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Hi !

Back now! Didn't ride as well as I would have liked - but it was great fun

Catching up with work today,

Andy

If you finished you did well. Any ride where we finished if I put the bike on the trailer and we're both in one piece it's a good ride. In competition it's harder I realize thet. Your racking up memories.

Back from a frantic weekend at Farleigh Castle 2017 Vets MX des Nations.

HVA-Factory teamed up as usual with Kris Rosenberger (who won his class!! Whoopeee...) to create the 'Husqvarna International' Team.

Superstars of the team, Mike Brown and Jeff Emig came over to try their luck. Jamie Dobb was replaced at the 11th hour with Mervyn Anstie (father to Max) and also, Husky race team manager - Robert Jonas was also replaced by the very likeable Ross Sturmey. Mike Brown pretty much cleaned up with 3 wins on Kris Rosenbergers 83 - 510 Husky Fourstroke, but a motor failure spoilt his clean sweep in one race whilst leading !!

Jeff, riding with the number 13, qualified 2nd but had a disasterous weekend having 2 x ignition failures. It must have been the number 13 that did it as we took the brand new ignition from my 89 - 510 and put it on Jeff's bike for Mike to ride in the last race and it worked just fine! We did also swap Mikes number 15 onto that bike to cure the curse...!

Mervyn (who I had not met before) dug deep and rode well to 10th overall on one of my new 450 L/Cs as did Ross - who was always going to be the anchor man, not having ridden since last years race! Everyone gave their all and we all had a wonderful time, but you can't win a team race with DNF's, so we congratulate the English, Belgian and Luxembourg teams on their successes.

Thanks also must go to Dave King and his team for creating such an epic race and also to Husqvarna Motorcycles for their continued support.

Andy.

Another pic for you:

totally awesome

Excellent finishes Gentlemen!!

you want to say, English team (Uk twinshok and North England) and Luxembourg

What's the story on number #28 husky is she a 430? The Suzis and the yammie looks good too.

Always wanted a Suzuki to play with.

Looks like a Chuck Sun replica !

Have you got a few more pics of the rosenberger bike ? Thanks

Awesome job guys!!!

You deserved to be on the podium for sure.

Andy.

Chuck gets around...

Fabulous stuff that!!

I have been invited to ride the Australian 4 Day Enduro next April

Why is it I seem to spend half my life waiting for things to happen and then, when they get here are over in the blink of an eye….

Not looking forward to the long flight, but very much looking forward to meeting some more Auzzie friends and the ride - Twinshock of course!!!

Andy.

i wish I was young again to do this.

Andy, Queens English please..... it's "Aussie...."

Im hoping to run my '84 TE510 in the A4DE next year.....

Not the "camel"

pray tell Andy what the boys may have suggested you could be slinging a leg over??