"Mountain Challenge" Outlaw Race 1-12-08

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There is nothing greater then watching someone dump it in the pits....and it's amplified 100 fold when your brother makes sure everyone see's it!

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The real talent would not be racing today, however I did see him throwing down some sick moves in the pits!

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Duane Johnson made the long trip from his home in Missouri to attended the Axis testing and LTE photoshoot this weekend, and running the race was icing on the cake for this incredibly talented rider.

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I had heard rumors that the race would be graced by none other then Alan Copeland, aka "Gump". For the other atv racers in attendence, they could rest easy as Gump felt not the need to assert his dominance on this day and would be destroying the bike ranks at sundays race (Gump, send payment to....LOL)

[Pappy]

With the start time approaching, the rows of racers was filling up. The front row was looking like a mini gncc.

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With a great turn out, terrific weather and some big names on tap, this was going to be a fun race to watch.

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Brandon Sommers does a few hundred push ups prior to the start. Next race I expect to do a full Marine Corps PT for 15 minutes leading up to start time. OOORAHHHH

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Mike Houston was in attendence at todays event to give the KTM a workout

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While Sommers drew a crowd as he did push ups, Traci Cecco was getting ready to do her pre race workout. I can not repeat what was said, but the tongue lashing, inspirational like banter that was used to get her blood boiling must have worked because the second Johnny C put his finger in her face, it was on Jerry Springer this was not, and there was no big bald bouncer to save Johnny

[Pappy]

The entire ordeal lasted mere seconds, and I learned two things....


1) Johnny will approach Traci with a helmet on his head before the next motivational speech

2) As Johnny cautiously circles back to the starting area, I suddenly realized that he bares a striking resemblence to the Sasquatch in that film from the 1970's

That right folks, Johnny C is actually the guy in that monkey suit! Well, either that or he is going after Jack Links as a sponsor

(All in fun folks, no one was injured in any pre race tactics....I think )