ATV Rider Magazine 12 Hour Torture Test

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ATV Rider Magizine Editors, Billy Bartels & John Howell, organized the 12 hour event to torture stock machines from the major manufacturers. Yamaha, Honda, and Polaris all provided machines and mechanics for the event. Suzuki submitted a machine, but didn't provide a mechanic to keep the machine running through out the event because of other responsibilities.

The Stock Race Machine were all put through 12 hours of riding by some of the best ATV riders. The testing started at 10AM Saturday Morning and went to 11PM at night with a one hour break half way through for the mechanics to check over the machines and perform general maintenance.

The Test was conducted at Rausch Creek MX Park, and virtually the same course as the 6 Hours of ATV America was used at the test loop, which was approx. 5 miles long and included a MX track and several miles of woods which was consisted of high speed straight aways with some tight rocky sections thrown in along with some hill climbs.

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GNC 4 Stroke A Champion, Jeff Thompson, showed up early and took the oppurtunity to take some laps on the Utility machines used in Friday's testing.

Jeff took some time to check out all the controls on the machine.

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In no time, Jeff took off on the Utility.

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John Howell goes over the riding order with Tom & Rob Hertz, Chris Borich, and Tyler Lenig.

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Chris Borich smile was quickly wiped off his face when he was informed that he wouldn't be heading out in the first group and he would have to ride the YFZ lol

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Meanwhile, Jason Dunkelberger & Dustin Wimmer prepared to head out for 4 laps on the machines.

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Dustin Wimmer hops on the Suzuki LTZ and quickly checks out the machine, which might be a machine we see him riding next year

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GNC Pro Am Production & 265 Champion, Pat Brown, heads out on the Honda 450R.

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Pro GNC Rider, Jason Dunkelberger, put in some laps on the YFZ.

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Pat Brown on the Honda 450R chases after Dunk.