Posted by Tim H on May 15, 2009, 3:53 pm
My dream/nightmare continues...
Last weekend was the Golden Spike Hare Scrambles, which is a very
interesting race held on the grounds of an abandoned logging mill. The
Stumpjumpers M/C lays out a 7.5 mile track in the woods surrounding
the mill, on the paved parking/log storage area, and through some of
the buildings/open work sheds of the mill. About 1-1/2 miles of the
course is on asphalt or cement. The pavement is used in several
sections, so they start on the asphalt with a LONG starting straight,
like about 3/8 mile to the first real turn, so everyone gets to see
how fast their bike is on the rev limiter. Then they dive back into
the woods for a while, more pavement, woods, through the mill
buildings, woods, bark piles, concrete loading dock jumps, woods,
pavement, woods, etc, etc. It looked pretty damn fun, and the riders
all seemed to agree. I was bummed to not have my bike done yet; the
GasGas 98 mph top speed with stock gearing would have been really nice
at this race.
Anyway, they ran the short course race in the morning for the C
classes, age groups, women, sandbaggers, people like that. Our buddy
Ben "Bear" Baucum was at the race with his Oregon buddies, like he has
been at all of our NMA races this season. This time he raced too, only
the sandbagger signed up in the Open C class (so he'd be free for
photography when his buddy was racing the long course later), then
went out and smoked them by over 5 minutes on second place. He was
kind of embarrassed.
The long race for AA, A, and B classes started at 11:30. Scott's Open
B class (for the Offroad Series, Open A in Enduro) was the 6th wave,
and started with 45 bikes on the line. Scott's 250XC fired on the
first kick, as usual, and got him off the line in 4th place, but by
the time they reached the other end of the start straight a few of the
"real" open class bikes (525's, 450's, stuff like that) had reeled him
in, so he was about 7th or 8th through the first real turn. Scott ran
quite well for the first 2 hours and 15 minutes, staying in the top 5
in his class and running pretty consistent 17 minute lap times, but in
the last couple of laps he got quite nauseous and his lap times
dropped off to 21's. Still, when the 3 hour mark came and the race
ended, Scott wound up 7th out of 45 in open B. He had a ball, wore
half the knob height off his rear tire, and is learning a lot about
this Hare Scrambles racing. He gets better every time he's on the
bike. We think the nausea thing was a result of not racing until late
morning instead of starting with a 9AM Key time. We'll need to adjust
our race day eating schedule in the future.
Ben's race report can be read here (may need to cut and paste in your
browser):
http://www.examiner.com/x-9668-Portland-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2009m5d11-2009-Golden-Spike-Hare-Scramble
Ben's buddy Jake's report on the long course, and photos (and links to
more photos) can be seen at Tami's new stomping grounds at Cafe Husky
here: http://www.cafehusky.com/forums/showthread.php?p2643#post32643
Note that the first picture posted in the "long course pictures" is
our boy Scott looking focused.
This coming weekend, it's the return of the Webfoot Enduro, running
for the first time in years. It's nice to get an Enduro back. This
one'll be all Scott again, because I STILL haven't finished working on
MY bike. Damn spoiled kids.
Tim H
Posted by Mike Baxter on May 15, 2009, 4:59 pm
Please tell me that the stator fixed it!
Mike
wrote:
>My dream/nightmare continues...
>Last weekend was the Golden Spike Hare Scrambles, which is a very
>interesting race held on the grounds of an abandoned logging mill. The
>Stumpjumpers M/C lays out a 7.5 mile track in the woods surrounding
>the mill, on the paved parking/log storage area, and through some of
>the buildings/open work sheds of the mill. About 1-1/2 miles of the
>course is on asphalt or cement. The pavement is used in several
>sections, so they start on the asphalt with a LONG starting straight,
>like about 3/8 mile to the first real turn, so everyone gets to see
>how fast their bike is on the rev limiter. Then they dive back into
>the woods for a while, more pavement, woods, through the mill
>buildings, woods, bark piles, concrete loading dock jumps, woods,
>pavement, woods, etc, etc. It looked pretty damn fun, and the riders
>all seemed to agree. I was bummed to not have my bike done yet; the
>GasGas 98 mph top speed with stock gearing would have been really nice
>at this race.
>Anyway, they ran the short course race in the morning for the C
>classes, age groups, women, sandbaggers, people like that. Our buddy
>Ben "Bear" Baucum was at the race with his Oregon buddies, like he has
>been at all of our NMA races this season. This time he raced too, only
>the sandbagger signed up in the Open C class (so he'd be free for
>photography when his buddy was racing the long course later), then
>went out and smoked them by over 5 minutes on second place. He was
>kind of embarrassed.
>The long race for AA, A, and B classes started at 11:30. Scott's Open
>B class (for the Offroad Series, Open A in Enduro) was the 6th wave,
>and started with 45 bikes on the line. Scott's 250XC fired on the
>first kick, as usual, and got him off the line in 4th place, but by
>the time they reached the other end of the start straight a few of the
>"real" open class bikes (525's, 450's, stuff like that) had reeled him
>in, so he was about 7th or 8th through the first real turn. Scott ran
>quite well for the first 2 hours and 15 minutes, staying in the top 5
>in his class and running pretty consistent 17 minute lap times, but in
>the last couple of laps he got quite nauseous and his lap times
>dropped off to 21's. Still, when the 3 hour mark came and the race
>ended, Scott wound up 7th out of 45 in open B. He had a ball, wore
>half the knob height off his rear tire, and is learning a lot about
>this Hare Scrambles racing. He gets better every time he's on the
>bike. We think the nausea thing was a result of not racing until late
>morning instead of starting with a 9AM Key time. We'll need to adjust
>our race day eating schedule in the future.
>Ben's race report can be read here (may need to cut and paste in your
>browser):
http://www.examiner.com/x-9668-Portland-Motorcycle-Examiner~y2009m5d11-2009-Golden-Spike-Hare-Scramble
>Ben's buddy Jake's report on the long course, and photos (and links to
>more photos) can be seen at Tami's new stomping grounds at Cafe Husky
>here: http://www.cafehusky.com/forums/showthread.php?p2643#post32643
>Note that the first picture posted in the "long course pictures" is
>our boy Scott looking focused.
>This coming weekend, it's the return of the Webfoot Enduro, running
>for the first time in years. It's nice to get an Enduro back. This
>one'll be all Scott again, because I STILL haven't finished working on
>MY bike. Damn spoiled kids.
>Tim H
Posted by tntharrell on May 18, 2009, 2:32 pm
> Please tell me that the stator fixed it!
> Mike
I hope to. It's currently (hey, an electrical joke!) sitting with my
stator bolted in, but with my pulse coil disconnected from the stator
plate, your pulse coil hooked up (the rest of your stator is just
sitting forlornly on the top of the cases), and everything else hooked
to my black box. The bike looks like a rat's nest of wires with both
stator's wires running to the black box. What I haven't had time to do
yet is actually kick it over like that to check for spark...the bike
is precariously perched on it's stand with no rear end attached
(swingarm is off for linkage bearings) and the crank is locked in
place with the drain-plug-hole-crank locking-bolt, which is really
hard to get at without knocking the bike off the stand. I'm hoping to
actually try it out tonight. Tomorrow at the latest.
Tim H
Posted by WoodsChick on May 17, 2009, 12:38 am
Thanks for the report, Tim! Sounds like Scott's got a handle on the
hare scrambles thing. This was a wild one, for sure! I was digging the
photos...some of that stuff looks like what Eric and I call "Urban
Enduro." There are riding opportunities to be found everywhere if one
is creative <G>
That property is owned by the Green Diamond company, the same company
that owns the property and old logging mill north of Eureka where the
Far West Motorcycle Club holds the Big Boot ride.
I was looking for photos of Scott and saw the one in the "long course"
post. I wasn't sure it was him, not knowing what handguards, number,
etc. he had, but his eyes gave it away, and then the hole in his pants
sealed the deal <G> I remember giving him crap about it up at
Stonyford.
Good luck next weekend! We will be roaming far and wide in northwest
NV and southeast OR...and looking at the stars <G> Did you know you
can see Neptune right now? A rare sight indeed...
Tami-
Posted by tntharrell on May 18, 2009, 2:39 pm
> Thanks for the report, Tim!
You're welcome!
> Sounds like Scott's got a handle on the
> hare scrambles thing. This was a wild one, for sure! I was digging the
> photos...some of that stuff looks like what Eric and I call "Urban
> Enduro." There are riding opportunities to be found everywhere if one
> is creative <G>
It's a pretty unique venue, all right. It looked really fun (other
than stuff like that guy sliding 100 yards across the asphalt lot). I
won't miss it again next year.
> That property is owned by the Green Diamond company, the same company
> that owns the property and old logging mill north of Eureka where the
> Far West Motorcycle Club holds the Big Boot ride.
Yeah, they own about 1/2 of the state up here. They also own the land
wherethe Shelton Valley Enduro was held a couple of weeks ago. What's
weird to me is that they also own the land up near the Canadian border
that the Mt. Baker M/C used to run their epic enduros on, but they
won't let them hold events up there any more. Apparently the will
still let them ride there, they just can't park any vehicles on their
property, so it makes it kinds hard to promote an event.
Strange.
> I was looking for photos of Scott and saw the one in the "long course"
> post. I wasn't sure it was him, not knowing what handguards, number,
> etc. he had, but his eyes gave it away, and then the hole in his pants
> sealed the deal <G> I remember giving him crap about it up at
> Stonyford.
I KNEW that was how you ID'ed him!
What are you doing checking out his packeage anyway, you dirty old
woman? He's only 16, and pure as the driven snow.
> Good luck next weekend! We will be roaming far and wide in northwest
> NV and southeast OR...and looking at the stars <G> Did you know you
> can see Neptune right now? A rare sight indeed...
Cool! I'm hoping that we find ourselves in the same place sometime
later this summer o we can check out Mars in detail, too.
Tim H
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>Last weekend was the Golden Spike Hare Scrambles, which is a very
>interesting race held on the grounds of an abandoned logging mill. The
>Stumpjumpers M/C lays out a 7.5 mile track in the woods surrounding
>the mill, on the paved parking/log storage area, and through some of
>the buildings/open work sheds of the mill. About 1-1/2 miles of the
>course is on asphalt or cement. The pavement is used in several
>sections, so they start on the asphalt with a LONG starting straight,
>like about 3/8 mile to the first real turn, so everyone gets to see
>how fast their bike is on the rev limiter. Then they dive back into
>the woods for a while, more pavement, woods, through the mill
>buildings, woods, bark piles, concrete loading dock jumps, woods,
>pavement, woods, etc, etc. It looked pretty damn fun, and the riders
>all seemed to agree. I was bummed to not have my bike done yet; the
>GasGas 98 mph top speed with stock gearing would have been really nice
>at this race.
>Anyway, they ran the short course race in the morning for the C
>classes, age groups, women, sandbaggers, people like that. Our buddy
>Ben "Bear" Baucum was at the race with his Oregon buddies, like he has
>been at all of our NMA races this season. This time he raced too, only
>the sandbagger signed up in the Open C class (so he'd be free for
>photography when his buddy was racing the long course later), then
>went out and smoked them by over 5 minutes on second place. He was
>kind of embarrassed.
>The long race for AA, A, and B classes started at 11:30. Scott's Open
>B class (for the Offroad Series, Open A in Enduro) was the 6th wave,
>and started with 45 bikes on the line. Scott's 250XC fired on the
>first kick, as usual, and got him off the line in 4th place, but by
>the time they reached the other end of the start straight a few of the
>"real" open class bikes (525's, 450's, stuff like that) had reeled him
>in, so he was about 7th or 8th through the first real turn. Scott ran
>quite well for the first 2 hours and 15 minutes, staying in the top 5
>in his class and running pretty consistent 17 minute lap times, but in
>the last couple of laps he got quite nauseous and his lap times
>dropped off to 21's. Still, when the 3 hour mark came and the race
>ended, Scott wound up 7th out of 45 in open B. He had a ball, wore
>half the knob height off his rear tire, and is learning a lot about
>this Hare Scrambles racing. He gets better every time he's on the
>bike. We think the nausea thing was a result of not racing until late
>morning instead of starting with a 9AM Key time. We'll need to adjust
>our race day eating schedule in the future.
>Ben's race report can be read here (may need to cut and paste in your
>browser):