CN
III ARCHIVES
BY SCOTT ROUSSEAU
N
ot having hosted an Inter-
national Six Day Enduro
since 1973, hope was high that
America would be able to show
the world that it could host a
successful, world-class off-road
event when the it returned to the
United States in 1994.
The 69th running of the event
was hosted by Tulsa Trailrid-
ers on the 33,000-acre John
Zink Ranch, and when it was
over, most of the competitors
agreed that it was one of the
most grueling ISDE events ever.
Of the 540 entrants, only 330
of them saw the finish line after
six days of battling the brutally
rocky Oklahoma terrain. Team
Italy won the event, which
should have been trumpeted as
a resounding success.
Instead, it was panned as an
embarrassing failure.
The problems began when,
after promoting the event as an
opportunity for spectators to
view a truly historic international
competition, a bizarre decision
to not allow anyone access to
the event completely froze out
P110
The riders enjoyed
the Tulsa ISDE in
1994, the spectators
not so much.
THE AMERICAN
ISDE-BACLE
