MAY WTA NEWS LETTER
ABOUT
THE LITTLE MOAB MEET:
Wow, May already and the WTA
Trials season is in full swing. Usually April finds us at Desert
Mountain, but this year for April
the schedule took us to Little
Moab. Now I'm not sure why it's called Little Moab because it pretty
much has no physical attributes with the area we all know as Moab, except
that there are rocks out there to ride on. But it is a cool place
to ride and it's pretty
close to the main core of the
club, so it doesn't take long for most of us to get there which was a good
thing after all the driving
we've been forced to do to get
out of the snow for the first few meets of the year. When we showed
up at the pit area near what they call Chimney Rock it was a beautiful
day. The ATV camper group that was parked in our pit area must have
thought so too, but I don't think they liked the idea of us riding
there where they decided to camp. I have wonder what they thought
all that red and blue ribbon was doing up there on those rocks?
Rick Johnson and Lucas Agee
set the sections for us at Little Moab, and we had a great turnout to ride
the eight sections they set
for each class. The biggest
class of the day was the Senior Intermediate class with nine riders.
It was great to have that many in
the class and we had a blast.
Joe Wirth showed up with a brand new Sherco 2.9 that he put together the
night before the meet and
proceeded to kick but on all
us old guys on his new scoot, except for Mike Jenkins from California.
Ya gotta hand it to Joe. I think
he might be the elder statesman of the
club right now, and he had a
great ride for the first time on the bike. Way to go Joe!
George Carey treated us to no
less than three, spectacular "George Dismounts". Just like gymnastics
in the olympics, you never
know how George is going to
exit a section. Almost always it's simply death defying but incredibly,
both George and his trusy
Montesa survived the day.
I did learn one very valuable lesson...NEVER park your bike anywhere near
the exit gate of the section
when George is riding.
He'll do almost anything to keep that bike going till his front wheel gets
through the end gate of the section,
even if it means grabbing a
handful of throttle and hanging on while the bike rockets through the gate.
I think it was somewhere
around section six where I was
parked a dozen feet beyond the end gate watching the action when I narrowly
missed getting
T-Boned by an Intercontinental
Ballistic George when he decided to kick in the after burner instead of
putting his feet down.
George's theory is that if he
can get up enough speed in a section to break the sound barrier, gravity
is no longer a factor. At that
speed it doesn't matter what
attitude the bike is in and he only has to have one hand on the bars to
hold on with. He simply uses
the free hand to guide him like
a rudder though the slipstream as he bends time and blurs through the section
end gate. It was amazing to watch...and he CLEANED the section!
Somewhere about mid meet, Stan McVey showed up with some lame excuse about having to go to some wedding, so he couldn't show up and let Troy Cox give him the thrashing he deserved. Then low and behold Tom Fenton showed up too (about lunch time), but with Brocks 80cc GAS GAS in the back of his truck instead of his Montesa.
After the meet, we were treated
to a display by the Champ riders as they threw (literally sometimes) their
bikes at and sometimes
off, a square block rock near
the signup desk. One after another they attacked that four foot vertical
slab, launching at it without
a kicker, and pretty soon they
were figuring out how to get on top of that rock I'd need ropes and carabineers
to get up! I watched them whenever I got a chance through out
the day, and they are simply amazing to watch ride. Those are
some tough bikes to
survive what they put them through
each and every meet. Course it helps to actually have some
riding skills too, something most
of us in the lower classes sorely
lack. Maybe I need to try George's method...grab all the throttle
you can and HANG ON FOR
DEAR LIFE! Then again…maybe
not.
Our Next meet will be the annual
Christiansen Cup at Emery on May 16th. Emery is one of our primo
areas to ride. It has
something for everyone, and
is one of our most diverse riding areas. So get that scoot gassed
up and we'll see you at Emery. Just
make sure you don't park anywhere
near the end gate when George is riding. Ya never know when he'll
go ballistic! See ya there!
Little
Moab Results:
| Beginner Points Cleans | Novice Points Cleans |
| 1 Ben Davenport 2 7 | 1 Marina Deluqui 28 12 |
| Sportsman | Sen Sportsman |
| 1 Greg Davis 56 6 | 1 Gordan Terry 13 17 |
| 2 Corby Earl 79 0 | 2 Mike Filben 26 14 |
| 3 Ken Curry 30 13 | |
| Intermediate | 4 Steve Moosman 33 12 |
| 1 Andy Moosman 26 11 | |
| 2 Rob Norbutt 54 1 | Sen Intermediate |
| 1 Mike Jenkins 25 11 | |
| Advanced | 2 Joe Wirth 26 9 |
| 1 Travis Daley 34 12 | 3 John Borg 42 13 |
| 2 John Lee 60 3 | 4 Florin Owens 43 7 |
| 5 Scott Flitton 44 9 | |
| Sen Advanced | 6 Clyde Jernberg 44 7 |
| 1 Troy Bethal 30 11 | 7 George Carrey 45 12 |
| 2 Steve Davis 45 11 | 8 Mark Jones 50 9 |
| 3 Mike Okapal 49 11 | 9 Dale Beeman DNF |
| 4 John Weiss 52 6 | |
| Expert "B" | |
| Expert | 1 Stan McVey 3 22 |
| 1 Stephen Olson 41 11 | 2 Troy Cox 99 0 |
| 2 Dave Peterson 51 2 | |
| 3 Dave Davenport 65 4 | Champ |
| 1 Troy Steineckert 40 9 | |
| Marshals | 2 Mike Peterson 42 5 |
| Rick Johnson Champ | 3 Chris Trease 74 3 |
| Lucas Agee Expert |
THE
NEXT MEET:
Utah’sPresents
The
Christainsen Cup Trials
May 16th
EMERY, UT
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Where:
When:
May 16th
Time:
Cleanup: Awards: Sign up: |
Ride
fees:
First
Time Riders: $10
Children
under 12: $10
Dependent
children 12 and up: $15
Adult
Members: $20
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Single: $20 Family: $30 |
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NOVICE, SPORTSMAN, WOMEN, SENIOR SPORSTMAN,
INTERMEDIATE, SENIOR INTERMEDIATE, ADVANCED, SENIOR ADVANCED, EXPERT
B, EXPERT, CHAMP |
Emery Map:
