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Old May 20, 2004 | 05:00 AM
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Default Drag racing against the Sparks guys at Florence, OR on June 5th

were going to have 3-4 decent running Sparks YFZ450's, Two very fast Sparks 690's & hopefully a Sparks 727 there on June 5th. I hope some of the fast 4 strokes will show up to play with us at the hill. Were coming all the way from Southern California. I hope we can have some fun & meet some people. Well how about it?????
 
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Old May 20, 2004 | 09:19 AM
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should be a few runners there after memorial day it gets exciting there. maybe i'll try for a day run
 
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Old May 20, 2004 | 11:24 PM
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250r4life-Where at florence will you be drag racing, comp hill or south jetty?I dont know who will be there there on the 5th of june but there are some very fast local raptors and yfzs so you will have some competition for sure.There is a black raptor that runs out at comp hill that will give you a good run regardless of what four stroke you are on.I will probably be there but only as a spectator as far as the drag racing is concerned but i am having my raptor built up to where it should hang with most four strokes that i will run into but that will be a week or two after the 5th.You may also find a ds or two hanging around that will surprise you.
 
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Old May 21, 2004 | 12:38 AM
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I'll try to be there, but no guarantees. I'm about 1 bike length behind that black rappy but I'll eventually catch up [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] I wouldn't doubt that the ultralites he runs pulls him that one extra bike length ahead of me. At that time I was running some pretty wore out 20x10x10 9 paddle haulers. I've been wantin to see some of those Sparks bikes run, I bet they'll beat me but I don't mind tryin [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] Hope to see ya there!!
 
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Old May 21, 2004 | 12:52 AM
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I'd like to go, but I don't think there's any way my bike will be done by then. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]
 
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Old May 21, 2004 | 01:05 AM
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Default Drag racing against the Sparks guys at Florence, Oregon on June 5th

Where is comp hill? We were at south jetty, the staging area year before last.
 
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Old May 21, 2004 | 01:13 AM
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If you go out into the open dunes at south and stay to the left following the out of bounds lines you'll eventually see it. There is usually lots of people sittin on top and the bottom of the hill is located next to a large island of trees (kinda near the dune rental entrance) with a large mound of sand from where people take off racing.
 
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Old May 21, 2004 | 02:00 AM
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Yeah I was thinking South Jetty, Because that's all I know. But I'll go whevever the majority of the people will be. Which hill is better for drag racing? Which hill is longer? Comp hill or South Jetty?
 
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Old May 21, 2004 | 02:32 AM
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South Jetty is longer hill, But the rangers hang out around there sometimes so i wouldnt want to be running back and forth on a loud pipe, comp hill is not really that big in my opinion
 
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Old May 21, 2004 | 03:27 AM
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Comp hill is steaper and maybe a little longer with a really short takeoff. South Jetty (The Face) has some bad whoops and a long takeoff before the hill.
 
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