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2nd Enduro RR, long
Last Sunday was the second race of the NMA (Northwest Motorcycle
Association) Enduro series. The event: The Shelton Valley Enduro, a
perennial contender for event of the year honors, and one of only a
hand full of opportunities to ride one of the best trail systems in
the Northwest. The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
not open for anything other than PSER events. The Shelton Valley
Enduro has a rich tradition of providing long, challenging, fun,
tough, well organized events. They start out of the Mason County
Fairgrounds, which has great camping, restrooms with showers, and
allows them access to a couple of nice large heated buildings for
signup, rider’s meetings, awards, and a fund raising food sale for the
local Search and Rescue group.
Scott was extra excited for this one, since we had surprised him with
a new ICO Checkmate XL Enduro Computer the week before (yes, he is
shamelessly spoiled). He’s ridden everything up until now using the
stock KTM odo and a roll chart, and it has definitely been slowing him
down when it’s time to make timekeeping decisions. We had a week of
fine spring weather with no rain until Friday night, when we got some
light showers that came and went until late morning on Saturday, and
Sunday was perfect, clear skies, temps in the low 60’s, most of the
dirt was in epic condition (actually got a little dusty in some clear
cuts and on logging roads). The route sheet promised us about 83 miles
in a long single loop, and the rider’s meeting promised us that they
wouldn’t be easy on us.
Scott and I pre-entered and drew minute 5, which is just about perfect
in my book. That only put 10 riders ahead of us (2 minutes went out
with only 2 riders), so the risk of bottle necks is low. That would
prove to be a good thing later in the day. Much of the first part of
the course was used the day before for an Enduro School and Beginner’s
Enduro, which drew about 180 riders, and thanks to those rain showers
we had Saturday morning they left a few deep ruts. Scott dropped a
front wheel into one of those ruts and stopped dead in his tracks. It
took a minute or 2 to get his bike extracted from the rut, which was
over axle and footpeg deep, and as luck would have it the first check,
an Emergency Check at that, was about 100 yards around the corner, and
we rolled in 2 minutes late. Rats.
The entire event only had one reset for 2.4 miles at the first gas
available, other than that they played with speed changes to allow you
to catch up. There were 29 speed changes total (4 more than my antique
Moose Pacemaker computer would take), and the course would take us
into the trails at a pretty brisk pace, run us until most people would
be late, then drop us on a road or easy trail with a slow average so
you could catch up. They did a great job of pacing the event for fast
B class/ slow A class guys like Scott and I, as we were able to stay
on time for the next 4 checks with some effort on the trails and some
care on the roads. Scott was leading all day, and digging his new
‘puter, which was a very, very good thing, since he realized at the
2.9 mile marker that he had forgotten to put his roll chart on the
bike (DOH!), so all day he rode totally off of the Checkmate, which
worked flawlessly.
Up until about mile 50, Scott was riding possible pretty aggressively,
slowly pulling away from me on the trails and making me nervous about
him burning checks, but at every possible he was waiting a nice safe
distance out. Around mile 50, I noticed that I was keeping up with him
between possibles, and by mile 60 Scott was noticeably tired and had
slowed down a lot. I stayed behind him to keep him moving, but he was
just cruising at this point with me having to make Scott keep moving a
couple of times when he wanted to stop and rest (I was afraid he’d
start to tighten up if we stopped, and we were so close to the end…).
The course had gotten quite interesting after they had split off the
short course, as the PSERs had announced their intention to beat us on
that final loop/section. Lots of steep, tight uphill/downhill trail
sections with fast speed averages kept us working. We only had
problems at one spot, a steep, narrow, loose uphill with no run at it
and a shale rock step in the middle of the hill. Scott was following a
guy from the minute ahead of us when we started up this on, and the
guy hung up on the step leaving Scott nowhere to go. After to other
guy finally dragged his 450EXC up the step, I had to push Scott over
the step then he took off. I then had to wrestle my bike up the step
alone, while the rest of the long course racers stacked up behind me
at the bottom of the hill; there were probably 4 or 5 guys down there
by the time I got clear, and from what I heard afterwards, it pretty
much stayed that way. Oh well, it was a really fun uphill, and I’d
love it on a trail riding loop, but it seemed a little hairball to
throw into a race course with no alternative lines.
We rolled on into the finish, but I didn’t see Scott again until after
the finish (though he was only a little ways ahead), since he’d gone
ahead while I was fighting the rock step. We hit the finish check 13
minutes late, collecting over half of our total scores at that check
alone (finished with 25). There was about 3 miles of logging roads
back to the fairgrounds, and on the way I came on Scott and a kid on a
KTM 250XCF, Scott’s bike was laying on the ground. I was thinking “Uh-
Oh” as I stopped, but it turned out the other kid’s bike had locked up
(goddamn 4 strokes) and Scott was trying to hook up a Buddy Tow to
pull him back to the pits. We went ahead and hooked him up to my bike,
since I have easier places to hook to, and the 300 makes a better tow
motor than the 200. As a side note, towing is one place where the
Rekluse auto clutch doesn’t work well. About half way back on a short
uphill, I got turned sideways and yanked over by the tow rope, looking
back to see that we had a parade behind us so I had maximum witnesses
to my spodely towing act. No good deed goes unpunished.
After a long wait for results, Scott wound up in 4th place in 200B; I
was 8th in Senior A. 6 Days Trophy Team member Paul Neff won the
overall with a zero point loss, and 2 seconds of lost emergency
points. The kid is a freakin’ animal. We had a great day of racing on
an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
Thanks for reading.
Tim H
Last Sunday was the second race of the NMA (Northwest Motorcycle
Association) Enduro series. The event: The Shelton Valley Enduro, a
perennial contender for event of the year honors, and one of only a
hand full of opportunities to ride one of the best trail systems in
the Northwest. The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
not open for anything other than PSER events. The Shelton Valley
Enduro has a rich tradition of providing long, challenging, fun,
tough, well organized events. They start out of the Mason County
Fairgrounds, which has great camping, restrooms with showers, and
allows them access to a couple of nice large heated buildings for
signup, rider’s meetings, awards, and a fund raising food sale for the
local Search and Rescue group.
Scott was extra excited for this one, since we had surprised him with
a new ICO Checkmate XL Enduro Computer the week before (yes, he is
shamelessly spoiled). He’s ridden everything up until now using the
stock KTM odo and a roll chart, and it has definitely been slowing him
down when it’s time to make timekeeping decisions. We had a week of
fine spring weather with no rain until Friday night, when we got some
light showers that came and went until late morning on Saturday, and
Sunday was perfect, clear skies, temps in the low 60’s, most of the
dirt was in epic condition (actually got a little dusty in some clear
cuts and on logging roads). The route sheet promised us about 83 miles
in a long single loop, and the rider’s meeting promised us that they
wouldn’t be easy on us.
Scott and I pre-entered and drew minute 5, which is just about perfect
in my book. That only put 10 riders ahead of us (2 minutes went out
with only 2 riders), so the risk of bottle necks is low. That would
prove to be a good thing later in the day. Much of the first part of
the course was used the day before for an Enduro School and Beginner’s
Enduro, which drew about 180 riders, and thanks to those rain showers
we had Saturday morning they left a few deep ruts. Scott dropped a
front wheel into one of those ruts and stopped dead in his tracks. It
took a minute or 2 to get his bike extracted from the rut, which was
over axle and footpeg deep, and as luck would have it the first check,
an Emergency Check at that, was about 100 yards around the corner, and
we rolled in 2 minutes late. Rats.
The entire event only had one reset for 2.4 miles at the first gas
available, other than that they played with speed changes to allow you
to catch up. There were 29 speed changes total (4 more than my antique
Moose Pacemaker computer would take), and the course would take us
into the trails at a pretty brisk pace, run us until most people would
be late, then drop us on a road or easy trail with a slow average so
you could catch up. They did a great job of pacing the event for fast
B class/ slow A class guys like Scott and I, as we were able to stay
on time for the next 4 checks with some effort on the trails and some
care on the roads. Scott was leading all day, and digging his new
‘puter, which was a very, very good thing, since he realized at the
2.9 mile marker that he had forgotten to put his roll chart on the
bike (DOH!), so all day he rode totally off of the Checkmate, which
worked flawlessly.
Up until about mile 50, Scott was riding possible pretty aggressively,
slowly pulling away from me on the trails and making me nervous about
him burning checks, but at every possible he was waiting a nice safe
distance out. Around mile 50, I noticed that I was keeping up with him
between possibles, and by mile 60 Scott was noticeably tired and had
slowed down a lot. I stayed behind him to keep him moving, but he was
just cruising at this point with me having to make Scott keep moving a
couple of times when he wanted to stop and rest (I was afraid he’d
start to tighten up if we stopped, and we were so close to the end…).
The course had gotten quite interesting after they had split off the
short course, as the PSERs had announced their intention to beat us on
that final loop/section. Lots of steep, tight uphill/downhill trail
sections with fast speed averages kept us working. We only had
problems at one spot, a steep, narrow, loose uphill with no run at it
and a shale rock step in the middle of the hill. Scott was following a
guy from the minute ahead of us when we started up this on, and the
guy hung up on the step leaving Scott nowhere to go. After to other
guy finally dragged his 450EXC up the step, I had to push Scott over
the step then he took off. I then had to wrestle my bike up the step
alone, while the rest of the long course racers stacked up behind me
at the bottom of the hill; there were probably 4 or 5 guys down there
by the time I got clear, and from what I heard afterwards, it pretty
much stayed that way. Oh well, it was a really fun uphill, and I’d
love it on a trail riding loop, but it seemed a little hairball to
throw into a race course with no alternative lines.
We rolled on into the finish, but I didn’t see Scott again until after
the finish (though he was only a little ways ahead), since he’d gone
ahead while I was fighting the rock step. We hit the finish check 13
minutes late, collecting over half of our total scores at that check
alone (finished with 25). There was about 3 miles of logging roads
back to the fairgrounds, and on the way I came on Scott and a kid on a
KTM 250XCF, Scott’s bike was laying on the ground. I was thinking “Uh-
Oh” as I stopped, but it turned out the other kid’s bike had locked up
(goddamn 4 strokes) and Scott was trying to hook up a Buddy Tow to
pull him back to the pits. We went ahead and hooked him up to my bike,
since I have easier places to hook to, and the 300 makes a better tow
motor than the 200. As a side note, towing is one place where the
Rekluse auto clutch doesn’t work well. About half way back on a short
uphill, I got turned sideways and yanked over by the tow rope, looking
back to see that we had a parade behind us so I had maximum witnesses
to my spodely towing act. No good deed goes unpunished.
After a long wait for results, Scott wound up in 4th place in 200B; I
was 8th in Senior A. 6 Days Trophy Team member Paul Neff won the
overall with a zero point loss, and 2 seconds of lost emergency
points. The kid is a freakin’ animal. We had a great day of racing on
an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
Thanks for reading.
Tim H
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
On May 8, 12:46 pm, Tim H <tntharr...@msn,com > wrote:
> The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
> obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
> property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
> not open for anything other than PSER events.
That's how they all are around here - only legal for the event. I
guess there are actually a couple where that's not true, but the
majority are.
> We had a great day of racing on
> an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
> seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
> realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
> hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
> try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
My "first step" will/would have to include training and nutritional
changes. It's embarrasing how quickly I find myself having to switch
to energy conservation mode.
Sounds like a great time, and congratulations to both of you!
Craig
On May 8, 12:46 pm, Tim H <tntharr...@msn,com > wrote:
> The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
> obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
> property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
> not open for anything other than PSER events.
That's how they all are around here - only legal for the event. I
guess there are actually a couple where that's not true, but the
majority are.
> We had a great day of racing on
> an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
> seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
> realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
> hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
> try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
My "first step" will/would have to include training and nutritional
changes. It's embarrasing how quickly I find myself having to switch
to energy conservation mode.
Sounds like a great time, and congratulations to both of you!
Craig
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
Great ride report Tim.
Do the PSERs still hand out those great medals?
Who all did you see? Was Dorian there? Is Dave Bowers still running
things?
-Joe
Great ride report Tim.
Do the PSERs still hand out those great medals?
Who all did you see? Was Dorian there? Is Dave Bowers still running
things?
-Joe
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
On May 8, 2:49 pm, "Whelan - '02 200exc (x2) & '04 MTD 38"
<yo...@sisna,com > wrote:
> Great ride report Tim.
Thanks Joe. We wish you could have been there.
> Do the PSERs still hand out those great medals?
Yeah, they still give out top shelf awards. Not big and flashy, just
unique and stylish.
> Who all did you see? Was Dorian there? Is Dave Bowers still running
> things?
Dave ran the riders meeting, Dorian ran awards. They're both "retired"
from competition, but are staying active. Dave still looks 15 years
younger than he is. Matt Williams (Carol's husband) was the long
course trail boss.
The Mount Baker M/C made the trip down in force. We've been racing
with Tim Mount and his son Ty for the last 2 years, but I hadn't seen
any of the rest of them until this weekend. Lyle Duronso came down,
and so did John Nielson (who hadn't raced an enduro since 2001, and
before that one since '97). For those who don't know or remember that
far back, John used to enduro a KX500, and was one of the top AA
riders in the Northwest. Made a trip or two to 6 Days too.
Tom Myers came out for his single annual Enduro adventure, brought a
bunch of his buddies from Cycoactive along. There were a couple of
other guys down from Mt. Baker, and a handfull of others I can't put
names to right now..,it sucks getting old.
Anyway, these past few years going back to the races have been really,
really fun. Lots of guys in the same position I'm in, racing with our
kids now. We all agree it's even cooler than it was doing it ourselves
the first time.
Tim H
On May 8, 2:49 pm, "Whelan - '02 200exc (x2) & '04 MTD 38"
<yo...@sisna,com > wrote:
> Great ride report Tim.
Thanks Joe. We wish you could have been there.
> Do the PSERs still hand out those great medals?
Yeah, they still give out top shelf awards. Not big and flashy, just
unique and stylish.
> Who all did you see? Was Dorian there? Is Dave Bowers still running
> things?
Dave ran the riders meeting, Dorian ran awards. They're both "retired"
from competition, but are staying active. Dave still looks 15 years
younger than he is. Matt Williams (Carol's husband) was the long
course trail boss.
The Mount Baker M/C made the trip down in force. We've been racing
with Tim Mount and his son Ty for the last 2 years, but I hadn't seen
any of the rest of them until this weekend. Lyle Duronso came down,
and so did John Nielson (who hadn't raced an enduro since 2001, and
before that one since '97). For those who don't know or remember that
far back, John used to enduro a KX500, and was one of the top AA
riders in the Northwest. Made a trip or two to 6 Days too.
Tom Myers came out for his single annual Enduro adventure, brought a
bunch of his buddies from Cycoactive along. There were a couple of
other guys down from Mt. Baker, and a handfull of others I can't put
names to right now..,it sucks getting old.
Anyway, these past few years going back to the races have been really,
really fun. Lots of guys in the same position I'm in, racing with our
kids now. We all agree it's even cooler than it was doing it ourselves
the first time.
Tim H
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
Far out! WTG, guys! If you're racing the entire season, when you
post these reports can you include previous results so we can see how
the average is lookin' (without having to go back and find the older
posts)? I can only speak for myself, but I like the season progress
summaries. You know, like the race number, race name/place, and then
the finishes of you and Scott. I wish everyone who raced an entire
season (or a majority of a season) would do this. I find it
interesting and it gives a better overall picture of things. Great
report, though!
On Thu, 8 May 2008 09:46:58 -0700 (PDT), Tim H <tntharrell@msn,com >
wrote:
>Last Sunday was the second race of the NMA (Northwest Motorcycle
>Association) Enduro series. The event: The Shelton Valley Enduro, a
>perennial contender for event of the year honors, and one of only a
>hand full of opportunities to ride one of the best trail systems in
>the Northwest. The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
>obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
>property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
>not open for anything other than PSER events. The Shelton Valley
>Enduro has a rich tradition of providing long, challenging, fun,
>tough, well organized events. They start out of the Mason County
>Fairgrounds, which has great camping, restrooms with showers, and
>allows them access to a couple of nice large heated buildings for
>signup, rider’s meetings, awards, and a fund raising food sale for the
>local Search and Rescue group.
>Scott was extra excited for this one, since we had surprised him with
>a new ICO Checkmate XL Enduro Computer the week before (yes, he is
>shamelessly spoiled). He’s ridden everything up until now using the
>stock KTM odo and a roll chart, and it has definitely been slowing him
>down when it’s time to make timekeeping decisions. We had a week of
>fine spring weather with no rain until Friday night, when we got some
>light showers that came and went until late morning on Saturday, and
>Sunday was perfect, clear skies, temps in the low 60’s, most of the
>dirt was in epic condition (actually got a little dusty in some clear
>cuts and on logging roads). The route sheet promised us about 83 miles
>in a long single loop, and the rider’s meeting promised us that they
>wouldn’t be easy on us.
>Scott and I pre-entered and drew minute 5, which is just about perfect
>in my book. That only put 10 riders ahead of us (2 minutes went out
>with only 2 riders), so the risk of bottle necks is low. That would
>prove to be a good thing later in the day. Much of the first part of
>the course was used the day before for an Enduro School and Beginner’s
>Enduro, which drew about 180 riders, and thanks to those rain showers
>we had Saturday morning they left a few deep ruts. Scott dropped a
>front wheel into one of those ruts and stopped dead in his tracks. It
>took a minute or 2 to get his bike extracted from the rut, which was
>over axle and footpeg deep, and as luck would have it the first check,
>an Emergency Check at that, was about 100 yards around the corner, and
>we rolled in 2 minutes late. Rats.
>The entire event only had one reset for 2.4 miles at the first gas
>available, other than that they played with speed changes to allow you
>to catch up. There were 29 speed changes total (4 more than my antique
>Moose Pacemaker computer would take), and the course would take us
>into the trails at a pretty brisk pace, run us until most people would
>be late, then drop us on a road or easy trail with a slow average so
>you could catch up. They did a great job of pacing the event for fast
>B class/ slow A class guys like Scott and I, as we were able to stay
>on time for the next 4 checks with some effort on the trails and some
>care on the roads. Scott was leading all day, and digging his new
>‘puter, which was a very, very good thing, since he realized at the
>2.9 mile marker that he had forgotten to put his roll chart on the
>bike (DOH!), so all day he rode totally off of the Checkmate, which
>worked flawlessly.
>Up until about mile 50, Scott was riding possible pretty aggressively,
>slowly pulling away from me on the trails and making me nervous about
>him burning checks, but at every possible he was waiting a nice safe
>distance out. Around mile 50, I noticed that I was keeping up with him
>between possibles, and by mile 60 Scott was noticeably tired and had
>slowed down a lot. I stayed behind him to keep him moving, but he was
>just cruising at this point with me having to make Scott keep moving a
>couple of times when he wanted to stop and rest (I was afraid he’d
>start to tighten up if we stopped, and we were so close to the end…).
>The course had gotten quite interesting after they had split off the
>short course, as the PSERs had announced their intention to beat us on
>that final loop/section. Lots of steep, tight uphill/downhill trail
>sections with fast speed averages kept us working. We only had
>problems at one spot, a steep, narrow, loose uphill with no run at it
>and a shale rock step in the middle of the hill. Scott was following a
>guy from the minute ahead of us when we started up this on, and the
>guy hung up on the step leaving Scott nowhere to go. After to other
>guy finally dragged his 450EXC up the step, I had to push Scott over
>the step then he took off. I then had to wrestle my bike up the step
>alone, while the rest of the long course racers stacked up behind me
>at the bottom of the hill; there were probably 4 or 5 guys down there
>by the time I got clear, and from what I heard afterwards, it pretty
>much stayed that way. Oh well, it was a really fun uphill, and I’d
>love it on a trail riding loop, but it seemed a little hairball to
>throw into a race course with no alternative lines.
>We rolled on into the finish, but I didn’t see Scott again until after
>the finish (though he was only a little ways ahead), since he’d gone
>ahead while I was fighting the rock step. We hit the finish check 13
>minutes late, collecting over half of our total scores at that check
>alone (finished with 25). There was about 3 miles of logging roads
>back to the fairgrounds, and on the way I came on Scott and a kid on a
>KTM 250XCF, Scott’s bike was laying on the ground. I was thinking “Uh-
>Oh” as I stopped, but it turned out the other kid’s bike had locked up
>(goddamn 4 strokes) and Scott was trying to hook up a Buddy Tow to
>pull him back to the pits. We went ahead and hooked him up to my bike,
>since I have easier places to hook to, and the 300 makes a better tow
>motor than the 200. As a side note, towing is one place where the
>Rekluse auto clutch doesn’t work well. About half way back on a short
>uphill, I got turned sideways and yanked over by the tow rope, looking
>back to see that we had a parade behind us so I had maximum witnesses
>to my spodely towing act. No good deed goes unpunished.
>After a long wait for results, Scott wound up in 4th place in 200B; I
>was 8th in Senior A. 6 Days Trophy Team member Paul Neff won the
>overall with a zero point loss, and 2 seconds of lost emergency
>points. The kid is a freakin’ animal. We had a great day of racing on
>an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
>seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
>realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
>hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
>try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
>Thanks for reading.
>
>Tim H
Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
fjbradfordREMOVE@tx.rr,com
Far out! WTG, guys! If you're racing the entire season, when you
post these reports can you include previous results so we can see how
the average is lookin' (without having to go back and find the older
posts)? I can only speak for myself, but I like the season progress
summaries. You know, like the race number, race name/place, and then
the finishes of you and Scott. I wish everyone who raced an entire
season (or a majority of a season) would do this. I find it
interesting and it gives a better overall picture of things. Great
report, though!
On Thu, 8 May 2008 09:46:58 -0700 (PDT), Tim H <tntharrell@msn,com >
wrote:
>Last Sunday was the second race of the NMA (Northwest Motorcycle
>Association) Enduro series. The event: The Shelton Valley Enduro, a
>perennial contender for event of the year honors, and one of only a
>hand full of opportunities to ride one of the best trail systems in
>the Northwest. The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
>obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
>property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
>not open for anything other than PSER events. The Shelton Valley
>Enduro has a rich tradition of providing long, challenging, fun,
>tough, well organized events. They start out of the Mason County
>Fairgrounds, which has great camping, restrooms with showers, and
>allows them access to a couple of nice large heated buildings for
>signup, rider’s meetings, awards, and a fund raising food sale for the
>local Search and Rescue group.
>Scott was extra excited for this one, since we had surprised him with
>a new ICO Checkmate XL Enduro Computer the week before (yes, he is
>shamelessly spoiled). He’s ridden everything up until now using the
>stock KTM odo and a roll chart, and it has definitely been slowing him
>down when it’s time to make timekeeping decisions. We had a week of
>fine spring weather with no rain until Friday night, when we got some
>light showers that came and went until late morning on Saturday, and
>Sunday was perfect, clear skies, temps in the low 60’s, most of the
>dirt was in epic condition (actually got a little dusty in some clear
>cuts and on logging roads). The route sheet promised us about 83 miles
>in a long single loop, and the rider’s meeting promised us that they
>wouldn’t be easy on us.
>Scott and I pre-entered and drew minute 5, which is just about perfect
>in my book. That only put 10 riders ahead of us (2 minutes went out
>with only 2 riders), so the risk of bottle necks is low. That would
>prove to be a good thing later in the day. Much of the first part of
>the course was used the day before for an Enduro School and Beginner’s
>Enduro, which drew about 180 riders, and thanks to those rain showers
>we had Saturday morning they left a few deep ruts. Scott dropped a
>front wheel into one of those ruts and stopped dead in his tracks. It
>took a minute or 2 to get his bike extracted from the rut, which was
>over axle and footpeg deep, and as luck would have it the first check,
>an Emergency Check at that, was about 100 yards around the corner, and
>we rolled in 2 minutes late. Rats.
>The entire event only had one reset for 2.4 miles at the first gas
>available, other than that they played with speed changes to allow you
>to catch up. There were 29 speed changes total (4 more than my antique
>Moose Pacemaker computer would take), and the course would take us
>into the trails at a pretty brisk pace, run us until most people would
>be late, then drop us on a road or easy trail with a slow average so
>you could catch up. They did a great job of pacing the event for fast
>B class/ slow A class guys like Scott and I, as we were able to stay
>on time for the next 4 checks with some effort on the trails and some
>care on the roads. Scott was leading all day, and digging his new
>‘puter, which was a very, very good thing, since he realized at the
>2.9 mile marker that he had forgotten to put his roll chart on the
>bike (DOH!), so all day he rode totally off of the Checkmate, which
>worked flawlessly.
>Up until about mile 50, Scott was riding possible pretty aggressively,
>slowly pulling away from me on the trails and making me nervous about
>him burning checks, but at every possible he was waiting a nice safe
>distance out. Around mile 50, I noticed that I was keeping up with him
>between possibles, and by mile 60 Scott was noticeably tired and had
>slowed down a lot. I stayed behind him to keep him moving, but he was
>just cruising at this point with me having to make Scott keep moving a
>couple of times when he wanted to stop and rest (I was afraid he’d
>start to tighten up if we stopped, and we were so close to the end…).
>The course had gotten quite interesting after they had split off the
>short course, as the PSERs had announced their intention to beat us on
>that final loop/section. Lots of steep, tight uphill/downhill trail
>sections with fast speed averages kept us working. We only had
>problems at one spot, a steep, narrow, loose uphill with no run at it
>and a shale rock step in the middle of the hill. Scott was following a
>guy from the minute ahead of us when we started up this on, and the
>guy hung up on the step leaving Scott nowhere to go. After to other
>guy finally dragged his 450EXC up the step, I had to push Scott over
>the step then he took off. I then had to wrestle my bike up the step
>alone, while the rest of the long course racers stacked up behind me
>at the bottom of the hill; there were probably 4 or 5 guys down there
>by the time I got clear, and from what I heard afterwards, it pretty
>much stayed that way. Oh well, it was a really fun uphill, and I’d
>love it on a trail riding loop, but it seemed a little hairball to
>throw into a race course with no alternative lines.
>We rolled on into the finish, but I didn’t see Scott again until after
>the finish (though he was only a little ways ahead), since he’d gone
>ahead while I was fighting the rock step. We hit the finish check 13
>minutes late, collecting over half of our total scores at that check
>alone (finished with 25). There was about 3 miles of logging roads
>back to the fairgrounds, and on the way I came on Scott and a kid on a
>KTM 250XCF, Scott’s bike was laying on the ground. I was thinking “Uh-
>Oh” as I stopped, but it turned out the other kid’s bike had locked up
>(goddamn 4 strokes) and Scott was trying to hook up a Buddy Tow to
>pull him back to the pits. We went ahead and hooked him up to my bike,
>since I have easier places to hook to, and the 300 makes a better tow
>motor than the 200. As a side note, towing is one place where the
>Rekluse auto clutch doesn’t work well. About half way back on a short
>uphill, I got turned sideways and yanked over by the tow rope, looking
>back to see that we had a parade behind us so I had maximum witnesses
>to my spodely towing act. No good deed goes unpunished.
>After a long wait for results, Scott wound up in 4th place in 200B; I
>was 8th in Senior A. 6 Days Trophy Team member Paul Neff won the
>overall with a zero point loss, and 2 seconds of lost emergency
>points. The kid is a freakin’ animal. We had a great day of racing on
>an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
>seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
>realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
>hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
>try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
>Thanks for reading.
>
>Tim H
Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
fjbradfordREMOVE@tx.rr,com
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
On May 8, 3:00 pm, CrashTestDummy <FBRADFORDrem...@tx.rr,com > wrote:
> Far out! WTG, guys! If you're racing the entire season, when you
> post these reports can you include previous results so we can see how
> the average is lookin' (without having to go back and find the older
> posts)? I can only speak for myself, but I like the season progress
> summaries. You know, like the race number, race name/place, and then
> the finishes of you and Scott. I wish everyone who raced an entire
> season (or a majority of a season) would do this. I find it
> interesting and it gives a better overall picture of things. Great
> report, though!
>
> Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
> fjbradfordREM...@tx.rr,com - Hide quoted text -
Thanks Fred.
Good idea on the results, I'll try to remember to do that.
I'll try to get on at home tonight and catch you up.
Tim H
On May 8, 3:00 pm, CrashTestDummy <FBRADFORDrem...@tx.rr,com > wrote:
> Far out! WTG, guys! If you're racing the entire season, when you
> post these reports can you include previous results so we can see how
> the average is lookin' (without having to go back and find the older
> posts)? I can only speak for myself, but I like the season progress
> summaries. You know, like the race number, race name/place, and then
> the finishes of you and Scott. I wish everyone who raced an entire
> season (or a majority of a season) would do this. I find it
> interesting and it gives a better overall picture of things. Great
> report, though!
>
> Fred Bradford - CrashTestDummy
> fjbradfordREM...@tx.rr,com - Hide quoted text -
Thanks Fred.
Good idea on the results, I'll try to remember to do that.
I'll try to get on at home tonight and catch you up.
Tim H
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
Tim H reports:
> We had a great day of racing on
> an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
> seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day.
Awesome.
>Scott has finally
> realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
> hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race,
Be sure to consider the fun - benefit - ultimate goals equation.
Working your ass off to get 1/2 sec faster and neglecting to
have fun/study/do-what-needs-to-be-done can be a bad solution.
I knew an 18 year old once that blew this. Wish I was him
again.
I''m guessing this is a dumb thing to tell you, you've got a
handle on it.
> Thanks for reading.
Thanks for writing.
Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.
Tim H reports:
> We had a great day of racing on
> an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
> seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day.
Awesome.
>Scott has finally
> realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
> hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race,
Be sure to consider the fun - benefit - ultimate goals equation.
Working your ass off to get 1/2 sec faster and neglecting to
have fun/study/do-what-needs-to-be-done can be a bad solution.
I knew an 18 year old once that blew this. Wish I was him
again.
I''m guessing this is a dumb thing to tell you, you've got a
handle on it.
> Thanks for reading.
Thanks for writing.
Go fast. Take chances.
Mike S.
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
"sturd" <mikesturdevant127@hotmail,com > wrote in message
news:3eb6af88-44ce-4407-afff-42ee3ad590ea@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups,com ...
Tim H reports:
>>Scott has finally
>> realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
>> hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race,
>Be sure to consider the fun - benefit - ultimate goals equation.
Scott pretty much insists on it. He has very limited patience for stuff that
isn't fun. That may make any kind of regular training difficult, but for now
we'll settle for just being more active. We're shopping for a mountain bike,
because all he has right now is a couple of BMX bikes that really don't lend
themselves to longer training rides.
>Working your ass off to get 1/2 sec faster and neglecting to
>have fun/study/do-what-needs-to-be-done can be a bad solution.
>I knew an 18 year old once that blew this. Wish I was him
>again.
I can think of LOTS of things from that period of my life I'd like to have
another shot at. I wish overtraining and taking racing too seriously was the
worst of them.
>I''m guessing this is a dumb thing to tell you, you've got a
>handle on it.
Friendly reminders are always welcome.
>> Thanks for reading.
>Thanks for writing.
You're welcome Mike.
Tim H
"sturd" <mikesturdevant127@hotmail,com > wrote in message
news:3eb6af88-44ce-4407-afff-42ee3ad590ea@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups,com ...
Tim H reports:
>>Scott has finally
>> realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
>> hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race,
>Be sure to consider the fun - benefit - ultimate goals equation.
Scott pretty much insists on it. He has very limited patience for stuff that
isn't fun. That may make any kind of regular training difficult, but for now
we'll settle for just being more active. We're shopping for a mountain bike,
because all he has right now is a couple of BMX bikes that really don't lend
themselves to longer training rides.
>Working your ass off to get 1/2 sec faster and neglecting to
>have fun/study/do-what-needs-to-be-done can be a bad solution.
>I knew an 18 year old once that blew this. Wish I was him
>again.
I can think of LOTS of things from that period of my life I'd like to have
another shot at. I wish overtraining and taking racing too seriously was the
worst of them.
>I''m guessing this is a dumb thing to tell you, you've got a
>handle on it.
Friendly reminders are always welcome.
>> Thanks for reading.
>Thanks for writing.
You're welcome Mike.
Tim H
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
"Dean H." <moto@groove.calm> wrote in message
news:Uoadnc8tHuLaCL7VnZ2dnUVZ hzinZ2d@comcast,com ...
> Good job, gentlemen.
Thank you, sir.
"Dean H." <moto@groove.calm> wrote in message
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> Good job, gentlemen.
Thank you, sir.
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
Thanks for the RR! Congrats on the finish, it is great when we have a
good finish! Finishing is already a great accomplishment!
When I was racing (<sigh> I should to get back on that), I found that
drinking large quantities of water the day before helped a lot on
endurance. And fruits, lots of fruits. Banana is great the morning of
the race.
-- Tiago
Thanks for the RR! Congrats on the finish, it is great when we have a
good finish! Finishing is already a great accomplishment!
When I was racing (<sigh> I should to get back on that), I found that
drinking large quantities of water the day before helped a lot on
endurance. And fruits, lots of fruits. Banana is great the morning of
the race.
-- Tiago
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
Tim great post, thanks for posting, and congrats to the both of you. I
grew up in the northwest, Astoria OR area, and have always wanted to go back
to that part of the country to race.
Rex McKinney
"Tim H" <tntharrell@msn,com > wrote in message
news:eea2cd75-ffaa-4456-ba1d-0c5f02dfb3ea@w5g2000prd.googlegroups,com ...
Last Sunday was the second race of the NMA (Northwest Motorcycle
Association) Enduro series. The event: The Shelton Valley Enduro, a
perennial contender for event of the year honors, and one of only a
hand full of opportunities to ride one of the best trail systems in
the Northwest. The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
not open for anything other than PSER events. The Shelton Valley
Enduro has a rich tradition of providing long, challenging, fun,
tough, well organized events. They start out of the Mason County
Fairgrounds, which has great camping, restrooms with showers, and
allows them access to a couple of nice large heated buildings for
signup, rider’s meetings, awards, and a fund raising food sale for the
local Search and Rescue group.
Scott was extra excited for this one, since we had surprised him with
a new ICO Checkmate XL Enduro Computer the week before (yes, he is
shamelessly spoiled). He’s ridden everything up until now using the
stock KTM odo and a roll chart, and it has definitely been slowing him
down when it’s time to make timekeeping decisions. We had a week of
fine spring weather with no rain until Friday night, when we got some
light showers that came and went until late morning on Saturday, and
Sunday was perfect, clear skies, temps in the low 60’s, most of the
dirt was in epic condition (actually got a little dusty in some clear
cuts and on logging roads). The route sheet promised us about 83 miles
in a long single loop, and the rider’s meeting promised us that they
wouldn’t be easy on us.
Scott and I pre-entered and drew minute 5, which is just about perfect
in my book. That only put 10 riders ahead of us (2 minutes went out
with only 2 riders), so the risk of bottle necks is low. That would
prove to be a good thing later in the day. Much of the first part of
the course was used the day before for an Enduro School and Beginner’s
Enduro, which drew about 180 riders, and thanks to those rain showers
we had Saturday morning they left a few deep ruts. Scott dropped a
front wheel into one of those ruts and stopped dead in his tracks. It
took a minute or 2 to get his bike extracted from the rut, which was
over axle and footpeg deep, and as luck would have it the first check,
an Emergency Check at that, was about 100 yards around the corner, and
we rolled in 2 minutes late. Rats.
The entire event only had one reset for 2.4 miles at the first gas
available, other than that they played with speed changes to allow you
to catch up. There were 29 speed changes total (4 more than my antique
Moose Pacemaker computer would take), and the course would take us
into the trails at a pretty brisk pace, run us until most people would
be late, then drop us on a road or easy trail with a slow average so
you could catch up. They did a great job of pacing the event for fast
B class/ slow A class guys like Scott and I, as we were able to stay
on time for the next 4 checks with some effort on the trails and some
care on the roads. Scott was leading all day, and digging his new
‘puter, which was a very, very good thing, since he realized at the
2.9 mile marker that he had forgotten to put his roll chart on the
bike (DOH!), so all day he rode totally off of the Checkmate, which
worked flawlessly.
Up until about mile 50, Scott was riding possible pretty aggressively,
slowly pulling away from me on the trails and making me nervous about
him burning checks, but at every possible he was waiting a nice safe
distance out. Around mile 50, I noticed that I was keeping up with him
between possibles, and by mile 60 Scott was noticeably tired and had
slowed down a lot. I stayed behind him to keep him moving, but he was
just cruising at this point with me having to make Scott keep moving a
couple of times when he wanted to stop and rest (I was afraid he’d
start to tighten up if we stopped, and we were so close to the end…).
The course had gotten quite interesting after they had split off the
short course, as the PSERs had announced their intention to beat us on
that final loop/section. Lots of steep, tight uphill/downhill trail
sections with fast speed averages kept us working. We only had
problems at one spot, a steep, narrow, loose uphill with no run at it
and a shale rock step in the middle of the hill. Scott was following a
guy from the minute ahead of us when we started up this on, and the
guy hung up on the step leaving Scott nowhere to go. After to other
guy finally dragged his 450EXC up the step, I had to push Scott over
the step then he took off. I then had to wrestle my bike up the step
alone, while the rest of the long course racers stacked up behind me
at the bottom of the hill; there were probably 4 or 5 guys down there
by the time I got clear, and from what I heard afterwards, it pretty
much stayed that way. Oh well, it was a really fun uphill, and I’d
love it on a trail riding loop, but it seemed a little hairball to
throw into a race course with no alternative lines.
We rolled on into the finish, but I didn’t see Scott again until after
the finish (though he was only a little ways ahead), since he’d gone
ahead while I was fighting the rock step. We hit the finish check 13
minutes late, collecting over half of our total scores at that check
alone (finished with 25). There was about 3 miles of logging roads
back to the fairgrounds, and on the way I came on Scott and a kid on a
KTM 250XCF, Scott’s bike was laying on the ground. I was thinking “Uh-
Oh” as I stopped, but it turned out the other kid’s bike had locked up
(goddamn 4 strokes) and Scott was trying to hook up a Buddy Tow to
pull him back to the pits. We went ahead and hooked him up to my bike,
since I have easier places to hook to, and the 300 makes a better tow
motor than the 200. As a side note, towing is one place where the
Rekluse auto clutch doesn’t work well. About half way back on a short
uphill, I got turned sideways and yanked over by the tow rope, looking
back to see that we had a parade behind us so I had maximum witnesses
to my spodely towing act. No good deed goes unpunished.
After a long wait for results, Scott wound up in 4th place in 200B; I
was 8th in Senior A. 6 Days Trophy Team member Paul Neff won the
overall with a zero point loss, and 2 seconds of lost emergency
points. The kid is a freakin’ animal. We had a great day of racing on
an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
Thanks for reading.
Tim H
Tim great post, thanks for posting, and congrats to the both of you. I
grew up in the northwest, Astoria OR area, and have always wanted to go back
to that part of the country to race.
Rex McKinney
"Tim H" <tntharrell@msn,com > wrote in message
news:eea2cd75-ffaa-4456-ba1d-0c5f02dfb3ea@w5g2000prd.googlegroups,com ...
Last Sunday was the second race of the NMA (Northwest Motorcycle
Association) Enduro series. The event: The Shelton Valley Enduro, a
perennial contender for event of the year honors, and one of only a
hand full of opportunities to ride one of the best trail systems in
the Northwest. The Puget Sound Enduro Riders (PSERs, which is
obviously pronounced “Pissers”) put on all of their events on private
property owned by the Green Diamond timber company, and the trails are
not open for anything other than PSER events. The Shelton Valley
Enduro has a rich tradition of providing long, challenging, fun,
tough, well organized events. They start out of the Mason County
Fairgrounds, which has great camping, restrooms with showers, and
allows them access to a couple of nice large heated buildings for
signup, rider’s meetings, awards, and a fund raising food sale for the
local Search and Rescue group.
Scott was extra excited for this one, since we had surprised him with
a new ICO Checkmate XL Enduro Computer the week before (yes, he is
shamelessly spoiled). He’s ridden everything up until now using the
stock KTM odo and a roll chart, and it has definitely been slowing him
down when it’s time to make timekeeping decisions. We had a week of
fine spring weather with no rain until Friday night, when we got some
light showers that came and went until late morning on Saturday, and
Sunday was perfect, clear skies, temps in the low 60’s, most of the
dirt was in epic condition (actually got a little dusty in some clear
cuts and on logging roads). The route sheet promised us about 83 miles
in a long single loop, and the rider’s meeting promised us that they
wouldn’t be easy on us.
Scott and I pre-entered and drew minute 5, which is just about perfect
in my book. That only put 10 riders ahead of us (2 minutes went out
with only 2 riders), so the risk of bottle necks is low. That would
prove to be a good thing later in the day. Much of the first part of
the course was used the day before for an Enduro School and Beginner’s
Enduro, which drew about 180 riders, and thanks to those rain showers
we had Saturday morning they left a few deep ruts. Scott dropped a
front wheel into one of those ruts and stopped dead in his tracks. It
took a minute or 2 to get his bike extracted from the rut, which was
over axle and footpeg deep, and as luck would have it the first check,
an Emergency Check at that, was about 100 yards around the corner, and
we rolled in 2 minutes late. Rats.
The entire event only had one reset for 2.4 miles at the first gas
available, other than that they played with speed changes to allow you
to catch up. There were 29 speed changes total (4 more than my antique
Moose Pacemaker computer would take), and the course would take us
into the trails at a pretty brisk pace, run us until most people would
be late, then drop us on a road or easy trail with a slow average so
you could catch up. They did a great job of pacing the event for fast
B class/ slow A class guys like Scott and I, as we were able to stay
on time for the next 4 checks with some effort on the trails and some
care on the roads. Scott was leading all day, and digging his new
‘puter, which was a very, very good thing, since he realized at the
2.9 mile marker that he had forgotten to put his roll chart on the
bike (DOH!), so all day he rode totally off of the Checkmate, which
worked flawlessly.
Up until about mile 50, Scott was riding possible pretty aggressively,
slowly pulling away from me on the trails and making me nervous about
him burning checks, but at every possible he was waiting a nice safe
distance out. Around mile 50, I noticed that I was keeping up with him
between possibles, and by mile 60 Scott was noticeably tired and had
slowed down a lot. I stayed behind him to keep him moving, but he was
just cruising at this point with me having to make Scott keep moving a
couple of times when he wanted to stop and rest (I was afraid he’d
start to tighten up if we stopped, and we were so close to the end…).
The course had gotten quite interesting after they had split off the
short course, as the PSERs had announced their intention to beat us on
that final loop/section. Lots of steep, tight uphill/downhill trail
sections with fast speed averages kept us working. We only had
problems at one spot, a steep, narrow, loose uphill with no run at it
and a shale rock step in the middle of the hill. Scott was following a
guy from the minute ahead of us when we started up this on, and the
guy hung up on the step leaving Scott nowhere to go. After to other
guy finally dragged his 450EXC up the step, I had to push Scott over
the step then he took off. I then had to wrestle my bike up the step
alone, while the rest of the long course racers stacked up behind me
at the bottom of the hill; there were probably 4 or 5 guys down there
by the time I got clear, and from what I heard afterwards, it pretty
much stayed that way. Oh well, it was a really fun uphill, and I’d
love it on a trail riding loop, but it seemed a little hairball to
throw into a race course with no alternative lines.
We rolled on into the finish, but I didn’t see Scott again until after
the finish (though he was only a little ways ahead), since he’d gone
ahead while I was fighting the rock step. We hit the finish check 13
minutes late, collecting over half of our total scores at that check
alone (finished with 25). There was about 3 miles of logging roads
back to the fairgrounds, and on the way I came on Scott and a kid on a
KTM 250XCF, Scott’s bike was laying on the ground. I was thinking “Uh-
Oh” as I stopped, but it turned out the other kid’s bike had locked up
(goddamn 4 strokes) and Scott was trying to hook up a Buddy Tow to
pull him back to the pits. We went ahead and hooked him up to my bike,
since I have easier places to hook to, and the 300 makes a better tow
motor than the 200. As a side note, towing is one place where the
Rekluse auto clutch doesn’t work well. About half way back on a short
uphill, I got turned sideways and yanked over by the tow rope, looking
back to see that we had a parade behind us so I had maximum witnesses
to my spodely towing act. No good deed goes unpunished.
After a long wait for results, Scott wound up in 4th place in 200B; I
was 8th in Senior A. 6 Days Trophy Team member Paul Neff won the
overall with a zero point loss, and 2 seconds of lost emergency
points. The kid is a freakin’ animal. We had a great day of racing on
an awesome course, got to see a bunch of old friends that we hadn’t
seen in 13 years, and generally had an awesome day. Scott has finally
realized that his “next step” will have to involve training to stop
hitting that wall 2/3 of the way through the race, and we’re going to
try some changes in nutrition and hydration, too.
Thanks for reading.
Tim H
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
"endurodog" <endurodog@comcast,net > wrote in message
news:U7qdndmsF7tK3rjVnZ2dnUVZ tjinZ2d@comcast,com ...
> Tim great post, thanks for posting, and congrats to the both of you. I
> grew up in the northwest, Astoria OR area, and have always wanted to go
> back to that part of the country to race.
>
> Rex McKinney
You're welcome Rex, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks.
If you want it bad enough, figure out something from the schedule here
http :// www .nmaoffroad.org/eventcalendarup.shtml and I'll happily go racing
with you and provide you with full support from the Harrell family racing
juggernaut. Well, we'll give you a place to sleep, shower, eat, etc. Not
much of a juggernaut, really, but it's a pretty darn nice way to go racing
if I do say so myself. Just get yourself and your bike up here.
Let me know if you want to come up and hit something, seriously. It'd get
you away from home for a while, and we could pick a really fun race
somewhere on the schedule. Hell, if you schedule your vacation right we
might be able to hit 2 on back to back weekends.
Tim H
"endurodog" <endurodog@comcast,net > wrote in message
news:U7qdndmsF7tK3rjVnZ2dnUVZ tjinZ2d@comcast,com ...
> Tim great post, thanks for posting, and congrats to the both of you. I
> grew up in the northwest, Astoria OR area, and have always wanted to go
> back to that part of the country to race.
>
> Rex McKinney
You're welcome Rex, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks.
If you want it bad enough, figure out something from the schedule here
http :// www .nmaoffroad.org/eventcalendarup.shtml and I'll happily go racing
with you and provide you with full support from the Harrell family racing
juggernaut. Well, we'll give you a place to sleep, shower, eat, etc. Not
much of a juggernaut, really, but it's a pretty darn nice way to go racing
if I do say so myself. Just get yourself and your bike up here.
Let me know if you want to come up and hit something, seriously. It'd get
you away from home for a while, and we could pick a really fun race
somewhere on the schedule. Hell, if you schedule your vacation right we
might be able to hit 2 on back to back weekends.
Tim H
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
"Tim H" <Tim H@somethingorother,com > wrote in message
>
> You're welcome Rex, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks.
> If you want it bad enough, figure out something from the schedule here
> http :// www .nmaoffroad.org/eventcalendarup.shtml and I'll happily go
> racing with you and provide you with full support from the Harrell family
> racing juggernaut. Well, we'll give you a place to sleep, shower, eat,
> etc. Not much of a juggernaut, really, but it's a pretty darn nice way to
> go racing if I do say so myself. Just get yourself and your bike up here.
> Let me know if you want to come up and hit something, seriously. It'd get
> you away from home for a while, and we could pick a really fun race
> somewhere on the schedule. Hell, if you schedule your vacation right we
> might be able to hit 2 on back to back weekends.
>
> Tim H
Tim I would really like to take you up on that offer sometime in the next
year or 2. Let me see how things are playing out and I will take a look at
the schedule and be in touch. Thanks in advance!!!
Rex McKinney
"Tim H" <Tim H@somethingorother,com > wrote in message
>
> You're welcome Rex, glad you enjoyed it, and thanks.
> If you want it bad enough, figure out something from the schedule here
> http :// www .nmaoffroad.org/eventcalendarup.shtml and I'll happily go
> racing with you and provide you with full support from the Harrell family
> racing juggernaut. Well, we'll give you a place to sleep, shower, eat,
> etc. Not much of a juggernaut, really, but it's a pretty darn nice way to
> go racing if I do say so myself. Just get yourself and your bike up here.
> Let me know if you want to come up and hit something, seriously. It'd get
> you away from home for a while, and we could pick a really fun race
> somewhere on the schedule. Hell, if you schedule your vacation right we
> might be able to hit 2 on back to back weekends.
>
> Tim H
Tim I would really like to take you up on that offer sometime in the next
year or 2. Let me see how things are playing out and I will take a look at
the schedule and be in touch. Thanks in advance!!!
Rex McKinney
Re: 2nd Enduro RR, long
"Tim H" <Tim H@somethingorother,com > wrote in message
news:HOednYS_oKlB07vVnZ2dnUVZ_rXinZ2d@comcast,com ...
>
> If you want it bad enough, figure out something from the schedule here
> http :// www .nmaoffroad.org/eventcalendarup.shtml and I'll happily go
> racing with you and provide you with full support from the Harrell family
> racing juggernaut. Well, we'll give you a place to sleep, shower, eat,
> etc. Not much of a juggernaut, really, but it's a pretty darn nice way to
> go racing if I do say so myself. Just get yourself and your bike up here.
> Let me know if you want to come up and hit something, seriously. It'd get
> you away from home for a while, and we could pick a really fun race
> somewhere on the schedule. Hell, if you schedule your vacation right we
> might be able to hit 2 on back to back weekends.
What if I show up on your doorstep with some ATK parts? Will you adopt me?
-Jeff-
"Tim H" <Tim H@somethingorother,com > wrote in message
news:HOednYS_oKlB07vVnZ2dnUVZ_rXinZ2d@comcast,com ...
>
> If you want it bad enough, figure out something from the schedule here
> http :// www .nmaoffroad.org/eventcalendarup.shtml and I'll happily go
> racing with you and provide you with full support from the Harrell family
> racing juggernaut. Well, we'll give you a place to sleep, shower, eat,
> etc. Not much of a juggernaut, really, but it's a pretty darn nice way to
> go racing if I do say so myself. Just get yourself and your bike up here.
> Let me know if you want to come up and hit something, seriously. It'd get
> you away from home for a while, and we could pick a really fun race
> somewhere on the schedule. Hell, if you schedule your vacation right we
> might be able to hit 2 on back to back weekends.
What if I show up on your doorstep with some ATK parts? Will you adopt me?
-Jeff-
