Classic Dirt 12

CD12 was run this last weekend in sunny Queensland at Conondale, just inland from the sunshine coast. as expected, weather was fab, conditions perfect. 300+ punters turned up with and estimated 10,000 pre 90 motorcycles (joke, but there was lots) and ran around a pre 78 smoothish mx track, a pre 90 mx track, a short circuit track and a 10km enduro loop. all tracks were excellent.
As its Yamaha's 60th anniversary of something, they sponsored and kindly flew Heike Mikkola and Broc Glover over to attend, ride a few laps and tell legendary tales. Heiki hasn't ridden a bike since he returned to the farm after finishing with Yamaha in the early 80's. He said all the yammie works bikes of that era were crushed due to the import permits Yamaha obtained to bring them to Europe.

it was great to hear the storys from heiki about racing roger d and the rest of that era. fabulous times. broc had some great Bob Hannah stories as well

stunning event, had a great time. borrowed a trial tyre and wacked it onto the 510 and did a few laps of the short circuit track. have a bit of footage ill the post on the "riders in the scrub" channel on utube.

the highlight was taking John Boags (a very fast Victorian rider) 68? CZee 360 for a few laps. what a machine. I now know what the cz legend is about.

sounds like a great time..
especially getting to see the legends! so heike rode some laps? thats pretty awesome. i know yamaha flew him but i bet he would have liked to seen a nice hoosky 360 available!

Yeh I was there helping yesterday . I was sitting on a corner flagging all day smelling two stroke - I think its still affecting me . The bikes that stood out for me on the track were the 70s RM 125 and two identical and as new 1988 RM 125s which were absolutely flying around and having a ball on the grassy mx track .
They seemed to be making so much power and ran so clean . The young fellas were jumping the big step up jump that only a few were doing . Awesome to watch young guys having fun on the old two strokes .
The Maico had a great sound as did the many Honda CR 500s . The older Huskys seem to be ridden by older gents at a moderate pace .

heiki was clearly out of sorts on the bike. he didn't ride sunday. I was one of those stately older gents turning the jump into two small hills...