First off, it rained ALL NIGHT, from Friday night
in to Saturday morning. No problem, the ABA race officials had
anticipated the incoming rain and had covered the track with
plastic.
The first thing that happened was that the much
aniticipated UCI North American Points Race was postponed and moved
to Sunday when the weather was supposed to be much better.
Moving on to Saturday morning, the track was in
pretty good shape for having so much water around, but as usual in
these cases, there was some pretty bad spots in between jumps and
other low lying spots. The ABA Track Crew went to work HARD and
after an hour or so, practice was ready to begin.
OF COURSE, just as Pro Practice began, the rain
came back but the ABA kept the pedal to the metal and kept on runnin'
em. The rain wasn't coming down THAT hard, so it wasn't too bad.
Eventually, though, the rain came in with a vengeance and practice
was ended and the track was allowed to sit and soak up some more
rain.
Can you say, "Cold"!!!!!????? With the clouds
moving in bringing the rain, it got quite frigid out. But, then
after a time of more soakage, the rain stopped and the call went out
for Motos To The Starting Hill!
The ABA moved to the 'one moto transfer system'
straight to the main event and things have taken OFF! Yeah, things
were a little muddy and things got a little funky but the whole
weather aspect kind of put the Dirt back in to BMX, so check out the
Mud Boggin' Photos and enjoy a little Bicycle Muddo Cross!
ABA Socal Nationals Saturday
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Here's quite a crew.
From left, Kristaps Konrads, Martijn Scherpen, Maris
Strombergs, Joey Bradford, Dommingos Lammoglia |
Here's a bunch of happy
BMXers, headin' down the first straight. It's good to be
alive on the ol BMX track! |
Big Splash at the Finish Line from
GHP's, John Purse. |
Gold Medalist, Maris
Strombergs right out front with GT's, Joey Bradford in
hot pursuit. |
It's the "Alabama Slamma"
Barry Nobles, in the gate with his game face on! |
The mud didn't slow
Formula's, Yvan Lapraz while doin' battle with "Mr.
Intense", Danny Caluag. |
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Check out Joey
Bradford's 'mud fender' on his downtube. No mud flyin'
up in JB's face! |
Here's the whole pic from the "splash
pic" from above. Go Jackal! |
'Manualin' Mikey Day.
Mikey manualled the ENTIRE 3rd straight in his first
moto....Unreal! |
Free Agent's, Dale
Holmes, fresh off of a hot, er, I mean, cold, uh, hmmm.
Not sure the temperature, but you know what I mean! |
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