At the March 10th prizegivng at the Wanganui Greyhound Clubrooms Bruce Fergusson picked up the coveted ‘Good Barstard’ Award for his contribution to the sport during the season, always there doing it in the dirt having fun. There were a few jokes about not needing any engine cleaner as it would spoil the look of his bike but jokes aside, Bruce just loves riding his old ‘pom bomb’, as he affectionately calls her. He went down to the 18th ‘Old Thumpers’ meeting and rode in 9 races and a number of flasher B50MX riders came home after him in the main ‘All British’ race, much to their surprise as its a bog standard 441cc motor. After my attempts to get Bill Doe’s recent arrival from the UK, a Rickman Metisse B44 500 (running on methanol) running well enough to do a  few laps in the Rec class I was offered a Honda 250 to ride. I was pitted next to Bruce and when he heard I had been offered a Honda he said, Rob, can’t have that take the B44 off the ute and take it out. At about this time the said Honda had broken down for the day so off I went on my first laps of a VMX track. Considering the bike has road front forks and 4 inch of rear supsension I was surprised how well the it tracked in the soft stuff and the motor is very tractable in second gear on the cam from bend to bend. And because he is such a ‘Good Barstard’ during the social Bruce offered to help me get my BSA B25 Victor MX running for Series 10. A well chosen award recipient, for someone who lives it every day.