ACE MOTOCROSS
Modena New, York

Results & Pictures:  Sunday, June 9th

IT WAS A VINTAGE DAY!
(hosted by American Classic Racing)

It was a perfect sunny day as I pulled into the track.   About 150 riders in attendance. Track was perfect.  The vintage club had been up all Friday night and early Saturday morning adding personal touches to the  track.   Lots of careful watering and hand grooming (by vintage club members) put the finishing touches on the track that had been machine groomed the day before.
The vintage club made a few track changes to accomodate the vintage machines:   "Gravity Cavity" #1 was put back into the course! (the one immediately after the backfield rockers/table).   The double out of "Gravity Cavity" #3 was taken out (routed around it).  This was kind of cool because it turned out that you could scream the stepup and fly halfway into the turn now.   Murphy's law was also taken out as well as the double just before it and the double-double section just before that.
So that was the track and I quickly unloaded my YZ250F when I saw it and signed up for the 2 classes (+30/+40 and open district 34) that my modern bike was legal in.
Yes, accommodations are made at most vintage events for modern bike riders. 

• Rider's Meeting
  1) Everyone turns up for the rider's meeting
  2) Tom France conducts the detailed rider's meeting
  3)  Tech inspection is a big part of vintage.  The machine has to be "classified".

• Practice
  1) Practice was great.  1.5 hours was allocated and there were no restrictions (except for the gas in your tank!) on a track that was impeccably groomed and watered.

• Dorothy
  1) Dorothy on her Can Am
  2) On the line
  3) On the finish line rockers

• Our own District 34 riders
  1)  #73 sitting on his mint Kawasaki     another shot of the Kaw
  2)  John Weinman on his air cooled Honda
  3)  Gary and his giant 495 KTM      More on the giant
  4)  Duke (#135) put in some wild rides on his Can Am in the 80's class.  Trouble is I was too busy watching to get any pictures!
  5)  Scott Behrens (#77) won the +30 modern class on his 2001 CR250. His dad raced at ACE in the early 1970's.   John Barton (ACE club president) won the +40 modern class.

• Dead Men Racing Motorcycle Club
  1)  Mike Patachi: President

• Action Shots
  1) Gravity Cavity #2
  2) Gravity Cavity #3     More Gravity Cavity #3
  3) 80's Class was popular and very fast!
  4) Bultaco (Spanish) doubling the whoops
  5)  Don't think these bikes were slow.  Here is a 27 year old Honda Elsinore: 250cc  (the 1974 model with downswept pipe and all) doing the spectator table (lap after lap) like he was on a 2001 model.  The bike is being ridden by vintage enthusiast "flying" JAY MENZO.

• Walking through the pits
  1)  1971 BSA (British)
  2)  ACE club members get in on the 70's Maico pic
  3)  A 1967 Triumph Cub model
  4)  Another BSA "boomer"    Going to the line
  5)  An 80's Maico pic
  6)  air cooled Honda twin shocker
  7)  "Tom's" bikes
  8)  more 80's Hondas
  9)  Bultaco and an old Yamaha mono shocker
  9)  Bultaco's seem to be the most popular vintage bike
  10) Another nice Can Am
  11) Don't think you need a perfect bike to have fun (or be appreciated) here
  12) an old KTM twin shocker
  13) Bultaco tent city (bulls have their own class there are so man of them.  they call that moto "the running of the bulls".  
  14)  It was a great night to "camp"
  15)  a classic Triumph 60's dirt bike
  

Be sure to catch the next American Classic Racing event in District 34.  Its something you won't want to miss!  And be sure to stop by talk to Tom France as he has many vintage magazines and stories about district 34.  Tom showed me one magazine from 1973 and several of the champions featured are still racing today in our district. 

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