Diamond back racing pics

[Ralph]

Went to Diamondback mx in New York today and took some pics of my friends 1st race ever since im out with a broken wrist.

i dont have much of the results cause i didnt have any names or anything. ill do my best....


also i didnt put this in race report because i thought i didnt realy cover it too well....

[Ralph]

Rider Ralph2 and kickinkfx400 in practice

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various riders in the first section

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ralph2 (213) on a double

i kept getting it too early...

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some dirtbikes over the 110' tripple

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guy almost ate $#!t over the 110' tripple

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guy nicely clearing the uphill tripple

btw, i couldnt belive my eyes when i saw the junior mini class whipping it over this jump. this little kids on like kx65-85 dirtbikes were flying...

[Ralph]

this guy won novice overall, he was riding a Lost creek cycles conversion wich was one of the nices i have ever seen, very very clean and well put together. he was a-smoking everyone...

[Ralph]

this guy won novice overall, he was riding a Lost creek cycles conversion wich was one of the nices i have ever seen, very very clean and well put together. he was a-smoking everyone...

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random hero, dunno who it is

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bottleneck of the second novice qualifier...

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rideres coming through first section

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as u can see kickingkfx400 was having a bad race because of steering problems and ralph2 (213) got stuck up in the bottleneck and is at 3 to last on the first lap out of 11 riders.

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lap two in which ralph2 moving his way to the top,

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this rider was killing the whole group of the 2nd novice qualifier by 20-30 seconds. he was very fast and had a very nicly put together kfx400 too bad his luck changed in moto 2.
also ralph2(213) ended up finishing 5th after a long battle against a yfz450 wich everybody was focused on.

[Ralph]

110' ft. uphill tripple runup.

the expert class, and some others were going crazy on this jump higher than the bikes but i wasnt close enough at the time to get good pics...

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Expert moto 1

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amateur moto 1

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Novice group A Moto 1, top 9 out of 10 advance

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Novice group B Moto 1, 9 or 10 out of 11 advance..

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Quad Novice Moto 2 on the line

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guy who won expert on the whoops section. this guy was riding a very nice crf conversion. sick as hell

[Ralph]

I did not take any pics of Novice Moto 2 because it was such an exciting race. First Ralph actualy got upfront on the wholeshot along side like 2-3 other quads(on a stock motor'd 400ex) but he messed up shifting (he couldnt hear his engine) wich then lead to him getting 2 pooplaris predators running up on him bringing him to the number 17 spot of about 18 riders. in that first turn number 13(green kfx, full fenders) got taken out. he won his qualifier and it was a shame for him to get taken out, he ended up not running cause it took him a while to get going. Ralph slowly mooved up to 11th where he was chasing a raptor with almost no visibility from all the mud on his goggles. he followed the raptor for a lap almost passing him once and then finnaly made the pass on him round a turn, he then passed a stalled banshee putting him in 9ht position wich he then went on to finish at. overal he had a very good race for his first real time and the competition was pretty damn good too.

[Ryan]

Cool pics. Do you have anymore of the quads hitting the uphill tripple?

[Ralph]

no i was at the other side of the track at the time...

[QuadJunkies]

great pics.thanks for sharing them.........;)

[mx517]

nice pix. i was there racing in amateur but my day ended early when i overjumped the triple by about 20 feet. From what my friends told me, moto 2 of the novice class was pretty crazy. kind of makes me wish i stayed to watch.

[Ralph]

the novice moto 2 was pretty cool, i was happy for my friend since he again moved himself up so much being the underdog on a stock motored 400ex. The guy on the blue 400ex won amature class wich i thought was also cool but i think there is more talent in novice than amature. Most of the amature riders didnt even double the whoops when most of the novice is.

[I-7]

Originally posted by Ralph
this rider was killing the whole group of the 2nd novice qualifier by 20-30 seconds. he was very fast and had a very nicly put together kfx400 too bad his luck changed in moto 2.
also ralph2(213) ended up finishing 5th after a long battle against a yfz450 wich everybody was focused on.

Thats actually a z-400 (no difference) and he definatley would have won the second moto and would have taken the overall but his wheel got tangled with a yfz's wheel and they couldnt get it unstuck until the race ended. Im pretty sure i saw you, you had like a mercedes SUV. Oh and what you said about the amatuers, the top 3 guys in that class are really fast including mx517 but all the other guys bumped themselves up from novices because they didnt like having qualifiers and not being able to qualify.

[QuadRacer041]

Originally posted by Ralph
this guy won novice overall, he was riding a Lost creek cycles conversion wich was one of the nices i have ever seen, very very clean and well put together. he was a-smoking everyone...

he was there lat time too.

some people (alot of people) are such sandbaggers over there. they're on $15G plus bikes and racing in the c class, give me a break, that guy should be running expert.i saw alot of other guys doing the same thing.
im not saying if you have a bike like his u are atomatically fast but....come on, i cant believe other racers dont protest.

[QuadRacer041]

Originally posted by Ralph
guy who won expert on the whoops section. this guy was riding a very nice crf conversion. sick as hell


thats tommy t,
he used own the walsh R i have now.

[Ralph]

i definatly agree, i talked to him and he is a somewhat new racer and he said he is gonna have them move him up according to points cause its how he likes it. just a preferance i guess.
but then there is alot of guys out there on sick quads wich werent too fast. There is deff way too many novice riders and the district should do something about it.

i think the blue 400ex, the yellow LSC bike, and the green z400 should get mooved to pro. then there should be a qualifieng race to divide the group into amateur

[Ralph]

another thing that is such a pain in the *** is that we were there for 12 hours, for 15 laps on a track...

[QuadRacer041]

Originally posted by Ralph
another thing that is such a pain in the *** is that we were there for 12 hours, for 15 laps on a track...

yup thats why i dont care much for racing i have way more fun going to englishtown and riding as much as i want, when i want.

here's the new whoop section they added at e town, its right before the big table and big step up

[Ralph]

damn, thats deff true but the racing is deff more exciting

[Motomanvin329]

the uphill triple at d-back is 90 ft n quads were clearing it

[mx517]

that was my friend who was on the green z the first quad novice moto. this was supposed to be his last race as a novice and then he was getting bumped up to amateur. is n e one going to southwoods this sunday?? i hope i heal in time to race.

[ralph2]

yea there were about 3 quads the whole day that cleared the uphill tripple despite how big it is,,,, i tried it,,, i just went as fast as i could, balls to the wall and i didnt come close,,, i came down so hard my clutch pperch snaped,,, dont ask me how butt.. anyway it was a fun day besides all the waiting, but i was alittle disapointed with all the troubbles i had,, getting caught up in the holeshot, getting roosted so bad on the first lap i almost had to ditch my googles, and shifting bad after i had the holeshot in the bag. and even after all that i still had a good time so... i guess i cant say much

[joeyc450]

how many laps dothey run for quad novice?

[CTmxyfz]

Originally posted by quad041
yup thats why i dont care much for racing i have way more fun going to englishtown and riding as much as i want, when i want.

here's the new whoop section they added at e town, its right before the big table and big step up

i remember that section. thats where i surprised you lou. lol. once you left, i tried tripling in and the front end made it, but the back hit and the stock rear shock buck me right over the bars. my kidneys and back are bruised but whatever. needless to say, i didn't hit any more jumps the rest of the day except the first little bumps on the uphill, and the 6 jumps before the first turn out of the gate. My body is still killing me alot. Will ride there again soon and hit some more.

[QuadRacer041]

Originally posted by CTmxyfz
i remember that section. thats where i surprised you lou. lol. once you left, i tried tripling in and the front end made it, but the back hit and the stock rear shock buck me right over the bars. my kidneys and back are bruised but whatever. needless to say, i didn't hit any more jumps the rest of the day except the first little bumps on the uphill, and the 6 jumps before the first turn out of the gate. My body is still killing me alot. Will ride there again soon and hit some more.

heres 2 pics of u

[CTmxyfz]

when i came to your truck, i was going to let you take mine for a spin but you were leaving. When you packed up, did you see me come around the corner and fly up the hill?


i also threw the chain on the uphill, the nut for the bottom stud came off, the stud head actually bent and had to go to jrd trailer for some bending back....Needless to say, in another month or two, Walsh rear setup on the way. Pos stock crap.

[QuadRacer041]

another

[QuadRacer041]

Originally posted by CTmxyfz
i remember that section. thats where i surprised you lou. lol. once you left, i tried tripling in and the front end made it, but the back hit and the stock rear shock buck me right over the bars. my kidneys and back are bruised but whatever. needless to say, i didn't hit any more jumps the rest of the day except the first little bumps on the uphill, and the 6 jumps before the first turn out of the gate. My body is still killing me alot. Will ride there again soon and hit some more.


time to get a real shock instead of a stock rebuild:devil:

[CTmxyfz]

you didn't get a pic of my doubling in? you were standing on the third bump and i was within inches of you. lmao. my shock isn't even a rebuild, its just stock with the preload all the way down.

[QuadRacer041]

Originally posted by CTmxyfz
you didn't get a pic of my doubling in? you were standing on the third bump and i was within inches of you. lmao. my shock isn't even a rebuild, its just stock with the preload all the way down.


sorry dude, i didnt know it was u till the last second, so many of the damb yfz's out there its hard to tell who's who

[CTmxyfz]

thats why i think i need some black or silver plastic:confused: