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Briefly... Continued from pGge 31 Bym e in this on e- of-a-kind team surf/ MX competition. "It's fun and so me thing d iffe rent," said event organizer je re my N brecht. "Take a couple daysoff w ork and play at the beach, then at the mo tocross track." " Hey, you 're riding real well for a big guy," said Rick joh nso n to W BR/O'NeaV Pro Circuit's Troy Adams. "What do you go, about 185 [pounds]? " "Yep." said Adams . "Tha t' s the same size I was when I was racing 12ss, " added Johnso n. "Keep up the good work." Word out o f the Scon USA bus is that Euro pean plastics giant Acerbis has closed its California office and wi ll join forces with Sco tt USA, based in Sun Valley, Idaho . "Did you see the tape of it?" asked Ricky Carmichael concerning his knee that got twisted at Unadilla. "It rippe d my leg back so har d that, at one poi nt [coming out of the rut], bo t h my legs w e re on the same side of the bike!" It t urn s o ut the knee injUry was just a "stinger," according to Carmichael. He did fee l it a bit at Troy, but it d idn't seem to affect his riding. Fun tim es over at the Pro Circuit hau ler: Truck d rive r T im my Tyler, along w ith "Big B" [Kawasak i truck driver Brian Barn hart] and Mitch Payto n had a ru bber snake hooked up to some fishing line and were dragging it ou t in fro nt of unsuspecting pea. pie walk ing through the pro pits . The industry guys they got to jump up off the ground in fright? They were jeff ;'Iron" Montgomery of Yamaha of Troy, Yamaha's Chad Reed and ECC/Suzuki's Roderig Thain. Reed was said to have jum ped the highest . Why are a lot of the four-strokes blowing up? "It's a normal part of the developmen t curve, not an aberration ," Kawasaki's Bruce Stjernstrom said. "In the early '80s , the thennew 12Ss had liquid-ccohng problems and power-valve problems that we had to get through, which we did. Today the motors are so tec hn ical tha t w e're finding the issue to be more of a part of e ngine assembly than we are with manu factured parts. So it' s all part of the learn ing curve fo r us." The second in a series of th ree celebrity MX crossover eve nts put on by the N ation al Pro moters Group (N PG) will take place at Wash ougal th is w ee kend, with the runni ng of the th ird annu al Scott Pro Board Sports MX Nat io nal at Wash ouga l. Last year, Ol ympic ski lege nds Phil and Steve Mahre partic ipated. Th is year, current O lym pic ski racers Daro n Rahlves and To m Rothrock w ill be on hand to compete with a ton of pro snowboarders coming dow n from summer tra ining cam ps at nearby Mount Hood. Pro skateboard lege nd Ste ve Ca ballero will also make the trip up from Californ ia and then head out to be a speci al guest of Fox Racing at Lorena's the following week. Said Kawasak i team ma nage r Bruce Stjernstro m of Stewart's dominance: "O ne of th e things james was able to do today, that all of the other ride rs weren't, was that he was able to ma intain a consistent lap time from the first through the 17th lap. [He ma intained] 2:0Ss until the end of the race, until [hining) lapped traffic . Carmichael's the same way. And that's why they get the big leads and run away with the th ing. And he has a huge advantage over everyone on the rutted tracks:' www.cycleneW5.com CYCLE NEWS • AUGUST 4,2004 33