ENDURO
NETRAE
nduro Series
decided to throw out th e fifth check.
One hundred sixty riders en tered the
eve nt, and of them 142 turned in cards
at the finish .
King Phillip Trail Riders d ed icat ed
the first minute of the run to the memo-
By Paul Cli pperfTrall Rider Magazin e
Photos by Jay Chittenden,
Fast Line Photos
WRENTHAM, MA, JUNE 2
erm o n t re sident Jason Cayer
took control of the annua l King
Ph ill ip Endu ro before t h e
ha lfway point of th e eve nt, and
set fast and consistent times before ultimately claiming th e overa ll trophy at
the finish . Along the way he fought off
a ttacks from NETRA regu la rs James
Kelly and Jerry Madore, and asid e from
a hair-r aising burn at the next-to-lastcheck, came into the victory with a com fortable one-po int adv antage on his '95
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The no rmally relentless King Phillip
terrain granted riders a respite this year,
since the annu al spri ng rains held off
lon g enough to guaran tee a dry d ay .
Tempera tures p eakin g in th e low '70s
and sunny skies certainly made it a lot
more bearabl e . "We like to work ou t
every pa rt of the body," club member
George Law rence is fond of sayi ng, an d
the Wrentham terrain certainly does d o
that. The trails are ge ne ra lly ope n and
easily ridab le at trail rid in g speeds, but
at an enduro pace things are m uch di fferen t. The never- ending rocky trail s
and num erous " boneya rd s" of ro ck s
team up to ensure that the re is no place
yo u can tak e yo ur hands off the bars,
e v en for a n ins t a n t, unl e ss you' re
stop p ed. A little bit of trouble at the
King Phillip can tum into a lot of points
by the end of the rid e.
To crea te th e enduro, the club laid
out a 91-mile cou rse on the route sheet,
breakin g d own in to 63 ground mi les
with nine checkpoints along the wa y .
The on ly trouble they had with th e
course occu rred after a group of hi kers
cam e on to the cou rse in one forest and
tore d own a numbe r o f arrow s. Th e
resultin g pandemonium caused a few
riders to double a section before end ing
up at the gas stop, and the club wisely
o
Round 3: K Phillip East
ing
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(Right) Pater Tanner stays all oat through
the power-li ne water hole.
(Below) Darrell Szlachet ka took th e
Bantam A overall win .
(Below right) James Kelly negotiates a
rocky stream section en rou te to th e
Lightweight A-class win .
