Yeah the rules seem pretty tough. Especially when it comes to maintenance, probably best to not have anyone help. I wonder if YouTube videos on a smart phone count as help...lol
Responding to Norms post My TE310 is and will be FIM/ISDE legal, that's just how I roll. OK with one exception - no horn (one of those bicycle squeeze ball type and 100% legal) and holy crapoli a 3.5 mile grass track.....that's alot of flat turns man!!
This thread needs some video... First special test of the event. A little faster more open special test #3... And a one of the transit sections between special tests, a bit more of a sedate pace. Those conditions were so epic, I doubt I will ever see those again. It snowed 6" the Thursday before the event, we had perfect dirt by Saturday. Later,
OMG like my daughter says, Jake I forgot how bitchen that video was (I think you did post it a while back) That Kato guy at the beginning was pissin me off big time!! All else is perfect SP trail etiquette you let the faster guys by and slower guys let you by. I liked how you kept that first faster guy in your sights for a while. That dirt is insane. Great speed and no crazy stuff. Also I saw the the tree bark scraped off along the way from folks pinballin it!! Pending heavy issues I'm convinced its a must do race for the bucket list. Thanks for posting (again)
That fast guy was southern Oregons own Derek Steahly, he has been to the ISDE the last few years... We lost 4 minutes at the first check by loosely paying attention to the 20mph on roadway signs that were on the road. We rolled along at 35-40, while getting passed by guys going 50+. From then on it was a race everywhere. They had set times in the snow and then adjusted them based on a guess so the times were very tight on Saturday. Losing that 4 minutes meant I didn't have to get passed by Derek again the rest of the day. :-) Later,
I may have to go also, although you can't have a puff in the impound area. Is this District 37 rules? This would be a cool event to do at least once.
If I'm still in BC come summer, I may have to ship my TM out and come down for some FUN! I've always wanted to try a qualifier.
Doesn't look gnarley at all from the viddy and from what past racers have said. By all those accounts its just beautiful mountain forest single track. The gnarliness comes from from the overall mileage its a long, long, full focus 2 days of trail riding with long S/T sections at full tilt S/T speed boogie thrown in. Which brings me to all of you past competitors of this particular event. (I can look it up in some past results as well , I'm sure.) What was the longest S/T how many minutes (we did one at @ 40+ minutes at Gorman). Did they have long grass track S/Ts as well as mountain trail S/Ts? I want to know the longest and type of S/Ts to adequately prepare. RN
Looks like my longest one in 2011 was 15 minutes, looking at the results from 2012 they were more like 10 minutes. I didn't get any grass track as it was not a qualifier in 2011. Later,
They do not post lengths for obvious reasons. Some specials seemed like 15 plus minutes. Some shorter. there is sometime a "grass track" but that just means a semi clear cut with ribbon as it is all mountains. that help? Oh if it rains good it will be gnarly. If it is really hot, Gnarly. But mostly gnarly because of the distance.
Thanks guys, nice under 1/2 hour and at basically 1/4 hour each that is great news. (for this old dog). Lots of seat time lately just need to do cyclic training intervals. push hard for 1/2 hour (pretend S/T) solid then cruise at good TX speed. rinse repeat! Good news, looks like we have some local crew interest for this. Hope we can all pull this off. RN
