VOL. 50 ISSUE 39 OCTOBER 1, 2013
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Briefly...
Great Britain's Tommy Searle
looked like he found something out
on the track at this year's MXoN,
grabbing a 3-5 score in his two MX1
motos, but what he actually found
was new [old] suspension for his
Monster Energy Kawasaki KX450F.
"Well, we went testing last week in
France, which is where the team
owner lives, just so we could get
some nice weather," Searle said.
"We changed a lot to the motor and
just made it easier for me to ride because, during the year, I think we
went the wrong way and we all realized that when we were down there.
And then we tried a different suspension, which was WP, and I instantly
felt better with it. I don't think the
other stuff was bad at all, but this just
suited my riding style much better. I
think, obviously, this isn't air [forks],
what we've got now. This is back to
the original spring. I don't know if
that's why it feels better, it just does."
Solid performances by
Ken de Dycker, Clement
Desalle and Jeremy van
Horebeek put Belgium
back on top at the
Motocross of Nations.
ny, Team USA had won the event
22 times in 32 years, and a few
of the years that Team USA didn't
win, they didn't go. As such, the
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USA is almost always considered
a favorite to win the event – not
because "The USA is so awesome at everything, but because
With Dutch superstar Jeffrey Herlings missing the Motocross of Nations due to injury, it became apparent before the event that the team
had to try and find speed wherever it
could, so they had 30-year-old Marc
"Calimero" de Reuver come out
and test with the team. "They didn't
want me on the team because I didn't
ride GPs this year," De Reuver said.
"But it's just fair enough that the fastest guy has to go, from the country,
and I'm the fastest MX1 rider, so I had
to go. They made some practices
and tests to see if I was fast enough,
and Herlings was not there, so I was
fastest all the time. So they couldn't
go around me. And I hope to show
them this next year again! When it's
Des Nations, I don't quit. And next
year it's in Latvia. That's a nice track."
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