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Best In The Desert: Vegas To Reno

littled657

littled657

Husqvarna
AA Class
Interesting day at the races, Best In the Desert Vegas to Reno:
Started at 3:00 AM Friday morning left Vegas for Beatty a two hour drive. Arrived in Beatty and hooked up with Ty and the team. Nick Burson started at around 5:45 AM and was fourth to leave the start line. Pro's left one a minute. At pit one Max Eddy had a big lead and Nick was still running forth. We pitted him and left for pit two. I was following Ty"s in his Husky van and I was in Nick's van. Somehow we screwed up and missed a turn and missed Nick at pit 2. Nick being the resourceful guy he is bummed gas from the Dodson's and keep going loosing only one place. So now he was fifth. We made it to pit three and Nick pitted and was still running 5th. Here's where it got interesting. Nick and the first 20 to 30 bikes got lost. Nick is looking around not paying attention to what's in front of him and boom over the bars head plant on a dry lake bed. He's ok, sore but still functioning. Bike is all bent up. No front brakes, bent subframe, no rear fender, bent bars and gas cap almost ripped out of the tank. He comes in to Pit 4 way back and we look at the bike and holy crap you OK! He seems ok so we start working on the bike. 30 minutes later it's race ready. Now were really down to everyone but not out. Ty takes over so Nick can rest. From here the only trouble we had from this point on was the gas cap. It was hard to get off and on. But we managed. Ty rode from pit 4 to pit 10 and made up a lot of time. Nick got on at pit 10 and rode to pit 14. I was at pit 12 and when Nick came in I was so surprised he was 5th over all and 3rd open Pro. Those two guys, Ty and Nick put in one hell of a ride. Nick gave the Bike to Ty at pit 14 and he rode to pit 15 and then to the finish. They put in a hard ride to finish the 549 mile race. Finishing 5th overall and 3rd open Pro.
 
gnarly, a canadian buddy of mine was drivin a chase truck for a 1400 trick truck team lonestar in that race. first time hes ever seen desert racing up close and was tellin me how insane it was lol i told him to take some pic since i havent seen it in person either but he only got a few and none of the bikes, said they took off waayy before they got goin. im glad nick is ok aswell.
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That is some great results considering the downfalls of the crash and having to back track to pit 4. It is too bad that this race doesn't get the publicity that it deserves. I hopt you have some pictures of the race and bike. What were they riding?
 
cool pics, i dotn know how the riders do it especially at the speed they do. you see how most of the vehicles look commin in at the end if they finnish at all and then you have theese cats haulin the mail through it without a cage lol they are hardcore for sure!!
 
The 2011 TXC511 ran the 549 mile 10 hour race with no mechanical issues and with only one long pit to repair crash damage. Our pits were as fast as those using quick fill systems. We used an alumium tank with an 12 volt electric pump mounted in the back of Nick's van. We can deliver 3 gallons of fuel in 8 seconds through the hose and nozzel. The cap is the only thing slowing us down, getting it on and off. But we got very fast at it.
 
We had only one rear wheel change which we change at pit 10. Most teams did two changes. We ran the Dunlop dual sport tire the 908. It wore awesome and hooked up really good on the fast course.
 
No air filter change. The forward mounted air box seems to run in clean air and doesn't collect a lot of dirt. We watch rearward mounted air boxes on other bikes change their filters at least once some did two changes.
 
littled657 said:
No air filter change. The forward mounted air box seems to run in clean air and doesn't collect a lot of dirt. We watch rearward mounted air boxes on other bikes change their filters at least once some did two changes.
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Interesting!
 
Sounds like you guys in the pits put out a big effort to keep the bike going ... Great effort and results for the overall finish for the riders!

Nick must have been hauling to bust up a bike like that ... Good to hear he is OK :)

And thanks for posting such a detailed report ...
 
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