Haha. The rules are so out of date that non-stop is applied. That's a five. And a dq for submitting false scores for everyone for the last 40 years. What a joke.
The CMA and the FIM
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Trials
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You let bugs stop you from riding in a road race?
Trials
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How many of your posts should be moved to the Romper Room?
I did have a Diablo Can-Am 125GP race at Shuby. The CMA tried to take credit. It was somewhat helped by NAMU.. North America Motorcycle Union. I had 36 riders and my sponsors put up a $6000 purse or more. The representative from the CMA, was drunk on Wednesday when I got there. He argued with me we would do two Qualifying races. I was doing timed qualifying. He came and woke me up about 12 pm Friday night, drunk again to argue. CSBK ensured me we were doing timed qualifying. I also got it covered for TSN TV.We had ten riders from Bernuda that had never been out of third gear nor ever on a rolling hilly track. So more seat time with less stress was paramount for them. Sunday ,said CMA rep was taken away in ambulance from alcohol poisoning. I sent my finish results to England to be distributed to all big European series. This helped Chris Peris get his Wild Card ride in Spain. I asked the CMA "person" in charge if I could get FIM homologation for the Can=Am 125 GP series,, her reply was 'We don't do hokey events" There are or were some great people in the CMA, but ,,,,,,,,,,,,
TK4
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Saskatchewan - motorcycle racing hot bed. Brett McCormick came from there and did well in spite of it.Oh and holy look at that, somebody is already doing it under the CMA banner in Saskatchewan
I guess CMA road racing is alive in Canada, where is the Ontario chapter to challenge them and make for a potential national.
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or does mini road racing not count either
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TK4
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John Bickle has likely done as much for, if not more than anyone, motorcycle road racing in Canada for the last 25 years.
The top-level world championship riders start young. I was on the same racetrack with 11- and 13-year-old Nicky and Tommy Hayden once upon a time. I won't say "raced with", because they whipped everyone else. This was when they were on 125GP bikes. Valentino Rossi's father was a racer, and he started as a child. Jonathan Rea's father was a racer (Isle of Man!), started riding when he was 3, first race at 6, although he never rode on pavement until 16.
TK4
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I have a better idea - let's all go take a flat track or mini road racing school together - something none of us have ever done.Not a pi**ing match, if you want to whoop me buy a trials bike and get good at italways happy to oblige that challenge.
Then we can find out who's the biggest swingin' d*ck in the 416/905 ?
TK4
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Mine too...
Thank you for the kind words,, appreciated! I am sorry if I missed some stuff. I tried to read all the thread. The Diablo Can-Am 125GP series and the SV650 series showed what can be done with the right help. I started the 125GP class just to help all the 125 GP riders have better races. With awesome sponsors, CSBK and CCS in the USA we as a group did a great job. Riders that went through the Can-Am include PJ Jacobsen,Tayler Knapp,Chris Peris,Brett McCormick, Matt Binns,Alex Welsh, sorry I forgot some,, we had so many kids it was amazing. The riders got a serious sanctioned event with structured rules. We had open invitations to run CCS in the USA. We also helped the floundering USGPRU piggy back on our races. We had 54 125 GP bikes at CTMP. When we picked up the SV650 class that provided a secondary platform for riders that didn't wish to go 125GP racing. Our average grid for SV was 37 riders. Since then we have not really been able to promote the kids. We just don't have the platform. Buts most of all we don't have the lines of communication I had developed with Europe. With those exposure channels you can promote your Canadian talent. We have the people and the riders. This problem is not exclusive to road racing,, this is an industry wide issue. The right organization would help every type of racing competitions. It would also promote the sport more to the street riders. It would be a win,win for everyone. A good governing body would also fight for better insurance rates for street riders. There is so much more we could have. In every aspect. We are missing so much because of the disconnect., This has to be fixed so we can move forward ,,,as a group! We are a sport driven by technology, yet stuck in the dark ages. We are so passionate and yet so disconnected from each other. I'll ask a question and if you don't know what I am talking about then it explains our situation. What is Toni Sharpless doing? And is this available in other venues of our sport? We should all know this with the right governing body.
FWIW, I'll be doing some of Toni's MiniSBK courses this year if anyone else is interested, but there will be absolutely no d*ck swinging. I have a pretty good idea where I fall on the skill continuum, and it ain't at the top. Ben LeClair is one of the instructors at the Super Sonic school and he's 10 or 11 seconds (!) faster than me around Grand Bend on a 300. I started track riding way too late in life and there is zero chance of me ever catching up competitively. Something like Toni's school is really the main hope for any future generation of Canadians to get started early enough to compete on the world stage.
