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CDONA said:
Found some old stuff doing taxes,

So many didn't finish, timed out before the first check point.
This hill, was covered with bikes, from the creek, up . It wasn't one path, plugged,
but all scattered across the hill side, check point, a bit past the top, when you got to a road.
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This brings back memories of the Sawmill Enduro in 2003! It staged and started out of the same place. It had been raining for days, the ground was saturated, and all the creeks and rivers were raging. I couldn't believe it didn't get cancelled! Bikes were floating away in all the creek crossings before going up Sled Ridge, and the banks were littered with watered-out bikes at every crossing. I almost lost mine in the creek but another rider jumped in to help keep it from getting taken downstream, and helped me get it up the bank. I watered it out twice, had to pull the plug and flip it over to clean it out twice. Started snowing at the top and the race got called before I ever made it to the first check! Eric's new GasGas ECO250 spent the night on the banks of a creek up there, watered out with a bent crank, and we had to go get it the next day in the snow and tow it out with my bike. There were quite a few riders trying to retrieve their bikes that day! I think I posted a poem about it somewhere here back in the day :laughing

This was the start. It wasn't that deep here because the channel was wide, but further up after a few crossings it got more narrow, and the water was deeper and moving much faster...

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budman said:
The smell of two stroke in the morning.
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I've been addicted to the 2-smoke smell since I was a kid.
When I was single, I'd put a dab of castor bean oil behind each ear before a big date for *fragrance*.
I continually tell my kids it's a fucken miracle they were ever born. :laughing
(*never let the truth get in the way of a good story*)
 
Does not look like all was hunky dory.
 
Race in peace Mert. You are a great racer and a great Champion. The Best Champion this sport has ever seen, because you were a great person
on top of it all.... We will miss you, until we meet again.... Phil
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1969, Dick Mann wins (at age 35).
19 yrs old Don Castro "a sensation"

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Another great post!

I would have loved to see Barry Briggs racing that quasi speedway bike against the others standard flat trackers.

Ossa. :wow
Dick Mann :hail
Don Castro... only 19. :teeth
 
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