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ben990
5/12/2018 2:05pm
5/12/2018 2:05pm
Edited Date/Time
5/14/2018 5:06am
Last Sunday was my first motocross race of the year. and the weather was perfect. 419 other riders thought the same and decided to join me at Hogback Hill in Palmyra NY. It was in the 60's, and partly cloudy, and the crew did a fantastic job of preparing the track and keeping the day moving fast.
It was the type of day where you didn't have to pressure wash your bike at all between motos, and the track got rough and rutted as the day progressed. They smoothed out some of the track during intermission, but a lot of the ruts and braking bumps were untouched, which I like. The rougher the better, is my motto..
I raced the 2 most competitive classes ever, +30 B and + 50 B.
+30 B went, well, OK. I went 10-10 for 10th out of 15 riders or so. Those young kids that are 20+ years younger than me just seem to be getting faster and not afraid to send it, while I seem to have more and more self preservation kicking in. There was a big step-up that I wasn't doing, and it killed my lap times. I would get a good start, and it seemed like every lap a rider or two would get me at this jump when I rolled it and they hucked it.
I did try it twice in my second +30B moto, and while the first time I did it successfully, the second time I was a tad short, and 220 pounds of me and 265 pounds of Alta hit the ground hard! I apologize in advance if I have knocked the earth off of its orbit, and we are now slowly drifting towards or away from the sun. Time will tell. After coming up short, I told myself, self, you got to make up for it in the corners. Jump for show, corner for dough... or a tacky plastic trophy. I refused to do it again.
+50B went way better! In the first moto, I got pinched off on the start, and was running mid-pack. I made quick work out of a couple riders, and found myself in 4th. I passed the guy in 3rd, and then he would pass me back over the big step up. WTF?! 50+ year olds are not supposed to "send it"! We repeated this for a couple laps; I dug deep on the last lap, passed him, and I ended up in 2nd place! I was psyched!
The second moto was one of the best I have ever had. I got a better start, and I went back and forth with 2 other riders the whole moto, and I got them both at the end. I got 2nd again, and the moto math worked in my favor; the 2-2 gave me 1st overall out of 16 riders.
My Alta is the funnest bike I have ever ridden, and I felt like it was cornering on rails... now I just need to head over to RockyMountainATV to get some "send it". I am coming up on 100 hours on my Alta, and it still rips like it did when it was brand new. It is an awesome machine.
Charging up between motos
This was what the battery looked like after 1 moto
I could actually hear the announcer talking about me when I went by
It was the type of day where you didn't have to pressure wash your bike at all between motos, and the track got rough and rutted as the day progressed. They smoothed out some of the track during intermission, but a lot of the ruts and braking bumps were untouched, which I like. The rougher the better, is my motto..
I raced the 2 most competitive classes ever, +30 B and + 50 B.
+30 B went, well, OK. I went 10-10 for 10th out of 15 riders or so. Those young kids that are 20+ years younger than me just seem to be getting faster and not afraid to send it, while I seem to have more and more self preservation kicking in. There was a big step-up that I wasn't doing, and it killed my lap times. I would get a good start, and it seemed like every lap a rider or two would get me at this jump when I rolled it and they hucked it.
I did try it twice in my second +30B moto, and while the first time I did it successfully, the second time I was a tad short, and 220 pounds of me and 265 pounds of Alta hit the ground hard! I apologize in advance if I have knocked the earth off of its orbit, and we are now slowly drifting towards or away from the sun. Time will tell. After coming up short, I told myself, self, you got to make up for it in the corners. Jump for show, corner for dough... or a tacky plastic trophy. I refused to do it again.
+50B went way better! In the first moto, I got pinched off on the start, and was running mid-pack. I made quick work out of a couple riders, and found myself in 4th. I passed the guy in 3rd, and then he would pass me back over the big step up. WTF?! 50+ year olds are not supposed to "send it"! We repeated this for a couple laps; I dug deep on the last lap, passed him, and I ended up in 2nd place! I was psyched!
The second moto was one of the best I have ever had. I got a better start, and I went back and forth with 2 other riders the whole moto, and I got them both at the end. I got 2nd again, and the moto math worked in my favor; the 2-2 gave me 1st overall out of 16 riders.
My Alta is the funnest bike I have ever ridden, and I felt like it was cornering on rails... now I just need to head over to RockyMountainATV to get some "send it". I am coming up on 100 hours on my Alta, and it still rips like it did when it was brand new. It is an awesome machine.
Charging up between motos
This was what the battery looked like after 1 moto
I could actually hear the announcer talking about me when I went by
Your crash story is probably going to be in the back of my mind now, and I'll never send it
The Shop
Nice to read from someone who is racing on new technologies
Would love to try this bike sometime.
I usually like to start on the inside, because on the Alta it is so easy to grab the inside line and squirt ahead of clumps of riders if I am not up at the front.
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