ISDE 2008 Six Day Enduro. Greece

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Go Rory - he's a good Porirua boy

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58.04.4 The front and rear discs may be replaced, but the diameter
must remain as original. Brake lines and brake pads may be modified or
replaced.

From FIM Enduro rules, the diameter could be the issue, doubt there are to many KDX's there.

Pretty sure he's running KX125 front end on the mighty KDX.....

Oh and have a look on the Waitamata club website, couple of vids showing how dusty it is......

http://waitematamcc.co.nz

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Pretty sure he's running KX125 front end on the mighty KDX.....

Oh and have a look on the Waitamata club website, couple of vids showing how dusty it is......

http://waitematamcc.co.nz

Correct.

Apparently he hasn't had a front brake for a full 1.5 days!!

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[B]Day 4

Well the organisers made Day 4 a scenic recovery day. Meaning basically that they changed the course a bit as the casualty rate was getting up there. Heres an extract from yesterdays press. Some unique phrasing here! LOL

New routes for today and tommorow. Caselli and Guerrero are out of the race, Greeks remain all in. The tiredness becomes catalytic convertor of the results. ΛΑΜΣ – The Auto Moto Club of Serres, the orgnizator of 83rd ISDE had created easier routes for the 3rd and 4rth day, in order the riders to regain their power and courage, since they have reached their limits the previous days.

The natural beauty of the new route in combination with the varying morphology of Serres’ mountains refreshed the atlhetes phsychology. The passage through the river in the new special Test of Lailia, the mud and the big ruts made the athletes feel like riding in a different season of the year. The difference of the temperature from the Racetrack of Serres, where the centre of ISDE is, to Lailia reaches the 20c degrees.


The tiredeness of the previous days, in combination with the motorcycles signs of wear, were the main reason for the increased number of abandoments, despite the easier route. Falls were frequent, but no one exceptected two leader to retire from the race, due to light injuries.


Cristobal Guerrero, broke his leg, while putting it on the ground with lot of pressure.

He will not need operation, since it was a clean broke, but he must stay without to move for 4-6 weeks. We will stay till the end of the race in Serres to encourage the rest of his team.


Automatically Juha SALMINEN passed in the top of classification and of his category E2, furthermore he gained a safety difference from the second Sebastian GUILLAME. Ivan CERVANTES accepts the attacks of the American Ricky DIETRICH, today they shared the victories in E1 category.


The American Kurt Caselli had also a fall that forced him to abandon the race.[/COLOR]

The Kiwi's are still all "alive". The World team have made a move up the table and have just over taken the Poms to be in 16th.

World trophy 16/26
Junior trophy 10/16

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Chris Birch E3 27
Jason Davis E3 33
Adrian Smith E1 31
Rory Mead E1 39
Sean Clarke E2 40
Luke Uhrle E2 51
Tom Chapman C2 35
Mark Delautour E3 50
Mark Newton C2 48
Duncan Mclaren E1 56
Morgan Dransfield E3 45
Jono Kight E3 44
Brenton May C1 54

Chris Birch is still 83rd overall with Jason at 116.

Lukes KDX200 is getting a bit of media attention with photographers wanting to capture the "old bike".

The old bike being the only KDX there and not doing too bad as he is up to 226 overall now.

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Final Results.

Well all of the kiwi's have finished and congrats to them all.
But remember that there was also a great support crew whom did all the hard work behind the scenes in Greece.

Final results

Chris Birch 82 E3 26
Adrian Smith 112 E1 28
Jason Davis 114 E3 31
Rory Mead 126 E1 36
Sean Clarke 164 E2 42
Luke Uhrle 214 E2 50
Tom Chapman 241 C2 35
Mark Delautour 260 E3 49
Morgan Dransfield 262 E3 51
Mark Newton 271 C2 39
Jono Kight 292 E3 54
Duncan Mclaren 306 E1 59
Brenton May 334 C1 53

10th in the Juniors and 16th in the World teams.

Heres an extract from Waitemata's site from Chris Birch to give you a better understanding of heart break!


Day Six
What an amazing result from the final moto of the six day! Juha Salminein had a two minute lead going into the race. He nabbed the holeshot and streaked out to a big lead. Unfortunatly one of the top Spanish riders KO'd himself big time in the first corner. The Spanish fans stormed the track and the race was red flagged. Juha again got jump and was leading into the freshly watered first corner. Unfortunatly he stuffed it and dropped the bike getting the bike run over and the throttle busted. See ya later first overall!
Next it was E3, my mission was to not mess it up. Stephan Merriman had a six second lead. First corner and I'm drifting around the corner when who do I see buried in the barriers but Stephan Merriman. See ya later first in E3. I stayed out of trouble and snagged my gold medal.
Simone Albergone ate it in his moto too and had a free trip to hospital. See ya later podium in E!
So all the kiwis got home in one piece. I finished on gold with most of the others snagging a silver.
by chris on day six

Young Luke managed to ride his bike home into 214th over all. He never managed to find a front disc so was without a front break for 4.5 dyas. What an effort.!!

Chris and Mark now head to the Red Bull Romaniacs for the 4 days test of strength next week. Good luck guys.