| Have you been listening to the conversations that we've been having in the BHC and Bucks/Northants regions?
On Tuesday evening we met up for an evening rideout, and the conversation went along these lines. Now we (the DSC) know that there is enough interest in DD as a series the thought of having a hire bike (or bikes) that people could rent for the whole season or for just a single round would be much more feasible since grid slots are filled and interest in a hire bike would be better (although let's not forget that Louigi offered to build a hire bike and got little interest for this year). Actually, the conversation got around to the notion that running the series along the lines of the R6 cup where entrants paid a hire fee per entry and got a bike from a pool of identically prepared bikes would put an end to the 620 vs Big Bore kit debate....but that's a different story.
Yesterday, Fil2, Firefly, Fordie, Glyn and me got daydreaming about putting together a BHC bike as a regional entry, splitting the cost and have maybe 4 people run the bike as a syndicate, each competing in a round....more food for thought. Actually, it was just me and Glyn doing the daydreaming, cos Fil, Firefly and Fordie are already involved and are competing, but they were egging us on.
The hire bike idea is intruiging but there would need to be some control as Weeksy suggests. The DD series was originally supposed to be about the club members, so although I wouldn't want it restricted to newbie racers (funnily enough, the likes of me and Glyn as Weeksy suggests) I would want to restrict entry to people who had been a DSC member for at least a year to prevent the club being cynically exploited by people who would only join up to hire a bike, race a couple of times then sod of.
The other thing to bear in mind is that even though people would have to get ACU licenses and might be quickish on trackdays, you would effectively be dumping completely green small fry into a tank full of sharks once the present DD'ers have had a whole seasons experience of hard race moves.
[Edited on 10-6-2005 by Jools]  |