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While I'm tracking laps at speeds only Vern could imagine, Ringo will be home collecting zero championship points. Hard to catch up that way, buddy. Oh, by the way, Ringo. Did you get you copy of Trials Comp this month?

Round three of the Endurocross series at the Florence Civic Center.

Tell you what. You want to promote trials in your area? Come to Florence this Saturday and we'll let you set up a table in our paddock - and sign up potential riders. You can't miss us. We'll have the Sherco tent.

Nice cover, huh?

From the best of my knowledge, he'll be doing one round, for sure. He'll be over for the TdN. On the junior line, big-bike. He's 18 now. You know, for placement next year.

A well deserved congratulations to Jack and Adam. A very worthy world champion indeed. It's been a pleasure watching this young man ride.

I took a few photos with my new cell phone camera.

Hat's off the Dustin Hedwall. In each of the two-three round series, Dustin started with a DNF on day one, then went on to compete the next two rounds. Dustin finished the series in 7th place.

I suppose if I were 25 points behind the slowest guys in EnduroCross after 2 rounds, I'd be making a plethora of excuses too. What next, Ringo, you're knees still hurt? If you don't start trimming points off my massive lead in the next three rounds, by Vegas I could sit in the stands - drinking a double Jack and Coke - taking blurry pictures AND still come out the $1000 winner.

Having Vern pass you is kin to those light rays that sped off the screen in Star Wars. To witness this first hand is simply amazing. I tip my cap to Vern and will see him in South Carolina next month for another re-match to see who's the slowest EnduroCross rider of all time. As for the bet, Ringo, I'd say you better start signing up to race or you need to bring a grand to Vegas. There's only four rounds left and you're now 25 points behind me at this stage of the game. In case you forgot, let me remind you. Source.

Brian, nice one. Very close to winning. But, you're runner up. WHOA! I gotta ride that course!!!!! It made my hair stand up just walking it!! Zippy, you win, buddy. PM me your mailing address. Congratulations, well done.

Couldn't Dale break away from his honeymoon with Marvin to handle the job? LOL. Seriously, I put out a couple of calls to see if any Wisconsin riders I felt could do it - would be up to the task. Sorry, no success. If he doesn't find anyone, I'll pull double duty while I mind Phillip and lend Chris a hand where-ever possible. That's the best I can offer.

After they see this, isn't that the truth.

This may have been a bad idea.....

Here's the official press release I just received. DIETRICH WINS OKLAHOMA EnduroCross ROUND ONE OF THE $50,000 GEICO TRIPLE CROWN OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. (August 17, 2008) Ricky Dietrich rode his Monster Energy Kawasaki to his first ever AMA/Maxxis EnduroCross main event win in Guthrie Oklahoma on Saturday evening. He battled his teammate, Damon Huffman until the very end as both riders clearly wanted the win. Young Colton Haaker, the converted Trials rider now riding a KTM 250SX backed by Lucas Oil products rounded out the podium after battling with Nick Brozovich early in the main event. Team Zip Ty

Thanks, Keith. Shan Moore wrote this article for Cycle News and I'm sure we'll be seeing lot's more in the next few days from RacerX and Dirt Rider. The press comes out in droves for this event. Everywhere you look, someone's taking a photo or video. I'm guessing Phil's and my crash will be popping up somewhere. Carnage makes for good footage. Not sure how Andy will take seeing his Trials Central Logos upside down on my helmet? Also, we'll (full family event) be up at Duluth this next weekend for the national. We're hoping Pat can defend his National title. We know Cody's riding great and is looking to snatch that title away. We'll see how it plays out this weekend.

Dang, we may have a winner on the first go-round. I'm changing the rules to no one from over-the-pond eligible.

In the pro class Colton and Phil were the only two to qualify for the Pro Main event. Colton came in third, holding that position the entire race. Phil battled hard from 8th to 10th, finishing 10th. Keith and Geoff just kept coming up short in the heats, semi's and LCQ. Phil won the TrialsCross class in a tight battle over Keith Wineland. A few faster kids beat the old trio of Marvin, Vern and I, with only seven riders competing. I finished dead last, crashing way too many times to count. One over the bar crash on the logs drew a loud applause from the 4000 in attendance. Phil had the crash of the evening in the hot lap session, shattering his chest protector. Everyone thought he was done for the evening. I worked to get the bike back in racing shape by going around to the pits finding replacement parts, (rear sprocket, thanks Geoff - front brake rotor, thanks KTM - ball barings and grinder with Air Conditioned workshop to do the work - thanks Kawasaki) Tough as nails, Phil kept racing and pulled out a miracle to make it in the main event. I'm so proud of the young man.

2007 AMA/NATC Senior 55 Champion Marvin Edgington and 2007 AMA/NATC Senior 60 Champion Dale Malasek were seen on the Lazy E Arena during round 2 of the AMA EnduroCross series. I caught a photo of them during the track walk. Let's have a little fun with a caption contest. Winner will receive a autographed copy, REVolution video from Pat or Smagical Adventure video from Phil. (Keep it clean)

Why would we want to hand a gold, silver and bronze medal (and whatever color fourth is) to Spain?

Taddy Blazuziak was injured Saturday night, the night before the WORCS race in Straddleline, WA. He was doing the WORCS Xcross event and KTM had flown in Taddy for the event. Evidentally Taddy was doing a step on/off and planted on the face of the following jump. Reports are he was rushed to the hospital in Olympia for emergency facial reconstruction surgery. Source.

I couldn't make this up if I was drinking Ron Lee's wine under a full moon. A couple of food critics (loony ones I might add) visit a Beijing restaurant that serves only penis. See review here.

Schooling calls... I believe it's Will Ibsen who's out. Not Keith.

This has been going around the Internet for years now, but it's always worth another look. DEMOCRATIC You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. Barbara Streisand sings for you. REPUBLICAN You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? SOCIALIST You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow. COMMUNIST You have two cows. The government seizes both and provides you with milk. You wait in line for hours to get it. It is expensive and sour. CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE You have two cows. You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows. BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE You have two cows. Under the new farm program the government pays you to shoot one, milk the other, and then pours the milk down the drain. AMERICAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one. You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead. You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses. Your stock goes up. FRENCH CORPORATION You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You go to lunch and drink wine. Life is good. JAPANESE CORPORATION You have two cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains. Most are at the top of their class at cow school. GERMAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour. Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year. ITALIAN CORPORATION You have two cows but you don't know where they are. While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman. You break for lunch. Life is good. RUSSIAN CORPORATION You have two cows. You have some vodka. You count them and learn you have five cows. You have some more vodka. You count them again and learn you have 42 cows. The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have. TALIBAN CORPORATION You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two. You don't milk them because you cannot touch any creature's private parts. You get a $40 million grant from the US government to find alternatives to milk production but use the money to buy weapons. IRAQI CORPORATION You have two cows. They go into hiding. They send radio tapes of their mooing. POLISH CORPORATION You have two bulls. Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them. BELGIAN CORPORATION You have one cow. The cow is schizophrenic. Sometimes the cow thinks he's French, other times he's Flemish. The Flemish cow won't share with the French cow. The French cow wants control of the Flemish cow's milk. The cow asks permission to be cut in half. The cow dies happy. FLORIDA CORPORATION You have a black cow and a brown cow. Everyone votes for the best looking one. Some of the people who actually like the brown one best accidentally vote for the black one. Some people vote for both. Some people vote for neither. Some people can't figure out how to vote at all. Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which one you think is the best-looking cow. CALIFORNIA CORPORATION You have millions of cows. They make real California cheese. Only five speak English. Most are illegals.

Nice parental example, hey? Noel and I go head-to-head on the track. Why should the kids have all the fun. Oops, almost forgot photo credits. Photo by Dan Salton. Above photos by Bill Smage.