perfect for training these kids.
BUT the current rules means that they need to have attended/competed a race meeting or hold a road licence before they can attend. In my mind that is totally arse about face. In my mind they should need to attend an ART day before a race meeting