That happened to me my first race. Coming down a crazy down hill with a hard 90 at the bottom and came in way to hot. Slid out through the turn... look up and on a small hill next to the course was about ten people with cameras haha not cool
First race this summer for me and someone finally got a pic. DNF Top 5 start on the 165 out of 20, all 300s and 450s. Squeezed to mid pack in the 180 first turn. Someone went down in front of me and I bounced into the trees, strained a muscle in my stomach trying to save it. In the pic I'm being lapped, hurting and looking for the exit. Bike was great, I was lame.
23OCT2016 100s MC, AMA National Hare and Hound season finale. On way to 7th 50A (really 6th ask really 5th Ajax Auto about that)
NHHA Always uses transponders. We put on the race, but scoring is done by Mototally under the watchful eye of NHHA. There's more to the story but I'm not at liberty to divulge at this time.
yeah, NHHA does our race up here too, including scoring (dist 36- Shasta Dam GP). some of our club members aren't super-impressed but I think they're getting their act together. we'll see.
Don't get down on the course or scoring management both are exemplary. simple transponder(RFID) tape inside the visor. In the big scheme of things our positions make no matter, just bragging rights. Even for final end of series season points I don't think it matters. With absolutely no data to prove my idea, To me it appears a rider mistake, I don't imagine foul play its way too obvious looking at lap times, to try and slip one by, looks like a possible inadvertent course trail jump, but without missing the checkpoints. There is a XXX loop time that would put that XXX guy among the top 25 Pros and Open experts and put him on the podium in XXX class. Adjusted scoring would put him more than a few slots back in the XX class.
Well the weird thing is we had a rogue racer on the course. Newer white Husky, no numbers or distinctive markings. Rider wearing all black. Possible transponder that pinged but wasn't associated with a rider in the database. Would not stop at checks and didn't have a fender card.
the Husky Stig* he was our joker (Ajax,Nate Graham "Jarvis",me)--he could fill in for any of us in case we dnf and when he had faster lap times we used his time as our own---all part of the husky mafia plan of race podium domination, even argubright(s) was in on it they just didn't know it their handlers/ people managed that side of their Husky game!! * we don't even know who he is---but some folks say its Kendall Norman
So... (without naming names) can anybody say what happened? did someone suddenly get 12 minutes faster on the last loop or what? [& John, robert- congratulations. NCSteve- no situps for a couple of weeks, I guess... or in my case: years] ...and did anybody figure out who the mystery rider was? some D38 shoe?
What happened is the rider in question Called it a day at a check point on loop 3. At that loop 3 check they pull his fender card and then he rode his bike back to the pit on a access trail. They told me what happen is as he rode to the pits he rode close to the scoring tower and it picked up his transponder single and scored him by mistake So it was a mistake it is all handled now and all is good
Had a mechanical issue with the husky, so the mighty kx125 got some miles on it I've only ridden this bike once before and the suspension seemed ok then. But omg it was terrible on this track. No compliance at all or traction at either end for that matter so it was super sketchy to ride. I was more beat after 1 lap on this bike than after an entire race on the husky. Plus the power curve of this engine goes from blaaaaaahhhhhh to OMGIWANNAGOFAST in about a millisecond
Dusted off the ole Motocross cobwebs at Glen Helen MX last weekend. Pulled the holeshot and got 1st in class. Not gonna lie though...I sandbagged.. just a little sragp3 by dirtracer559, on Flickr sragp1 by dirtracer559, on Flickr
Had a similar thing happen to me this year. Our race series runs a team race on saturdays. Team members alternate laps. I was racing with a good buddy of mine. It's 2 hours total so we typically get 3 laps each. Each of our first two laps were in the 24 minute range more or less. I'm sitting in the pits looking at the clock and knowing it's gonna be close if I get that final lap in or if time will expire before my teammate gets through the checkpoint. Suddenly out of no where comes my buddy. WAYYY ahead of when I was expecting him. After the race we were talking and I said "dude you must have been flying! I didn't expect you to beat the clock." He said Yeah man I just put my head down and charged as hard as I could. Well, later we get to looking at the lap times and he went from the 24 minute range to a 17:12! He dropped almost 7 minutes off his lap just by trying harder. I was starting to suspect he missed a corner somewhere. The only rider to beat his 17:12 time was Ian Blythe. I kept grilling him on it but he still says he didn't miss any sections. Just tried harder. haha. Ohhh the best part of this all is he was racing on a Montessa 4 stroke trials bike.
