Maybe you should express your criticism a bit better then. Your first post was pretty harsh. You accussed the yymtb club of ripping people off with inflated race fees and snags on a "government provided track"!!!
They give up a huge amount of their spare time building and maintaining tracks. Then they give up more riding time to put on events to raise money to go back into building more tracks. The majority of people are pretty happy with the way they operate their club.
It seems apparent that I should have! Reality is harsh, and this is an open forum to express opinions.... nothing ever improves without criticism! Whethere people find others valid or from the same view point is a completely different scenario.
What I meant by a government support track is, any track on private land doesnt receive grants or any form of support from anyone bar fundraisers by the club. "YYMTBInc were able to secure a grant through Parks Vic to help pay for the full re-build of track 4 which will commence not to long after the Boulder Track works".
I know trail building is hard work, many who are close to me know what I am like as a digger. Im not one of those jerks being disrepsectful towards the appreciation of it either (leaving myself open for stupid quotes...), and to do something like this you actually have to enjoy it and be highly motivated.
All I am getting at is, If you have such great support behind you like Park Vics as apposed to a club who needs to use these events souly as fundraisers (Long Gully & FTF), then wouldnt it look better on paper or in attendance by a ranger to see an event like this with 150+ riders having a ball seing the facilities they have funded go to even better use.... at risk of not making an extra few bucks, so additional riders can justify turning up on Sunday only.