MNZ board nominations

[Wingnut]

very big statement to make from behind an Alias, man up and use a name will you, most of us that frequent here know the regulars,

for those that don't know me,

Scott Wilkins
President, Pukekohe Motorcycle Club,
supercross promotor (retired at this stage)
Grade 2 Steward,
MNZ Liceince holder since 1986

Mate these are not my words - This is a quote from Kickaha on the first page of this thread.

LOL! I don't even know who you guys are talking about. I mearly eat pop corn and follow the shit fest...

[sidecar bob]

only a tough choice if you cant tell diffrence between some one who does more for sport than line his own pockets in the guise of doing it for a club , oh slap my hand am i being unkind hell no just honest

Well Chris has never lined his own pocket in the guise of doing it for a club, so you must mean the other candidate.
Your head must be so far up your own arse if you think the TRRS ever made anyone any money.
Chris & Andy were out of pocket a huge amount after every event, & it was structured that way. Its called giving back.

[Biggles08]

got the industry back on side ,big plus

Ahem.....where was KAWASAKI as a sponsor this year Watchman

[Wingnut]

Well Chris has never lined his own pocket in the guise of doing it for a club, so you must mean the other candidate.
Your head must be so far up your own arse if you think the TRRS ever made anyone any money.
Chris & Andy were out of pocket a huge amount after every event, & it was structured that way. Its called giving back.

WTF - Where in this thread did I write these words????

Originally posted by Wingnut, well hell I think my alter personality has taken over!

I'm off - this thread is going gay anyhow!

[sidecar bob]

WTF - Where in this thread did I write these words????

Originally posted by Wingnut, well hell I think my alter personality has taken over!

I'm off - this thread is going gay anyhow!

Ok, this is getting spooky, now my quote on your post looks like watchman wrote it. Im outta here!

[Kickaha]

Mate these are not my words - This is a quote from Kickaha on the first page of this thread.

LOL! I don't even know who you guys are talking about. I mearly eat pop corn and follow the shit fest...

What am I being blamed for now?

Ok, this is getting spooky, now my quote on your post looks like watchman wrote it. Im outta here!

Someone fucked up a quote somewhere and it's had a flow on effect

[Kevin G]

Hi.
I am a current MNZ board member and I have just seen the postings.....quite some emotion....
I cannot speak for Jim but he is one of the 5 that makes up the board and he only gets one vote the same as me.

Jim has a very broad experience in many areas and factions of motorcycling and business, together we are a pretty good team and the decisions made are for the betterment of motorcycling and MNZ. You have to remember the Commissioners run the sport and the board run the business of MNZ. The commission set up the sponsors and sup regs etc and the clubs run the events.

Re the $1 trail ride fee, our insurers see the injury rate and associated risk at these trail rides/races and charge accordingly, It is user pays I am afraid. this is the transparent way to do it rather than just increase licence fees or recoup the cost other ways.

MNZ has lots of members but remember Road racing is the minority, off road is 3/4 of the licence holders, lots of financial support was given out this year to riders competing overseas in all discipline's in fact probably more than ever has been granted in recent times (at least that I know of)

Also another thing to remember is that the role of President, the board members and sporting commissioners are unpaid and all put shitloads of time into this organisation only to be criticised by the masses or the uninformed which I guess goes with the territory but sometimes it can get a bit tiring!

Andy, I answered some of your questions at last years AGM and I believe I explained things fully, accurately and honestly at least to the best of my ability.

Happy to answer what I can, you are stuck with me for another term as no one else was nominated.....lucky me.

I write this as I sit in a hotel room in Wellington as I am here for a weekend of MNZ meetings, board and then commissioners. This after been away for two weeks running a race team in the nationals, its all about the bikes, just ask my wife and kids.


Kevin Goddard
SI On Road Board Member

[jellywrestler]

Hi.
I write this as I sit in a hotel room in Wellington as I am here for a weekend
Kevin Goddard

hey, which hotel room, I'll bring the dirty girls?

[scott411]

Re the $1 trail ride fee, our insurers see the injury rate and associated risk at these trail rides/races and charge accordingly, It is user pays I am afraid. this is the transparent way to do it rather than just increase licence fees or recoup the cost other ways.

first of all Kevin, thanks for coming on here and answering some questions, and thanks and congrats for standing again as a Board Member

i find it hard to believe that trail rides are considered more dangerous than street racing or supercross? as the injury count per rider or per event for these would be much higher, is it due to the fact that their are more trail rides, the fee for trail rides have always been double what a normal clubday event was. which i can understand as you do not need a competition liceince.

As a reference, i run 5 trail rides a year, last year the fees for the permits for these rides were $510, with this new regime the series fees from MNZ will be around $4500, do you not think that this will push more trail rides away from MNZ sanction?

I know the Permit fees had not increased for a long time, and a increase was more than overdue, but a 9 fold increase, for only one side of the sport seems over the top.

[Shaun]

I vote for Jim Tuckermen



ONLY because his wife likes me

[Shaun]

Question for Chris Lawrence



Chris, did you have any involvement in getting the chair teams to race in Australia recently?

[scrivy]

Question for Chris Lawrence
Chris, did you have any involvement in getting the chair teams to race in Australia recently?

Hi Shaun,

Chris doesn't frequent these pages here regularly. But I can tell you, yes he did have an involvement.
The NSW club invited classic/post classic bikes and modern sidecars to attend the event. This was an all expenses paid deal - kindly paid by the organising NSW club and their awesome sponsors. Thankyou again guys!!

Chris was at pains to ensure no sidecar teams would be invited to go that were doing the Nats. This was the determining factor that limited the chairs going to Aussie.
For your information, Adam was the first to put his name forward (as at that stage he wasn't doing the Nats), but when he got help to go down south, he then pulled out. His position was quickly filled by another non-nationals competing member.

So, even though 8 sidecar teams went to Aussie, none of those teams were going to do the Nats anyway.
When someone pays the expenses (quite significant too) of teams that put their hands up, it was a no brainer for those that wanted to go.

Hope this clears up how this trip was handled.

Scrivy

P.S. We've already been invited back again next year. But Chris is trying to ensure the dates do not clash with the Nats again. This year the track was already booked, so no compromise could be made. Next year the track has not been booked - so the organisers will have to take all factors into account.

[jellywrestler]

Hi Shaun,

Chris doesn't frequent these pages here regularly. But I can tell you

Chris is running for president of the MNZ I believe.
He's going to have a tough campaign if he doesn't bother to come onto Kiwi Biker and front up to some of the questions isn't he?
Hey Scrivy, you seem to be tied up with his campaign somewhere along the line....
Why don't you send him a text and tell him there's questions being asked so he can put his view across?

[sidecar bob]

I vote for Jim Tuckermen



ONLY because his wife likes me

And you wouldnt want to halve the number of people that like you.

[sidecar bob]

Chris is running for president of the MNZ I believe.
He's going to have a tough campaign if he doesn't bother to come onto Kiwi Biker and front up to some of the questions isn't he?
Hey Scrivy, you seem to be tied up with his campaign somewhere along the line....
Why don't you send him a text and tell him there's questions being asked so he can put his view across?

If Chris cant delagate jobs to people he can trust to free up his time for more important stuff, then he wouldnt make a very good president.
Id say his campaign already demonstrates a level of co operation & organisation rarely seen in racing circles.
Compare that to the one eyed, angry mis leading rants from Tucker. . . I mean Watchman.