VOL. 50 ISSUE 14 APRIL 9, 2013
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all. They're two different things."
Bowers credits his three-year
domination of Arenacross to quick
decision making.
"You know, you have to be able to
make good decisions and you have
to make them fast," Bowers says.
"There's not enough time to make a
decision when some guy is jumping
across two lanes in front of you, or
maybe someone messes up in the
whoops and they're coming backwards at you. So you have to be
able to make split-decisions really
quick and be able to get by people
in a hurry, especially with how the
series has changed this year by cutting the main event down to 12 laps,
where it's more of a sprint race."
Bowers also admits there is a big
difference in bike setup between the
Musquin (25)
dropped a couple
of points on leader
Hahn. Eight points
now separate Hahn
and Musquin with
two rounds left.
two sports.
"It's totally different," he says. "My
Arenacross bike is
very, very torquey.
The bottom end is
crazy; it's hard to hold
onto at times. And the
Pro Circuit bike - the
Supercross bike - is
clearly fast, it's got the
bottom-end, however,
it pulls forever on the top-end, too.
My Arenacross bike is pretty stiff,
because the whoops in Arenacross
are usually bigger than in Supercross – they're taller, and usually
steeper. The turns in Arenacross are
also tighter, and you go into those
turns at about the same speed and
you have to turn on a dime and
you have to have your suspension
pretty stiff for all of that. For Supercross, believe it or not, it's almost
more tame, the jumps aren't quite
as steep because you have more
room to fit them in. The berms are
more wide-open so your suspension
doesn't have to be so stiff to enter
the turns fast."