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About BMRC:
President / Brendan Booth / brendan@hyper.net.nz / 021 296 4535
Vice President / Brent Cotton / brent@industrialbrake.co.nz / 0276 000 419
Secretary / Shane Evans
Treasurer / Tristan Webster
Committee: Marylou Capil, Mike Stein, Nick Cain and Tim Gerrard
2008/09
Thanks to Marylou Capill who was the club president along with treasurer Tony McLaughlin and the committee members. A special thanks go to the 2008/09 club for organising the 2009 Battle of the buckets with such short notice.
2007/08
Thanks to Darryl Dawson who was the club president, Tony McLaughlin who remained treasure and the committee. Special thanks to interim president Brent Cotton.
2006
Thanks to Neil Batchelor who had been running the Club as president with the help of Tony McLaughlin and the committee.
1990
In the early 90's the “Canterbury miniature road racers club” was formed and bucket racing was taking on a new type of bike. The super bucket such as Careys RTV100 a 100cc V twin 2 stroke consisting of a T90 bottom end and two RG50 barrels grafted to it, was becoming more common.
Racing died off a bit as faces changed and people moved on but in the late 90's the interest was starting to liven up again.
By the late 90's the CMRRC had become the “Bucket Motorcycle Racing Club” run by Kevin Orr and supported by the long time bucket racers Edson Guerrero, Steve Rae, Tony McLaughlin, Mike Parker, Ivan downing and Russell Bleach. These guys all still race buckets today and some still on the same bike they rode 7 yrs ago, like Mike Parkers GP100 water cooled courtesy of an RG400 barrel and head, these guys have been the back bone of the south Is bucket community.
1980 (*from an article in The Weekend Star, Sat Nov 5th 1988*)
*Bucket racing began roughly in about 1980 when one evening near Blenheim, five motor motor-cycle enthusiasts were having a beer at a mates place. They all rode small motor cycles to work and thought racing them would be fun.
Tearing around the local streets, aiming to be first at work seemed a bit reckless, but the idea of finding out whose machine was the fastest and who was the best rider remained.
So wanting to keep the race on the road, the enthusiasts planned a long and involved course on the tarmac and the sealed roads at the nearby Woodbourne Airforce base.
They asked for permission to use the area, but were permitted to use only some of it. It was probably just as well said one of the five, Andy Hill. He pointed out that the smaller course was in proportion to courses raced by big bikes, and as the bikes were smaller it was still a good test of riding skills. Cones marked trhe bucket racing course on the Tarmac, usually about 500 metres in length. It has as many corners as possible to test rider skill rather than horsepower. the mechanics and motor enthusiasts couldn't leave the standard road machines alone, and with the wild and not so wild ideas about how to make them faster, modified them.
As time went by and more people became interested, more events were held throughout the country*
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