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[OZ_450]

well good to see the local boys up there with Aaron Ovens and Smitty and Brett C in the top 5 in prologue well done guys

and Daryl Watson has done well also




hey Len hmmm whats goin on with the hondas this year ? seems all zooks and yams up the top and right down to the middle ?? dont tell me ......... no good honda riders there this year right? lol
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[Ryno]

yeah couldnt make it this year would of been in top 5 for sure

[Gaz #5]

Cowchaser is first through deep well

[Gaz #5]

and first through rodinga

[OZ_450]

yep trying to find out where AZZA is at moment


cant even be bothered finding out where them damn hondas are lmao

[Gaz #5]

first 3 through rodinga were zuks

[Gaz #5]

cowchaser is now through bundooma in 30 outright at the moment

[HUGE]

well done ------ so far so good for the moo-chaser

any one you know?






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[Gaz #5]

How about Bullet getting to Finke in under 5hrs on the TRX90

[Ms 450]

how was he physically once he got there? still alive?
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[WAT4]

I think anyone that is there having a go deserves a pat on the back no matter what bike they are on or where they finish.

You wont have to look too far down the overall finish list to find a Honda Brad!!!

Amanda
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Just got off the phone from peter in Alice Springs

Paul Smith 1ST
Brett Clissold 2ND
Aaron Ovens 3RD
Darryl Watson 4RD

Well done boys

Smitty Blew a back tyer and had to ride the last 60km with a shredded tyer that has destroyed the left hand side of his quad
Well done smitty

[Gaz #5]

Web site showing
Paul Smith 1st Suzuki
Phil Hall 2nd Honda
Dale Harris 3rd Raptor
Tim Riley 4th Suzuki

[OZ_450]

i am betting that the site is incorrect as has that Daryl , Aaron and Brett not even finishing or in the dnf page so i will go with Victors post i think

hey amanda looks like the zooks out weighed the hondas after all hey

but all good to see the guys who race vic mx series take 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th

well done to all and awesome job to smitty ya a legend

[ATV PRO]

OZ_450 wrote:

well good to see the local boys up there with Aaron Ovens and Smitty and Brett C in the top 5 in prologue well done guys and Daryl Watson has done well also hey Len hmmm whats goin on with the hondas this year ? seems all zooks and yams up the top and right down to the middle ?? dont tell me ......... no good honda riders there this year right? lol

Hi Brad ,
Pretty simple really ,from what I see not many Honda riders entered .Including last years Champion Honda rider Rod Scale,anyway congratulations to Smitty and all who enterd !The way I see it your a champion if you compete and finish the Finke
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[OZ_450]

Goodnbad wrote:

OZ_450 wrote: well good to see the local boys up there with Aaron Ovens and Smitty and Brett C in the top 5 in prologue well done guys and Daryl Watson has done well also hey Len hmmm whats goin on with the hondas this year ? seems all zooks and yams up the top and right down to the middle ?? dont tell me ......... no good honda riders there this year right? lol Hi Brad , Pretty simple really ,from what I see not many Honda riders entered .Including last years Champion Honda rider Rod Scale,anyway congratulations to Smitty and all who enterd !The way I see it your a champion if you compete and finish the Finke

hey Len all the boys did the prologue though this year including the winner haha and as many hondas as zooks i think ya will find lenny boy ...... but yes i agree anyone who finishes is a champ

[Ozzy84]

any idea how ozquad44 did??

[Gaz #5]

It now reads
Paul Smith 1st
Aaron Ovens 2nd
Daryl Watson 3rd
Phil Hall 4th

[OZ_450]

Gaz i still think Victor maybe right since he spoke to Pete W and also where is Brett C listed on there hasnt even got him in dnf so seems weird with the sites results

[OZ_450]

just spoke to Aaron

smitty 1st , 2nd and 3rd is or was close between Aaron and Brett and Daryl 4th

zooks podiums on 3 and western victorians 3 podiums woot woot woot lol

[Gaz #5]

No desputing petes informating its all i got to go on is the site. Is it Daryls first time if so 4th good effort. Well done to all that finished.

[OZ_450]

yes i am pretty sure it is Daryls first time and i know it is Aarons first time Brett went up last year but unsure if he finished last years

and yeah the site is a bit slow in getting results up this year i noticed

[Q67Dazza]

congratulations all that entered, competed n supported the event
and too
Smiddy
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!*&#!@ HUGE wrote:

well done ------ so far so good for the moo-chaser any one you know?

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Hi all. Just got back home in SA. I know even Phil Hall is still not sure weather he is 4th or 5th yet. They actually called him up on stage for 1st at the presentations.
There must be a lot of numbers and times written down that people are still sorting.

Poor Rick Beers was out for basically a minor electrical fault costing him batteries and therefore 'spark'.

No doubt though, Smitty is the legend of this lunch hour.
On the return leg he fully took out a CR500 as it cart-wheeled away from a tank slapping rider in front of him. The Quad was really bent up (more on the left) and he pressed on.

Around the 60k to go mark he scorred a flat tyre on the left hand rear but kept it pinned all the way home. Without exageration, he honestly lost about a third of his tyre before the finish line. You could easily drop a basketball in the hole. He said the vibrations were nearly killing him.

As he backed off over the finish line the tyre colappsed and nearly sent him in to the wall.

the bloke is an animal.


This was my first Finke and I can see what all the fuss is about.
I had a great run for the first leg, but still came in just under 5 hours. The Jumbo did a wicked job and just kept screaming the whole way.

For those that have not seen the Finke... let me put a perspective on the whoops for you...
They might not swallow whole cars as some rumours suggest but they would have to average around 1m high and the worst thing is that they just do not stop. The 3rd quarter (from the Alice end) is excruciating. You don't get the slightest rest through this section.

Thanks to the Quad Squad, I had a freshly fitted set of Flexx bars. Adam went to great lengths to get them to me just 6 hours before I left. Thank christ he did too. I can't imagine doing the Finke without them. I don't know if I would have finished.

My top gearing worked out to be a spot on selection. Just off valve bounce on the road sections at maybe up to 70kmh on the flats, and still holding the torque curve in most of the flat sandy parts.

Day 2 was a different story. After completing the toughest day in my life (no exageration) I really didn't feel too bad and I knew the T-rex was ripping.
15km in and I blew a head gasket.
the rest is a story for another day... but I did make it back.
Finke on a TRX90 is possible, but not in what you'de call 'good time' and definitely bloody hard work.

Big thanks to Honda World, Andy from Austraco (the holeshots performed awsomely an still look new after lots of training and then going to hell and back), David Hann from Scootaround, Mick from 47 Industries Pete from Southern Quads, all the racers and officials and just about everyone else I met.

See you all up there again next year.
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