• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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pondering a hare scramble

Just met a firstimer over the weekend. Could tell he was nervous and asked alot of questions, which line to get in, etc..... Evan even helped his son, because he was in the same class. You'll never find a better group of guys willing to help you, cause we all started the same way! Which one are you thinking about running? If I am there, we are willing to help you get started. I noticed that he was smiling from ear to ear and had alot of fun. I did notice that he had no rear fender after the race!
 
Thanks guys! I have to find the date out for sure. One of the youngins that ride my track is talkin me into it. I think its goin to be at southfork but not positive.
 
Its glorified trail ride with trail markers, chase riders and all the safety fixin's go for it and you will have a blast!!!
 
Just don't try to do it backwards! One of my old Husky's kicked back and started backwards! Boy, did I get a rude awakening when I let the clutch out on the starting line! :eek:
 
I finally gave it a shot a couple of years back after a lot of nagging from my friends and it ended up being fun and improved my riding a great deal. Just ride your pace and if somebody revs their engine at you, move over as far as you can and let them by (well unless they're in your class, of course, then make them do the work themselves!).
 
One of my friends rides enduros and hare scrambles and believe me he is not a competitive individual. He says he considers it a trail ride with organized fuel stops and sweepers to help you get your bike out of the woods should it break, all for the price of a small entry fee. What a bargain! :)
 
Congratulations to you for considering it. I road race a gixxer and my SMR. I 'trail' ride with experienced and novice riders (like me), and have done hare scramble trails after their races. Im amazed at the abilities required to ride quickly thru the woods like they do.
I can say that after sweating buckets in the trails, us road racers are pussies lol.
 
This won't gain me any friends, but here goes - I think that it is a waste of money. You can trail ride in the woods just as fast as you can ride while doing a harescramble. I've done harescrambles/enduros and it is no different than how I ride when riding with a group of buddies, as it's always a race. Why pay to do it?

I also used to roadrace and I get that - You can't do 160 mph around corners when you're not at a racetrack...
 
i guess its just something i havent done. i really wish offroad racing was more affordable because i can assure you im much better on 4 wheels haulin than two, would love to try if anyone has a trophy truck available?? anyway i dunno its me and the teenager jawin back and forth. he says im slow and i say he doesnt ride long enough to possibly get tired. so i told him if he entered one id do it too(enter foot in mouth) lol
 
Rode my first Hare scramble in 20 years last month. Had a first timer line up next to me and we talked a while. Found him stalled on the trail (KTM) and he was whupped. Pulled his bike off the trail for him, and he would kick a while then we would swap up till it finally started. Followed him out to make sure he was ok. Temps were 99 deg with heat index of 110, it was brutal and he did'nt bring any kind of water. Talk to some people and be prepared, and you will have a blast.

Unless everybody is a win it or die types, you will find all kinds of encouragement and help.
 
Just do it! You'll wish you would of done it years ago. Ride at your own pace and have fun. Last Sunday, I saw a KTM rider on a hill. His bike was perfectly, straight up in the air and leaning back against a tree. I stopped and told him that i don't think you could of gotten it that perfect, if you tried to do it! You'll be telling stories all week on how much fun you had!

My best stories:

I had an older Husky, On the starting line, it kicked back and started up backwards. I let the clutch out and flew over the bars and can remember seeing the front fender as the bike went into the starting line behind me. It was hilarious!

One time in Florida, I pulled the holeshot and was leading, missed a turn and some barbwire fence got wrapped up in my back wheel. It brought me to a 100% complete stop!

I almost hit a Bull and it started chasing me. It got out of the farmers fence and got on the track!

One time I slid down this blind hill and ended up in a pile of all the riders. Every time you got your bike pulled out of the pile, another rider would slide down, hit you and you ended back up in the pile again.

I had a friend miss an arrow while racing one in the fall, with all the leaves on the ground. He went through this opening in the trail and sunk his bike in the bottom of a lake. The leaves covered the water so it looked like a trail. At first it wasn't funny, but he said he couldn't swim with boots on and almost drowned, But later we were cracking up! They had to come back the next day and actually dive for his bike.

Go have some Fun!
 
I've run two Hare scrambles after a couple years of riding only enduros. My advice, as a not-very-in-shape B rider, is let all the competitive guys fight it out for the hole shot, then ride a comfortable, borderline slow pace right from the start. The temptation will be to run as fast as you can right away, but the race will be two or three hours of riding without a break, and you just can't hold that pace for that amount of time. Enduros have those wonerful resets in between five or seven miles of racing, so every time you enter a points-taking section, you just ride as fast as you can. You just can't do that for the entirety of a HS (at least I can't). The last one I ran, I did about half a lap as fast as I could go, and then had three and a half more laps to ride with blisters on my hands. Not fun! There was a six or seven minute difference between my first lap and the subsequent three. I almost certainly could have finished better if I'd ridden the first lap slower and maintained that pace for the rest of the race.

That said, hare scrambles are a lot of fun. Have a good time!
 
The camaraderie of the race both in the pits and on the course makes it a different thing than a trail ride. You also have a controlled environment where everyone is going the same direction and other riders are around to help each other out if someone has trouble, and to cheer you on if you need a little encouragement. You can ride your own pace or succumb to the excitement of dueling with someone, rest if you feel like it, do the who thing or just a lap or two and there are opportunities to work on certain skills depending on the course. And dont forget the bench racing afterwards while you kick back and relax while congratulating yourself and your fellow racers on the results of the day.

I quit banging handlebars in the first turn a long time ago, but I still enjoy a good Hare Scrambles/GP/XC race even though I dont bother to start up front.
 
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