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My 19 year old daughter prodded me into entering us in a 65 mile cross country race this weekend in Texas. This will be my first dirt race in ten years and her first dirt race ever.

So a 6 hour drive to get there. 65 miles of rocks and woops and a 6 hour drive back home. This could be interesting.

Heading out in the morning and be back Sunday night [maybe]. Jim
 
comnoz said:
My 19 year old daughter prodded me into entering us in a 65 mile cross country race this weekend in Texas. This will be my first dirt race in ten years and her first dirt race ever.

So a 6 hour drive to get there. 65 miles of rocks and woops and a 6 hour drive back home. This could be interesting.

Heading out in the morning and be back Sunday night [maybe]. Jim
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Well, GOOD luck Jim !!! We will be looking forward to an "AAR" (After Action Report) on this thread on how it went. Cheers :)
 
JIm you got some spinal and limb stuff to be aware of so don't try to show off with the low endurance reserves. Wish the bikes and the pilots and the vehicles and traffic and weather turn out great.
 
Well the daughter and I both made it through alive. My daughter had to pass on the last special test section as she was out of fuel.
[both gasoline and the ability to hold onto the handlebars]

Got home at 10 last night and was able to get out of bed this morning [slowly] so I guess that makes me a winner. :wink:
There were an awful lot of people who came back on the trailers with the cleanup crew after crashing, breaking or just giving up. It was a tough course with some serious dust issues. I had one get-off after loosing sight of the ground due to dust.

I didn't get any pictures as only my daughter and I made the trip. I don't know yet where I placed. We cut out before the results were tallied but there is no question- I didn't make a podium finish. Jim
 
Well done! We didn't have dust issues down south this weekend, it drizzled most of the time that it wasn't raining.
 
The results are posted.

My daughter got 4th place in the ladies class and I got 7th place in senior class. No complaints. Jim
 
Well you deserve to be pleased with yourself and daughter. Do ya think a C'do could be configured to be competitive in such scrambles?
 
hobot said:
Well you deserve to be pleased with yourself and daughter. Do ya think a C'do could be configured to be competitive in such scrambles?
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Well I wouldn't say it couldn't be done but I wouldn't want to be the guy muscling that much weight around. About 230 to 240 lbs is about the max weight of the open class competition.
 
comnoz said:
The results are posted.

My daughter got 4th place in the ladies class and I got 7th place in senior class. No complaints. Jim
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Blimey, well done Jim and ms Comstock Jnr!
The congratulations is, however, based on the assumption that there were more than 4 entries in the ladies class and 7 in the seniors!!
 
Fast Eddie said:
comnoz said:
The results are posted.

My daughter got 4th place in the ladies class and I got 7th place in senior class. No complaints. Jim
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Blimey, well done Jim and ms Comstock Jnr!
The congratulations is, however, based on the assumption that there were more than 4 entries in the ladies class and 7 in the seniors!!
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There were a lot of DNF's. We were about mid pack among the finishers. Jim
 
Regards using a Norton for serious off roading- I recall the day I sampled my first two stroke lightweight racing dirtbike about 40 + Years ago. It was an Ossa 230 setup by Dave Wildman for flatrack racing at Portland. To compare any Norton or old Britbike of the day to that bike in the dirt would be like putting a Chev Belair up against an F1 car for roadracing.
And that was before 12" front and rear suspension showed up on the 80s Maicos and the like. Then still later more effective brakes appeared.
I would not want to go back to slogging around on an overweight tractor of a bike for dirt riding, it would take all the fun out of it.
On top of that there is no four stroke I have ever ridden that could hang with an open class two stroke for acceleration, not even the current crop of four strokes, good as they are.

Glen
 
comnoz said:
Fast Eddie said:
comnoz said:
The results are posted.

My daughter got 4th place in the ladies class and I got 7th place in senior class. No complaints. Jim
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Blimey, well done Jim and ms Comstock Jnr!
The congratulations is, however, based on the assumption that there were more than 4 entries in the ladies class and 7 in the seniors!!
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There were a lot of DNF's. We were about mid pack among the finishers. Jim
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How doe that saying go: "To finish first, you first have to finish" or something like that.

Anyway, I was only pulling your leg Jim... Not being a regular competitor, you did well just to enter, never mind finish, never mind beat plenty !!
 
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