2004 WORCS Round 4 Goldendale, Wa

I was talking to some of the guys and we figured that anything better than 14 minutes was pretty good....for us amateurs . It's not all wide open throttle. There's a lot of hairpins, some of them are off camber. There's also a couple of drop offs out there that if you're not familiar with the track, they could really screw up your day. An average speed of 30 MPH is a 12 minute lap, so...there's a some 4th and 5th gear sections, but the sections where you drop back into 2nd are the ones that keep your average speed down. I did 4 laps when I was out there (after 5 laps on the MX track) and my lap times were 17 (learning the course), 15, 12, and 15 (got major arm pump) minutes..."approximately". I wasn't running a stop watch, just looking at my watch when I started and finished.

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Originally posted by chad400ex
If I remember right, Soggy will bring enough beer for EVERYONE!!!!

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LOL, we will be a little more tame this time Chad.:devil: there are only three of us coming. But we do have a trailor so we can sleep it off before we hit the road.

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Originally posted by JOEX
Thast's your wife says!:devil:

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Originally posted by chad400ex
I was talking to some of the guys and we figured that anything better than 14 minutes was pretty good....for us amateurs . It's not all wide open throttle. There's a lot of hairpins, some of them are off camber. There's also a couple of drop offs out there that if you're not familiar with the track, they could really screw up your day. An average speed of 30 MPH is a 12 minute lap, so...there's a some 4th and 5th gear sections, but the sections where you drop back into 2nd are the ones that keep your average speed down. I did 4 laps when I was out there (after 5 laps on the MX track) and my lap times were 17 (learning the course), 15, 12, and 15 (got major arm pump) minutes..."approximately". I wasn't running a stop watch, just looking at my watch when I started and finished.

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You must have saw my post before I deleted it. I had realized that the average speed was about 30mph:eek: and figured I had spoke too soon so I deleted it. When I first started thinking about going to the 4hour I was figuring on around 6 to 7 laps per rider, in our three man team.

So if you average 15 minute laps, that's 16 laps in 4 hours...

3 riders: one guy does 6 laps, the others do 5.

4 riders: everyone does 4 laps.

Having a 4th rider will decrease your average lap times just due to reduced rider fatigue alone. If you could get down to 14 minute average laps, that would get you one more lap around the track then the other guys. Something tells me that with all of the riders out there, lap times won't be as good just from all the dust and increased traffic.

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Originally posted by Chef
Joe, was the MX part like an actual MX track, with big jumps and stuff, or was it just rough whoops type stuff? What was the GP part like? I didnt really take the time to load all the pics...dial up is POS.:o :p

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Hey donny are you going to go down there and race? If you are who's bike are you going to use and what class you going to race? Im thinking about going down there but im not sure if Im going to race or not.

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Originally posted by soggyrider
Chad, your right it looks pretty tame compared to the trails we have to ride on the poker runs. Capitol forest makes that place look like a freeway;)

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Just think if some one put together a race in the capitol forest:eek2: that would be a rush!

You guys sound like your sykin' yourselves out HAHAHA thats what I usually end up doing before a race then do bad I just figure if we go out & have a good time we'll be all good!! Can't do much more than that w/ Ron's gimped arm it sounds to me like he might get wore out :( Sooo these drop offs your talking about are you going pretty fast when you come up to them??? :eek:

As for the fire's we'll probably have our pit w/ us so if we can use that we'll have one :) Along w/ beer of course :blah:
Glad tohear there's no trees to tangle w/ LOL

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Originally posted by chad400ex
Andre, did you race with your rear shock blown, or did you find someone to do it between the weekends??

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i raced with it blown, i had no choice.. had enough work trying to get my rear brake replaced (modified/adapted a 400ex caliper), and getting the steering dampner on... part of that was waiting for the parts... you get what youcan get fast & make it work sometimes. my shock builder didn't have time to get it in either.

sunday morning i discovered a crack in my frame & rode it anyways, luckily it didn't break, but now i get to have the shock rebuilt, & tear down the bike to have some welding/gusseting done too.... gotta get going on it.

whoops, naw there are none of those out there!!! j/k

Here is the website for some more pics of the racehttp://www.maddoxphoto.com/
to find the pics click on motorcycle pics then worcs@goldendale

i raced it on saturday and it was pretty rough.