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Big Gun MX - race report - 4/21
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[QUOTE="KawBoy, post: 46650, member: 16289"] By the end of the first lap I had a couple guys in sight. I knew I couldn't make a lot of time in the back section of the track (fairly tight and whooped out, plus a few off-cambers) so I held on and waited till we came out of the low section to the front side of the track. There would be plenty of places to use the KX's engine to hopefully motor by the two YZ guys. It took a couple straights to get them in sight, but I finally made it by them as we passed the first corner... [url="http://www.georgiaoffroad.com/Gallery/biggun_4-21-01/kb2.jpg"]http://www.georgiaoffroad.com/Gallery/biggun_4-21-01/kb2.jpg[/url] [url="http://www.georgiaoffroad.com/Gallery/biggun_4-21-01/kb18passingyz.jpg"]http://www.georgiaoffroad.com/Gallery/biggun_4-21-01/kb18passingyz.jpg[/url] The next bike I came up on was an older XR400.... [url="http://www.georgiaoffroad.com/Gallery/biggun_4-21-01/kb17belowtree2.jpg"]http://www.georgiaoffroad.com/Gallery/biggun_4-21-01/kb17belowtree2.jpg[/url] We were together for several corners before I zipped by in a straight coming out of an off camber turn - mine bit, his spun :) I put a several bike lengths on him, but I blew it halfway around the track. One of the off-cambers was getting rutted out. It was so chewed up it that the ruts were worse than the off-camber turn itself. I must have stabbed my rear brake at the wrong time and killed the engine. Doh! It started up in gear on the first kick, but as soon as I released the clutch (as XR400 guy rode by), I stalled it a second time. This time it took 4 kicks to light. :mad: It took me another lap to catch back up to the 400. We were on the last lap, so I thought I had a good chance at passing him and moving on to the vintage 78 YZ250 in front of us. Strangely the 400 pulled over and stopped on the side of the track. I eased on by and set sights on the old YZ. A few turns later I looked back and didn't see the XR anywhere (I later learned that he had to umm.. purge himself - guess the heat got to him). I made it to the finish line, but still a good 50 feet behind the air-cooled YZ. It didn't surprise me that the vintage rider was doing so well -- there were no jumps or whoops that really called for long-travel bikes. Obviously his bike had plenty of juice to motor him around quickly. By the end of the race I placed 9th out of 12 riders. Considering the mess at the start I thought that was ok. 250-D was 9 races away, so I decided to head back to my trailer for lunch and maybe a quick nap. [/QUOTE]
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