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VOL. 50 ISSUE 43 OCTOBER 29, 2013
Tim Weigand
makes one of
many passes on
a rider en route to
JCR Honda's fifth
consecutive win at
the 24 Hours
of Glen Helen.
JCR HONDA
CATCHES UP TO
WIN 24 HOURS
OF GLEN HELEN
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STORY AND PHOTOGRAPHY BY RON LAWSON
"W
e didn't really have a
strategy other than to get
on the bike and ride as
hard as we could," said Colton Udall
of JCR Honda at the end of the John
Burr 24 Hours of Glen Helen. He had
just crossed the finish line slightly over
one minute ahead of the Precision Concepts Kawasaki team, and was showing
the effects of a long, strenuous battle.
The race had started poorly for the
Honda crew, with a front-brake malfunction that haunted them through several
rider rotations. But in the end, the quartet of Udall, Tim Weigand, Ryan Dudek
and David Kamo caught up to take the
lead in the final hours of the race.
"Every time on the bike, it was four
laps with everything we had," Udall
said. "Finally I passed Robby Bell when
he was in the pits, then he passed us
back when we made a wheel change,
then they made a wheel change too, so
it was back and forth."
Bell was team captain of the Precision Concepts team, which included Ty
Renshaw, Justin Seeds and Australian
Chris Hollis. They held the lead through
most of the race but saw their lead
dwindle through the night, setting up a
two-team showdown after dawn. At the
start, though, it looked like both teams
would struggle to keep up with a talentheavy Zip-Ty Racing Team. That squad
consisted of Ty Davis, Gary Sutherlin,
Bobby Garrison and Mike Brown, who
had been flown in by his Baja sponsors
at Bonanza Plumbing. He seemed to be
delighted by the race, despite coming
in with some oozing, open wounds sustained in a bicycle crash back home in
Tennessee.
