In
the News
07/01/09
AHRMA Board
meeting is July 20, 2009 at the Holiday Inn
Express - Medina, Ohio. The phone number is
330-723-4994. The schedule of the meeting is on page
9 of the June VV and in the July VV issue.
Billy Spahr # 6c, from the Northeast, has put up
a new web site. The website is
www.classicvintagemotorcycles.com.
Take a look at it. Still under construction, but
it's up and running. Billy's idea is as follows "I
will not be selling anything. It does have some "google"
ads, but they are not going to get me that new
Ferrari any time soon. I will never ask members to
click the ads. (unless they find one they want to).
The mission of the site is to try and join a divided
community of vintage motorcyclists. Example: a guy
who road races might not know anything about the off
road activities available. And vise versa.
Hopefully we can get the riders to send in stories,
photos, notices etc, so it will be a place they
check back to often.
All the best to Billy.
06/29/09
MX'ers - Chuck Sun was hot battling with
Jorsky, Rick "Black Flag Jordan steps up the pace in
the plus 50 class. David Henry, owner of the North
40, hosted the classiest event ever. VJMC
brings the coolest vintage display ever at an AHRMA
event. The boys from TVRC came to race and the
battle for the Texas governors' cup. What a
barn burner! The ribs were GREAT! Stay tuned for the
whole story in next months Vintage Views. Alex
Moroz AHRMA National Off Road Director.
Alex just sent in some photos from
the Sherman, Texas event.
Click here for Race Photos
Road Racers - Luke Conner, injured at
Grattan, sent a note to the staff at AHRMA. He is
doing much better and is working on the bike to be
ready for with races in the West. He is planning to
be at VIR but will be a "pit monkey". Luke wrote, in
part, "I
have been involved with many organizations all of my
life, from being an Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts,
to refereeing football in the NCAA and National
Federation, SCCA racing cars, IMSA racing dirt
cars, and hunting and fishing guiding for the old
American Sportsman Club. I have never felt as much
a part of an organization as I do with AHRMA. You
guys and gals are the best, most fun, most
passionate and most compassionate group of people I
have ever gotten to know and become part of and I
know that goes for Barbara too." Thanks Luke,
see you soon.
06-28-09
Road Racers - We are working on the year to
date (YTD) points standings. We have noticed some
problems with racers having multiple entries in a
class. This is usually due to a racer using more
then one bike number. Stan has a solution and we are
working on problem.
06-26-09
Joe Gunn. Freddy Bailey alerted us that Joe
Gunn, AHRMA member and winner of the Sportsman 750
event at Aonia Pass on June 13 was shot and killed
during an attempted robbery at his home on June
21. Click here to see his obituary from the June 26
AJC.
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/obits/stories/2009/06/26/Joe_Gunn_obituary.html
06-25-09
Bank of America Credit Card -
If you have a B of A credit card and use it to
charge your AHRMA entry fees AHRMA will receive a
rebate as part of the B of A/AHRMA affinity program.
It does not cost you anything but will result in a
rebate of credit card fees to AHRMA. Just another
way to help support your racing organization.
06-23-09
Dirt Trackers - AHRMA has another race date
at Peoria on September 11. Friday night. It will
be a night short track event
The above Dirt Track event will be followed by a
Sunday TT event at Peoria. Check the AHRMA
calendar for more details.
Rob Mclendon
06-21-09
The Legend & Heroes Tour - What is the Tour?
Click here for more info and to sign-up now for
your chance to be apart of the action...
6/17/09
Log Road MX
AHRMA Racing has become a huge part of the fun at
Log Road MX...
06/17/09
Cycle Gear N.W. Region
Announces New Event
Read more here...
6/16/09
June Vintage View Correction
In the June issue
of VV the special person who...
6/09/09
Here is a challenge for you!
Let's
see who will get the #1 plate...
6/03/09
AHRMA
Announces New Programs to Strengthen & Ensure Our
Future
Click here to read all about it...
06/02/09
Change in Legends of Motocross Honorees
Since the new Ohio motocross events are to be
hosted at Smith Road Raceway...
06/02/09
Trials
Round
11 at Smith Road
Raceway National
Friday July 17 at Windham, OH
A Trials Master need for this event.
Please contact Alex Moroz at
moroz50a@hotmail.com or Dave Lamberth at
dwlamberth@comcast.net
AHRMA Planning Commission
AHRMA is in the process of
assembling a planning commission that will establish
a two (2) year strategic business plan for AHRMA.
The Commission will consist of 6 board members(3 of
which will be the members of the executive
committee), AHRMA’s Executive Director and National
coordinators. The progress and results of this
commission will be published in future issues of
Vintage Views.
AHRMA is asking the membership to provide input as
to the direction they feel the organization should
take that will be used as a part of this planning
process. Any member wishing to participate in this
process may submit their suggestions in
writing to the AHRMA national office. No
suggestions will be taken over the phone. You may
email your suggestion to
dwlamberth@comcast.net or fax it to
(615)-420-6438.
All input will be considered by the commission.
Road Racers - AHRMA is
awarding
double points at VIR
and Miller. See the schedule and preview
pages for more details.
05/25/09
AHRMA announces replacement Ohio Off Road
events:
AHRMA
is pleased to announce that it has secured
replacement off road events for those lost due to
the cancellation of the AHRMA events at Vintage
Motorcycle Days.
These events will be held on
July 17, 18 and 19, 2009 and will include Cross
Country and Trials at the Jeep Skool facility and Vintage Moto Cross and Post Vintage
Moto Cross at the Smith Road Raceway. All AHRMA classes will be run
at these events and AHRMA points will be earned.
Click here for the full details
Click here for the combined Ohio events entry form
Click here for the schedule of events and hotel info.
This information is also on the calendar page under
the event.
05/25/09
Smith Road Raceway (VMX
and PVMX) is one of the longest
continuously-running MX tracks in North America,
holding motocross races since 1971. The track also
ran TT scrambles events for several years prior to
1971. The natural terrain course is virtually the
same as it was in the seventies, with the exception
of a state-of the art irrigation system and track
maintenance equipment. The park-like pit area can
hold 400 riders and features several pressure
washers and a fishing pond.
05/25/09
Jeep Skool (Trials and CC), the brain-child
of Kelly Haylet, is located on 1500 acres of a
former Pittsburgh Plate Glass sand quarry. The "Skool"
specializes in off-road training courses for 4WD
vehicles, ATVs, motorcycles and law enforcement
officials. Terrain varies from deep sand to single
track woods trails to sandstone rock faces.
Facilities include a camping area with electric hook
ups, picnic pavilion and a soon-to be-completed bath
house.
http://www.jeepskool.com/
04/30/09
Click here to see the statement about AHRMA moving forward without the AMA
04/16/09
Click here to see the Update and Clarification of negotiations in NY:
04/15/09
Click here for the
UPDATE on AMA/AHRMA Sanction and Charter
Dispute
03/31/09
Click here to see the
Update on AMA/AHRMA Sanction and Charter Dispute
03/17/09
Click to see
AMA - AHRMA Working to Resolve Sanctioning
Agreement/Charter