ISDE-In case you haven't noticed...

[wfopete]

Is having a great run through day four!

Keep up the good work team(s)!

Pete Petrick
175 Jackpiner
Slow but Good

[tooclose racing]

I have been following since Day 1, thanks for the post! HUGE. HUGE. HUGE.

Very exciting with US Men and Women leading their WT classifications!  It's much tighter for men (they need a clean, don't-screw-up Day 5) than the Women.  The Women have very much deserved/earned their lead up till Day 4, kicking Aussie butt (that has kicked theirs pretty hard last couple of years), but have now been "gifted" their WT Cup with Aussies dropping their 2nd rider AND maybe the fastest woman in world Carly Jones (Carla?).  

JT Men in 2nd, gave up a lot of ground to 1st place Aussies on Day 4 after having narrowed gap to 80 seconds after Day 3.

And the leading Club team is US(!!), they have dominated since Day 1, I don't think anyone is even close.

RacerX magazine has the FIM hi-lites film for each day, CN and Dirt Bike keeping up with daily stories.

Attention for an update:  Vintage ISDE started, check out this sweet (79, 80?) KTM 250 ridden by none other than Giovanni Sala.  Geez - when was his last real Six Days, doesn't seem that long ago..

https://www.cyclenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/19ISDE4-2258-2019-ISDE-Portugal-Results-and-News-day-4-sala.jpg

[dennis brown]

u.s.a. wins , junior 2nd. woman 1st. club team 1st

dennis l.brown

[tooclose racing]

Thought I would follow up on the Vintage after Day 6.  Everyone can go here to look at categories and results - don't be confused at the drop down, it will say Day 4 Vintage..

https://fim-isde.com/fim-isde-2019-results/

I guess I need to do some reading as Vintage team, Veteran team, Motorex, RK/Excel categories for individuals.  The Italians won Vint with two KTMs and a 76 "Puch Frigerio".

No Yanks there this year, but "Good Day, Eh!" to our friends north of the border.  Pretty sure we've seen a couple of these guys comes south for NE/MA XC rounds.  One - Patrick Tremblay - won the overall for "C72" category with a Yamaha!

There were some very fast Frenchies also at top of the RK/Excel category...with the overall guy in this class racing a Cardel.  What the hell is a Cardel? As near as I can tell, these were made by Aprilia with TM engines in the early Eighties. Very cool trivia, huh?  Haven't looked for any pictures from this year's ISDE...

https://www.yumpu.com/ro/document/read/49667769/cardel-125-enduro-1983-vintage-aprilia-jan-2008-moto-journal-

[dennis brown]

shame no u.s.a. team!

dennis l.brown