results from text msg from beau @ www.promoto.tv 1 k norman jcr honda 2 d abbott kaw 3 d pearson ktm 4 underwood 5 kamo ktm 6 c corfman beta! 7 j imhoff
Could'nt make it out to the race, but heard it was a complete mud fest ! Guys are posting up on D-37 site and it sounds like lots of DNF's..... Cant wait to see the vid on this one....
beau, said way too much of a good (rain) thing,,,,tough on his vid gear and tough to document. The pouring started at 0100 and never stopped. I am really kind of missing those H&Hs after seeing all have been moist and this one was even muddy, last year they were all windy dust bowls.
Beau got his video up -- Looks like the conditions were epic and the DNF rate was really high. Here comes Idaho
hope for some of the tech section photos,,,with all that wet!! geezz the valley was soaked. the sand looked great with the rain on it, it was so friggan dry/dusty and deeep last year. Looked ugly out there, good on those that finished
I was there it rained all night sat and sun morning it was still raining.The start was delayed until 10am but still it was raining and raining and raining Some people got stuck just going to the start line.Everyone knows i love my CR 125 but i beleive there was no way i could make it on the 125 so i rode the WR 250 the bike worked great .You would just have to be there to understand the water and MUD .Sometimes we would try to cross a section and the water would come up over the gas tank yet the 250 never quit The mud was so deep the front wheel would stop turning and you would just plow Now i have to completly take the bike apart and clean everything .Some desert races i do not even have to wash my bike just blow it off but not this one . There were bikes all over the desert stuck and even this afternoon the club was still trying toget all the bikes out i call one of the members and he was still out there working on stuck bikes It never rains in the desert must be that global warming thing as this year it will not stop raining Just trying to get out of the pit with my truck to go home was close to being stuck I must admit the WR 250 sure proved it self yesterday must be that new Ty Davis motor
blech, that's what I say. The 2nd loop was fun, but the first loop was 100% idiotic. I ended up unofficially 38th overall according to the finish check, and in exchange I now have a rusted muddy hulk of a motorcycle. If we hadn't driven 15 hrs to get there, I would have skipped it and just gone back home.
Sounds like a heck of a mess... You guys ought to come up here during the spring and fall- it's almost always mud, mud and mud- probably not as bad as that event was, but messy all the same. I generally expect to spend at least an hour cleaning my bike after every ride.
although i prefer little/no mud, i've race in mud plenty of times and had fun. The issue is this particular mud is the kind of sticky clay that just keeps rolling up onto your tire getting thicker and thicker until stop just stops turning, and it sticks like glue to bikes, riders, and everything except other mud. On other mud, it's slippery as belray waterproof grease. we actually got a bit lucky in that it kept raining all day. if it stops raining, that stuff reaches a critical water content where it becomes pretty much impassable. It packs on to the front wheel 8" thick and breaks the fork guards off, unless it's packed up the back wheel so it won't turn at all. As you walk in it, you get 1" higher with each step until it starts squooshing out the side and sending you on yer azz. And then, to add insult to injury, the clay glue at this particular location is very alkaline (tastes strongly like salt), so it corrodes exposed metal in no time flat. The experienced people stopped on the way home at coin-op carwashes to get it off the bikes as fast as possible. We went to the hospital, then to a hotel, then drove all day back to idaho, then went to work, then unloaded the truck on tuesday to find a mass of rust with some colored plastic bits attached to it. It almost makes me sick to my stomach how much damage to equipment that one race did. blech.
