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SoCaI rider Team O 'N eaVPro Circuit! Kawasaki's Ritchie Owens has bee n spending some time down at the Stewart com pound in Haines City, Florida, putting in some intense training in the ultrahot and humid central Florida conditions. Owens is getting some full-on coach ing from both James Stewart Sr. on the track and from Bubba in front of the Tv. "Mr. Stewa rt is having me shift the four-stroke more, get the bike to lug more so I can take bett er advantage of the power," said Owens. '1>.nd since I'd never ridden Unadilla, Bubba and I watched last year 's race, and he pointed some stuff out for me ." Bubba's best advice according to Owens? "Just pin it," said Ow ens with a laugh. Yamaha of Troy team manager Je ff " Iron" Mon tgomery was stillall smiles at Unadilla follow ing YoT' s Mike Brown's round five victory at Red Bud. "This is specifically what Phil [Alderton, tea m ow ner] had in mind when we signed Mike Brown," Montgomery said. "We knew w hat we were buying. Mike sets an exam ple with his work et hic for our entire team. t o Known for his hard -nosed riding style and possessing a wo rk ethic that was influe nced by riding partne r Ricky Carmichael, Brown was then asked what he did during his weekend off following Red Bud. "I sat at home on the couch, ate chips and ice cream and enjoyed that w in," said Brown with a smile. Look out, Tiger Woods . Ryan Hughes ' son, Evan der , 6, has taken a liking to golf. "I got Evander some clubs and took him out to the range to hit some balls," Hughes said. - He hit about BOballs and only whiffed once. Some of the ones he hit straight were going almost 100 yards on the roll. He's hook ed , and now all he's talking about it golf." "Y you just kee p on walkin,''' said MX ep, legend Jim m y Weine rt to another MX legend , RickJohnson, as RJ strolled past the Kawasaki truck in the Pro pits on Saturday. "Me and you, straight up. No guns. No knives," said Johnson right back. What were the goggle guys running in the rain?Over at Scott USA, the busiest goggle rep in the business - John Kuzo - had the Scott Vision Syste m running WFO . "We're running film with six tear-o ffs over it: ' said KUlO. 'I'.nd eve rybody's gett ing the dual density anti-fog lenses." The YZ2S0Fs at Y we re running som e oT new trick p ro t otype pipes from FMF. Dubbed the "Mega Bomb," the pipes are said to raise the horsepow er a couple of clicks wh ile reducing the noise by one to two decibels. Also nota ble at YoT: Michigan's Nick Adams will race the final four roun ds on a YZ2S0F (retu rning for Millville The work area unde r the YoT ). awning will be crowded as up to six bikes will be running out of Alderton's program. Crown Managemen t's Scott Sepkovic said the Je re m y McGra t h/S up e rc ro ss talk is