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ENDURO Con tinued from page 7 a bo u t three minutes. But everybo dy just kept going by, so I wondered , ' Wha t' s go ing on?' So I just kind of ro de o ff, and th en I ca me to a no the r pie pla te th a t read ' 2.9 miles.' I thought, 'Oh, that's gr eatl I'm three mi nutes la te already .' I cou ldn 't believe I sa t th ere, just like a big dumm y. H ere I am , a big AA rid er tha t's su p posed to kn ow what he' s do in g. After that I co uldn ' t make up th e ti me a nd th en I got h u ng - bottlen ecks. "T he n I had severa l chec ks th a t I slid into just as they were flipping th e ca rds," said Gravit. "The way my da y was going , I just didn 't feel like a rg uing. And to top it all o ff, I set my co mp u ter wrong for th e second loop. " In spite of it al l, Gravit finish ed n inth overa ll, with 50 p oints dropped, two less th an 10th overa ll finisher J ohn Haa ker, " I' m happy I did as well as I did," sa id H aaker, who is a form er ISDE rider. " I do n 't ri de very much any more, so finishing in the top 10 is grea t." Eleventh overall wi th 58 po ints was KTM 's Alan Ra nd t, who was th e team manager for th e winning U.S. Junior World Team at th e 1991 ISDE in Czechoslo vakia . " I was flound ering ar o und in th e first loo p," said the Michi gan r ider. " I don 't get a chance to ri de much in the winter, so wh en I come out h ere, it tak es me a while to figure ou t how to rid e agai n. I g uess I'm fairl y happ y with myself. " Loca l rider Donnie Simone was the top I25cc rider, droppin g 61 points for 12th overa ll , while nort hern Californi an Du ke Lambert was 13th with 68 points. T he top fo ur -strok e rider was C u rt Wilcox in 14th overall , a n d Ri chard Mathers was 15th. Todd Bla ir was th e to p B class rider , fin ishing 20th overa ll with a score of 98. Kawasaki Team G reen 's Larry RoeseIer was th e on ly AA rider who d id n ' t fi nish. " Abou t five m iles o u t from the sta rt, I go t a fron t fla t tire," said th e 1991 Na tio na l Rel ia bi lity Enduro Champi on . " I felt it. I hit a rock hard; it was buried in abo u t six inc hes o f slush, a nd I j ust felt the fro nt end twi tch . I though t, 'Uh-oh,' a nd su re enough, it went fla t." Despit e the p u nc tured tire, Roeseler ma naged to forge ahead wit hou t losing too mu ch tim e, but m ore problem s a rose for the Ca liforn ia n before th e first loop was over. " I had a li tt le gas consu m p tio n pro blem ," sai d Roeseler. " Due to th e m ud, we go t a lo t less m ileage tha n we ex pec ted. I was n ' t th e o nly o ne, ei ther. I passed severa l riders who ran ou t of gas . I event ua lly go t gas from a g uy, bu t by th at time I was 20 m inu tes dow n. I carried th at to the last ch eck of the first loop and lost a to ta l of 40 poin ts. T here was no sense co n tin u ing. Might as well save th e bik e and body." 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