TECH COMMITTEE NOTES

By Paul Greet, Technical Committee Secretary

Our Technical Committee’s role is to help with interpretations of the rules, make decisions on eligibility of machines and so on.  Its work will be more effective and more helpful to our members if there is more regular communication.  So we will try to make the tech committee notes a regular feature in the Megaphone.  We would also like to get any feedback and queries from members.

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Queries to the Technical Committee

 The Technical Committee’s main role is to help members with compliance with the rules for their machines.

 If you want to know if a certain component can be used in a particular racing class, we encourage you to contact us with the query.  This can be a good thing to do, especially before spending the money!

The easiest way to get an answer is by sending pictures of the part, along with details of exactly what the part is, and when it was made, the machine you want to use it on, and the class you want to race the machine in.

 We can usually give an answer within a week or so.

 Email is definitely the quickest, but posted info is fine – we will scan it and circulate it via email to the committee members, who will respond, and the Tech Committee secretary can then give you an answer.

Please make sure your details are accurate and your pictures are clear, so we don’t have to ask for more information.

 Please note that we only take queries on actual parts to go on actual bikes – we will not respond to hypothetical cases.

 Noise

 Unfortunately the noise issue that has been flagged on the website and in the Megaphone has reached a point where it needs to be taken seriously.  Noise tests by Franklin County show that we have a significant number of machines well over the limit. We are required to come up with a plan of action around noise if we want to continue racing there.

 Although this is about Pukekohe now, it is inevitable in an increasingly environmentally conscious world that it will spread to other tracks.

 All it takes is a few devoted complainants and the local authority can be put under great pressure.  You only have to think of the legal action over Western Springs Speedway in Auckland to realize the potential for great difficulties.  Complaining residents were funded by Government to take legal action in the environmental court.

 Sadly, this could also happen to us.

 Now, many racers think a louder bike is a faster bike, and if not, it sounds great anyway.  However, the evidence suggests that a properly thought out silencing system does not have to lose a lot of power.

All we have to do is to comply with our own long established rule – 95db at 30 metres ride-past.  This has been the requirement for road racing organizations for a long time now.

 So, we will be running noise testing at all our meetings from now on, with the aim of identifying machines that are over the limit and giving owners the chance to make the corrections before we go to Pukekohe.

We must ask for all riders cooperation in this – it is something we have to do and there is no real alternative, it is for the good of the Register.

Queries and Feedback
Any queries and feedback would be welcomed and can be sent to me at this address:

Paul Greet
Technical Committee Secretary
PO Box 137-088
Parnell
                Any tech issues may also be answered through contact@nzcmrr.com