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11-15-09 Bremerton Harescramble ~by Ethan
I woke up to rain Sunday morning. The whole drive to
Bremerton raceway it was raining clearly making the
theme for the weekend rain and more rain! For those of
you not familiar to off road racing, the format is AA pro, A
open, A 200 and under classes. The fast guys go for 2.5
hours and the other classes go for 1.5 hours. (the goal is
to do as many laps as you ca in that time). I entered as
open A class which meant 2.5 hours of racing. The
course laps were roughly 6 miles long. The course
description is single track with lots of mud, ruts and roots.
Did I mention mud and ruts? Lucky for me, Jeff, the
owner of Tasky's Metric Cycle of Everett loaned me a new
Husaberg 450 FX to punish. I mean race in ideal
conditions. After all this bike was built for such a race.
For all the Dh'rs reading this, this is like a DH bike with a
sick motor! Needless to say after about a lap of adjusting
to the bike and never before seen terrain I felt right at
home on it. This bike is awesome! I can honestly say I
don't think I could have finished this race on my personal
KXF 450. I stalled the bike in one of the 739 bike
swallowing ruts. I kid you not one of them was 4 feet
deep! Anyhow, this bike has electric start so I just hit the
start button and with a little pushing of the bike away I
went. Later I was thinking to myself if I had to kick start it,
how do you do that when your bike is over half swallowed
by the ground. Later that lap I saw handle bars and a gas
tank sticking out of the ground and no one in site. Poor
bastard! There was another spot that was a mud/moat
with about 6 different lines through it. 5 of the 6 lines had
guys stuck. One of the course marshalls was pointing me
to the only line left. I could see why no one was stuck in
that line, they were trying to avoid it! I clicked it up a gear
closed my eyes and grabbed a hand full of throttle. The
other nice thing about this bike is it's submersible at least
to the top of the gas tank. They engineered the air intake
under the seat on top of the gas tank. I was able to ride
through the moat with out taking on water and stalling the
bike. By lap 6 I was worked. My lats and forearms were
starting to cramp. 6 laps is all I would get in. I missed
going out for the 7th by less than 1 minute. For all my hard
work and tons of fun I finished 8th in my class. Not too
bad for a mountain biker.
Special thanks to my pit crew Bart and Donovan, but most
of all my crew chief Joy! For anyone looking at buying a
dirt bike check the Husaberg's @Tasky's. This bike truly is
amazing.
I woke up to rain Sunday morning. The whole drive to
Bremerton raceway it was raining clearly making the
theme for the weekend rain and more rain! For those of
you not familiar to off road racing, the format is AA pro, A
open, A 200 and under classes. The fast guys go for 2.5
hours and the other classes go for 1.5 hours. (the goal is
to do as many laps as you ca in that time). I entered as
open A class which meant 2.5 hours of racing. The
course laps were roughly 6 miles long. The course
description is single track with lots of mud, ruts and roots.
Did I mention mud and ruts? Lucky for me, Jeff, the
owner of Tasky's Metric Cycle of Everett loaned me a new
Husaberg 450 FX to punish. I mean race in ideal
conditions. After all this bike was built for such a race.
For all the Dh'rs reading this, this is like a DH bike with a
sick motor! Needless to say after about a lap of adjusting
to the bike and never before seen terrain I felt right at
home on it. This bike is awesome! I can honestly say I
don't think I could have finished this race on my personal
KXF 450. I stalled the bike in one of the 739 bike
swallowing ruts. I kid you not one of them was 4 feet
deep! Anyhow, this bike has electric start so I just hit the
start button and with a little pushing of the bike away I
went. Later I was thinking to myself if I had to kick start it,
how do you do that when your bike is over half swallowed
by the ground. Later that lap I saw handle bars and a gas
tank sticking out of the ground and no one in site. Poor
bastard! There was another spot that was a mud/moat
with about 6 different lines through it. 5 of the 6 lines had
guys stuck. One of the course marshalls was pointing me
to the only line left. I could see why no one was stuck in
that line, they were trying to avoid it! I clicked it up a gear
closed my eyes and grabbed a hand full of throttle. The
other nice thing about this bike is it's submersible at least
to the top of the gas tank. They engineered the air intake
under the seat on top of the gas tank. I was able to ride
through the moat with out taking on water and stalling the
bike. By lap 6 I was worked. My lats and forearms were
starting to cramp. 6 laps is all I would get in. I missed
going out for the 7th by less than 1 minute. For all my hard
work and tons of fun I finished 8th in my class. Not too
bad for a mountain biker.
Special thanks to my pit crew Bart and Donovan, but most
of all my crew chief Joy! For anyone looking at buying a
dirt bike check the Husaberg's @Tasky's. This bike truly is
amazing.