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XR50r - Blind Enduro |
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By: truck11 Date: April 28, 2015, 12:36 pm |
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Proud dad moment! |
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One of the local DC area riding clubs held their 'Spring Ride' |
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this past Sunday near Fredricksburg VA (about 2hrs south of DC). |
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It is set up as a blind enduro, meaning you do a lap and they |
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time you. You then do another lap and try to match your times. |
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You are not allowed your own timekeeping device. The winners |
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are the riders that have their 2 best times as close to each |
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other as possible. Example - I do the 2 mile novice loop in |
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12:15 minutes, next guy does it in 7:10 minutes. Second loop I |
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do it in 11:50, the other guy does it in 8:02. I win since my |
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times are closer to each other, even though other rider did it |
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faster. Pretty cool concept. They had a 2, 7 & 14 mile single |
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track woods loops as well as the kids peewee grass track. |
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I took my son to his first 'race', riding his XR50r. He's 8 and |
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only been riding around grass fields about a dozen times. |
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They did there timed event before lunch and then let the kids |
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ride untimed the rest of the afternoon. The kids track was |
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about 1/4 -1/2 mile grass track, a small tabletop hill and a |
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small section through the woods. He had so much fun that I |
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could not get him off the track - they ended up taking the track |
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markers down as he was riding! AND... he came in 4th! Not bad |
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for his first 'event' - pretty big deal for an 8 year old. |
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Now I'm looking for a 70, 80 or 100cc bike for him! ;D |
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Getting his time scanned. |
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Re: XR50r - Blind Enduro |
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By: doniton2 Date: April 28, 2015, 2:35 pm |
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That's cool. Congrats. The blind thing sounds pretty cool too. I |
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may have to look and see if there's one around here. |
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Re: XR50r - Blind Enduro |
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By: Rusty Shovel Date: April 28, 2015, 6:49 pm |
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That's awesome! My son likes my bike so much, he saved up |
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enough to buy a KX140L. I love riding with him and we both want |
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to ride the TAT someday. |
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