The rules.

[kel]

maybe you're to blame for all this for not approaching an official when you saw the incident?????

good we are making progress, I believe you have now progressed to the third stage of guilt i.e. blame someone else

[mr bucketracer]

maybe you're to blame for all this for not approaching an official when you saw the incident?????

you know damn well you were called as the race was running he was seen the bars hit the ground!!!

[nodrog:Me]

The riders briefing was quite intense, far more thorough than the nationals. I thought mark marqeuz was turning up.

[NSR143]

you know damn well you were called as the race was running he was seen the bars hit the ground!!!

No one came to me to say his bars hit the ground. (Is this what you're commenting on or please can you re-phrase your sentence as its a bit disjointed.)

[mr bucketracer]

No one came to me to say his bars hit the ground. (Is this what you're commenting on or please can you re-phrase your sentence as its a bit disjointed.)

brian was told , i saw him radio you about it ! no more to say

[NSR143]

brian was told , i saw him radio you about it ! no more to say

Brian never confirmed to me his (Nathaniel's) bar hit the ground or I would have flagged him in.

[sidecar bob]

The riders briefing was quite intense, far more thorough than the nationals. I thought mark marqeuz was turning up.

Yes, I agree, it did seem a little O.T.T for bikes that barely go fast enough for gyroscopic energey to stand them upright.

[NSR143]

Yes, I agree, it did seem a little O.T.T for bikes that barely go fast enough for gyroscopic energey to stand them upright.

Sorry I was probably a bit shouty to try and get some points across... like make sure each rider sends someone to a flag marshaling point (which didn't seem to actually happen much anyway! )

[sidecar bob]

Take a hard look at yourselves guys. I attended this meeting because I remember buckets being fun & lighthearted racing in the '80's so thought I would give it another chance.
What I encountered was a bunch of people taking themselves waaay to seriously & some egos bigger than top superbike riders. (im not talking about breifing, breifing is cool as everyone needs to know what the kaupapa is)
There was a general mild hatred of people that race proper bikes & I cant help taking the piss out of you guys for not seeing it for what it is, a bit of lighearted fun.
Read back through this thread & pull your heads out of your arses & start enjoying yourselves for a change.

[jellywrestler]

Something was raised in the ESE thread and I thought I'd stir some shit.


It is not the job of racers to bring shit to the attention of officials, unless they want to protest.

so they go down out of site, what then
tell me Drew, at th emeetings you run and/or help out do you get many riders coming upto you with stuff like this?

[jellywrestler]

I think a 1 lap minimum was called for (but it was a blatant black flag issue),1 lap is easily what would have been lost in getting the bike back to pits, entering pit lane, getting an official to scrutinize the bike, and then safely re-enter the race.

it's a safety issue that was breached, penalty should be disqualification, simple SAFETY. go that.

[nodrog:Me]

I crashed twice, left the track multiple times, took out a couple of people, and got runover twice. Nobody cared.

[NSR143]

it's a safety issue that was breached, penalty should be disqualification, simple SAFETY. go that.

I am not 100% sure but I think mostly the re-check was introduced to this class due to issues with nylon falling off. Not to say a general check is not a good idea.

[NSR143]

Take a hard look at yourselves guys. I attended this meeting because I remember buckets being fun & lighthearted racing in the '80's so thought I would give it another chance.
What I encountered was a bunch of people taking themselves waaay to seriously & some egos bigger than top superbike riders. (im not talking about breifing, breifing is cool as everyone needs to know what the kaupapa is)
There was a general mild hatred of people that race proper bikes & I cant help taking the piss out of you guys for not seeing it for what it is, a bit of lighearted fun.
Read back through this thread & pull your heads out of your arses & start enjoying yourselves for a change.

This has to be the most controversial meeting I have ever been involved in, and yes a very sad state of affairs. The riders at the pointy end of the subject were actually good as gold about it.

[Drew]

Sorry, I can't find the rule. Looks like it goes into suplimentary regs of all events, or perhaps just into riders briefing.

A crashed bike isn't allowed to rejoin the track that is still being raced on, at every event I've been to in the last three years. So unless it crashes into pit lane, it's race over.

I haven't run an event, and a couple folk seem to think I'm attacking the organisers of this one. They are wrong, I just reckon a bit of discussion is a good thing.