Is it Slaters Bike park?? at Mercer?

[GR81]

if you want a safe sport, dont do MX... try table tennis or something haha

[Reckless]

I said that already, quite clearly in my previous post!

[arj127]

i can vouch for what Scott says. Puke mx club is pretty big on safety. I can not remember a club day where there would be no flag marshalls. We wern't allowed to compete if the appropriate amount of flag marshalls were not on the track.
Like Gr81 says mx is a sport whereby you can expect some injuries. But compared to Ardmore, the Puke club only has riders of the same level on the track at the same time. Ardmore can have a lot of different level riders on the track at once which can be quite scary for the beginner (no disrespect to Ardmore).
In reality its about how your young fella goes about his ride, wether he uses his head and only tackles one jump at a time and masters each jump before moving on to another. Puke track is a national level track, but can be riden by a novice who has a level head

[telliman]

sounds to me like the wmcc or rmc would be a good place to start, a racing enviroment without the jumps,do plenty of practice days at harrisville before chucking him into a club day. theres more chance of him hurting himself on his own accord than there is of an older faster rider taking him out! get him out there i say,my sons 4yrs old and just got him his first bike(quad),cant wait to be hitting tables-tops together! roost the little punk,

[Reckless]

yes arj. I believe what Scott has said and trust his wisdom. I'm not questioning their club or anything to do with how they run a meeting. Which is why I deliberatly didn't go into detail. I was just stating as a newbie to MX it put me off a bit. Coming from quite an extensive background in another motorsport.

And I except what you say about Ardmore. I took my young fella on his KX85 small wheel, out there yesterday as he had a day off school. He got roosted quite badly (totally unintentionaly of coarse) by all the passing riders. When its harrowed and dry those loose hard clods of dirt really hurt. Put him off going back next week. We put an extra poly fliece sweat shirt back on under his mx shirt and roost vest as well. I've told him to hold his line and not to swerve out the way of a roost incase there is another rider passing. Wouldn't do to have some kid radically changing his line all the time when your blasting past on a 450. He's learnt to hold his line from karting anyway.
Not so bad for me though. I do enjoy going out there on my own and not having my kids to worry about. I can leave at 1pm and get a fair bit of riding in, when the tracks still in good nick, before all the school kids/teenagers and their dads turn up after 3-30. It just means I have to draw peoples plans all night to make up the time.
Concerning his riding. He's is fairly sensible. He can clear the table top at Kimis and clear a few of the other jumps so he's learning. I'll just have to keep going to Woodhill, Trailblazer and Thunder etc till he's fast enough to mix it a bit better on an all out race track. Although its the jumps he likes best.
Thanks for your assurance about Harrisville we'd really like to try it.
Does the short practice time on a Sat 1-3pm impact much on the amount of riding you can get in. I do about 2 hours riding on the engine timer in a 3 hour or so session at Ardmore.

[Reckless]

sounds to me like the wmcc or rmc would be a good place to start, a racing enviroment without the jumps,do plenty of practice days at harrisville before chucking him into a club day. theres more chance of him hurting himself on his own accord than there is of an older faster rider taking him out! get him out there i say,my sons 4yrs old and just got him his first bike(quad),cant wait to be hitting tables-tops together! roost the little punk,

Ye very good idea Telliman. Is rmc more clay/Farm land and Wmcc more sand?? or am I getting the wrong impression from all the family rides at Woodhill that wmcc run.
I don't think Rodney has its own track like Harrisvile/Puke has does it??
And does Waitamata have one??

I personally have been enjoying the tracks. So many questions! but I suppose all the newbies have them. Thanks for all your input guys!!

[telliman]

sounds like you need a ride at harrisville,mini track for junior, and step ups for you. ardmores all good but dosnt compare to this joint.even though its only 3x 20min scessions its worth every one

[arj127]

the two hours or so on Saturday at Harrisville is enough, because unlike a race day you can ride for as long as you want. You generally will leave more tired than you would on a race day.
I don't think RMCC has a track like PMCC's, but they have quite a few farm tracks etc that they use (ditto for WMCC).

[Reckless]

Thanks you two guys!
Only thing left is get off my arse and get out there!
I'll still do Wednesdays at Ardmore its good for fitness and its 10mins from home and only 15 bucks. And the main reason! I've got the missus used to the idea I need a few hours off work each Wednesday. Don't want to let that go!!!

Probably join one first then I can get my Minz licence. I suppose we have to have one of these b4 we can race? Rodneys only 40-00 bucks thats very reasonable. Puke is $60-00 but the way they discount there practice fees for members I suppose you guys are members at all the clubs you frequent.

Thanks again

[B0000M]

just to back scott, as an independant source,

ive ridden the puke / harrisville track years ago in north island champ events, and ill vouch for its safety, some tracks just dont feel safe, this one does.