Round 3 Apr. 5-6 htoppers-logo-32xHilltoppers MC 29 Palms Motorsports - 29 Palms, CA I will be attending this event all weekend.
3 days of killer wind and I am a nice shade of red now, but had a blast. Nick Burson was awesome as always. Ricky brabec showed everyone how he could hole-shot the start throttling with his left hand and his right on the rear fender, was amazing. Can't wait for Primm.
Ricky brabec showed everyone how he could hole-shot the start throttling with his left hand and his right on the rear fender, was amazing. WTF !! Explanation needed.
They start the riders with their left hand on the throttle and the right hand on the rear fender. When the call is sounded, you must switch hands to clutch and throttle. Brabec rode 200 yards down the start and around the corner with his left hand holding the throttle wide open, and his right hand still on the rear fender.
at LAMC Tecate HS we start from facing backwards dead engine.....now that would be really funny to see.....
Jake looked good on the track this weekend, he rode really well. I actually saw quite a few new Huskys out there. Didn't get to spend much time with him, he was busy coaching his gf a few rows back from Stacy and I on the start.
I came back red and a nice shade of tan from the wind and dust. I get to see every single bike that comes across the start line into the motocross section as I am the first turn captain. There were quite a few of the newer Husky's, and a couple really haulin the mail. My younger brother took second in the vintage experts on his 125 Honda Elsinore. He was leading till his pipe came loose and was dragging on the ground. The guy on the CZ 400 that won couldn't pull the mighty 125 until the pipe came loose. It's one of my old race bikes. Good times had by all
I saw him, he rode right past my trailer. I felt like signalling him down to fix his pipe, though he wouldn't of heard me.
We were pointing and screaming at him when he came in the motocross section and he finally figured it out and backed off a little. He only lost about a minute in the last two laps.
Jake Argubright, tear'n it up! https://www.facebook.com/ZipTyRacing/posts/701389923251689 Photos courtesy of my good friend; Mark Kariya Thank You!
The Hilltoppers had a good turnout for Sunday's races as well. At the end of the day in the combined Heavyweight/Lightweight Intermediate/Expert race, Evan Kelly made up for yesterday's DNF in the WCGP with a wire-to-wire win followed by Nick Burson, who'd spent the previous few days with his Purvines Racing Beta teammates at the Nevada 200 Trail Ride. With a reported 966 entries for the weekend, there were probably at least that many individual stories. While there's not room or time for all of them, congratulations to all who took part.
I did this race @10 years ago, it had rained for a couple of days before the event and was sunny the day of the race......ridiculously perfect conditions. I had a race long battle with guy on a RM250 I was on my KTM250. That road section was memorable and the entire course was fun (but fast). Nice fotos from Mark and Tinken.
Some of the course is my old trails from back in the mid 70's early 80's. We just made them wider for the race.
