Pennsylvania Hare Scrambles
For Pennsylvania we flew back out to Works Enduro Rider
in Jersey. We took a day working on
our bikes and did a little riding on the track getting used to the rocks.
Pennsylvania is really rocky. It
has big rocks that are planted in the ground that we ride over and it had lots
of them. There is one section
called the jungle that is all rock that you bounce through every lap.
There are also mud holes anywhere there isn’t rock.
We are told this is how the Blackwater 100 used to be.
Series leader Paul Edmondson hurt his hand the week before and was back
in England but Shane Watts was there on his trusty KTM 125.
At the start of the race both Brian and I went down getting going in last
place. We both worked our way
thorough the field pretty quickly having walked the first couple miles of the
course. Up front Doug Blackwell and
east coast superfast guy Fred Hoess were battling for the lead when Hoess lost
his chain. Brian and I made it into
second and third by the second lap and were having our own race but were a
couple of minutes down to Blackwell. In
the woods the club cut three or four different lines which were all bad but gave
us great places to pass. Brian and
I came into the pits together which were handled by the Works Enduro Rider pit
crew. We rode the next lap together
and then I slowly pulled a little time on Brian by working harder through the
rocky technical sections. On the
last lap I made it through the last hard rocky hill and just had three miles of
faster roads to go when I fell and good size dent in my FMF pipe.
When I got going I looked back and saw Fred Hoess coming and anyone that
knows Fred knows you don’t want him on your tail on the last lap.
I pinned it from that point on not giving him any opportunity and held on
for second place behind Blackwell. Brian
finished in fourth with Rich
Lafferty rounding out the top five.
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