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Re: First Topic - New Jersey Motorsports Park 8/2-3 & 4, 201
Do you consider your bikes to be authentic in any way Mr. Magyar? The Seeley 750s that you and Mr. Cummings sport around are very poor replicas of anything Seeley ever did. The original Seeley Commando had a Mk3 style frame without front down tubes and it had drum brakes.
Someone with the money to do it could build an accurate Seeley Commando, then it would be educational for the spectators and those looking at it on websites, it would recreate the experience of riding a vintage bike for the racer, and it would be preserving history.
The trend in AHRMA though is to completely ignore those three advantages though. When this is ignored then you are doing nothing special at all, nothing for anything or anyone but yourself. Anyone with your Visa card could do exactly what Magyar and Cummings do, order a pile of new repro parts, bolt them together and hit all the events.
Ianucci, McKeever and Poons, and others running real vintage bikes or accurate replicas are preserving some history, providing that education to those who look at their bikes and talk to them, and the riders of their original bikes are getting some authentic vintage experience. So they are doing a lot of things besides just spending money, and they are doing a lot of things for others than themselves.
AHRMA is certainly close to being at a low point in it's existence right now. Participants that make it a farce by ignoring the words Vintage and Historic are not going to help it go in any good direction.
Dances with Visa said:Fact: Those that I would consider "millionaires" earned it and were the ones with the most authentic original bikes - so go figure.
Do you consider your bikes to be authentic in any way Mr. Magyar? The Seeley 750s that you and Mr. Cummings sport around are very poor replicas of anything Seeley ever did. The original Seeley Commando had a Mk3 style frame without front down tubes and it had drum brakes.
Someone with the money to do it could build an accurate Seeley Commando, then it would be educational for the spectators and those looking at it on websites, it would recreate the experience of riding a vintage bike for the racer, and it would be preserving history.
The trend in AHRMA though is to completely ignore those three advantages though. When this is ignored then you are doing nothing special at all, nothing for anything or anyone but yourself. Anyone with your Visa card could do exactly what Magyar and Cummings do, order a pile of new repro parts, bolt them together and hit all the events.
Ianucci, McKeever and Poons, and others running real vintage bikes or accurate replicas are preserving some history, providing that education to those who look at their bikes and talk to them, and the riders of their original bikes are getting some authentic vintage experience. So they are doing a lot of things besides just spending money, and they are doing a lot of things for others than themselves.
AHRMA is certainly close to being at a low point in it's existence right now. Participants that make it a farce by ignoring the words Vintage and Historic are not going to help it go in any good direction.