On July 23, 2018, AHRMA’s Board of Trustees met to review rules proposals for the 2019 racing season. A summary of the proposals, including the preliminary Board decisions, is linked below. Members are invited to provide feedback on each of the proposals prior to the October 8 meeting, when final determinations will be made. Voting Trustees are: Carl Anderson, Kevin Burns, Luke Conner, Fred Guidi, Arthur Kowitz, Brian Larrabure, Louis LeBlanc, Debbie Poole, Rob Poole, Pat Riley, Beno Rodi and Kelly Shane. Each Trustee’s initials are listed by his/her actions below.
The votes recorded below are votes for/against a Trustee’s motion; if the motion was to reject the proposal, a “For” vote is a vote against the proposal. Underlined wording would be new for the 2019 Handbook, a strike-through indicates wording proposed to be removed.
Reminder: These are the preliminary Board decisions. Members are invited to review the votes on each of the proposals prior to the Fall meeting, and contact Trustees with any comments. Final determinations (votes) will be made at the October 8 meeting at the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum in Birmingham, AL.
(To view the 11-page document, please click here)
(To view Fred Guidi’s full modern motocross proposal, please click here).
I agree with next gen 1 and 2, but do not agree with modern mx. If any of you have been to modern events you know the attitudes of a lot of the kids racing. I believe this will drive up AHRMA’s insurance and raise the race fees
Hi Debbie,
I,m from north central Illinois.I received my latest Vintage Views yesterday and after reading the column from Fred Guidi I did re-realize and re-think some of what I had posted.
That is that it is easy for me to sit back and make suggestions or critique how things are done,but a much harder job for you folks in the trenches trying to put everything together so a guy like me can just show up and race.
I,m sure the people that run Midwest vmx put in a lot of time to make those events happen as do all of the AHRMA volunteers so probably not fair for me to critique too much,but I do think constructive suggestions can help in trying to help things either grow or just maintain what is already there.I,m sure the post vintage racers at my last event did not have the same complaints that I had about the track.
I also think/know that you are right about this region being a tough one to get off the ground and maybe the only way is to add support classes.Would it work to make it a rule that in order to race a modern bike you have to also race a vintage or post vintage class? It may help or it might turn some away.I do believe that in this region the vintage class racers are fading away and the post vintage has become the dominant one and I think that is just a natural progression as time marches on.
I do want to thank everyone that gives their time to make this all happen and I will help at the events I make it to if needed.
I agree wit you S. McKay, as well. AHRMA in the midwest region has been struggling for quite some time now. Your observations are helpful in that they reinforce what I fear will happen if newer machines are included in the AHRMA program. The problem promoters have is that they feel they have to add non-Ahrma legal machines and modern bikes to make the event feasible financially, and I don’t doubt that this is true. Finding a solution to helping interest in AHRMA grow in the underserved regions is the sticking point- we haven’t yet figured out how to do that. Where are you located?
Debbie Poole
AHRMA Western Region Trustee
Just an observation on adding modern support classes.
The last vintage event that I entered was two years ago with a club named Midwest VMX – which have modern support classes.I started racing with AHRMA in 1998 and raced through 2008 when is about the time that our Midwest director thought it would be a good idea to break away from ahrma.
Maybe I have been away too long or maybe I,m turning into a grumpy old man,but the whole atmosphere at the Midwest vmx event was just not the same as my past ahrma racing.I felt like the vintage bikes were a side show to the modern bikes.I think there might have been more modern bikes there but to me it first and foremost a vmx event.
The modern classes ran first and tore the track up pretty good.It was not groomed in between first and second motos and by the end of my last moto I had decided that it was not fun on the track or in the paddock and never attended another one of their races.
I renewed my ahrma membership this year so I could do two events.I would rather pay a little more to go do two quality events than race ten events like my last one even if they are closer and cheaper.
So please keep this in mind if you start offering modern classes and make sure they are the side show.
Good points S. McKay.
The ’84 RM is a drum brake equipped bike so it is still a Post Vintage Ultima bike. Thanks for catching that in the handbook.
James Smith
Hello, I’m kinda new to ahrma and post vintage bike racing. I was looking thru the post vintage motocross rule book and couldn’t determine what class a 1984 Suzuki RM250 would qualify for. It appears that the ultima class says up to 83 models for Suzuki and Honda. And when I look at the pre-modern its says 85-86 for the Suzuki RM250.. Where does the 194 model fit in? I’m sure that I’m overlooking something but any help is much appreciated.
Thanks,
James Adams
Mansfield, Texas