Stopwatch Nationals Glen Helen

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5/15/2026 9:16pm Edited Date/Time 5/15/2026 9:16pm

Raced GH last weekend and had a blast. Hadn't been out there since last Sepember. It was immediately the most fun I've had on any track in awhile, even with the more mild layout for the ARX guys.

All the coverage from today just makes me miss the national again. Pala blows as a spectator.

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5/15/2026 10:35pm
ML512 wrote:

I'm going to try to get out shoot it a bit, threw out my back earlier in the week and am still getting around kinda rough.

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Inversion table,  a staple in my regimen. 

Alright serious note.

Also messed my back. Thought the chiropractor.. would be a good start. Dumb, left feeling worse. 2 days still shitty.  Fucking  going Tuesday to get X-rays from a spine surgeon. LOL. Anyway, how’s the table. Cause once this issue goes away. I don’t want it coming back. 

5/15/2026 11:28pm

Mitch won’t give Temmerman a ride but he’ll run old McAdoo out there to go 13-DNF at Pala

Macadoo on the Davalos gun and ski mask program at this point 

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5/16/2026 4:14am

Rj warda and jeremy mccool in the results. Sounds like made up names for supercross the movie😂

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5/16/2026 6:04am Edited Date/Time 5/16/2026 6:52am
ML512 wrote:

I'm going to try to get out shoot it a bit, threw out my back earlier in the week and am still getting around kinda rough.

Flatliner wrote:

Inversion table,  a staple in my regimen. 

Blake522 wrote:
Alright serious note.Also messed my back. Thought the chiropractor.. would be a good start. Dumb, left feeling worse. 2 days still shitty.  Fucking  going Tuesday to...

Alright serious note.

Also messed my back. Thought the chiropractor.. would be a good start. Dumb, left feeling worse. 2 days still shitty.  Fucking  going Tuesday to get X-rays from a spine surgeon. LOL. Anyway, how’s the table. Cause once this issue goes away. I don’t want it coming back. 

Decades ago you'd see Hakan Carlqvist hanging from  a horizontal bar in his pits, with hooked ankle boots, between practice sessions and Motos.

Same with Paul Malin when he was still a test rider / writer for , I think it was , Dirt Bike Rider  Magazine ( Brit version) 

I tried it , and it helped my back problems a fair amount - can't try it now, as my Tibia would separate from my Femur, what with sweet FA holding them together with what's left of my artificial knee joints..... 

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5/16/2026 6:16am Edited Date/Time 5/16/2026 6:22am

Found some pics, that I think  came from a video  - one of the Duke videos, perhaps  -  legs / boots and horizontal bar cut out, but he definitely 'was hanging like a Bat' to ease some issues:

 

Hakan Carlqvist hanging upsdide down in between Motos .jpg?VersionId=KZM

Also found a pic of him washing what I think is an '89 CR500 - perhaps for someone else -  the Swedish Colours on the seat/ tank  rad shrouds indicates it's His  or a fellow Swede he may have been helping  :

HAkan Carlqvist with a 89 - I think - CR500
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5/16/2026 6:23am
Blake522 wrote:
Alright serious note.Also messed my back. Thought the chiropractor.. would be a good start. Dumb, left feeling worse. 2 days still shitty.  Fucking  going Tuesday to...

Alright serious note.

Also messed my back. Thought the chiropractor.. would be a good start. Dumb, left feeling worse. 2 days still shitty.  Fucking  going Tuesday to get X-rays from a spine surgeon. LOL. Anyway, how’s the table. Cause once this issue goes away. I don’t want it coming back. 

Not all chiro’s are the same. Try and find one who works with professional athletes—even if you have to travel. 

Surgeons have but one answer—-surgery. Last resort, in my book…. 

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5/16/2026 9:04am

They running 450 pros then 250 pros with a delayed gate today....  sounds like good fun... the live feed is up and going on YT rn... 

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5/16/2026 9:09am

Mitch won’t give Temmerman a ride but he’ll run old McAdoo out there to go 13-DNF at Pala

For real! What's he got to lose giving Enzo a shot? Whats the worst Enzo could do? Take out his teammates multiple years? Oh nevermind. 

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5/16/2026 9:19am

Lfgggg Phil!!

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5/16/2026 9:24am

Holeee shee yawttttt bammm bam..!

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5/16/2026 9:27am

Keefer leading the 250s

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5/16/2026 9:31am Edited Date/Time 5/16/2026 9:38am

This is such a cool event! I just like seeing big races on this track.

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5/16/2026 9:42am

I love how backyard this race is for such a big payout. Guys leading with no numbers, guys with one number on their back and a different number on their bike. Mechanics driving in homemade start grates before the race. Wild West!

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5/16/2026 9:42am
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Keefer leading the 250s

Is Keefer already on the Honda?

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5/16/2026 9:46am Edited Date/Time 5/16/2026 1:10pm
TheMilkman wrote:
I love how backyard this race is for such a big payout. Guys leading with no numbers, guys with one number on their back and a...

I love how backyard this race is for such a big payout. Guys leading with no numbers, guys with one number on their back and a different number on their bike. Mechanics driving in homemade start grates before the race. Wild West!

I was just thinking that. I love it! ...And somehow the coverage is better than peacock. They are on point with those replays.

Edit: Just imagine if all the track owners said fuck it and they created a whole series around this. All 1/12th owners, less rules, no AMA. I have to wonder what the overhead is like with this format, streaming and all that... Has to be exponentially cheaper to run.

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5/16/2026 9:48am Edited Date/Time 5/16/2026 9:51am
gt80rider wrote:

Keefer leading the 250s

NSP139 wrote:

Is Keefer already on the Honda?

Yes... he's looking good... p2 rn I think...

 

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Phil ain't playing today!!

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5/16/2026 10:01am Edited Date/Time 5/16/2026 10:01am

Bam bam, colt, rodbell, phil, hoeft, in 450s finish of moto 1

 

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5/16/2026 10:02am Edited Date/Time 5/16/2026 10:23am

Mumford, turner, Keefer 250s??? Transponder issues in the 250s..

Mumford, Ross, turner is the correct top 3

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5/16/2026 10:15am
Blake522 wrote:
Alright serious note.Also messed my back. Thought the chiropractor.. would be a good start. Dumb, left feeling worse. 2 days still shitty.  Fucking  going Tuesday to...

Alright serious note.

Also messed my back. Thought the chiropractor.. would be a good start. Dumb, left feeling worse. 2 days still shitty.  Fucking  going Tuesday to get X-rays from a spine surgeon. LOL. Anyway, how’s the table. Cause once this issue goes away. I don’t want it coming back. 

El Capitan wrote:
Not all chiro’s are the same. Try and find one who works with professional athletes—even if you have to travel. Surgeons have but one answer—-surgery. Last resort...

Not all chiro’s are the same. Try and find one who works with professional athletes—even if you have to travel. 

Surgeons have but one answer—-surgery. Last resort, in my book…. 

I’m sure there’s some local to me, I’ll look around. 
So far the 2 different opinions were herniated disc, and one flat out said it’s just muscle. 

The pain has been moving all over, consistent is lower/right side. But went from burning stabbin in my groin, that’s gone. Now burning stabbing in lower right.. I’ll call around. The table seems like a good idea once we’re pain free.

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5/16/2026 10:22am
gt80rider wrote:

Mumford, turner, Keefer 250s??? Transponder issues in the 250s..

Mumford, Ross, turner is the correct top 3

Ross was on the podium. Keefer got 4th I think. 

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5/16/2026 10:41am

Anyone know what happened to Derek Kelley?  Looks like he had a good start to the race, but the last 3 laps looked rough on timing and scoring.

5/16/2026 11:10am
scott_nz wrote:
there was a MXDN accounced once around the time the USGP ran there on the early 2010's, , and it just went away,   my guess...

there was a MXDN accounced once around the time the USGP ran there on the early 2010's, , and it just went away,   my guess is Bud pissed off them as well, 

Press516 wrote:
As I recall, the GP’s had no spectator attendance and they bailed…. The MXoN would not have that problem.But it was a fun watch today, track...

As I recall, the GP’s had no spectator attendance and they bailed…. The MXoN would not have that problem.

But it was a fun watch today, track looked good, but not too difficult.

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I was there in 2010, me and my buddy were about 5 percent of the attendance it felt like. It was crazy how few people were...

I was there in 2010, me and my buddy were about 5 percent of the attendance it felt like. It was crazy how few people were there. 

Worked security for that back gate at that event. Everyone coming in was from out of the country very few locals attended. I’d say 80% of the spectators where  European. 

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5/16/2026 12:23pm

Warm up lap rn.... moto 2 in a few... lfgggg Phil!!! 

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5/16/2026 12:30pm

Bam, mosiman, colt off the start 

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5/16/2026 12:32pm

Mumford, turner, Keefer off the start in 250s

5/16/2026 12:36pm
SoCalMX70 wrote:

This is such a cool event! I just like seeing big races on this track.

Its borderline criminal this track isn't on the National circuit. Reading the YouTube comments and everyone feels the same way. 

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