still
snowing, still dreaming....
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the
Short Version
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Six
years ago the left hand of AHRMA introduced classes for Post Vintage,
and the right hand asked those riders to stay away or go
away. There were a series of flimsy excuses given, and a debate
as to whether it was justified. Because of this, there followed
a heated war of words.
How
things fell apart for Post Vintage
Stats:
the Actual Percentage of Vintage Bikes at Northwest Races
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Claims
were made that the presence of PV Bikes caused Vintage to die,
and that the glaring success of VDR at Woodland didn't have to
be taken into account. The actual stats are surprising and worth
looking at.
Graph
of Northwest Entries
Northwest Riders
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There
followed two parallel efforts to the fix the problem. While
the non-Ahrma effort was a success, the Ahrma effort turned into
a battle. During this mess
the left hand of AHRMA asked volunteers to start a new region.
Klamath
Falls Race called off
The Advent of the New PNW Region
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Faced
with this task, I got together a group of volunteers, and nicknamed
them the A-Team. While the left hand of AHRMA had asked us to
form a new region we were asked to prove ourselves. To do this
we offered to
run AHRMA Post Vintage Classes at Hammer & Tongs. Curiously
H&T was
the non-Ahrma Series that had formed in frustration with the original
problem.
the
A-Team
Ahrma
at Hammer & Tongs
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There
was much opposition to this Regional Split from the right hand
of AHRMA,
and the
big meeting at the Farm ended in a sort of stalemate.
the
Region
the Big Meeting
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