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through the whoops toward the
finish line, resulting in a photo fin-
ish.
Bogle was all over Musquin in
their semi, but Musquin was able
to dispatch of his East SX rival
and move to the final, and Hill did
likewise against another TLD/Lu-
cas Oil KTM racer in Jessy Nel-
son.
In what became essentially
the bronze-medal race, Nelson
faced off against Bogle, but Bo-
gle made a few costly errors and
he couldn't make it back up, and
we'd just come with a stiffer setting
that helps you go through the jumps
better. And that's where he [James
Stewart] would beat everybody. And
then, in the whoops, he was obviously
unbelievable."
With less horsepower, and thus
slightly less forward momentum, the
fork setting turned out to be less
necessary in the 250cc class, where
Musquin took the win running his ex-
act Supercross settings from 2014.
"I rode it [his 2014 Supercross
bike] this week at the test track, with
turns," Musquin said. "I didn't practice
on the straight line, but I practiced on
the Supercross track,
so it's kind of the same.
I wanted to maybe have
stiffer forks, but we made
just one change during
practice yesterday and
we stuck with it."
It seems likely that
the Straight Rhythm
will become at least an
annual event, as it was
popular with the fans,
and even more popular
with the racers, and if
that happens, don't be surprised to
see all kinds of special settings and
parts show up as the racers begin to
embrace the fact that they no longer
have to "corner for dough."
Marvin Musquin (25) ended up winning
the 250 final versus Justin Hill.
