Event Review - Curly Fern and Sandy Lane 2000

Curly Fern Enduro - March 19, 2000
Round 1 of the D7 and ECEA series schedules. South Jersey Enduro Riders put on a great event only 170 miles from Frederick.
Classic south Jersey trails and spring rains. Who could ask for more fun?
We found this description on the rider information sheet "...in the Pine Barrens you will get to see what happens to trees when they die, we call these log crossings".
The area had recieved lots of rain, and we happily cut where it said "Welcome to The Badlands" out of our roll charts when we saw resets around that section of trail Sunday morning.
The trails were fantastic, with test section after test section laid out, seperated by resets, mudholes, and fire cuts to let the slowest riders catch back up on time.
The second half of the race started with an 18 mph timekeeping trail and some mud bogs from recent rains which stuck a few folks, including me. District 7 rider Bill Harrall pulled me out of one of them, and great trail workers helped me out of another one. District 7 rider Jeff Johns, racing his first enduro as an "A" rider, brought home first place honors in the A-200 class. Congratulations Jeff!!!

Top 14 - unofficial Curly Fern 1.Jamie Wright 2.Jeffery Botsford 3.Terry Tucker 4.Mike Mchale 5.Frank Vanaman 6.Jeff Johns 7.Craig Shenigo 8.Michael Bradway 9.Bill Gilbert 10.Jeff Pritchard 11.Jack Lafferty Jr 12.Bob Solomon 13.James Gunsleman 14.Mark Hummel
Grand Champion - Jamie Wright
*AA - Mike McHale *A125 - Jeffery Botsford * A200 - Jeff Johns *A250 - Jamie Wright *Aopen - Jeff Pritchard * A4T - Lewis J Smith Jr Avet - Stephen Larkin *Asr - Terry Tucker *ASSr - Scott Wolfersberger B125 - Daniel Carper *B200 - George Mamounis *B250 - Jason Campbell * Bopen - Scott Tellone *B4T - Mark Perry *Bvet Todd Fenton *BSr - Stephen Seip * BSSr - Jack Lourtsema *Masters - Joe Gallie Sr 57 *Womens - Kathy Campbell

Sandy Lane enduro - March 26 -
Round 2 of the D7 and ECEA series schedules.
After a little rain for a few days to make the ground nice and soft, we have georgous weather for a beautiful early morning start.
The Meteor Motorcycle club sent us through lots of whooped out fire cuts, and a load of ignorant tight trees, and it was all day long. One rider, huffing and puffing, commented to me on the trail "This isn't the normal Sandy Lane".
Some great water and mudholes that were a ton of fun, as long as you didn't fall down or get stuck, rounded out the event 72 ground miles later, Fred Hoess picked up top honors. It was a good event, and after last weeks workout at Curly Fern, we are ready to go into the Greenbrier National Enduro next weekend.

Top 14 - unofficial Sandy Lane 1.Fred Hoess 2.Chris Smith 3.Jack Lafferty Jr 4.Craig Shenigo 5.Stephen Larkin 6.Michael Bradway 7.Mark Hummel 8.Frank Vanaman 9.Terry Tucker 10.James Gunselman 11.Jamie Wright 12.Bob Bennett 13.Richard Shirk Jr 14.Bob Solomon

Grand Champion - Fred Hoess
AA - Chris Smith A125 - Bob Solomon A200 - Robert Mohn A250 - Michael Bradway Aopen - James Landvater Jr A4T - Richard Shirk Jr. Avet - Stephen Larkin Asr - Terry Tucker ASSr - Jack Lafferty Sr. B125 - Daniel Carper B200 - William Hess B250 - Phil Cassot Bopen - Scott Tellone B4T - Mark Perry Bvet Marco Dottavio BSr - David J Van Pelt BSSr - Michael Larson Masters - Farrel Lord Womens - Kathy Campbell

The rest of the schedule for District 7 enduro series: April 9 Greenbriar National Enduro Belleplain, NJ
May 14 Pine Hill Enduro New Lisbon, NJ
May 28 Broad Mountain Enduro New Philadelphia, PA
June 4 Green Marble Enduro near Good Spring, PA
July 16 Foggy Mountain Breakdown Enduro Blaine, PA
Aug 27 Beehive Enduro Mauricetown, NJ
Sept 10 Micheaux Enduro Shippensburg, PA
Oct 29 Delaware Enduro Delaware City, DE

If you missed the first events never fear!! Call the District 7 Enduro Chairman, Ken Schaeffer at (410) 655-7958.
You must at least START 3 events to qualify for District 7 enduro points.
Web links to information about the upcoming enduros
Greenbriar Enduro - http://www.teamhammer.org/
http://www.ecea.org/events/enduro/2000/greenbrier00.shtml

Pine Hill Enduro - http://www.ecea.org/events/enduro/2000/pinehill00.shtml

For more information on how to get started riding enduros, call Chuck Marler at (301) 391-6539.

More information on these, and all the ECEA enduros, Hare Scrambles and more can be found at the

East Coast Enduro Association Web page

More information about A.M.A. District 7 can be found at the
Motorcycling Unlimited of A.M.A. District 7 home page

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