Luckily LESAR did not have to cart me out. I picked up my bike and completed the remaining two loops totalling 70 miles after the crash albeit my handle bars were tweeked and it was like riding a street bike lol.
??? glad ur ok, how the heck do that crash happen? swap under power? suspension need some tweekage need to be ZipTy'd?? (ZipTy Racing for the CTS machines)
Operator error. My suspension is great race tech springs with gold valves and motoforza set up. I think my front end washed a little before I hit the first hoop? Anyway it happened so fast I'm not sure...
I counted, dirt, sky, dirt, sky, dirt, sky, ten times. IMPRESSIVE. Hope you are feeling well after that. I'll take low speed rocks over that High speed stuff.
This morning I woke up an felt like a truck hit me. Mostly sore muscles though. A couple advils and I was good to go to work.
Watching this in the office. Almost blurted out "Holy $%^$%^$%!" Sore muscles are ok, just means you had fun. You did have fun, right?
Of course! If by fun you mean a sadistically torturous 90 mile course lol. But seriously yes it was fun.
Spooky watching that... I don't see how a crash could happen there unless you are way over the bars too much and the forks collapse too much, causing all the chaos to start .. ... You are haulin' fanny, so shiiit happens sometimes at speed ... Here is a screen shot at a moment after the bars have twisted and you are looking at that race tag on the front fender. Lots of things wrong by this time ... Foot off the pegs, front tire almost perpendicular to the tracks you should riding in ...Looks almost like a combination of a endo and a high-side starting to happen ... You desert racers know how to stir up a cloud of dust ... Hitting in the sand probably helped alot on the impact you took ... Good luck on the recovery and your next race ...
It's Ocotillo. The sand/dirt/dust/sun can often hide whoops, rocks, bumps and humps - it's alot like they blend in.
Sounds a little familiar ... I've rode the Desert 100 race\Family ride in WA state a few times .. There are rock(s) out there just under some loose sand\dirt that can cause crashes ... I think the riders there call them 'snipes' ... The last time I rode there I hit one and it hurt ... I knew after that one that I did not want any more crashes of that magnitude ...
you guys really need to try a Nat H&H. Im glad they did step up the course and run y'all through some rocky stuff as well. really do a Nat H&H, after you send all your 449/511 suspension stuff to only the team crew that has ever raced and R&D'd the CTS bikes at the top tier in the US after the EU teams gave up on them for racing....ZipTy Racing, they change the entire rear ride height and action as well as revalve up front. plus if its power you desire.....they are getting gobs of solid reliable power out of these KYMCO engines.
It's hard to see in the video but there are pretty good sized sand hoops that tangled me up. I might have been leaning forward a bit that contributed to the rear end swinging around. @ Robertaccio I have no doubt that the nats are a notch up on the brutal scale. Hopefully we can get a national to return to D38 soon. Otherwise I am open to travel north a bit to do some D37 races too. I really think my suspension is not the problem here. I am a big zipty customer. I have lots of goodies from those guys and I have no doubt they are top tier suspension experts. It'll have to check them out for my next bike. Possible 2T for my future. Maybe you can check out my set up for yourself and let me know your opinion of my set up after riding it...
I will be at the National H&H in Murphy, ID in a few weeks. It is always a fun race and just happens to be where I ride every week!
