ChrisM wrote:
Slowman wrote:
gymrat wrote:
Thank you for that Monty. Not sure how much I can say, since I walked the run. Yes the backside of the course was chewed up. Yes you know where the county line is based upon the road surface.
However, they have fixed the nasty potholes on the decent from the top of Nasty down to the Bee Rock. That used to be some scary shit.
I know of at least 1 crash there, I want to say either 2008 or 2010.
that is the pucker part of that course, for me. you get to the top of nasty, descend, climb a bit, and then that really fast descent, kind of blind, 50mph plus, and you swing around to the right and, oops, there's a truck pulling a boat at 25mph and you're going 50. never did like that part.
I agree with Pete, even signing up way back when I was already stressed about it, but it was manageable and the roads were good there (there were a couple settlement cracks on curves but overall pretty good). I'm a wuss descending and even at 40 mph I was getting passed by guys in full aero (!) going 50 plus. I do recall they had an ambulance stationed at the bottom the prior years I did it. That was always a nice touch
funny, I don't remember ever seeing an ambulance at the bottom. But, then again I wasn't exactly sight seeing while descending!!! Likely, they were gone by the time I got there (I was in the last non-relay wave this year, and, was there right about noon). In the old days when I raced motocross, any race couldn't start until there were 2 ambulances present (one or more would often be gone on a "run"), so waiting wasn't unheard of. Didn't think anything of it - at the time. Those were the days...
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