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October 11th
Frackville, PA Story by: Steve Bowman Round eight of the Mid-Atlantic Cross Country Series was held October 11th on private property near Frackville, Pennsylvania. The area is still active in the coal mining industry, but this day it was going to be used for some twowheeled vintage cross country fun! South Penn Enduro Riders (SPER) had the honor of hosting the event and laying out the four and a half-mile course which consisted of fresh cut loamy single track woods, very little elevation change, short bursts on the powerline and back into the woods with just a “few rocks.” When you are from Pennsylvania, “a few rocks” means about 1000! The “stick farm” (AKA: New Jersey) consisting of saplings was the tightest section of the course. The sandy/pebble-type dirt in this segment added to the variety. It was a great fall weekend with the leaves changing colors. Temperatures in the 60s made for excellent racing conditions. Although there hasn’t been very much rain in this area lately there was minimal dust. With the season winding down and championship points
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74X Christian Brumbaugh, C17 Joseph Cole, 345 Sean MacLean, 17B Larry Warner, 68 Joe Zito Photo by: Steve Bowman
standings coming to a close, this event would be the deciding factor for a few classes and for the overall for the year in both the Vintage and Post Vintage categories. Now for some race action. For the start of both the Vintage and the Post Vintage races, each row would be a dead engine start every 30 seconds with the usual “tennnnn seconds” ‘til launch time announcement by the Brian Grove Photo by: starter. About 45 riders lined up Jean Fordyce in their respective classes for the 10:30 AM start of the vintage race. The start of row one saw Christian Brumbaugh (74X) with the holeshot. Main rival, Brian Grove (119X), got jammed up a little bit in the first turn but soon caught up to Brumbaugh and gave the spectators a fabulous show of good clean racing throughout the four-lap race. For
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