Northeast Article for Vintage Views_March_2015 Issue

AHRMA-Northeast Article, submitted 2/12/2015 by Ed Roman and Merritt Brown
AHRMA-Northeast Article
The Awards Banquet was held on January 17, 2015 at the Holiday Inn and
Conference Center of York, PA. A big thank you to everyone who made this
possible. The evening’s Program was excellent and fun thanks to Ivan Beattie.
Lookout Letterman, Fallon, Kimmel and Meyers. . . here’s Ivan! Ivan also builds
and maintains our website, check it out at www.ahrmanortheast.com.
Thanks to Sarah Lane for the 2014 Racing Season Picture Slide Show. She
does a terrific job in making us look stylish and fast. Her contact/email address
is: Sarah Lane at crash_sml@yahoo.com.
Everyone enjoyed listening to our Guest Speakers, Jill Robinson from Unadilla
and via technology, “The Professor” Gary Bailey.
The PVR Swap Meet was awesome. Our thanks to everyone involved.
Our 2015 Off Road Championship Series Sponsors are:
Equinox Cycles, www.equinoxcycles.com
Metro Racing, www.metroracing.com
Jennings ATV and Cycle, www.jenningsatvandcycle.com - for hard to find NOS
and discontinued vintage, post vintage, 1980’s and 1990’s parts for ATK, call
Jennings ATV and Cycle phone # 570-836-4110.
The Legends’ and Heroes Tour, www.LegendsAndHeroesTour.org, thanks to
Alex Moroz.
It’s time to finish the winter bike projects and prepare for the 2015 racing season.
. . please consider the products and services of our series sponsors.
Please refer to the Event Schedule section of Vintage Views for the 2015
Northeast Off-road Championship Series.
Note: We have 2015 Championship Series T-Shirts for sale.
The 2015 series includes 2 NEW VENUES, LAMOKA MX, Fish Hill Road in the
town of Bradford, NY (overlooks Lake Lamoka) and PAVILION MX,
www.pavilion-mx.com, 1200 Taylor Rd., Pavilion, NY. The new venues are
impressive, you do not want to miss racing at these events.
This year’s first event is at Irish Valley MX Park, www.irishvalleymx.com, Paxinos,
PA on April 25 & 26. This is a joint championship points paying event for the
Northeast and North Atlantic XC/CC and MX series. The Irish Valley MX facility
offers awesome vintage low pipe friendly XC/CC and MX courses. The MX is 1.3
miles in length with elevation changes and sections similar to Unadilla. AHRMA
Members Dan Horengic and Davey Driver work with Tim Krebs (Owner of IVMX)
to provide everyone one of the best prepared events of the season. Here are the
details. . .
Saturday, April 25th: Cross Country, CC/XC, sign-up from 10am to 1:30pm at the
concession stand. 11am, Vintage sighting lap staging at the MX starting line.
Vintage CC/XC race starts at 11:30am. Post Vintage, Pre- Modern, and Modern
Support classes will start at 1:30pm. There will be a sighting lap for the Post
Vintage, Pre-Modern and Modern race following the Vintage CC/XC race.
Sunday, April 26th: MX sign-up from 7:45am to 9:30am at the concession
stand for Vintage, Post Vintage, Pre-Modern and Support classes.
Rider’s Meeting at 9:30am followed by practice sessions.
Racing starts around 10:30am.
Everyone is invited to a free picnic at the grove after the cross country event.
Free camping Friday and Saturday night. Also, free bike wash with a power
washer, flushing toilets, and hot showers. Food will be served at the concession
stand all weekend.
Please check out the IVMX web site: www.irishvalleymx.com. GPS Coordinates
are posted on the Website, note the directions for Large Trailers and Campers.
Questions, Phone Tim Krebs at 570-648-7117 or 570-259-9254.
Our next event, LAMOKA MX, Bradford, NY is on Sunday, May 24. Saturday’s
(May 23) XC race is tentative. This is a new XC course our volunteer’s will be
working on. The Vintage MX Course is awesome! The length is 1.25 miles and
very wide (30’+) to facilitate great lines and safe passing. Fellow Member Renn
Shepherd is our host for this event. Please visit the Northeast website:
www.ahrmanortheast.com for updates and details on the LAMOKA XC & MX
event. The May issue of Vintage Views is anticipated to arrive around the last
week of April, so plan ahead.
See you at the gate. . .
Ed Roman, vintmxer@aol.com, 570-947-7329 and
Merritt Brown, mbrown326@optimum.net, 845-803-6898