Going into this past weekend, I had a 2 point lead in our fall series MX series. In practice, I broke my axle right at the sproket. My practice is the second last practice in the practice session, so I didn't have time to get the stock one back in in time to race in the first moto. The guy who was 2 points behind me won the moto for 25 points, and the 2nd moto was rained out. With only 1 weekend to go, this kind of ruined my chances at the championship. After winning the spring series, I had hopes of sweeping the year.
My Fall series in a nutshell:
1 week before first race, took second gear out of the 450, and bent the shift shaft, couldn't get the shaft, so bike was not ready for first race, borrowed my friends 400EX, (stock suspension a-arms etc.DG slip on and K&N filter not a great MXer the way it is). I was able to pull off 2 second place finishes with it (managing to hold off the rest of the field including a YFZ 450, a couple other heavily modded 400EX's, a DS650 and raptor, and a z400, and some basically stock machines.)
going into the 2nd race, we were still waiting for parts, but bike was suppossed to be ready in time. Bike was finally together Friday afternoon about 3:00, and when the mechanic, went to take it for a test drive the bike would not come out of first gear. Again I borrowed my friends 400EX and headed for the track, with arrangements that if it was ready on Saturday, it would get delivered to my Hotel in time for the race. Saturday's race was rained out, (wasn't a points race anyways), bike was ready and brought up to me Saturday night in time for Sundays race. During practice bike quit on me and I couldn't figure out why it would not run. Raced my friends 400 and ended up with a third and a fourth, dropping me to 18 points behind the leader (who up to this point won all 4 motos)
Found out the problem with the bike, when the mechanic put the motor back in, he messed up the little plug that goes into the back of the coil. I changed the end and bike was running great.
3rd race, at a track I hadn't raced yet, in the first moto, the young fellow who had been doing all the winning up to date got a bad start and I was second, I just passed for the lead and on the next turn the guy I passed drove his right front up on top of my left rear, and it took quite a while to get them apart and the entire field got by. I was able to work my way up to third place, but the same fella won the moto again putting me 23 points behind. In the 2nd moto the guy who had been doing all the winning got the holeshot, and I was third, I got by the 2nd place and was chasing down the leader, when he went for a rather long double, and never made it, cased it and hurt himself, and DNFed the moto, I went on to win (25 points) which to my disbelief put me 2 points into the lead. Now the broken axle, so after my crappy season looking up, it looks like I am pretty much out of contention, unless he breaks or crashes again (I do not wish him to crash again, but if he broke again it wouldn't bother me LOL after all he is riding a Yamaha
:wacko: )
My Fall series in a nutshell:
1 week before first race, took second gear out of the 450, and bent the shift shaft, couldn't get the shaft, so bike was not ready for first race, borrowed my friends 400EX, (stock suspension a-arms etc.DG slip on and K&N filter not a great MXer the way it is). I was able to pull off 2 second place finishes with it (managing to hold off the rest of the field including a YFZ 450, a couple other heavily modded 400EX's, a DS650 and raptor, and a z400, and some basically stock machines.)
going into the 2nd race, we were still waiting for parts, but bike was suppossed to be ready in time. Bike was finally together Friday afternoon about 3:00, and when the mechanic, went to take it for a test drive the bike would not come out of first gear. Again I borrowed my friends 400EX and headed for the track, with arrangements that if it was ready on Saturday, it would get delivered to my Hotel in time for the race. Saturday's race was rained out, (wasn't a points race anyways), bike was ready and brought up to me Saturday night in time for Sundays race. During practice bike quit on me and I couldn't figure out why it would not run. Raced my friends 400 and ended up with a third and a fourth, dropping me to 18 points behind the leader (who up to this point won all 4 motos)
Found out the problem with the bike, when the mechanic put the motor back in, he messed up the little plug that goes into the back of the coil. I changed the end and bike was running great.
3rd race, at a track I hadn't raced yet, in the first moto, the young fellow who had been doing all the winning up to date got a bad start and I was second, I just passed for the lead and on the next turn the guy I passed drove his right front up on top of my left rear, and it took quite a while to get them apart and the entire field got by. I was able to work my way up to third place, but the same fella won the moto again putting me 23 points behind. In the 2nd moto the guy who had been doing all the winning got the holeshot, and I was third, I got by the 2nd place and was chasing down the leader, when he went for a rather long double, and never made it, cased it and hurt himself, and DNFed the moto, I went on to win (25 points) which to my disbelief put me 2 points into the lead. Now the broken axle, so after my crappy season looking up, it looks like I am pretty much out of contention, unless he breaks or crashes again (I do not wish him to crash again, but if he broke again it wouldn't bother me LOL after all he is riding a Yamaha