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Shiloh's Blog – July 2010 Archive (1)

BMX, racing off of summit's grid

I've added a new type of racing to my resume. I've done down hill, cross country, dual slalom, and now I've got some BMX under my belt. the race is a series of elmination races. Each race is about a 50 second sprint over jumps around berms. when the jumps are to big for you, you can treat it like a giant pump track. It's a gated start with up to eight racers at a time. I was consistently a full wheel length behind the other racers right out of the gate. I've gotta work on my gate starts. On the… Continue

Added by shiloh on July 8, 2010 at 9:46am — 2 Comments

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