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hey Pete

good man - and good to meet you - for some reason I came out with piles of photos of you. I had a blast - sometimes over my head (agility & stamina) in the Special Tests sections...

rock // CJ

and Siege's Gallery  (that's me)
http://www.siegecraftnw.com/ISDT11-1.htm

I need some help ID-ing the Penton Riders
pages 3, 5, 14,  17

thanks gentlemen // CJ

fair enough- so really any size x 1 ought to do the trick- yes?

Afternoon, Gentlemen

I do love them- I hate to say it, almost.

You left out MY own KTM, which is also up there - yes I am proud of it....
http://www.wischt.com/MRR-74KTM.htm
Thom is always correcting me whenever I say the KTM,. he says it's a PENTON, dog nabbit.

The Posters are free if you order a shirt, and signed by the models, if you were at Washougal. The fellow is the owner of both those bikes- Rick DeFord, from Tacoma Area, WA. A regular Hammer &  Tongs Racer.

- CJ

OK Boys.

Check this out- since February the bike has been out, was missing 4th gear, came all the way back apart, fork rail (is the the proper term? - the shadft the shirt fork travels on) straightened, and then went all the way back together.

The engine is fantastic - pulling all the way up into the stratosphere, but the suspension is terrible. Of course with no oil in the forks (DOH!!!) of course it feels peculiar...!
it was 3 years ago, and I thought.... ok I just haven't managwed to retyail what has ben done. Oh well- easy fix- however I found one fork cap had gotten stripped flat and is not really anything one would want to put back into a race bike....

anyone have a spare aluminum fork cap for a Ceriani fork?
get back // CJ
206-526-0549

my number is 206-526-0549
email = [email protected]

thanks gentlemen

- CJ

hello Peter.

my name is Siege.

Here's the actual deal; in Florida there is one goal; make Woody and FLVMX look good.

In fact that's the idea. All the independent organizations can agree to share a National Series amongst themselves. Even cooler, and kind of funny; it doesn't actually add any races to the schedule. These races are already happening.

We have no leader.

There is no "they".

Each one of us is all involved in our local series.

WE ARE ALL BROTHERS.

If you want to help Woody, and the Florida Racers, maybe you can try to get riders to support ALL of Woody's Races, FLVMX and the USVMXGP.

feel free to call me 206-526-0549
SIEGE

yes, Idaho if I can help it at all...

OK, the home stretch...  I need FENDERS

DC Plastics? that's what Al said -
do I have any others choices? anyone with experience with one or another brand/mfg?

let me know // CJ

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hey Jay

that's looking good
better than mine- my Q is what came on the bike originallY? I think it was Cerianis, but not positive - are Ceriani's made by / for Corte Cosso? Or Vice versa ?

- CJ

OK Project nearing completion.
http://www.hellbentracing.com/HBKTM.htm

the shocks cleaned up nicely- (seen only in the "before" photo on bottom of this http://www.hellbentracing.com/HBKTM-2.htm page)

it turns out are NOT Konis, but .... how do you spell it?
Cortecosi ?
or are they Ceriani?

let me know // CJ

hey Brian

I didn't recognize you in gear - as I said it takes me 4 years
check #21 - it is quite glorious!

http://www.siegecraftnw.com/ISDT08-21.htm

CJ

hey Boys

whoah! I didn't realize anyone had responded! my apologies for being MIA here- I can design a Penton Shirt- no problems!  I would have come unglued to have had a Hodaka as a 12 year old - especially with the chrome tank- I don't care now. Instead as a 45 year old I lust after KTMS and Montesas, and luckily have the chance to experience them. Jon- the kickass custom seat for my KTM is coming by the way fear not!

I am designing the ISDT Reunion Shirt this year, and I'll be thre one way or another
I hope with a ride of some sort - in a perfect world it would be my own KTM.

thanks for the kind words by the way about my work: I obssess and struggle with design constantly and wonder if I am sane sometimes - at least I get to shoot the models, and between that and my racing family / community I ought to be a happy man.

I'll be in Pennsylvania racing at Allentown in a week or two, and as I said at the ISDT thing in November- I'd love to join you guys, Ernie - thanks man. The bricks were here when I found the place....

- SIEGE

Hey George

long time, man.

we both know that "bashing" is yelling & thrashing without anything to back it up.
I went out of my way to present a thought out presentation with facts & numbers to back it up. Even if I were mistaken about why Madras fell by the wayside- and judging by the way that Eugene & Spokane fell, I think I'm right - even if- the way the PV Riders were asked to leave is still unacceptable, and had everything to do with how those members became disenchanted with the club's regional direction.

Maybe the declining numbers / riders general disgust just happened to coincide with the land getting sold. The problem is still there.

who gets to say what Ahrma should and shouldn't be?  I think the owners do with it what they feel like. what this will come down to is this: WHO OWNS AHRMA?

OK- the first sentence in the book says "Ahrma is member owned"

I'm willing to accept that maybe this is all for show- that it's really a miserable High School Clique- and if you're not in you'll never get in. Fine whatever. I don't actually care that much.

what is shameful is asking people to volunteer their time and efforts and to "grow Ahrma" then when they do, go out of your way to prevent them from geting the job done- to set them up for failure, and then throw your hands in the air and say SEE?

the A-Team has never been recognized by the trustees, or thanks for their hard work- I don't mean me-but those who I personally asked to help- who I then found myself apologizing to for dragging them into the tar pits.

anytime anyone says "anti-Ahrma" I think little of it.
NO ONE is anti-Ahrma.

but when you see the boat sinking, you say hey- guess what? the boat is sinking.

- SIEGE

a few thoughts boys-

first hey Tom - thanks for the kind words;
there is a balance- we (H&T) do trials before the GP, then V & PV one one day, and works out perfect.

Ernie- don't worry man- Vintage is healthy- if Ahrma goes down something else will appear.

Phil- yeah, for sure I have been to whooped out tracks- E-Street in CA was like that, and no fun to ride on- of course we were there with modern bikes- but also at the Farm which for some reason is the Holy Grail of tracks around here- also VERY whooped out sections- with no Evo bikes in sight- choice of track is the key, not excluding a section of the racing crowd

ANYWAY the ISSUE isn't any of that stuff- tracks/kids/time/viability (sic)

it's the heavy hand. I saw Schwarzkopf talk years ago after DStorm1- and the one thing I remembered that he said was you tell your commanders to lead.

You don't tell them HOW to lead.

and that's a great deal of the problems with all this Ahrma Mess. We were doing fine. But they had to keep on calling to say we couldn't do this. And we couldn't run that. And finally they took me out as the regional leader so their guy could be in there instead.

Whatever. I'm going to have some free time to BUILD MY KTM.
know what I mean?  :-)

Jon- I had stop by the airport yesterday    - to get some big seals for the steering stem.
the lady behind the counter said she used to have a Hodaka....


SIEGE

Hey Boys

CJ here- I tend to live in a cave with my 50 gallon drum of Tasters Choice- partly why I don't post often enough here-

so all of a sudden to be aware of coordinators/riders/Americans who are fed up as we were with the heavy hand is amazing. Our issue wasn't kids, it was V&PV, but it went down the same way- with some arguing, some maneuvering, and eventually a series of showdowns.

here is the now all to familiar story online:
http://www.siegecraftnw.com/whitepass.htm

Vintage is alive and well. And to my mind all of this is proof. We're still Americans, and when things get unreasonable I see that we're gonna have another Boston Tea Party.

-SIEGE