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hard quick," Phend explained.
"Once we got here and started
Tuesday morning, we watered
this floor about three times a day.
As they're opening the pile again
and laying it out throughout the
day they're watering. And before
we leave at night, we're watering
it. So we're putting a lot of water
on it through the build. So it's in-
side of the dirt."
Phend continued to stress the
importance of needing the de-
tails of a complaint and that there
were things that could be done to
change it.
"Yeah I have to know specif-
ics to change it before I can do
anything about it," said Phend.
"There are all kinds of ways we
can change it. We can add sand
to it. If it's too rocky we screen
it, which we do in [Las] Vegas
and a few other cities we've had
to screen. We do measures to
make it the best dirt we can."
Andrea Wilson
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
KIT
PALMER
GERMAN MARKET CONTINUES RECOVERY
G
ermany is Europe's larg-
est motorcycle market, and
therefore at least represents a
valid barometer of the state of
the market in northern Europe.
So the fact that figures newly
published by the IVM/German
Motorcycle Industry Associa-
tion reveal powered two-wheeler
(PTW) registrations in 2013 reg-
istered a modest 1.31 percent
increase to 129,357 units, as
compared to 127,680 machines
in 2012, may be taken as a posi-
tive indicator.
Within that total, registrations
of motorcycles above 250cc in
capacity were up 2.65 percent
with 87,423 units sold, up from
85,169 in 2012, marking the
fourth consecutive year of mod-
est growth for the German mo-
torcycle market. This has now
climbed back above the 86,305
figure seen in 2009, the first
full year of the global economic
downturn, out of total PTW reg-
istrations that year of 137,045
units – by way of contrast, 2008
saw a total of 166,282 PTW units
registered in Germany.
So one European Union
country at least is on its way
back – but now the trick will be
to repeat that sales boost in oth-
er EU markets, especially those
like Germany situated within the
Euro currency bloc.
Alan Cathcart
OLD SCHOOL
LAWSON
F
our-time World Cham-
pion Eddie Lawson
was spotted last week
driving a 1963 Fox go-kart
– a kart made by Parts
Unlimited owner Fred
Fox's go-kart company
in Janesville, Wisconsin.
Lawson was invited out
to drive some vintage go-
karts owned by a friend.
PHOTOGRAPHY
BY
KINNEY
JONES
