This is exactly the problem that pisses people off and gets them to not ride any of these events. You have to be an AMA competition member to ride any of the AMA events and then you have to join and be an AHRMA member if you want to run any of their events. On top of that, the groups don't agree on skill levels so when I go to my first ever AHRMA event, I get bumped up to expert with no backup other than I beat an AHRMA official in the expert class on his trick XR. Now AMA says that if you race "expert" in any event anywhere, you can't run Vet B at Loretta Lynns so I'm out of AHRMA events because I only did that for fun at local stuff so that I could ride with my buddies, I'm not there to chase AHRMA national championship points or anything else, just there to have fun.
On top of that, I smell some sort of conspiracy going on with AHRMA dropping the tracks that helped AMA vintage days recently from their schedule, but they should learn to get along...... as both groups are competing for the same riders and if they both put on good events, they could get riders to both sets of events...... but someone somewhere is still pissed about the rift and penalizing people that go on both sides. We all ride and just want to ride our bikes for fun more than anything else, and the closer the fun is the better. All these rules and in fighting does nothing but want me to stay out of AHRMA and vintage day stuff cause I'm here just for fun and they take the fun out of it.
I had more fun riding the Vintage Trials at Mid Ohio than anything else and I had never been on a trials bike before and did terrible. It was fun and that's all that mattered to me, make it more fun and you'll have more riders! Get the real point AHRMA and AMA Vintage Powers that be, make it fun and the riders will come! Fight, split them up, and make people choose and both groups will have less as some people will go one way, and some people will go the other way and never will the two meet and have everyone like they used to at Mid Ohio's joint Vintage Days between AHRMA and AMA together.