BMRC Discussion

[gav]

OK lets start again ....
Any BMRC news, questions, topics please add to in here.

[dangerous]

The Bucket Racing Motorcycle Racing club is a Canterbury based club for F4 and F5 racers.
Anyone with questions about joining or BMRC related post away.

[Muzzab]

Hey Dangerous,

Murray here from the coast.

For the winter series do the BEARS guys do day licences for buckets?
I was having a look at their Website but apart from the date and saying sign on on the day there is not a lot of info.
Would hate to come across and not be able to get into the fun due to licence issues.

Cheers
Muzza

[timg]

Yep, day licences $25 from memory. Cheers.

[dangerous]

Hey Dangerous,

Murray here from the coast.

For the winter series do the BEARS guys do day licences for buckets?
I was having a look at their Website but apart from the date and saying sign on on the day there is not a lot of info.
Would hate to come across and not be able to get into the fun due to licence issues.

Cheers
Muzza

yeah mate as TimG says day licences are avaible at BEARs meets.
Now if you are considering these meets you might want to join our club and be in for a trophy at the end of the year etc, get regular emails and acess to the web site. Also if you can see your self doing at least 3 meets (includes MCC and CAM meets) it would pay to get a MNZ licence, get 3 stamps and you will be able to race at Greymouth street meet.

GOOOOOOOOooooooooooo tickled Pink

[phoenixgtr]

Regular emails? I haven't had one yet!

[dangerous]

Regular emails? I haven't had one yet!

ohh ummm, yeah sorry I havent recieved ya membership form yet the carrier pigon flew the wrong way, p/m me ya email addy and ill add it asap.

[Muzzab]

yeah mate as TimG says day licences are avaible at BEARs meets.
Now if you are considering these meets you might want to join our club and be in for a trophy at the end of the year etc, get regular emails and acess to the web site. Also if you can see your self doing at least 3 meets (includes MCC and CAM meets) it would pay to get a MNZ licence, get 3 stamps and you will be able to race at Greymouth street meet.

GOOOOOOOOooooooooooo tickled Pink

Thanks for that, I was going to check you out re joining the CHCh Bucket Club. I just found out from MNZ to get a full licence I need to be a member of a racing club, so count me in.
As for Tickled Pink I am busy adding bits at the moment (I know race bikes are supposed to have bits taken off!) but I brought another RX125 for bits
and keep finding bits to put on. It may not be fast, but it will be cool.
Cheers Muzza (need to go back out in the shed and put the front end back on :0)

[dangerous]

Thanks for that, I was going to check you out re joining the CHCh Bucket Club. I just found out from MNZ to get a full licence I need to be a member of a racing club, so count me in.

Sorry but you need to belong to a MNZ afileated club, the BMRC is not we are a social club only.
can I reconmend:
CAM's
BEAR's
MCC

[timg]

but it will be cool.

So...... where's the picturegraphs?

[Muzzab]

So...... where's the picturegraphs?

Still a work in progress, hopefully will be sorted over the weekend.

[Muzzab]

OK, thanks for that, still keen to join BMRC (I do social).
The licencing thing is for the street races so will check out CAM's BEARS
and MCC. Thanks for the tip.

[Kickaha]

I have a few issues that I feel need to be raised:

Issue 1
Recently we held elections for the post of President, this was done by email.

Sunday 2nd of May the original mail was sent notifying us who was standing for the position, and one week was given before voting was closed.

Neither Candidate gave anyone any info on what they would bring to the BMRC, and as a result of that I believe the election was done more on popularity or people voting for their friends, rather than being based on what that person would bring to the club.

No information was given on who put forward the nominations for each candidate and whether they were seconded.

No information has been given on how many votes were cast for each candidate.

I would also like to know who counted the votes and who checked the counts.

Issue 2
This morning an email was sent to the club mailing list by the ex President in which another member was accused and I quote "someone and I suspect it is Brendan has been changing things on the site around, this is savatarge and I am not happy about it."

I believe the website and email list should be used for official BMRC business and not for individual members to take their personal grievances out on other members.

I would like to know why the website and more specifically the mailing list was made available to someone who has continued to show a lack of restraint in his communication with others?

I believe his actions in this matter and others bring this club into disrepute and if it continues I believe his membership should be terminated.

Issue 3
Current Bucket classes, I suggest the current class structure is revamped and we go back to Superbucket and Proddy Bucket. (This removes any dispute with frame eligibility for Motofxr as well.) At the moment it appears any minority group can have a class and a trophy. I feel if you want a Trophy either learn to ride or buy a faster bike.

Issue 4
Club membership numbers and again I quote the ex President “I hope this would not be the case after all the work I have done to take a club of 14 up to 67 members.”

When I started buckets several years before the ex President there were considerably more than 14 racing and to take the credit for such an increase belittles the efforts put in by other members such as Yow Ling and TonyMac who have supplied a considerable amount of current racers with their FXRs and contributed a lot of growth in club numbers.

I also believe that the social networking of KB and Bren_Chch’s Visordown has also contributed largely to the increase in members.

Once again the official BRMC communication lines should not be used for personal unsubstantiated grand standing.

[gav]

Can't argue with any of that, why do we not have an AGM? And if we do, why are the officers not elected there? Is there an Income & Expenditure printed up to show how financial the club is and where the money goes? Profit and Loss from BoB?
According to the BMRC website we have 6 classes!

Superbuckets
Production
Classic Super F4
MotoFXR
Womans
F5

Good stuff Kick, not sure if KB the right place for it though, but will get plenty of exposure.

[TonyB]

Definitely some valid points in there Kickaha.

I would like to suggest that some of these matters should be addressed at a BRMC meeting, rather than aired out in public.

Edit...better pay my subs