Unadilla MX Rewind

[dennis brown]

I did the tech. inspection at Unadilla,i was surprised byso few pentons were doing the cross country and mx.


dennis l.brown

[tooclose racing]

But the Pentons who were there were passionate, Dennis! Overall, I would agree that Pentons were not "aplenty" in XC on Friday.  Now if you are a Can-Am fan...different story.

On the Unadilla FB page, Family Robinson stated that sign-ups were "up" for all forms of racing this year except Vintage MX on Saturday.  That seems to agree with my eagle eye.  I was impressed by PV XC turn-out, but could also see that PV MX turn-out was huge. It also helps alot (and I have no problem with it...) that they run several non-AHRMA support classes for MX that attract a lot of late 80's, early-mid 90's MXs.  

I witnessed Dale Sonnenschein pick up one of those very cool MX Rewind plaques for first place (on a Husky, right?).  And I too had the stars align and my bikes ALMOST stay together, resulting in a Vint 200 Int 1st and a Historic 200 Int 1st.  Vint was a pretty clean win over a half dozen bikes insofar as the Canadian that won the year before signed up for Expert (his times last year would have been Top 3 expert).  The Historic win was somewhat "gifted" to me by James Lubniewski, who had a bad day when he experienced chain or chain guide issues.  Not that I didn't have my rear end lock up on the last lap with my own chain guide issue - on a DOWNHILL (!), but I did something magical and limped to the end with a 20 minute last lap (I was usually mid-15's).  And  everyone should know that I experienced an "I"m not worthy" moment - Fred Hoess came by me in PV XC on that white, super-sano 83 XC like there was no tomorrow. He was turning 12 minute laps.  [:0]

No MX for me this year. I was just whupped and had to be home Saturday evening.  

All in all - great to see Lew, Dale, and all the Canadians that show up each year!

[dennis brown]

yes there were a lot of can-ams.alot of suz. pes  and kaw kdx  good many huskys fred hoess I unbelievable and the 2 French Canadians were flying!best I could do was 4th in the 60+ pv exp class  but won the primer exp. class on a 68 greeves 250.there was a very good turn out

dennis l.brown

[Gordon Brennan]

Speaking of Canadians Dennis; I lost track of how many times I saw Helmut Clasen waiting in the staging area for yet another class he signed up  for in MX, on top of racing the XC on Friday. Keep in mind, Helmut (Speedy) is 81 years old!! And still very fast!!

[dennis brown]

I was lucky enough to speed some time with  helmut and gary Richards another 6 day rider from  Canada  both fast and gentlemen , and very good for the sport

dennis l.brown

[tooclose racing]

Kudo's to the Canadians! And now for a real BUMMER update on a specific Canadian - some of you may know this already.

Denis Poitras, who is a giant of a man that rides the #620 Can-Am 250, suffered a severe compound fracture of his lower left leg, I'm guessing during MX on Sunday?  Surgery was first thing this week.

If you know this great guy who often travels 4+ hours to reach our NE/MA XC and MX events, please send him a get well wish at [email protected].  

Thanks - Bob Close

[skiracer]

Your welcome!  Hope you had a fun ride!!  Great to see you....

quote:Originally posted by tooclose racing

But the Pentons who were there were passionate, Dennis! Overall, I would agree that Pentons were not "aplenty" in XC on Friday.  Now if you are a Can-Am fan...different story.

On the Unadilla FB page, Family Robinson stated that sign-ups were "up" for all forms of racing this year except Vintage MX on Saturday.  That seems to agree with my eagle eye.  I was impressed by PV XC turn-out, but could also see that PV MX turn-out was huge. It also helps alot (and I have no problem with it...) that they run several non-AHRMA support classes for MX that attract a lot of late 80's, early-mid 90's MXs.  

I witnessed Dale Sonnenschein pick up one of those very cool MX Rewind plaques for first place (on a Husky, right?).  And I too had the stars align and my bikes ALMOST stay together, resulting in a Vint 200 Int 1st and a Historic 200 Int 1st.  Vint was a pretty clean win over a half dozen bikes insofar as the Canadian that won the year before signed up for Expert (his times last year would have been Top 3 expert).  The Historic win was somewhat "gifted" to me by James Lubniewski, who had a bad day when he experienced chain or chain guide issues.  Not that I didn't have my rear end lock up on the last lap with my own chain guide issue - on a DOWNHILL (!), but I did something magical and limped to the end with a 20 minute last lap (I was usually mid-15's).  And  everyone should know that I experienced an "I"m not worthy" moment - Fred Hoess came by me in PV XC on that white, super-sano 83 XC like there was no tomorrow. He was turning 12 minute laps.  [:0]

No MX for me this year. I was just whupped and had to be home Saturday evening.  

All in all - great to see Lew, Dale, and all the Canadians that show up each year!

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