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Wild Boar Enduro 3/14
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[QUOTE="endoquest, post: 750156, member: 20816"] [b]Great Race/Bad Luck[/b] Hello all, great to see you there and mix it up in the pits. This was a very long weekend for me. Worth it, but very long. Friday after work, I loaded up and headed south from my humble abode in Eugene. After five hours of night driving I pulled over at a Mal-Wart in Redding for a few winks. Lucky me, I had the pleasure of utilizing "Ignacio's Parking Lot Sweeping Service's" complimentary wake-up call at 4:30 Saturday morning. The remaining seven hours of the trip were uneventful if not downright boaring. Actually, once I got off the Interstate, things perked up a bit. When I arrived at Clear Creek, Buddy and Mini flagged me down gave me a spot, thx. A bunch of other DRNers were there. Ret Senior, Uncle Moose, Farmer John, Getmetoca and others. Didn't meet placelast, zelpo, plyswfire or others but that's the way it goes sometimes. Lot's of stuff going on. I spent the rest of the day prepping the bike, signing up, talking to friends, etc. I managed to get an early minute(12) with my local friend, a long time D-36 A-rider. Race day began like all race days. Get up three hours earlier than you need to because you can't sleep, then wait for the race to start. My minute finally arrived and I was off! Whooppee! The opening trail was dusty and rutted but still it was great to be riding again. It had been a whole week! At the 2.9 mile odo check I noticed some flags around the next turn. Uh-Oh! Bang! Right into a special test. Clubs do this to "Get you warmed up". I let my local buddy, we'll call him "Quacky", go in front to show me the good lines and keep a fast pace. The dust was pretty bad but in the tighter trails it wasn't a problem. About a mile into this test, yes, about 4 miles into the 87-mile race, we crested a hill and followed a ridge. Clicking up the gears, the other guy on our minute passes me and stirs up a whopping cloud of dust. I thought I was in a good line but all of a sudden-BANG! ............THUD. While in the upper part of third gear, I happened across a large crack in the ground, unseen. The front end hit the other side so hard that it completely compressed the forks and lifted me and the bike a few feet in the air. I landed ten feet passed the crack, on the bike, both wheels landing at the same time. I don't think the rear tire ever hit. It jammed my wrists really bad. I thought I had re-broken me left and I couldn't feel me right. All this happened instantly but seemed to last forever. I checked myself out, could move the hands and the feeling was coming back. The bike looked OK at that point but the forks started leaking immediately. I took off after a minute or so, after all, this was a special test at the start of a long race. Whooppee! I got through the check-out, dropped four points. I soldiered on in my usual ham-fisted stubborn way. My wrists were a bit swollen but felt better. The trails were great. Nasty rock sections. Really tight "Wild Boar" tunnel trails under the brush. Call me an idiot but there were a few times when I actually thought I was one of them! The next few checks were timekeepers. One of them had to be figured as a possible long before so I pinned it to the last tenth. I crested a hill and there it was but, Oh No! I still had forty seconds on the keytime! I managed to not burn it, phew! The second special test started with an easy timekeeper. It was faster than the first for the most part led us into a rock garden that really took points. I biffed in the whoops on this one but only lost a few seconds. I was riding pretty badly and tried to snap out of it. "Relax" I told myself. "It's only a race". "650 miles from home". "1300 round trip". "Sponsors like good results!". It wasn't working. The welcome gas stop gave me time to look at the bike. Both forks were leaking but the left was worse. Naturally, the BRAKE happens to be on this side. The pads were getting oily too. Whooppee! The second loop started out with a rude awakening. Although my computer said I was on time, when I got to the sixth check I was 3 minutes late. "What?" I said. I didn't have time to fiddle with my computer since this was obviously an In-check. I took off and started to at least keep 24-mph in sight. I was NOT happy but knew that it was my fault, one way or the other. It just so happened that the special test lasted for an HOUR and was 20-miles long. Whooppee! About half way through it I blow a turn because my front brake didn't work. Then it happened again. And again. Also, to make things a little more interesting, my forks start clanking and bottoming. There wasn't much fluid left in there! Whooppee! I had to slow down. One thing I won't do is DNF. I decided to go for the finish but still try to keep a good pace. At the reset I was still late but made up some time. For the last ten miles my brake started working again, I think all the fluid was gone. I was punished. I like that. I'll be back. Someone told me I got Fifth place Open A but I don't believe them. I sat in my trailer step for a while. Happy to finish a good old gnarly enduro again. I left Clear Creek around 4:00, got to Redding at 11:00. Ignacio was right on time Monday morning! Cheers, Endoquest. [/QUOTE]
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