flat track/dirt track racing

[t3mp0r4ry nzr]

Im keen for some cheap motorbike racing and have been looking for dirt track racing clubs bit to no avail. Are there any active club/clubs around? there sure are enough speedway tracks around and plenty of suitable bikes out there to race with.

[Motu]

Flattrack started in Auckland at Rosebank speedway in the late '70's when they opened what they called a Stock Bike class.It became very popular and lots of other clubs around the country started doing it too,and the riders traveled around various tracks.In your MNZ rule book you will find the racing rules for Flattrack or Stock Bikes - these were set out by a not very frequent member of this site OWLMorris.

Flattrack had fizzled out by the early '90's for some reason....just lack of interest really.One reason might of been that as usual a very cheap motor sport had become an expensive sport - instead of some old MX bike or something else cobbled out of parts,riders were modifying new MX or enduro bikes for racing.Why pay $10,000 for a competitive Flattracker,when you could pick up a genuine speedway 2 valve bike for a couple of grand and do the real thing?
Anyway it was a lot of fun through the '80's,and I dabbled in it at our local dirt track.Last tracks I heard doing it were Ferndale in Taranaki,and one in the Sth Is.

Get a few riders interested and approach your local track to have a go on a practice session....you'll probably need at least 4 riders to get the club remotely interested in the idea.Once the bikes are seen out there by local riders,they will reckon they could do it better than you and want to give it a go.Good luck.

[owner]

Its still big in aussie I watched a whole event a few days ago on the big screen in a pub, It looks fun as fuck.I would like to have a go for sure. Last time I was in at wild west honda auckland they had a dirt track bike for sale. CR500 fully kitted 7500$ with spares

[JJ58]

It's a great sport. It's quite popular over here. The speeds they're really fast around those dirt tracks. I think it's a great sport to develop young road racers....I only wished they turned both ways :-)

Here if you have a motocross bike, and a set of supermoto wheels, then you're set for dirt tracking. For $2,200 US you can get a spec chassis like the AMA Flat Trackers use....It's a cheap sport compared to road racing. I have a friend who's the Canadian champion and his bike is a 2003 CRF450 in the aforementioned spec chassis....

PS: the last flat track I saw at Elsmere Speedway was won by a CX500.... So I think it's a sport that needs some life injected into it in NZ.....

[wharfy]

I would be keen to give this a go. I always admired the US AMA racers as to win the number 1 plate they had to do road racing AND flat track.

I like turning left :-)