May 18th Timber Ridge Hare Scramble

Sunday, May 18th the Hillblazer Motorcycle Club, which I am a member of, put on our annual AMA District 22 Hare Scramble.  Both boys race this event and have won every year they have entered.  The classes are simple, 85cc Class, 65cc Class and the 50cc Class.

Broc's 85cc Class started first and from a dead engine start, Broc was second into the first turn.  By the third turn the leader had fallen and Broc was in the lead.  For the first four laps, Broc led the field with three bikes right on his rear tire, then on the fifth lap he had dropped back to 4th place and thats where he finished.  After the race I asked him how the others got around him and he told me that he thought there was an 85jr and 85sr class and since these guys had been trying to get around him, he would let the 85srs by.  This is a prime example of our eleven year old son not listening!  Well, he rode a great race and hopefully learned a good lesson about paying attention.

Cole started his race in first place and was so far ahead that he had time to help two of his friends who had fallen. He had even passed a few of the bigger 85cc riders but as the race went on its hard to determine who you had passed and who passed you.  So after the race, Cole wondered what place he got so we looked at the score sheets which showed that Cole was the only 65cc rider to complete 6 laps and that the second place rider only finished 5 laps.  Needless to say, he was very happy and was on cloud nine.

The adult race started after the kids received their trophies in front of the entire 100 plus entries.  Both of the boys showed up on a couple of web sites who were there taking pictures, racertoy.com and iera22.com.  You should check out all of the pictures on these sites, especially the creek crossing crash pictures.