Ride on the roads?????
Please dont tell me you ride on public bitumen roads?
Because if you do ride illegally, you are just what we don't need another one of
If I got this wrong and its a private road then my apologies.
I am sure this will cause debate among you all, but the more places you ride illegally including parks, reserves, suburbs, etc the more nails you are putting in our coffin as far as ride areas go.
Before you start think what a damp shower I am, I spent many years racing "A" grade motocross, love off-road motorcycling, hate that their are not as many places to ride as when I was a kid and just purchased 3 PitPro 125r's from Brian at East 50's so I can teach my kids to ride and go for a blast with them.
I think pitbikes are a cool entry level sport and need to be supported. Unfortunately at his stage most clubs and MASA seem to have somewhat of either an Elitist or what do we do with them attitude.
I know at least one interstate MX club has a purpose built Pitbike track on their facility and it benefits both pittie riders and the club as they get more money and hands on deck and possibly even a few pitbikers going on to full blown MX bikes. It would be great to get the sam thing going here.
SAMBRA have done a great job and I was prepared to buy land to make a purpose built facility but unfortunately the bank wants a 25-50% deposit on the land, so I have been in touch with the Minister for Sport and Recreation and they are sending info via mail, so I hope to push this through the right channels and garner support for a club and facility. No guarantees of course, but you at least have to try.
I have a basic blog on myspace.com/sapitbiker and you can contact me via pm or
[email protected] if your are in SA and would like to go down the track of a club and facility for pitbikes. I certainly need support and see this as something that can work with SAMBRA and not compete with it to open mor riding areas for pitbikes.
Just in case you are not aware there is a politician in SA that is a federal member who I went to see that due to the nuisance some people create by roaring around the streets and public parks and playgrounds has formed a petition to actually get pitbikes banned. Now I don't think he has any chance, but why risk it? Being selfish now will only help his cause and hurt ours.
btw. Just for the record I am annoyed as anyone that there are bugger all legal places for repsonsible riders and owners to go and have some fun.