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Dentist pulls
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of Bearfoot Enduro
By Mike Kinsella
CAMP VIRNER , CA , APR. 3
Official results aren't in yet,
but it looks as if KTM rider John
Clark may have edged out the
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Troutt (H us) a nd George Hendri x
(IT400 C) by a m a rgin of on e seco nd.
Cla rk - a dentist who thi s wri te r is
bein g nice to in the hop e tha t he ma y
ge t a d iscount on fillin gs - ca me in on
21 seconds at th e tie breaker check and
Hendrix and Troutt hit it at 40
seconds into th eir minute. The ideal is
30 .seconds , so th e good dentist was
only nin e seconds off; Hendrix and
Troutt were 10 seco nds from th e first
overall trophy.
The SS-mil e course laid out by the
Richmond Ramblers was an excellent
combination of dust , damp for est
trails and one outrageous cylinderhead-deep mud hole. IThe club used
some trails tha t hadn't been see n sin ce
the Fool's Gold IV End uro. The
co m bination of fir e road and pa ths
gave everyone a chance to ca tc h up
and t here were m a n y favo rable
co m ments from (he C riders who have
been ge tting the short end of the stic k
since last fa ll. Bria n Peters (H us) was
very pleased to finish with a sco re of 30
a nd th at hard cha rge r fr om th e
Sawmill , Bruce Marhenke (Yam) may
have tak en a fourth in th e 250 C cla ss.
Ther e were a lot of good scores for th e
Experts and a lot of Beginners wh o
fin ished th e ru n ; t h e R ichmond
Ramblers co uld have pleased more
riders but wer e limited to 400 riders by
th e Forest Service . The night befor e
th e event th ey began to tak e a waiting
list of people who wanted to rid e but
who couldn't find som eone to buy an
entry from .
There was onl y on e little problem
on
the
high ly
esoteri c
time /speed /distance sid e of the
enduro. The club used a 13,33 mph
speed average in the first half of th e
course so that fourth che ck (the gas
stop) may have to be thrown out.
According to the rulebook that kind of
speed average is not supposed to be
