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Sio-Pokes' Enduro: Greasy
By Ron Schneiders
FOUT SPRINGS, CAL., Nov. 28, 1971
to separate the amateurs from the pros.
- Last year when the Napa Slo·Pokes
One such was a huge log that had to be
tried to host their annual enduro, the
crossed. No problem, but the people
U.S. Forest Service hassled them
that waited in line for someone to help
unmercifully, and finally cancelled the
t!'em lift their scooter over, lost some
event mere hours before the start. In
tune.
typical bureaucratic fashion, the person
Next there was a place wher.e the trail
had been washed o':'t for a distance of
responsible for this was unreachable,
but apparently the article that we wrote
about 15 feet and It was necessary to
about it or some of the letters of angry
traverse the v~ry ~te~ slope qwte
riders did reach somebody because we
carefully to aVOid wmdmg up down m
are very happy to report that relations
the gulch.. Qui.te a few r.ider~ e1ect.e~ to
between the Forest Service and the
push then bIkes, havmg insuffICIent
faith in their riding skill. For th.em it
Sio-Pokes have improved 100% this
year. Their run was put on with a very
~as a lot of work;. for the other~, It was.
minimum of interference.
Just a couple of qUICk gulps to snffle the
The Forest Service even sent a young
rising fear, and then they were past it.
ranger down to spend a couple days
"Ie .c1imbed Crack~ B.ox Ridge,
with the club while they were laying out
which IS a nule-Iong hili .climb full of
the event and provided him with a small
deep r~ts and o~er :,as~les.. It's what
bike to ride. It's not completely clear
you nugh t caIJ a rider s hillchmh rather
just what his superiors told him he'd be
than a horsepower hillclimb. You have
doing however, because he' arrived
to stand on the pegs and pick y~ur w,,:y
without boots, gloves, jacket, or any of
rather carefully but most any bl~e will
the rest of the paraphenalia that the
make it if yo~ can stay ab0"7d. ~t s a lot
traiJ rider needs to survive. The
of fun to see If you can do It WithOUt a
dab. They used this same hill in the Jack
Slo·Pokes fixed him up with some gear
however, and he spent a couple
Hammer Enduro last mon.th. Just before
enjoyable days looking over the course
we got to Cracker Box Ridge, there was
on a motorcycle. He might even become
a mde-Iong rocky traiJ ~at was v.ery
a convert. It was certainly a vast
muddy and shppery from recent rams,
improvement over last year, anyway.
another trials rider's delight.
The club had two courses set up, as is
Up until now the run ~as about .the
common in the north: one for wet
same for everyone, whIch IS to say farrly
weather and one for dry. Since the
easy. For the m