Norra 2013

[pfdskipper]

Originally Posted by Anders Green

Still sorry I couldn't get you more help with that crazy morning. :(

Wait... you said 2010. Who blew up in 2012 on the first transit?

Anders

The guy on the yamaha 2 stroker, think it was an early 80"s 500cc ??

Dude showed in Cabo though!!

[crankshaft]

Originally Posted by Anders Green

Still sorry I couldn't get you more help with that crazy morning. :(

Wait... you said 2010. Who blew up in 2012 on the first transit?

Anders

Andrew broke on the transit, Alexander broke on the stage

[juice]

Originally Posted by Anders Green

Still sorry I couldn't get you more help with that crazy morning. :(

Wait... you said 2010. Who blew up in 2012 on the first transit?

Anders

One of the Greenwood XR 600's did. I think Tim? was on it at the time.

[Strong Bad]

Originally Posted by wrk2surf

well Malcolm's son for one

I helped Malcolm, Alexander and Andy Grider with repairing the top end on the husky just past the Military Check point just before Borrego. Got Alexander's bike going and then couldn't get Andy's scooter fired. Anyway, I didn't realize that it had problems before the start.

[Racer20]

Yea someone spent the night before changing motors and top ends on the bike so he could make the run to the finish.. Had to use old gaskets and pistons etc but it ran and made it to the finish.

Originally Posted by pfdskipper

The guy on the yamaha 2 stroker, think it was an early 80"s 500cc ??

Dude showed in Cabo though!!

[drc42]

Originally Posted by Pantah

80's!!!

Try a 1973 SC500. Kenny Roberts did a marketing tour on it at various club events in 1972. He even showed up at a race that I was in. San Jose Fairgrounds. It was called a Marathon, which was 3 hours on a scrambles type track. KR lapped us all regularly, but it was kind of cool anyway.



I rode a 1970 Yam RT1 360. It was a POS just like KR's bike was.

My very next bike was a Penton 125 Six Days. It was a gun at a knife fight...

Yeah it was an early 70s sc500 that Andrew was riding which had the problem last year. The sound of that beast struck terror in me when he fired it up. Have not heard if he is going to make another attempt at it this year.


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[HogWild]

Is there a class for pre-1920 bikes? Roadbook nav of course!

[drc42]

Originally Posted by HogWild

Is there a class for pre-1920 bikes? Roadbook nav of course!

Love the modern tourances on the old bike.

If you race this you will prove to be even tougher than you already are for racing that harley hack. Go for it

But seriously.... are you considering racing the hog in the Mex1K? I still want to see that thing in action.

[HogWild]

Originally Posted by drc42

are you considering racing the hog in the Mex1K? I still want to see that thing in action.

No racing for me this time. The sidecar hasn't been touched since we did the first M1K. All kinds of things are still broken, or in need of replacement. And I can't just buy most of that stuff, I have to hand fabricate it. I won't have time to fix it over the coming months. I have to get the roadbooks all preped for this 2013 edition.

[pfdskipper]

Baja dad finally sold his rookie season bike....Who would of thunk it ........

Originally Posted by HogWild

Is there a class for pre-1920 bikes? Roadbook nav of course!

[wrk2surf]

If your not using it, I would , the original cannonball... Pre 1920 bikes only.

sure wish we could have a seeding super special out at lake of the devil the day before with a place for camping. It would bring a lot more spectators and allow campers/shoestringers pre run their camp set up so if they forgot anything they could go to walmart and it would allow some to get their cars/bikes sorted or shook down. This way there will be no bitching about start order from racers, it also gives us a little more racing since day 4 is a short one.

well I guess its time to pull out that 2012 day 4 roadbook... I plan to hopefully run a route next week or two with a couple I wrote on rally navagator. http://www.rallynavigator.com/

[roadracer]

Soo, months of work on the 2013 roadbook. I like it!

Originally Posted by HogWild

I won't have time to fix it over the coming months. I have to get the roadbooks all preped for this 2013 edition.

[HogWild]

Originally Posted by roadracer

Soo, months of work on the 2013 roadbook. I like it!

Don't get your hopes up. From what I'm hearing, it looks like only an hour of NEW work for the 2013 roadbooks (might be a new intersection, or new stop sign somewhere along the way). Honoring The Past for sure, the other part maybe not so much. If you expect or want something more interesting or challenging, especially navigation wise, I suggest you write to NORRA and express your opinions about what you want the course and roadbooks to look like. They seem pretty happy with what it was last year, which is why I spend my free time doing Grand Rally and Diabolical roadbooks instead.

[drc42]

Originally Posted by HogWild

Don't get your hopes up. From what I'm hearing, it looks like only an hour of NEW work for the 2013 roadbooks (might be a new intersection, or new stop sign somewhere along the way). Honoring The Past for sure, the other part maybe not so much. If you expect or want something more interesting or challenging, especially navigation wise, I suggest you write to NORRA and express your opinions about what you want the course and roadbooks to look like. They seem pretty happy with what it was last year, which is why I spend my free time doing Grand Rally and Diabolical roadbooks instead.

I think long term I agree with you and your "Diabolical" plan.... will be really cool if you can build an event around that.

[Strong Bad]

Originally Posted by HogWild

Don't get your hopes up. From what I'm hearing, it looks like only an hour of NEW work for the 2013 roadbooks (might be a new intersection, or new stop sign somewhere along the way). Honoring The Past for sure, the other part maybe not so much. If you expect or want something more interesting or challenging, especially navigation wise, I suggest you write to NORRA and express your opinions about what you want the course and roadbooks to look like. They seem pretty happy with what it was last year, which is why I spend my free time doing Grand Rally and Diabolical roadbooks instead.

I personally embrace the vintage aspect of the event and I hope that Honoring the Past is the prime reason for holding the event. This event is never going to have the navigational challenges everyone dreams about while watching the Dakar on TV. I've basically said this many times before, but here are only so many ways to get from Mexicalli to Cabo. Unless you just fell off of the turnip truck, more than likely you've raced those routes many times. Even SCORE has major problems finding routes going south. More and more private property and fenced off/gated access is the rule these days and the days of open access are long gone. Unfortunately, much of what is available in the North has been hacked up by the big SCORE vehicles and few people enjoy miles and miles of VW sized whoops.