robertaccio
Husqvarna
Pro Class
I hope the statuate of limitations has expired?* its a 2012 race story
Long fun epic race Sea Story,
I was on my game for the 2 day Gorman qualifier in 2012 on the TE310, Day one went well 3rd place 50B, day 2 I ripped the first special with a solid P2 time and feeling great and strong for day 2.
At the finish of that 1st special in the transfer I found my shock was feeling strange looked down and all the oil was blown out. At the end of the transfer we were early for the next special, I reconnected with Paul Krause and told him my shock was blown....he directed me to the bail out. I asked him how he would ride thing with zero dampening on a spring going into the most difficult sections of the 2 day event. He looked at me weird and said ride the forks be careful not to get pitched over bars and watch your freaking balls. I rode lots of stuff all day including one ugly bowling ball stream bed section then rode the infamous mountain section special test all with zero damp, using the forks. I lost so much time in the mountain section and was late to the next transfer that I forgot to fuel when I got to the post mountain transfer check. I rode like a looney across the valley to the next special entered it and ran out of fuel like 100 yards in. Then it hit me how stupid I forgot to fuel!! I rolled back and told the check guys to keep me in the special. I pushed my bike heading back across the valley to the fuel check a good 1/4-1/2 mile away......f^&k. so Im like 1/2 way there and a local quad rider comes up and I offer him 20 bucks for a gal of gas!! His truck is nearby and he grabs is fuel can and comes back, I dump about a gal in and he wont take my cash. (outside assistance alls fair hahaha)* I blast off back to the special and go haywire after this last special is a long transfer back to check out, doooooood. WestChec transfer speeds are very conservative, and the section was one we had done both directions and is a quad wide hard terrain kinda road through rolling hills, I was going sick on that thing, like road racing with slides and long big air, watching my clock as my checkout time was rapidly coming up, I was looking around every corner for the finish check......finally I see it and haul ass and find my minute riders one row back from the finish check-out. I f$%kin made up all my lost time in that last section. No DNF!!! On my minute no route points lost. I pissed pure red after the finish and pissed red to pink for about 24 hours after. After that all was well. I love this stupid sport of ours!!!
Long fun epic race Sea Story,
I was on my game for the 2 day Gorman qualifier in 2012 on the TE310, Day one went well 3rd place 50B, day 2 I ripped the first special with a solid P2 time and feeling great and strong for day 2.
At the finish of that 1st special in the transfer I found my shock was feeling strange looked down and all the oil was blown out. At the end of the transfer we were early for the next special, I reconnected with Paul Krause and told him my shock was blown....he directed me to the bail out. I asked him how he would ride thing with zero dampening on a spring going into the most difficult sections of the 2 day event. He looked at me weird and said ride the forks be careful not to get pitched over bars and watch your freaking balls. I rode lots of stuff all day including one ugly bowling ball stream bed section then rode the infamous mountain section special test all with zero damp, using the forks. I lost so much time in the mountain section and was late to the next transfer that I forgot to fuel when I got to the post mountain transfer check. I rode like a looney across the valley to the next special entered it and ran out of fuel like 100 yards in. Then it hit me how stupid I forgot to fuel!! I rolled back and told the check guys to keep me in the special. I pushed my bike heading back across the valley to the fuel check a good 1/4-1/2 mile away......f^&k. so Im like 1/2 way there and a local quad rider comes up and I offer him 20 bucks for a gal of gas!! His truck is nearby and he grabs is fuel can and comes back, I dump about a gal in and he wont take my cash. (outside assistance alls fair hahaha)* I blast off back to the special and go haywire after this last special is a long transfer back to check out, doooooood. WestChec transfer speeds are very conservative, and the section was one we had done both directions and is a quad wide hard terrain kinda road through rolling hills, I was going sick on that thing, like road racing with slides and long big air, watching my clock as my checkout time was rapidly coming up, I was looking around every corner for the finish check......finally I see it and haul ass and find my minute riders one row back from the finish check-out. I f$%kin made up all my lost time in that last section. No DNF!!! On my minute no route points lost. I pissed pure red after the finish and pissed red to pink for about 24 hours after. After that all was well. I love this stupid sport of ours!!!