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Showing posts with label Wendover 300. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wendover 300. Show all posts
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Here are the official times from the race
Just as I suspected:( But look at all those that didn't finish!!! The #1 class A Quad beat all motorcycles but one!!!!
Monday, May 3, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Wow! Wendover 300 Was Wicked!!!
This nice little "beginner race" was 136 miles of pain and damage. With motorcycles, quads, and eve some SxSs falling to the brutal terrain. Jared and I both finished the race (Jared in 6th place with a time of 5hr 14mins and me right behind him (ok a 1/2 an hour behind) in 7 place with a time of 5hrs 43mins). Frankly I am just happy to have finished the race as I wiped out 3 times (no exageration, off my bike 3 complete times and all were painful). I will add more description of the pain later when I am more emotionally stable. It was a brutal destructive course, but I got 2 T-shirts for the $130 entry fee:).
For now here are a couple of the videos of us starting, coming in at the 85mile, or so, pit stop and finishing the race.
For now here are a couple of the videos of us starting, coming in at the 85mile, or so, pit stop and finishing the race.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Race Prep in Full Swing
All week I am coming home early to prep the two machines that will be making the trek to Wendover for our first ever competitive race. Today I changed the oil and tranny fluid in the TRX and finished up some of the touch up that was sorely needed (it is a pretty screaming beast and looks way bigger than the Raptor).
The Raptor got a bath, chain cleaned off, as well as some touch up on the frame and A arms. Last week it got a new air filter, batteries for the Trail Tech, and a new spark plug. I also adjusted the front shocks to make them softer (all the way down). For fun I painted the Super Trapp exhaust tip flat black (heat safe) as it was already on it's way to black. I took both bikes up the road and they are pretty equal in noise but the TRX really pulls harder.
This is a picture of the spark arrestor that I bought for the very expensive DASA Exhaust system the TRX has. Fortunately the Raptor has a spark arrestor already. I ordered a new brake rotor for the TRX and a swing arm guard, since (just like with the Raptor) the first time I had the TRX out I hit a rock and bent it, I also bought my number plates and number.
So I have spent way too much in prep for this 126mile race, traded away my motorcycle, and will have taken off about 3 days of work.
I have a feeling it will all be worth it (even if I break down a mile into the race). Oh, I have to let Dan know that the Raptors rear bearings feel like they are going (that will be next on the list to fix).
I can't wait!
The Raptor got a bath, chain cleaned off, as well as some touch up on the frame and A arms. Last week it got a new air filter, batteries for the Trail Tech, and a new spark plug. I also adjusted the front shocks to make them softer (all the way down). For fun I painted the Super Trapp exhaust tip flat black (heat safe) as it was already on it's way to black. I took both bikes up the road and they are pretty equal in noise but the TRX really pulls harder.
This is a picture of the spark arrestor that I bought for the very expensive DASA Exhaust system the TRX has. Fortunately the Raptor has a spark arrestor already. I ordered a new brake rotor for the TRX and a swing arm guard, since (just like with the Raptor) the first time I had the TRX out I hit a rock and bent it, I also bought my number plates and number.
So I have spent way too much in prep for this 126mile race, traded away my motorcycle, and will have taken off about 3 days of work.
I have a feeling it will all be worth it (even if I break down a mile into the race). Oh, I have to let Dan know that the Raptors rear bearings feel like they are going (that will be next on the list to fix).
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