Moto-X Team Report 11-10-04
Posted by: Mike Matz | Wednesday, November 10, 2004 0 comments
Last weekend was the MXI Natural Terrain contest in Glamis. On Tuesday through Friday, the riders and crew went to Ocotillo Wells and rode. After the first stop, Todd Potter was leading the event, even though he had never ridden in the sand before. Potter is a bad dude!
Ocotillo started out with Twitch throwing a backflip over a natural terrain double, which is only the second time this has happened. Twitch was also the first rider ever to flip natural terrain about a week before this, which you will see in a etnies ad in Racer X and TransWorld Motocross. This sequence will also be here on the etnies Web site very soon.
Metz won the overall contest at the end of the week, with Twitch coming a very close 2nd. Potter finished 3rd and Derek G. finished in 7th. I think he may have had some bike trouble after the first night of Ocotillo. Rusty went for a good size double for the filmers and blasted his face open. I got some good shots of that, also. All this was done on Seths 2000 250cc that he asked to borrow the morning after rolling SethҒs Ranger that he has been working so hard to get finished.
Ackerman/Chapmans dog, Thunder, got into five fights and went five for five. He has been crowned the Ocotillo Heavyweight Champion. Dan Pastor rolled out in his Ranger and took me on a nice ride that ended up taking us over a 40-foot tabletop. That was a crazy, fun time!
Brandon from Metal Mulisha, Taters, Joe from Balls Deep, Mark and Brit from Arsenal MX.com and Damien Sanders and Sean all came out for the fun and the fiasco. Only one kid fell in the fire and was not burned that bad. All in all, the trip was good. Many photos and video coming soon.
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Defending Arenacross Champion Darcy Lange posted three more wins and padded his points lead following last weekend's Arenacross in Albany, New York, November 5-6. The week before at the opening round in Des Moines, Iowa, Lange won three of the four main events and did it again.
Friday
125 Main
1. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)
2. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
3. Branden Jessemen (Hon)
4. Shane Bess (Hon)
5. Kevin Johnson (Yam).
Dash for Cash
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)
3. Jim Neese (Suz)
4. Chad Johnson (Yam)
250 Main
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Marco Dube (Hon)
3. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)
4. John Dowd (Suz)
5. Kevin Johnson (Yam)
Saturday
125 Main
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Josh Demuth (Yam)
3. Chad Johnson (Yam)
4. Shane Bess (Hon)
5. Evan Laughridge (Kaw)
Dash for Cash
1. Josh Demuth (Yam)
2. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
3. Shane Bess (Hon)
4. Chad Johnson (Yam)
250 Main
1. Darcy Lange (Kaw)
2. Josh Demuth (Yam)
3. Branden Jessemen (Hon)
4. Jeff Northrop (Kaw)
5. Shane Bess (Hon)