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Paul-

Wes Miller at [email protected] is an expert in the area.

go here for photos, more as the week progresses...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docmoses/sets/72157622510797704/

I have about 1200 images,  if you'll send me your number I'll check and see if you're on digital... [email protected]    Please have patience,  I will get back to you eventually...

Jerry-  I spent a few hours up there holding a camera (that takes photos by itself)  and wrote an article-  you and Jim K spent several days walking and marking a course-  you deserve the thanks.

In case I missed the oppurtunity,  congratulations on that big BMX win Larry.

And,  thanks for making several of my points more clear by example.  

It might be time we look at this fiasco,  quit blaming either AMA or AHRMA,  and look for some resolution based on what is going to be the  best for the sport.   That will require putting away (please) all our claims to national championships from whenever against whomever in whatever class, because at this point our personal wins (huge as they might have been ) are not long to be remembered except in our own minds. After awhile,  a person has to really start living in the here and now and start looking at the future.    

For the record, I am a slug, was a slug, and have no claims to any sort of win.  Anything to the contrary is confusion with my brother of a similar name.  

The question that kept popping up on the drive back from Windham (in the rain) was pretty simple:  Who do you think has the best interests of vintage bikes and vintage enthusiasts in mind?  Who or what organization has vintage people and bikes as its priority?    And once we're in the motor home or whatever we're going to do post bikes, post laying out enduros or cross countries or dual sports or rebuliding bikes until the late hours... when we move on  with the rest of our lives... who or what is going to give the young Cory Buttricks a chance to ride these stinkin' smokin' noisy old wrecks?  (okay,  Kent's bikes are the polar opposite of that description but never mind...)

Do you want to trust the fun (and maybe even the "legacy" of this sport if it rates that word) of the silliness we did and do with old bikes to an organization of people who actually own and ride old bikes;   or do you want to go with the spit and shine career people who work a nine to five and celebrate with a once year trip to six days on member's money???  
 

There's a video on the same site from Wales the following year. Somewhere around 3:45 or a little later the US team is shown walking in to the opening ceremony.  Look fast.

The Czech and the former East German teams walk in showing off the Trophy and the Vase.  

What a find.

I feel slighted here.  A heading titled "mud" and no southeast Ohio people respond?  I always thought we invented it.  I'm too young to remember Jake Fischer blasting gravel roads, (Scott Ely and Larry Roseler were the mid to late 70's champs there) but I do remember standing on a powerline at Little Burr '72 or '73 as a really young kid and helping my brother pull about 300 bikes up it.  (Little Burr in those days was one long mud rut when it rained) One of the few riders to make it without a pull was Jake.  He hit the bottom at least a gear higher than anyone else and just roosted.  In ensueing years I've went over the bars way too many  times trying to hit hills as hard as Jake did that day.

I know its a KTM and not a Penton, but this is a good photo:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35108674@N02/3837503312/in/set-72157622086010198/

-HR

go here for the online version of the AHRMA event at Windham the week before VMD:

http://www.cyclenews.com/regional_events/read/vintage-cross-country/2009/07/17/090717-OH-AHRMA-Cross-Country-Series-Rd15

-HR

I posted a few photos from Friday at Windham at my flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/docmoses/sets/72157621489530693/

I think I have all the Pentons which were there.  



Nice day, nice course,  everyone complimented the event.  Thanks Jim and Jerry for your work.  

-Heinz  [email protected]

Maybe I'm really slow... maybe I missed the memo again,  but the only address I have for the AHRMA CC is Wndham...  could anyone point me the right way from Windham to Jeep Skool?

Thanks,  HR

I was bored and searching flickr and found this shot of Ted Leimbach (on a KTM)  and had to share it.  
Go here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35108674@N02/3473091940/in/set-72157617290716786/

-HR