Team Crutch's David Rhodes (above left).
Jeff Fredette (above) and Jon Neilsen (left)
made up the top-placing U.S, Club team.
finishing fifth out of 53 teams.
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.day, "f split it wa1er hose and had to keep fill-·· and .BiII. Bush, of the Danny Hamel M.C. 'team,:
· ing it (the radiator)''lJp :aU day," Said· Neilsen',. each' had days they would just as soori forget.
who was c'ompetlng in the' 500cc F.our,Stroke Between the tWo, they experiimced eight flat,
, class' on.8. 610 !-lu~qvama. 'Water .was blow- ttres; Aush had flve.and. Bailey tti(ee. '"Every ,
ing out ail over m.e and I was iust praying It . time I· went-th(6ugh a rough section, I'd' 9f;lt a
(the bike) wouldia'st to the flnish."'Niels~n diq. 'nat;" Silld Rush, "1. knew sQmethlng wasn':! rlght
make it to ·the finish and· replaceo the hose'.' .but never had. the time to really check 'It out. .
"Tomorrow,l'il have f.un;" he said.
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Bul one time, 'I gotihe flat.rignt.before a "heick,
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" , . ' ,replaced .the tube and discov.ered I had a bad'
'Danny Hamel M.C.~s Tom Ady'had a dis-: rim' lock." Rush would go anotner two days
couraging day, At the sedond 'check, his big' bef9re expe'rle~cing his.sixth,flat:
, four'stroke, Husaberg simply .refused to start.
He trac",d the p'r9blem to the Ignition a,nd The ·top U,S. Club team at the end of the day
eventually. got the bike started and Ql.Irsed it was the High Sierra M,.c, - -Marty Walden,
to the finish, 'but skipp-ed two ·check~. in the . Scott 'Meyer and Mike Callaghan. The trio fin:
, process and Impounded iate', thus takl'ng Ishect out the day in 15th place, while ttie next. best team was the Dirt Diggers t'lorih ·M.C. in'
advantage 'of the "re-Impound" rlJ,le, '
28th. The United States fieided two Manufactur.
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Mark Ruple, of the Salt Fork Dirt Riders, also er team~ - American Suzuki (Randy Hawkl,ns,
Impounded .late after .strugglln·g through: both, Rodney Smith and Steve Hatch) and KTM
loops. He woke up feeling sick and his' condi- 'Spqrt (Jason 'Dahners, Jim Gray and Greg Zittion ~orsened during the course of the day.
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