Save Our Judging

[Robin-M]

It's not too late to save the judging and it's not too late to save the club. The way Kevin and I were kicked out of our positions in Florida, was handled totally wrong. Rocky, the person holding the office of president of our club, has the power to appoint and fire the Chief Judge and Assistant Chief Judge. So, yes, it is Rocky's fault. However, he was persueded by Steve Slocombe, the english person you mention, who is on ouir board of directors. Steve is rewritting everything that the AMCA stands for, bylaws, policies and procedures, judging handbook, judging rules and he's on the steering committee. Rocky has the power to change the Chief judge and Assistant Chief Judge at any time, he could even change it back to Kevin and I, today, if he wanted to.

If any of the people reading this have ever been to the Oley judging, there has never been as few bikes and judges as there was this year. I counted 6 possible judges and 6 possible apprentices. In the heart of Indian country, and this was one meet that always had a lot of Indians, there was one Indian Chief and one 70's Indian mini-bike. Although the bike that got the distance trophy was an Indian and it was on the field for display.

Two of the winners circle bikes, with over 40 winners circle plaques they received from maintaining their bikes in the winners circle, refused to enter them in the judging under the new "Apprentice Chief Judge" (he was an apprentice till last year at Davenport). They also didn't want to sign the new Disclaimer Form that is required, stating that our judging is not to be used to increase the value of our motorcycles. Which is a benefit of the AMCA judging, when it was previosly run by experienced people. But, the brand new AMCA flyers that were handed out to promote our club, has a line stating that one of the benefits of having your bike judged is that will increase the value of your motorcycle. Hopefully they'll use the flyers and won't waste all that was printed. But, they're in direct contradiction to each other.

As far as the vests, they didn't forget them, they decided (after they made the Perkiomen Chapter purchase new vests) that they weren't going to use vests. They used hats and armbands, which didn't distinguish them from everyone else under the pavillion. It seems like every aspect that was working before, they must change. And they want to change everything to make it look like everything is a total change to our judging, an "old versus new" attitude. They're not finished with their changes, there's many more to come.

You're right about the loyalty we had from our judges. They didn't show up to judge and we never told them not to. I also noticed one or two of the thier small group of judges were people that we didn't give a judging card to because they were not knowledgable enough. It's going to be interesting.

Think of all the judging forms that will be incorrect with judges judging that don't know enough about the bikes.

I guess the best thing you can do if you're upset with the way things are being run is to write a letter to the Magazine Editor and you can send one to the AMCA secretary and she will send it out to the entire board if you ask her to.

Robin Markey

[INLINE4NUT]

I think alot of people have been feedup for some time now putting all the Blame on Rocky is not right ! There is alot going on and we have some good people in the club,things will straighten out ,when ?well thats another story !!

[2wheels]

I’ve stayed pretty quiet in the past, but now I feel I have to speak up.

Is the AMCA phasing out the judging? What’s up? The real guys are out (Kevin and Robin) and some yahoos are in. Is our board crazy? I heard Rocky (our president) and an English guy are to blame. I also heard several guys wanted to beat up Rocky for doing it and another guy told Rocky he was nuts for kicking out Kevin and Robin and that Rocky started screaming and yelling and going nuts.

Some of the guys that have been putting bikes in the judging for years weren’t going to put them in, they said there’s no good judges to judge them anyway, why put them in. The good judges and marke experts are so important to our club, if we don’t have their expertise, where are we all going to be. But, you know, I think these guys were loyal to Robin and Kevin. They don’t want to judge under these new guys that don’t know anything. I never even heard of this new guy they have in charge, but he reminds me of the teacher on Southpark, the one with the hand puppet. And it looks like he forgot the vests.

What can we do to get Robin and Kevin back before our judging is a laughing stock, or is it too late? Kevin, Robin, if you’re listening, I for one really miss you on the judging field. You guys made it real and you made it real fun.