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Ur top 3 bikes from MK12
pickle:
That's what the medals were for. It's never going to please everyone.
We did a survivor class a few years back but it was impossible to distinguish what was actually a true survivor ???
A bike built with old parts is not a survivor in my book.........a survivor is a complete bike still as it was from BITD, warts and all just dusted down. It caused a lot of Grief so was dropped and I wouldn't think it'll be back.
Retrodan72:
The medal system failed Rob IMO as there was a bike with a medal on that had repop grips, the seat guts were on backwards and the cables were incorrectly routed.
It's details like that judges should notice.
That Swan Guy:
Rob, I agree completely with your definition of a survivor.
stidds:
--- Quote from: Retrodan72 on August 23, 2012, 08:09 PM ---There was nothing in the rules about bikes with repop parts not being eligible to win the S and S. ???
--- End quote ---
Of course there wasn't, however as a judge of the S&S if I saw a bike with orignal parts and one with repop parts then it stands to reason (and common sense) that the original one would place higher.
As for the 'medal system', I personally gave medals to bikes that I really liked regardless of the parts on them (whether repops or not), in my eyes it was an acknowlegment of a really nice looking bike.
However bikes with repop, completely era incorrect, etc is never going to win the one of the top 3 trophies.
Look at it this way, if I had a classic VW beetle and took it to a VW show and entered it in their S&S do you really think it would win anything if it had modern bucket seats, modern alloys, repop wings and doors etc? Of course it wouldn't.
Retrodan72:
Fair point Sean. :angel:
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