Timberline "50" Youth Coverage

[Pappy]

Timberline Ski resort was home to this round of the Koontz Adventure Series (http://www.koontzadventures.com) located in the scenic Canaan Valley of West Virginia.

With the weather holding with high's in the 60's it was fast shaping up to be an outstanding day of racing action!

Chase Alkrie was but one of many youth riders entered in todays event. Here, Chase awaits the start and take's in the 50cc bike race.

[Pappy]

Canan Summerfield has stepped up his racing for 2005 and currently sits way atop the points in the 90cc 8-11 class. The participation level has been very low for this season overall, and speaking with parent's, fuel prices are the #1 reason for the low numbers.

Canan was not going to let new riders walk over him today and was eager to show he earn's his points the old fashion way:macho

[Pappy]

Riders at the Koontz series benefit from television exposure. Here Tri State Productions (http://www.tristateproductions.com) films the youth riders prior to the start.

[Pappy]

Track promotor Paul Koontz waved the green flag and they were off! Cody Hill and Brandon Boso each got a good start and it would be wheel to wheel to see who would grab the holeshot

[Pappy]

Hill raced his new GNCC TRX90 at todays event and the new 90cc National engine proved it was up to the 2 stroke onsluaght that was trying to run him down!

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The start featured a long incline that had everyone fighting to gain on everyone else. Hill stayed on the gas and lead the field to the first turn

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Brandon Boso got inside Hill in the 3rd turn and assumed the lead. Boso got around Hill and was off!

[Pappy]

Hill remained 15 seconds behind Boso on lap 1 and the pair was putting some serious distance between themselves and the remainder of the field.

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Canan Summerfield was running approximatley 45 seconds behind Hill but was charging hard.

[Pappy]

15 seconds behind Summerfield was Mike Miller came flying past!

[Pappy]

Micheal Mussi getting scored. Mussi ran in 5th overall all day and continues to improve and just keeps getting faster!

[Pappy]

With 2 laps to go, Brandon Boso came in and then Summerfield. Hill was nowhere to be seen. Finally he came in with a blown front tire, got scored and headed out for the last lap in 3rd

[Pappy]

As anyone knows, riding with a flat front is not easy, and I figured Cody would drop back fast. I almost pulled him after this picture to see the tire but he did not give me a chance!

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Miller was in 4th place and it looked as if he was going to try and make a run on Hill after scoring. Then bad luck struck. Millers quad was not running well at all and he pulled over.

He sure was upset as any racer can identify with. Thats racing and he will be back out there ready to go the next race!

[Pappy]

Boso grabbed the overall with 2 minutes to spare. Summerfield was riding good but Brandon is tuff to beat much less make up 2 minutes on!

[Pappy]

Summerfield took 2nd overall and won the 90cc 8-11 class by 20 seconds over Hill. Canan is looking very good and I would love to see him hit a few of the GNCC races!

[Pappy]

Cody Hill rolled in behind Summerfield taking home the 3rd overall and 2nd in class position.

After the race, I showed him his tire. He replied..."I did not know I had a flat, I thought I bent an A Arm".

It seemed that with 2 laps to go, Cody had enough of a lapped rider and took a line that left him smacked into a tree:p He required help to get the quad off the tree and that is when Summerfield made the pass. All in all he learned another lesson, that being the lapper did not cost him as much time as the wreck did. A win was in the bag but that is racing!

[Pappy]

For anyone that thinks these kids do not ride hard:confused:

This is Cody's front rim:eek: 4th gear pinned in a rock garden!

[Pappy]

The most fun at the races is after the race is over. The awards get handed out and then sitting back watching these competitors become regular kids again

[Pappy]

Watching young Micheal Mussi attack the track is one thing, but watching him throw down his game face on this poor defensless snow-cone was hystarical!:D

[Pappy]

Ofcourse when he found out I took the picture he turned on me:eek: :D

[Arctic Cat Dad]

Great pictures Pappy! Michael ran really smart and hard and went on to finish 4th overall out of all them bigger kids on 90's. I was very proud of him!:macho

[Pappy]

Originally posted by Arctic Cat Dad
Great pictures Pappy! Michael ran really smart and hard and went on to finish 4th overall out of all them bigger kids on 90's. I was very proud of him!:macho

Micheal did awesome! I did not get many pictures unfortunatley, someone forgot to change a setting and the first few laps came out real bad:p

[Pappy]

Chase Alkire did good, but on a downhill he bumped his on/off switch and took some time in figuring out why it wouldnt refire