2012 Vintage National Championship determination (V1-V6lw)

If I can help.

From the schedule that Chum points to it shows this:
4/14-15 Summit Point Raceway, Summit Point, WV-DH,rs,

At the bottom of that page it's got:
Key to Schedule Abbreviations

Counter Clockwise-cc, Clockwise-c, Double Points Round-D, Held Leathers-HL, Honda-H, Combined w/National-N, WERA Riders School-rs, Suzuki-S, KTM-K, Yamaha-Y,

No mention of what DH means. I don't know if having the DH in the Key to Schedule Abbreviations would have helped in this instance but it couldn't hurt. One more way to get the information out to the riders I guess. Or you could just move to the Hand Holding method.

This change had quite an effect on the vintage racers in the northeast. Quite a few of us looked at this event as our season opener. The snow finally seems to be gone, the weather is starting to get warmer. Racers are looking to race. Some of the racers are trying other ways to get that fix we so desperately needed. It's now a long time until the next WERA event in June. I understand that WERA needed to try some new ideas to ensure the health of the business. I truly hopes this works out because the racers need to race.

Just some thoughts I wanted to toss out there.

Craig

 

No real dog in this hunt, but....

I did like the "V" designation that you tried Sean.

Its not one thing means another, like DH=NO vintage....Using your V method could help with confusion sir.

It is clear and to the point, if nothing else....especially since the Vintage events are in the minority.

Yo Chum...WTF?

 

Hey, Charlie, what's going on, dude? Missed ya...Life got in the way for awhile...

 

Anyway, not feeling any compelling need to be "right", particularly in any internet pointless sense...I'm glad I had this chance to voice how things may have been just a bit confused. I feel a little bit better, and that's always nice, and anything that enhances communication in the future, well, that has to be a positive thing, right? Sure...I mean I don't want to have to hold any hands or anything about what up to date schedule should be located where, 1.0. 2.0, Event calendar, hey, whatever...

Be advised though that not every WERA roadracer gets Roadracing World (like the old days), or hangs on the internet BBS, they will go to WERA's website to find the schedule, major format change from years past might even be worthy of a note on the schedule itself to avoid confusion. IN the past, when the rulebook was done well before the season started, contingency and series sponsors were lined up in the offseason, and whatnot, this was done with a mailing of course before the season started. Nowadays of course that cost can be avoided, so if the website is going to be the primary form of communication, it might behoove all involved to strive to ensure that communication is unambiguous and clear.

 

That's cool, Sean...Water under the bridge...I'll keep Rich dialed...

 

Hey Sean, not meant to be annoying, just a suggestion....and by no means placing blame at all. I'm confused where you would get that.

Anyhow, I liked the V = Vintage on the schedule, and thought it was very clean.....I "thought" that was all I said....maybe I'm Wrong.





Glad you are still kickin Chum

 

Good idea on the e-mail, and hey, keep plugging their Sean, this too shall pass...Economy gets back on track, grids will be filling up, we'll be back in high cotton in no time...

 

nothing to add here...just wanted to say I like the use of the term "assholy"...

 

'assholy' made me chuckle.

 

Asshole is the noun, as in "Mongo is a real asshole."

Assholery can either be a noun or an adjective, depending upon use, i.e., "Mongo exhibited extreme assholery" or "Assholery behavior was exhibited on the WERA Vintage BBS."

Assholishness is an adjectival form, i.e., "Mongo's assholishness reached a peaked level at one point."

I'm not sure assholy is a real word, but it may be one of those circumstances which warrants derivation or creation of a word form, adjectival or adverbial, to describe a particular event or situation . . . i.e., "Mongo was really assholy in April 2012."

Thank you Sean, and Evelyn, for all your WERA Vintage efforts and your continued support of our sport.

 

Sorry, counselor, but Assholish is the adjectival form...assholishness is a noun, and the subject of your example, which the possessive form "Mongo's" serves to modify as an adjective.

Which is an example of obsequiousness...another noun.

What a bunch of assholes. Really.

 

Altho I'm impressed with David and Erics knowledge of the english language.....I thought "Assholy" summed things up fairly well. ....Maybe Sean has one up on you bookworms.

Hey David, good seein ya yesterday....dont get much better than laying on the hillside above turn 10, watchin the races with a cold one, huh?....Lovely day I say!.....did I say that correct?...I mean correctly....

 

Eric -

I stand corrected. Thank you. Given the number and diversity of assholes I encounter in my profession, I must say I am somewhat chagrined to have made such a grevious error. But, I'll try not to let my grin get shagged.

Charlie -

Indeed, it was damn good to visit with you. It's been far too long and I hope to remedy that this year with more race appearances. Now that I have that whole desert racing thing out of my aged system, I hope to build some B50's to rejoin the CB350 parades. Good crowds at Road A this weekend, altho' they were still far short of the crowds in the 90's. There's a new group of talented riders emerging and its good too see the sport re-emrging after the Great Recession. It may be slow, but there's a glimer of hope.

See y'all at the track.

Cheers,