Greymouth Street race reminder

[dangerous]

Are what the hell, ya going to ask anyway, aint yaz??

POST CLASSIC:

Yip, I was thats a shit load a typing out cheers Steve
hey look all 3 girls are in post classics
5 LC's and a TZ

just realised Val was entered in F3 on an ag100, Ive put him in buckets!!, bloody back marker!!

WOW.. a OW48 ridden by some has been yank

[dangerous]

Steve... how come theres 5 odd bikes pre 72 in post classics?

[Buddha#81:Me]

Are what the hell, ya going to ask anyway, aint yaz??

POST CLASSIC:


Allcock Les 127 Suzuki T20 250 '71
Annan Phillippa 67 Honda CB 350 '68
Antonovich Rob 81 Yamaha RD 350 '81
Ashton John 73 Yamaha RD350 LC '80
Attrill Rob 51 Honda CB 350 '68
Batchelor Neil 57 Honda CBX 550 '82
Begg Roger 42 Yamaha RD 350 '73
Bleach Russell 111 Aermacchi Sprint '70 350cc
Brooks Mark 3 Honda CB250 RS '80
Buchanan Johnny 5 Suzuki GSX400 '80
Chaloner Sid 30 Honda
Cotton Brent 181 Kawazaki GPZ 550 '82
Cotton Darryl 17 Kawasaki KZ750 '81
Dawson Darryl 68 Yamaha RD 350 '81
Grant Lew 137 Ducati 860GT '75
Grant Sandra 53 Ducati Pantch 350 '82
Groves Stephen 25 Honda CB 350 '72
Gundler Barrie 8 Aermacchi Sprint 350 '70
Havill Andrew 194 Ducati 500SL '81
Horridge Peter 11 Triumph TR6 760 '63
Jamieson Garry 13 Suzuki GS 550 '81
Jones Peter 7 IEL Roberts 250 '66
Kelly Des 37 Honda CB 350 '68
McKie David 36 Honda CB350 '71
Mickleson Curly 116 Suzuki Katana 750 '82
Ornsby Glen 82 Triumph T140 750 '77
Price Rod 136 Yamaha TZ350 '80
Rae Steve 32 Yamaha 400 '76
Roberts Kenny 1 Yamaha OW48 '80
Russell Graham 79 Suzuki GS 550 '79
Ryan Kevin 18 Triumph 650 '73
Stein Mike 88 Yamaha RD350LC '81
Stokes Trevor 92 Yamaha TT500 '80
Veitch Bill 4 BSA GS 498 '57
Williams Gwenda 99 Yamaha RD 250 '82

I thought Kenny was going camping with Micky D over the long weekend, Ya carn't keep those old hasbeen away can ya.

[Buddha#81:Me]

Steve... how come theres 5 odd bikes pre 72 in post classics?

Maybe they are running buckets and don't want to clash or they may wan't to give you the "learn" in Pre '82 like I'm gunna.

[steve74]

Steve... how come theres 5 odd bikes pre 72 in post classics?

my guess is that they have combined both post classic periods? this is how its always been to my knowledge? i guess it was done to give the older bikes an extra race?

as per mnz rule book

There shall be two groups of Post Classic Road Racing Machines. (a) “Period 72” which
shall consist of machines manufactured after January 1st 1963 and before October 30th
1972. (b) “Period 82” which will consist of racing machines manufactured after the
closing date of the Period 1972 class and before December 31st 1982.

may be this needs to be changed in future?

so that only puts bill vietch's bike out, but hes pretty quick and im sure he wont be out classed

[steve74]

thats a shit load a typing out cheers Steve - DANGEROUS


Cut N paste my friend!!!!

[Rashika]

so 3 chickies and we are all in the same race, very cool! Gonna be a challenge

Now to just get the LC off the line in a reasonable fashion, rather than the usual bogging down on the line and starting last...

[TonyB]

Hey I assume we need tether switches still? Steve can you please confirm?

[dangerous]

Hey I assume we need tether switches still? Steve can you please confirm?

yes you do tony, I have something that will do you if ya want.

[steve74]

yup, teather switchs are needed, as per MNZ rule book!!

[steve74]

its great to see we are still getting late entries, we are up to 112 which is the same total we had last year which was a record.

interesting that 35 are new riders. this beggs the question, what happened to the other 35?

i guess they come under the "Broke, Cant be bothered, bike blew up, would rather spend money on other things and the Wife put a stop to it" bracket.

[Rashika]

its great to see we are still getting late entries, we are up to 112 which is the same total we had last year which was a record.

interesting that 35 are new riders. this beggs the question, what happened to the other 35?

i guess they come under the "Broke, Cant be bothered, bike blew up, would rather spend money on other things and the Wife put a stop to it" bracket.

quite likely...
altho there are gonna be a few new riders for a couple of years as till last year it hadn't been run for quite a number of years, how many was it?
I can remember coming over to Nelson Creek for the plains MC club rallys and going to the races on the sunday to watch... and THAT was quite a few years ago. I get a wee shiver to think that I'm racing on it this year...

[dangerous]

i guess they come under the "Broke, Cant be bothered, bike blew up, would rather spend money on other things and the Wife put a stop to it" bracket.

Could be, does make ya wonder aye, the event is well run unlike the fuck up at Nelson this year, as a club pressie I sent a letter to them and they never bothered answering... so none of our club members are going next year, thats going to be a big drop in numbers for them.

[steve74]

this is the 18th running, its only ever missed one year which was 2005 due to lack of helpers.

out of the 17 times it has run , there has only been 2 wet ones. 1991, which was postponed untill the labour day monday and 2004 which was run no worries.

every year we run it there is a new problem that jumps up and puts the event in jeopardy. Running the event in the town centre is a real hassel, you wouldnt believe the amount of red tape, consents, and traffic management plans needed. there is always the odd business who threaten to oppose the road closure which need to be smoothed over for it to run. from what i understand its costs about 7 x the cost to run it now days than 10 years ago.
every year since about 1999 it has said to be "the last one". but it keeps on coming back. For some reason the town fail to see the benifit to the community of this event, both in visitor spending and the $9000+ we give to local clubs and charities. A paid organizer is now responsible for promoting the street races and other events as part of the wings and wheels festival so that we can continue to run it. seems to be working so far!!
we are only a small club, we dont appair to get the MNZ funding and support that battle of the streets and the burt munro get, so we aint doing to bad. We hope that the TV coverage that our organizer has worked so hard to get this year will give us a bit more exposure.

[Rashika]

this is the 18th running, its only ever missed one year which was 2005 due to lack of helpers.

out of the 17 times it has run , there has only been 2 wet ones. 1991, which was postponed untill the labour day monday and 2004 which was run no worries.

every year we run it there is a new problem that jumps up and puts the event in jeopardy. Running the event in the town centre is a real hassel, you wouldnt believe the amount of red tape, consents, and traffic management plans needed. there is always the odd business who threaten to oppose the road closure which need to be smoothed over for it to run. from what i understand its costs about 7 x the cost to run it now days than 10 years ago.
every year since about 1999 it has said to be "the last one". but it keeps on coming back. For some reason the town fail to see the benifit to the community of this event, both in visitor spending and the $9000+ we give to local clubs and charities. A paid organizer is now responsible for promoting the street races and other events as part of the wings and wheels festival so that we can continue to run it. seems to be working so far!!
we are only a small club, we dont appair to get the MNZ funding and support that battle of the streets and the burt munro get, so we aint doing to bad. We hope that the TV coverage that our organizer has worked so hard to get this year will give us a bit more exposure.

musta been just me that went missing for a few years then, I did get married ... thats musta done it
I reckon the paid promotor is the way to go. Volunteers can only do so much at times and how many can help usually determines what can get done. I think you guys do a grand job with what you have, always have thought so.
I read about the funding so at least its go for a couple of years, and hopefully as the publicity builds so will the event to a certain extent. Tho not too much bigger, cos its great as it is.
Nelson was good but disapointing with the lack of racing for the buckets (1 race total, when Motards got 6!!!), and Burt Munroe dont wana do F4/buckets, we have asked, (and also clashes with the Magpie Madness rally AGAIN), so they wont get our support unfortunately, tho i would like to go there for it someday. And that is about it for the Sth island these days, i think?
Did go to wanganui last year but only to watch... big hike from down here unfortunately, and they dont do F4/buckets either... we just aint flash enough I reckon. But thats ok we get great racing at ruapuna and levels, and the occasional street thrown in for good measure