Snowflake gets a jacket. NMDRC Round 9, Socorro Valley 100 October 26,2014

This weekend was the final race of my season, held in Socorro New Mexico. It is easily the roughest event of the series, rock gardens, 3 feet deep whoops, and rocky river beds is the name of the game. Coming into the race, I really just had to finish to seal up my first NMDRC title, but if I start lining up without intention of going for the win, I should probably quit.

Yet again, I would be racing ol' faithful (the wr). This course has quite a few of one of the things I feel the wr isn't cut out for. Deep sandwhoops :c.

Lap 1, I got a great start, I was the first one off the line for the bikes I started with, and initially, it looked like it was going to stay that way, one of my old C class "rivals" that I used to go back and forth with made it out to this race, and about 8 miles in, in the nasty rock garden, he passed me. We got out of the rocks, and into a wash, and I was hanging with him pretty good until I caught a rock that knifed the front end, the rear wheel came up, and well, I've been here before so I let go to get launched rather than pile driven by 280 lbs of WR. I came out pretty good, walked the 15 feet or so back to the bike, got going again, but he was long gone. So, for the better part of lap 1 and lap 2, I just rode around because I knew he had a good distance on me and I had a good distance on 3rd. in the rock garden he passed me in, I hit a tree dead on with my left shoulder, which hurt pretty bad, but I continued on. After a while, 3rd place caught up to me, and all of a sudden I found myself pushing again, I managed to put a couple minutes on him, comfortably finishing 2nd, and wrapping up my first NMDRC jacket.
The jacket, is an embroidered jacket awarded at the beginning of the following season to all NMDRC class champions. Obviously, I'm pretty stoked at winning one, the past 2 years that I've raced, have had tons of rollercoaster moments, go out and win one weekend, struggle to stay up right the next, work on the bike till midnight before because it broke, only get to ride here and there due to work constraints and then race kids that get to ride 3-5 times a week. This year I feel like I was solid performance wise at every event, I never finished outside the top 5 (2 5th's) and the rest were podiums with one win.
Now, I've got a honda to fix, and potentially a new motorcycle to buy :devil:
 
This weekend was the final race of my season, held in Socorro New Mexico. It is easily the roughest event of the series, rock gardens, 3 feet deep whoops, and rocky river beds is the name of the game. Coming into the race, I really just had to finish to seal up my first NMDRC title, but if I start lining up without intention of going for the win, I should probably quit.

Yet again, I would be racing ol' faithful (the wr). This course has quite a few of one of the things I feel the wr isn't cut out for. Deep sandwhoops :c.

Lap 1, I got a great start, I was the first one off the line for the bikes I started with, and initially, it looked like it was going to stay that way, one of my old C class "rivals" that I used to go back and forth with made it out to this race, and about 8 miles in, in the nasty rock garden, he passed me. We got out of the rocks, and into a wash, and I was hanging with him pretty good until I caught a rock that knifed the front end, the rear wheel came up, and well, I've been here before so I let go to get launched rather than pile driven by 280 lbs of WR. I came out pretty good, walked the 15 feet or so back to the bike, got going again, but he was long gone. So, for the better part of lap 1 and lap 2, I just rode around because I knew he had a good distance on me and I had a good distance on 3rd. in the rock garden he passed me in, I hit a tree dead on with my left shoulder, which hurt pretty bad, but I continued on. After a while, 3rd place caught up to me, and all of a sudden I found myself pushing again, I managed to put a couple minutes on him, comfortably finishing 2nd, and wrapping up my first NMDRC jacket.
The jacket, is an embroidered jacket awarded at the beginning of the following season to all NMDRC class champions. Obviously, I'm pretty stoked at winning one, the past 2 years that I've raced, have had tons of rollercoaster moments, go out and win one weekend, struggle to stay up right the next, work on the bike till midnight before because it broke, only get to ride here and there due to work constraints and then race kids that get to ride 3-5 times a week. This year I feel like I was solid performance wise at every event, I never finished outside the top 5 (2 5th's) and the rest were podiums with one win.
Now, I've got a honda to fix, and potentially a new motorcycle to buy :devil:
Yessssssssssssss! <3
 
This weekend was the final race of my season, held in Socorro New Mexico. It is easily the roughest event of the series, rock gardens, 3 feet deep whoops, and rocky river beds is the name of the game. Coming into the race, I really just had to finish to seal up my first NMDRC title, but if I start lining up without intention of going for the win, I should probably quit.

Yet again, I would be racing ol' faithful (the wr). This course has quite a few of one of the things I feel the wr isn't cut out for. Deep sandwhoops :c.

Lap 1, I got a great start, I was the first one off the line for the bikes I started with, and initially, it looked like it was going to stay that way, one of my old C class "rivals" that I used to go back and forth with made it out to this race, and about 8 miles in, in the nasty rock garden, he passed me. We got out of the rocks, and into a wash, and I was hanging with him pretty good until I caught a rock that knifed the front end, the rear wheel came up, and well, I've been here before so I let go to get launched rather than pile driven by 280 lbs of WR. I came out pretty good, walked the 15 feet or so back to the bike, got going again, but he was long gone. So, for the better part of lap 1 and lap 2, I just rode around because I knew he had a good distance on me and I had a good distance on 3rd. in the rock garden he passed me in, I hit a tree dead on with my left shoulder, which hurt pretty bad, but I continued on. After a while, 3rd place caught up to me, and all of a sudden I found myself pushing again, I managed to put a couple minutes on him, comfortably finishing 2nd, and wrapping up my first NMDRC jacket.
The jacket, is an embroidered jacket awarded at the beginning of the following season to all NMDRC class champions. Obviously, I'm pretty stoked at winning one, the past 2 years that I've raced, have had tons of rollercoaster moments, go out and win one weekend, struggle to stay up right the next, work on the bike till midnight before because it broke, only get to ride here and there due to work constraints and then race kids that get to ride 3-5 times a week. This year I feel like I was solid performance wise at every event, I never finished outside the top 5 (2 5th's) and the rest were podiums with one win.
Now, I've got a honda to fix, and potentially a new motorcycle to buy :devil:

By the way, you stated the WR weighing at 280? Dry stock weight was 225ish. Where did the other 55 pounds come from? Or I guess 35-40 pounds as you had close to a full tank of gas I spose?
 
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