Todd kellet makes it look easy

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Quite the sneak line at 1:20
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That’s impressive speed. He accelerates so quick it looks like everyone else is on a pit bike.
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Impressive riding and line choice.
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I don't get what I am looking at here. Did the rest of the guys decide to run a street bike tire on the rear? Very confused...
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NorCal1975 wrote:
I don't get what I am looking at here. Did the rest of the guys decide to run a street bike tire on the rear? Very...
I don't get what I am looking at here. Did the rest of the guys decide to run a street bike tire on the rear? Very confused...
What your seeing is a sand riding professional vs average Joe
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He’s been riding Weston since he was a boy!! Crazy these expert sand riders!! Unreal.
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It's a great race, done it many times. The average rider can't compute the track in the same way as the top guys as you can see from that film. Kellet has become one of the great sand riders if his generation.
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I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston.

Why is that?

Scheduling?

Not enough 'prize' money?

I think there's big money to be made, say at Le Touqet (sp?) and other big Beach races. They've often drawn high level GP riders to have a tilt against the specialists. Though, a lot have found it not to be easy money.

I'm just curious - there's blokes that do the Beach Race 'thing' as a Profession / big part of their Career, and with Weston being So long running, and So significant, we would have seen much more participation from those across the channel.

Does Todd Kellett do any / many of the Euro races?
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The latest Billy Bolt vlog has Weston in it, he says at end he is looking to do it next year 👍
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Bearuno wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston. Why is that? Scheduling? Not enough 'prize' money? I...
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston.

Why is that?

Scheduling?

Not enough 'prize' money?

I think there's big money to be made, say at Le Touqet (sp?) and other big Beach races. They've often drawn high level GP riders to have a tilt against the specialists. Though, a lot have found it not to be easy money.

I'm just curious - there's blokes that do the Beach Race 'thing' as a Profession / big part of their Career, and with Weston being So long running, and So significant, we would have seen much more participation from those across the channel.

Does Todd Kellett do any / many of the Euro races?
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach..

All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water on the straight at worst, but the water table is decent, so you can dig a hole , and its a hole. so you can race it like a proper race.

At Weston, the water table is 2mm below the surface, so you dig a hole an inch deep, its an inch deep in water. The track is built to make it slow and messy, which it is , but you dont have a 50kmh speed difference between the fast and slow guys like they do over there.

I seem to recall that when the Red Bull Pro series ran an MX type race on the beach, a few came to do that , and one of them asked 'where is the fucking sand'..

It was supposed to be the first round of the CDS (French Series) a few weeks ago but the tanker drivers were kicking off again, so there was no fuel, this weekend is at Loon Plage, Dunkirk, i expect Kellet to be there, and he is slated to be back at Skegness , which is s short track race , in bottomless sand, next week.

The thing for me, is that all of Kellet's 5 wins, came after his brother had a huge crash at Weston , that saw the event cancelled ( i am guessing 2013 ish) , and his brother raced again this year and finished inside the top 50 , after a first lap crash again, despite breaking 2 bones in his wrist.




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He has it pretty well sussed, when he goes by you on the beach it’s like he’s racing on flat tarmac the speed is insane!
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Bearuno wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston. Why is that? Scheduling? Not enough 'prize' money? I...
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston.

Why is that?

Scheduling?

Not enough 'prize' money?

I think there's big money to be made, say at Le Touqet (sp?) and other big Beach races. They've often drawn high level GP riders to have a tilt against the specialists. Though, a lot have found it not to be easy money.

I'm just curious - there's blokes that do the Beach Race 'thing' as a Profession / big part of their Career, and with Weston being So long running, and So significant, we would have seen much more participation from those across the channel.

Does Todd Kellett do any / many of the Euro races?
philG wrote:
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach.. All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water...
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach..

All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water on the straight at worst, but the water table is decent, so you can dig a hole , and its a hole. so you can race it like a proper race.

At Weston, the water table is 2mm below the surface, so you dig a hole an inch deep, its an inch deep in water. The track is built to make it slow and messy, which it is , but you dont have a 50kmh speed difference between the fast and slow guys like they do over there.

I seem to recall that when the Red Bull Pro series ran an MX type race on the beach, a few came to do that , and one of them asked 'where is the fucking sand'..

It was supposed to be the first round of the CDS (French Series) a few weeks ago but the tanker drivers were kicking off again, so there was no fuel, this weekend is at Loon Plage, Dunkirk, i expect Kellet to be there, and he is slated to be back at Skegness , which is s short track race , in bottomless sand, next week.

The thing for me, is that all of Kellet's 5 wins, came after his brother had a huge crash at Weston , that saw the event cancelled ( i am guessing 2013 ish) , and his brother raced again this year and finished inside the top 50 , after a first lap crash again, despite breaking 2 bones in his wrist.




Ty’s crash was 2009 Phil, time goes by too quickly. They changed the start after that year as there was also a really serious but less well documented crash in the quad/sidecar race on the Saturday, one guy reached for a tear off and pulled his cut out… he got rear ended by another couple of quads… it shortened the length of one quad by almost a foot it hit that hard, the police had to come and inspect the damage it was that serious… From 2010 onwards the start goes 200 meters or so towards the town end of the beach then swings 180 degrees over a small dune before blasting down the main straight, it is A LOT safer now…

Weston has drawn some massive names over the years including Dave Thorpe, Kurt Nicoll, Stefan Everts, Jeffrey Herlings, Billy Bolt, Steve Ramon, Travis Pastrana, Ken DeDyker, Tyler Rattray, Mike Brown, Robbie Maddison, David Knight, Paul Edmondson, Shaun Simpson… plus a lot more World motocross and Enduro racers, top US Quad racers, French beach racing specialists on bikes and quads and several Grand Prix sidecarcross teams…

Todd is a beast at Weston and it’s going to take a mechanical issue or someone very, very fast to stop him winning quite a few more Weston’s he’s got to be due a win at LeTouquet too, might hop on a ferry and go to watch it again in the new year.
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Hey Sidecar.

Have you stopped doing Weston?

I'm aware of the past big names that have done it. Indeed, in a recent clean up of my various Brit Magazines, I took the time to keep a few (few hundred, it seems) that had features that I wanted. Quite a few had Weston coverage - cripes, it's been going for a long time.

I was more referring to the blokes I see over time, that really seem to specialize in the Beach Races. I'm almost certain I'll get it wrong, but blokes like Milko Potosek ( I've very definitely got the name and spelling wrong, it's just an example) that seem to always be in results at Big Beach races.

And PhilGs "more of a Mud Flat than a beach" made me chuckle.

What you need is to have a Brit 'Beach' race on a shingles / pebble 'beach' ............ = Evil Utter Hell on Earth Evil .

To be quite honest, Beach Racing never looks remotely like fun to me. I get to ride enough bloody sand as it is, without being surrounded by / impeded by / run over by squillions of riders. I did one here quite a few years ago ( there's not that many here in OZ, even though we've all that coastline), so, while parts of it were fun, such as going warp factor 10 on the solid, wet sand, and timing waves, the rest of it just absolutely ruined the bike. And that was without all of those horrendous traffic jams.
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Bearuno wrote:
Hey Sidecar. Have you stopped doing Weston? I'm aware of the past big names that have done it. Indeed, in a recent clean up of my...
Hey Sidecar.

Have you stopped doing Weston?

I'm aware of the past big names that have done it. Indeed, in a recent clean up of my various Brit Magazines, I took the time to keep a few (few hundred, it seems) that had features that I wanted. Quite a few had Weston coverage - cripes, it's been going for a long time.

I was more referring to the blokes I see over time, that really seem to specialize in the Beach Races. I'm almost certain I'll get it wrong, but blokes like Milko Potosek ( I've very definitely got the name and spelling wrong, it's just an example) that seem to always be in results at Big Beach races.

And PhilGs "more of a Mud Flat than a beach" made me chuckle.

What you need is to have a Brit 'Beach' race on a shingles / pebble 'beach' ............ = Evil Utter Hell on Earth Evil .

To be quite honest, Beach Racing never looks remotely like fun to me. I get to ride enough bloody sand as it is, without being surrounded by / impeded by / run over by squillions of riders. I did one here quite a few years ago ( there's not that many here in OZ, even though we've all that coastline), so, while parts of it were fun, such as going warp factor 10 on the solid, wet sand, and timing waves, the rest of it just absolutely ruined the bike. And that was without all of those horrendous traffic jams.
Hey… no we did Weston last weekend.
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Bearuno wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston. Why is that? Scheduling? Not enough 'prize' money? I...
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston.

Why is that?

Scheduling?

Not enough 'prize' money?

I think there's big money to be made, say at Le Touqet (sp?) and other big Beach races. They've often drawn high level GP riders to have a tilt against the specialists. Though, a lot have found it not to be easy money.

I'm just curious - there's blokes that do the Beach Race 'thing' as a Profession / big part of their Career, and with Weston being So long running, and So significant, we would have seen much more participation from those across the channel.

Does Todd Kellett do any / many of the Euro races?
philG wrote:
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach.. All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water...
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach..

All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water on the straight at worst, but the water table is decent, so you can dig a hole , and its a hole. so you can race it like a proper race.

At Weston, the water table is 2mm below the surface, so you dig a hole an inch deep, its an inch deep in water. The track is built to make it slow and messy, which it is , but you dont have a 50kmh speed difference between the fast and slow guys like they do over there.

I seem to recall that when the Red Bull Pro series ran an MX type race on the beach, a few came to do that , and one of them asked 'where is the fucking sand'..

It was supposed to be the first round of the CDS (French Series) a few weeks ago but the tanker drivers were kicking off again, so there was no fuel, this weekend is at Loon Plage, Dunkirk, i expect Kellet to be there, and he is slated to be back at Skegness , which is s short track race , in bottomless sand, next week.

The thing for me, is that all of Kellet's 5 wins, came after his brother had a huge crash at Weston , that saw the event cancelled ( i am guessing 2013 ish) , and his brother raced again this year and finished inside the top 50 , after a first lap crash again, despite breaking 2 bones in his wrist.




Sidecar wrote:
Ty’s crash was 2009 Phil, time goes by too quickly. They changed the start after that year as there was also a really serious but less...
Ty’s crash was 2009 Phil, time goes by too quickly. They changed the start after that year as there was also a really serious but less well documented crash in the quad/sidecar race on the Saturday, one guy reached for a tear off and pulled his cut out… he got rear ended by another couple of quads… it shortened the length of one quad by almost a foot it hit that hard, the police had to come and inspect the damage it was that serious… From 2010 onwards the start goes 200 meters or so towards the town end of the beach then swings 180 degrees over a small dune before blasting down the main straight, it is A LOT safer now…

Weston has drawn some massive names over the years including Dave Thorpe, Kurt Nicoll, Stefan Everts, Jeffrey Herlings, Billy Bolt, Steve Ramon, Travis Pastrana, Ken DeDyker, Tyler Rattray, Mike Brown, Robbie Maddison, David Knight, Paul Edmondson, Shaun Simpson… plus a lot more World motocross and Enduro racers, top US Quad racers, French beach racing specialists on bikes and quads and several Grand Prix sidecarcross teams…

Todd is a beast at Weston and it’s going to take a mechanical issue or someone very, very fast to stop him winning quite a few more Weston’s he’s got to be due a win at LeTouquet too, might hop on a ferry and go to watch it again in the new year.
I guess it would be that long ago, i was there crewing for Ben and Nathan Watson, and they were 150's LOL.

I stopped riding it because of the start TBH, last time i rode there , they ran heats, and i led the second one up the straight on my 500 Honda , which was awesome until i i realised that if it seized, i was a dead man.

That was 86, i finished in 87 on the same 500, and after that i had already got folks who wanted my bikes at the end of the season, provided they didnt do Weston.

Great to see its still busy, back when it started it was one race , with quads , sidecars and solo's and it was nuts.

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Sidecar wrote:
Hey… no we did Weston last weekend. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/10/30/575029/s1200_9FC1CBAD_67BA_4A6C_B605_2A08113708F7.jpg[/img]
Hey… no we did Weston last weekend.
Like the Look Over!

Who's passing Who there?

Just saw the Skegness thread.
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I counted 12,587 passes.
I think you're right.
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Sidecar wrote:
Hey… no we did Weston last weekend. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2022/10/30/575029/s1200_9FC1CBAD_67BA_4A6C_B605_2A08113708F7.jpg[/img]
Hey… no we did Weston last weekend.
Bearuno wrote:
Like the Look Over!

Who's passing Who there?

Just saw the Skegness thread.
It was a bit of a drag race… the quad came past us about half way down the straight… I thought I’m not having this so passed him back then he out braked us down at the far end of the beach and passed us back, I have it on my go pro…
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philG wrote:
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach.. All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water...
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach..

All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water on the straight at worst, but the water table is decent, so you can dig a hole , and its a hole. so you can race it like a proper race.

At Weston, the water table is 2mm below the surface, so you dig a hole an inch deep, its an inch deep in water. The track is built to make it slow and messy, which it is , but you dont have a 50kmh speed difference between the fast and slow guys like they do over there.

I seem to recall that when the Red Bull Pro series ran an MX type race on the beach, a few came to do that , and one of them asked 'where is the fucking sand'..

It was supposed to be the first round of the CDS (French Series) a few weeks ago but the tanker drivers were kicking off again, so there was no fuel, this weekend is at Loon Plage, Dunkirk, i expect Kellet to be there, and he is slated to be back at Skegness , which is s short track race , in bottomless sand, next week.

The thing for me, is that all of Kellet's 5 wins, came after his brother had a huge crash at Weston , that saw the event cancelled ( i am guessing 2013 ish) , and his brother raced again this year and finished inside the top 50 , after a first lap crash again, despite breaking 2 bones in his wrist.




Sidecar wrote:
Ty’s crash was 2009 Phil, time goes by too quickly. They changed the start after that year as there was also a really serious but less...
Ty’s crash was 2009 Phil, time goes by too quickly. They changed the start after that year as there was also a really serious but less well documented crash in the quad/sidecar race on the Saturday, one guy reached for a tear off and pulled his cut out… he got rear ended by another couple of quads… it shortened the length of one quad by almost a foot it hit that hard, the police had to come and inspect the damage it was that serious… From 2010 onwards the start goes 200 meters or so towards the town end of the beach then swings 180 degrees over a small dune before blasting down the main straight, it is A LOT safer now…

Weston has drawn some massive names over the years including Dave Thorpe, Kurt Nicoll, Stefan Everts, Jeffrey Herlings, Billy Bolt, Steve Ramon, Travis Pastrana, Ken DeDyker, Tyler Rattray, Mike Brown, Robbie Maddison, David Knight, Paul Edmondson, Shaun Simpson… plus a lot more World motocross and Enduro racers, top US Quad racers, French beach racing specialists on bikes and quads and several Grand Prix sidecarcross teams…

Todd is a beast at Weston and it’s going to take a mechanical issue or someone very, very fast to stop him winning quite a few more Weston’s he’s got to be due a win at LeTouquet too, might hop on a ferry and go to watch it again in the new year.
philG wrote:
I guess it would be that long ago, i was there crewing for Ben and Nathan Watson, and they were 150's LOL. I stopped riding it...
I guess it would be that long ago, i was there crewing for Ben and Nathan Watson, and they were 150's LOL.

I stopped riding it because of the start TBH, last time i rode there , they ran heats, and i led the second one up the straight on my 500 Honda , which was awesome until i i realised that if it seized, i was a dead man.

That was 86, i finished in 87 on the same 500, and after that i had already got folks who wanted my bikes at the end of the season, provided they didnt do Weston.

Great to see its still busy, back when it started it was one race , with quads , sidecars and solo's and it was nuts.

People talk about Foxhills and Farleigh, Matterley and the WSX in Cardiff being big, and they are relatively… but Weston blows them all out of the water for the sheer size of the event… it is massive, when Rob and I walked from our van in the pit area up onto the beach, through the trade area etc it’s the closest we will ever come to being like a GP rider, high fiving kids, having our photos taken etc it’s mega…
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10/30/2022 11:20am
One could argue that the vast majority of the people entered into this race have no business entering this race.
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Bearuno wrote:
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston. Why is that? Scheduling? Not enough 'prize' money? I...
I don't think I've ever seen many of the French / European Beach Race professionals do Weston.

Why is that?

Scheduling?

Not enough 'prize' money?

I think there's big money to be made, say at Le Touqet (sp?) and other big Beach races. They've often drawn high level GP riders to have a tilt against the specialists. Though, a lot have found it not to be easy money.

I'm just curious - there's blokes that do the Beach Race 'thing' as a Profession / big part of their Career, and with Weston being So long running, and So significant, we would have seen much more participation from those across the channel.

Does Todd Kellett do any / many of the Euro races?
philG wrote:
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach.. All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water...
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach..

All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water on the straight at worst, but the water table is decent, so you can dig a hole , and its a hole. so you can race it like a proper race.

At Weston, the water table is 2mm below the surface, so you dig a hole an inch deep, its an inch deep in water. The track is built to make it slow and messy, which it is , but you dont have a 50kmh speed difference between the fast and slow guys like they do over there.

I seem to recall that when the Red Bull Pro series ran an MX type race on the beach, a few came to do that , and one of them asked 'where is the fucking sand'..

It was supposed to be the first round of the CDS (French Series) a few weeks ago but the tanker drivers were kicking off again, so there was no fuel, this weekend is at Loon Plage, Dunkirk, i expect Kellet to be there, and he is slated to be back at Skegness , which is s short track race , in bottomless sand, next week.

The thing for me, is that all of Kellet's 5 wins, came after his brother had a huge crash at Weston , that saw the event cancelled ( i am guessing 2013 ish) , and his brother raced again this year and finished inside the top 50 , after a first lap crash again, despite breaking 2 bones in his wrist.




Sidecar wrote:
Ty’s crash was 2009 Phil, time goes by too quickly. They changed the start after that year as there was also a really serious but less...
Ty’s crash was 2009 Phil, time goes by too quickly. They changed the start after that year as there was also a really serious but less well documented crash in the quad/sidecar race on the Saturday, one guy reached for a tear off and pulled his cut out… he got rear ended by another couple of quads… it shortened the length of one quad by almost a foot it hit that hard, the police had to come and inspect the damage it was that serious… From 2010 onwards the start goes 200 meters or so towards the town end of the beach then swings 180 degrees over a small dune before blasting down the main straight, it is A LOT safer now…

Weston has drawn some massive names over the years including Dave Thorpe, Kurt Nicoll, Stefan Everts, Jeffrey Herlings, Billy Bolt, Steve Ramon, Travis Pastrana, Ken DeDyker, Tyler Rattray, Mike Brown, Robbie Maddison, David Knight, Paul Edmondson, Shaun Simpson… plus a lot more World motocross and Enduro racers, top US Quad racers, French beach racing specialists on bikes and quads and several Grand Prix sidecarcross teams…

Todd is a beast at Weston and it’s going to take a mechanical issue or someone very, very fast to stop him winning quite a few more Weston’s he’s got to be due a win at LeTouquet too, might hop on a ferry and go to watch it again in the new year.
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One could argue that the vast majority of the people entered into this race have no business entering this race.
There are no real novices out there, it’s a tough event… it’s just the top 20-30 are really really good at it and make descent riders look average…
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One could argue that the vast majority of the people entered into this race have no business entering this race.
So using your logic the 40,000 that do the London marathon should stay at home and let the pros battle it out. Your words express an ignorance of the whole spirit of Weston and other beach races. What a d..k statement.
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One could argue that the vast majority of the people entered into this race have no business entering this race.
Unless you've done it, it's tough to understand.

The 80/90% of average dudes who tackle the beach are what make the event possible, and without the huge numbers of riders the event wouldn't be what it is.

The top 20% attack and race the track with aggression and speed. The rest it's about consistency, saving the bike and most importantly saving yourself. 3 hours on the beach is exhausting.
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philG wrote:
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach.. All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water...
Because its more of a mud flat than a beach..

All the French races are proper beaches with sand, and a slope, Le Touquet gets water on the straight at worst, but the water table is decent, so you can dig a hole , and its a hole. so you can race it like a proper race.

At Weston, the water table is 2mm below the surface, so you dig a hole an inch deep, its an inch deep in water. The track is built to make it slow and messy, which it is , but you dont have a 50kmh speed difference between the fast and slow guys like they do over there.

I seem to recall that when the Red Bull Pro series ran an MX type race on the beach, a few came to do that , and one of them asked 'where is the fucking sand'..

It was supposed to be the first round of the CDS (French Series) a few weeks ago but the tanker drivers were kicking off again, so there was no fuel, this weekend is at Loon Plage, Dunkirk, i expect Kellet to be there, and he is slated to be back at Skegness , which is s short track race , in bottomless sand, next week.

The thing for me, is that all of Kellet's 5 wins, came after his brother had a huge crash at Weston , that saw the event cancelled ( i am guessing 2013 ish) , and his brother raced again this year and finished inside the top 50 , after a first lap crash again, despite breaking 2 bones in his wrist.




@philG - I went to Morzine with some friends, one of whom came with Ty. After a great day on the bikes, Ty recounted that day and the events thereafter that his family went through and it was beyond eye-opening. Fair play to him, and Todd, for continuing and being as great as they are on a bike.

Side note; Ty is wicked good on a MTB too!
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How in the world did they ever accurately score these races before electronic scoring became a thing?

Someday I'm gonna make it over there for one of these, they seem so awesome.

I don't imagine they have many "rent to race" services for these like they do some of the Extreme Races? Seems like the bike would need to be torn down to the frame and probably every bearing just tossed in the trash....
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10/31/2022 10:33am
LungButter wrote:
How in the world did they ever accurately score these races before electronic scoring became a thing? Someday I'm gonna make it over there for one...
How in the world did they ever accurately score these races before electronic scoring became a thing?

Someday I'm gonna make it over there for one of these, they seem so awesome.

I don't imagine they have many "rent to race" services for these like they do some of the Extreme Races? Seems like the bike would need to be torn down to the frame and probably every bearing just tossed in the trash....
You used to have to go slowly through a single file lane, sometimes for different classes like 125, 250, 500 and trikes, quads and sidecars back in the day when everyone was in one big race.
Yes it’s pretty tough on the bike but not too bad, I’ve done lots of beach races, both Weston and Skegness and I’ve a friend who has used the same KX250 2 stroke every year for the last 19 years, he does look after it well though.
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10/31/2022 10:46am
teamddr wrote:
So using your logic the 40,000 that do the London marathon should stay at home and let the pros battle it out. Your words express an...
So using your logic the 40,000 that do the London marathon should stay at home and let the pros battle it out. Your words express an ignorance of the whole spirit of Weston and other beach races. What a d..k statement.
If the 40,000 people who entered the London Marathon just stopped and stood in the middle of the course, then yes, they should stay at home.
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