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    Flag marshalls wanted

    Short of marshalls for Sunday at Puke if there are any takers. Steph is looking for volunteers. No flags, no race.
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    if i was closer I would.

    come on people. these events can't be run with volunteers, and marshalls get the best seats in the house
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    too far for us, too

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    Quote Originally Posted by geoffm View Post
    Short of marshalls for Sunday at Puke if there are any takers. Steph is looking for volunteers. No flags, no race.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dog View Post
    Put me down, when where how?
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    yeh, long as the weather is good... I didn't mind doing it last time, would do it again.... she didn't seem to add me to any list last time

    pm me details, time you have to be there etc
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dog View Post
    Just a quickie to bring thread back to new posts.

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    generally 8.30am start at the "house" - jenian homes hut on the infield of the track. I might be able to help out depending on how much im needed in the pits with the people i'm supposed to be helping.
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    Quote Originally Posted by R6_kid View Post
    generally 8.30am start at the "house" - jenian homes hut on the infield of the track. I might be able to help out depending on how much im needed in the pits with the people i'm supposed to be helping.
    Sounds pretty organized
    Again just keeping the thread on the new posts page.

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    Time to start paying your Marshalls geoffm.
    At the end of a Marshalling day an individual has given up a family day[or ride day], worked hard putting up barriers, spent the day in the hot sun watching others enjoy themselves for what?

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    Quote Originally Posted by SixPackBack View Post
    Time to start paying your Marshalls geoffm.
    At the end of a Marshalling day an individual has given up a family day[or ride day], worked hard putting up barriers, spent the day in the hot sun watching others enjoy themselves for what?
    They get a free feed and heaps of drinks to drink.

    I did it once, and I was given a bag full of yummy food (breadroll, cakes and fruit). Bottles of water and other bottled drinks.

    If you ran out of drink you got hold of them on the head piece and they then delivered you some more inbetween races.

    At the end of the day there was a beer or two to drink or cans of coke or lemonade. They also did a BBQ at the end...... so you got bread and sausages with the drink before you headed home.

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    SPB has a point. Down here riders to CantyMC events get to race for free if they bring a flag marshal. The flag marshal gets free lunch and drinks and something towards their fuel costs. What I'm planning to do is pay 'my' flag marshal the $45 I would normally have paid to race, it's not exactly a high hourly rate, but at least they get a wee tax free bonus.
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    Sitting at the hairpin watching F1 and F2 hurtle into it, is good watching indeed. Then you get the monkeys like Lance Lowe, who, coming out of the hairpin, spies a camera, and promptly provides a nice photo op when his wheel leaps into the air, requiring him to stand up and correct it

    The classics and 2 strokes etc, sorry, not my thing, but I'll put up with all that, to watch the really cool stuff...

    At the end of the day, the guys can't race without marshalls (or doing just what exactly some of the riders called their little "outings") and its something at least I can do, which provides benefit... so yeah.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jane Omorogbe from UK MSN on the KTM990SM
    It's barking mad and if it doesn't turn you into a complete loon within half an hour of cocking a leg over the lofty 875mm seat height, I'll eat my Arai.

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    Cool

    forgot to mention in my above post....

    Got petrol vouchers as well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SixPackBack View Post
    Time to start paying your Marshalls geoffm.
    At the end of a Marshalling day an individual has given up a family day[or ride day], worked hard putting up barriers, spent the day in the hot sun watching others enjoy themselves for what?
    I enjoyed my day at the races, more interesting than my usual Sunday fare.
    Best seats in the house for free.

    If they paid the marshals a proper wage the cost of racing would go up, by about a hundred dollars a marshal times ten points + depending on the track multiplied by 2-3 depending on the point.

    I agree that there should be some regular paid marshals to "nurse" the noobies.

    If you go down the paid route you also need to have properly trained first aiders and cover them for ACC and Liability Insurance. This would probably add to the cost by about $30 a rider.

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