Massimo (Husqymax) is DNF with a valve problem, bummer, and our local club rider out with a shoulder injury. thats racing...
Second from left was a guy I knew from Huntington Harbour, John Steen (Steen Hodaka).....guy in middle was Bullitt. Ekins bros. in there too.
Andrew DeLong is doing a daily video diary on vurb-offroad http://vurboffroad.com/videos/andrew-delongs-isde-video-diary-day-1/2262/ http://vurboffroad.com/videos/andrew-delongs-isde-diary-day-2/2268/
That's Honest Muz in front - I think that's the year I tig'd frame rails / engine protection (to match the CR frame up to the Enduro bikes frame/ engine protection) and other bits up for him - he brought back one of Gerrit Wolsink's team jersey's for me as a thankyou. I still have it. Wolsink rode the trickest Works Honda XRs in the Six Days, for a few years - it / they featured things like the classic "Coke Bottle" fabricated swingarms, and were very, very trick bikes. I'm pretty sure it's Phil Lovett on the other end - would have to dig deep to recall the other two blokes names (with no lesser respect intended to those two fellows). Bloody hell, I was a 20 year old then. Soooo long ago. I think Muz won "The Roof of Africa" race that year - though I might be a few years early on that. The US and OZ press never seemed to pick up on how trick Wolsinks XRs were, and I'd yet to get access to Euro and Brit mags, such as Trials and MX News. If anyones got some pictures of Wolsinks bikes it would great to see them put up!
CONGRATULATIONS TEAM " TM racing" (80 cc /1990 ! ) época France 3 motorcyles start ! 3 motorcyles finish !
Visiteur1948 : thank you so much for the TM80 Pics and info. I'd been very busy with work, so could only get to the results at, usually, 3 to 4 in the morning, before work, and, for the life of me, could never find the TM 80 bikes Team Epoca in either the Manufacturers or Club Teams listings - I think I've had the opposite of "Target Fixation", and just totally 'blank' on the Team as it scrolled by. I'd 'liked' them on Facebook - but I'm not too good with that, and my 'puter doesn't seem to like it at all - freezes every time I tried to check it. Bloody Brilliant! - they all finished! Shows that bikes really have not been so 'revolutionary' in the subsequent decades. The Sport so needs genuine tiddlers, back at high level competition. 250Fs, are not bloody tiddlers - they have not been so since XR times. The bloody things are 250s. Please note, I'm not a 4t Hugger - I currently ride 2ts, and I will do so probably forever - though neither am I a hater. A good few of them, at GP MX2 Levels are 50 ( and probably just a bit +) HP weapons. They've No restrictions of what's done to them - see things like Steve Dixons Teams 3 speed, 16,500 rpm YZFs, Aye Carumbah! - and many of the 250Fs in the Six Day, would have been Mid 40s HP bikes. And that's plenty of HP to put through such terrain. Cripes, Moto 3 bikes are limited to something like 13,500 / 13,000 rpm and they are well above 50HP in Moto 3 GPs - well, even the 'cheap' ( and it is, compared to the very serious KTMs) entry level, 'any customer in the world can buy it,' Hondas have over 47HP std.
I agree, E1 E2 E3 C1 C2 C3 and E80/C80 maybe even E50/C50 Beta 50cc enduro !!! I spotted some others as well (HM 50 with its perimeter style frame) View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyufU0WQd4w
