Northeast Region Update WORDS: BOB CLOSE PHOTOS: SARAH LANE, RICK COWER
Greetings racers, families, and friends—an apology from this volunteer Scribe for the delay in pushing out our Northeast event update. In this issue, we’re going to cover the Vermont State Line Riders XC, the Allen’s Farm XC/MX event, and Bear Creek Sportsman’s Club XC/MX weekend. AND we want to say thanks to Joshua. Next month we will cover our Fall schedule. By this time, you should be into bike teardowns, or maybe even bike shopping as we hurdle towards the end of a great—If slightly weather challenged—2021. So come on in from the garage, or stop your FB marketplace/Craigslist searches, and enjoy!
State Line Riders XC, North Pownal, VT 17th Warm, sunny, and wet! Somehow, someway, the weather gods put a pause on the constant stream of storms that embraced the New York/Vermont border leading up to the weekend of the State Line Riders event. Many riders drove thru rain even to reach the event on Saturday and were pleasantly surprised to find blue skies enveloping the surrounding, beautiful Green Mountains, with the temperature reaching the low 80s. But that same forecast kept many riders 52
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away so under 30 entries signed up to hit the hills and fast three-plus mile course laid by our hosts. That course proved challenging and muddy in more than a few places, but lots of elevation changes also promoted lots of drainage, making some of the course pretty darn fast and navigable. And yes, it is Vermont. Lots of rocks and roots! In the Vintage XC race, it was not surprising to find 2021’s new Northeast fast guy and Expert Darrell Wassil take home his first Vintage Overall and Sportsman Open Expert win on
a super-fast Ossa Phantom 250 he’d just taken delivery of. He claims he is still working out the kinks, but you would never know it watching him. Jay Danek grabbed the Classic Expert win on his trusty Penton Six Day. The age classes were ruled by Joe Chodnicki’s Can-Am in 50+ Intermediate and Merritt Brown in 60+ Intermediate, with Post Vintage Novice (and great videographer—see below) John Mathewson paying the Northeast a visit and claiming that award. Steady Dave Salmen took the Sportsman 200 Intermediate win on his MX175 and Bob Young took Premier Intermediate on an Ossa Pioneer.
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