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StretchASU said:
I figured at 8pm Saturday if I let you or Greg know it was too short notice 😂 hell it was almost too short notice for me as it was damn near my bedtime before I got done prepping the bike and gear for a 5am wake up.
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This is pretty true. I may have gone down to see you race though!
 
StretchASU said:
Originally I wasn’t going to Coker with how busy we have been, but the fomo kicked in about 8pm Saturday night when a buddy asked if I wanted to go watch. I wasn’t going to drive 3 hours each way just to watch considering I’ve only missed one Camp Coker since the series started coming to this venue. Enter the 2 hour fast paced trail ride. 600 riders in the AM race and a fat redneck that prepped bike and gear 14 hours before the race. Good race considering I have not ridden since this one last year. Life and adulting got in the way.

Shit start as always, knowing the track helped and I quickly worked into the top 10 in class knowing most passing needed to happen before the 4 where it ducks into 4 miles of handlebar width singletrack and passing in there is sketchy. Finished lap 1 in 6th, picked off 5th, smashed my left foot on a stump in the middle of lap 2, couldn’t feel the peg for about 3 miles, feeling came back/adrenaline kicked in. Cruised into lap 3 and got the white flag. Ended up 4th after the official results came in. Whoever was listed in 1st got recorded as a dnf once things were official. Took a visit to the SOS Med tent to see Dr Tanner after the race. Had to get my pinkie toe sewn up and he did an X ray for good measure. No broken toes, just very mangled and split open from the pressure of hitting the stump. Gaerne SG12’s did their job.

It was so dusty and blown out for the pro race I didn’t take any pictures. You couldn’t see a damn thing. Had a good chat with Stu Baylor in the med tent before he went out and I was getting stitched up. Gutted that he had another mechanical with half a lap to go. That really fubar’d his championship standings. As dusty as it was, I don’t think he did a filter swap and that might have gotten the best of the Kawi.

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Way to go. Last time we ran Coker Cassidy broke a foot or toe or something. That place was stump riddled.
 
BIGWOODY said:
Way to go. Last time we ran Coker Cassidy broke a foot or toe or something. That place was stump riddled.
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Thanks man. Yeah it’s only gotten worse as things have been whooped out. Sand doesn’t heal like other soils between events. There were a lot of foot/toe injuries coming through the tent according to the SOS med team. It’s kind of damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I was riding the edges like you’re supposed to for smoother ground but that’s where the stumps are cut by the trail crew.
 
WOW! Kenny goes from being down 31 points to being down 5, and clearly looks like the best rider right now.

Tomac finishing 6th. He HAS to be injured.

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drkelly said:
Tomac finishing 6th. He HAS to be injured.
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I think everyone just forgets how inconsistent Tomac is too. For as fast as he is, there’s a reason Tomac only has 2 SX championships. He’s a monster outdoors, and has a bunch of SX wins, but he’s never been consistent in SX. Couldn’t find this chart anywhere, so I had ChatGPT make it. No idea how accurate it is, but the general numbers match my recollection.
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Ryan Dungey was rarely the fastest guy, but was always on the podium, and has 4 SX titles. Tomac is often the fastest guy, and only has 2 SX titles and this is why. Sometimes bike issues, sometimes injuries, sometimes just a head case. I agree he looks slow and held back, but he was also faster than 16 other guys last night.
 
Roczen threw away a good opportunity to close up the points even tighter. Shame, but still 4 races left.

What is up with Tomac? He started around 12th, got up to 8th late in the race, washed the front end and finished in 12th.

Nice ride by Justin Hill!

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drkelly said:
Roczen threw away a good opportunity to close up the points even tighter. Shame, but still 4 races left.

What is up with Tomac? He started around 12th, got up to 8th late in the race, washed the front end and finished in 12th.

Nice ride by Justin Hill!

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Still a hundred points or so on the table. Any of the top 4 could take the championship. I was secretly hoping Hunter would DNF and Webb would win, and bring everyone within a dozen points or so.

Tomac has to either step up or give up because what he’s doing ain’t cutting it. This was his year for #3 and he’s not putting it together.
 
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drkelly said:
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I am now 100% confident Carson Brown could beat at least half the 450 pro class through the whoops on a 65!!! :laughing: :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
 
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