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D-36 Northern California Enduro Series, Round 8
(Lett) Patrick
Garrahan
carefu lly
approaches a
"possible"
during the
Buckhorn
Enduro.
Garrahan ended
up zero ing the
che ck as well as
many others en
route to the
overall win.
(Below) Ty
Spooner rounds
the last corner
ahead of Ben
Gledhill.
Spooner won
the Open A
class, and
Gledhill finished
second in the
Vet A class.
ner echoed similar senti ments, addi ng,
'The ground is ep ic. It's such a break to
be ou t of the dust."
- After gas, rid ers took a fast fire road
to check six, the check-in for a lon g specia l test and a course split for the A /B
and C classes.
"From the fire road ther e was a sha rp
turn int o a sec tion about 300 yards long
of large, slick and loose rocks in a creek
bed ," Woodland Cycle' s Suzuki /Scott i
FMF-supported S towe sa id . " It was
gn arly."
A 3-mile cl imb up " Ra tt les n a ke
Ridge," with its steep technical trails followed, and then a tight rock y downhill,
"The Vortex," led rid ers to the "Black
Hole ."
ear the end of the test was a new
trail, 'The Little Big Man " - a steep, offcamber downhi1l that had switchbacks so
tight some riders had to get off their bikes
and push them to get around the comers.
Garrahan breezed through the test,
netting the low sco re of 2.113. "It was a
good, long test," Garrahan said. "I wa s
able to make up time and ge t ahead ."
Spoon er, who was on the same
"and I jus t d idn't go fast en ough to hold
on to my lead ." He dropped 4.219.
'The club d id a grea t job wi th bo th of
the tes ts ," G & B Kawasaki /Faultline
Suspensi on /Motul-backed Ga lford said .
"They knew exa ctly how to push u s.
The tests were set so the fas test gu y on
the minute would just make it, and the
rest couldn't."
Three checks later at the finish, the
final scores came in. Garrahan sat in first
with 8.309, We s ner wa s second with
8.420 and Spooner' s 10.441 was good for
th ir d . Galford ra n ke d fo u rth wit h
11.452, followed by Stowe's fifth- place
11.456.
Butler's score tota led 11.478, giving
him sixth and a strong hold on the series
le ad , while Wallace's 11.498 put him
seventh.
Rounding out the top ten were Jason
Howe, Mike Pascarella, and Glenn Martinson.
The Dirt Rid ers s co r ed the event
quickly, wa ited for the protest period to
end, and the club presid ent , Rick Bowser, passed out trophies and congratulated the winners.
"With conditions like we had," Wesner said, "there's no wa y we cou ld have
had a bad da y."
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Buckhorn Enduro
Redding, California
Results: October 31, 1999 (Round 8)
By Jill As hwo rth Patte rson
REDDING, CA, OCT. 31
TM / Maxxis rider Patrick Ga rrah an h eld tru e to h is w ell known swift and u nwavering
riding style and wa lked away with the
23rd annua l Buckhorn Enduro overa ll
trophy. The round eight eve nt of D36's
Northern California Enduro Series was
held a t the Gene Chappie Shasta Dam
OHV Park a few m iles north of Red ding, California.
Rain, just four days before the event,
put an end to the dry grounds of orthern California and ideal course conditions gave riders an overdue relief from
the extreme dust they endured during
several pr eced ing races.
The event hosts, the Redding Dirt ยท
Riders , sent 112 riders onto a two-loop,
nearly 9O-gro u nd -mile course that wa s
designed by RDR's Duayne Loucks and
III his course crew.
Riders left the start and worked their
way around a short MX track before
. heading onto the trails of loop one. Fast
tr ails, creek crossi ngs a nd dry creek
III bed s led riders to the first chec k, which
... was zeroed by nearl y all of the A and B
U classes.
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The test sectio n that follow ed was the
first part of the course to take an y points
fro m th e riders. ISDE Go ld Medalist
Garrahan emerg ed from the steep, tight
and technical test section, which included "The Ravine" - a steep trail with offcamber turns, at check two with the best
time of 3.1% .
Second fastest, with 3.201, was ISDE
Junior Trophy Team m embe r Craig
Wesner. The other riders all dropped 4
32 or more points.
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o
Miles later, a t
check fo ur, Wesner
was the on ly rider to
lose jus t 1 poin t. Garrah an a n d sever a l
other ride rs dropped
twos, a n d We sn er
took the lead.
At the gas stop , a
few ya rds p a st th e
fifth check, r id ers
chattered abou t th e
tremendous course
conditions and compared sc ores. Some
chuckled about the
well -hidden ch ec k
th at was placed
behind the bushes at
the bottom of the hill
going into ga s, and
w ere happ y they
d idn't burn it.
Wesn er ' s leading
scorecard showed
4.2 01 , and Garra han' s was next, list in g 5.196 . Damien
Galford was in third
with 6.236, and Tim
J. Stowe's 6.241 followed .
Three mor e rider s were also 'in th e
hu n t with sco res of six. Ma tt Wallac e
had 6.254, Brian Butler's 6.264 was sixth
and Ty Spooner was only one second
later with 6.265.
"The conditions are so great because
of th e rain!" KTM /Max xis /LE /WERsponsored Garrahan sa id. "It' s a pleasure to ride a course wi th traction like
this."
T ea m Green /Cycle Pro of Santa
Ros /Faultline Suspension-backed Wes-
O /A : 1. Pa trick Ga rra han (KTM); 2. Cra ig Wesner
(Kaw); 3. Ty Spooner (KTM) ; 4. Da mi e-n Ga lford (}(awl ;
5. Tim J. Stowe (Suz ).
AA: 1. Patri ck Garra han (KTM); 2. Craig w esne r
IKaw): 3. Tim J. Stow e (Suz); 4. Brian Butler (Ka w ); 5.
Da ve Wood (eRE) .
A 200: 1. Matt Wallace (Yam); 2. Steve Shoema ker
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(Yam); 3. Chad Gras. . (Han); 4. Robert Wynn (KTM); 5.
Jeff Ceiscoff (J(TM).
A 250: 1. Dam len Ga lford (Kaw) ; 2. Jason Howe
(Husky) ; 3. Mike Pascar ell a (KTM); 4. Gr eg Ru ffoni
IKaw), S. Ben Hatch (Su ll.
A OPEN: 1. Ty Spoo ne r (KTM); 2. Bill Ru ssell
(KIM); 3. Michael Hayes (H an).
A 4-STRK: 1. Glenn Martinson (Ya m) ; 2. John 5.
Poor (Ho n); 3. Gary Robinson {H on) .
A VET: 1. Jim Boardman (Hen ): 2. Ben Gled hill
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