Hot Notes from
Scramble-Ween
October  2000
By Jenn Sheppard
Jenn Sheppard - Steve VanMeter Photo
What's Hot
The Longino Ranch was definitely hot. The track was great (Even though I didn't get to ride it.) It was a fast one, and I heard something about whooped out palmettos. The parking area was huge. All that foot traffic is good for you guys. The dirt road in was long and dusty. How come we can't set   up some sort of helicopter to fly us in on?

Everyone knows about the hot boy Kody Anderson, # 127 in Junior A, but do you know how hot it got when we heard he was hurt? Yup, thanks to my dad he was brought back to the pits. He ended up having a broken wrist when some kind of vine got hooked up under his front tire, after he was pushed out by another  rider. WOAH, they cut off his glove. Kody, we can sit the bench together.
After a long day, a bite at Wendy's seemed like some good eats. We ran into Mrs. Doug Willis and talked with her. Turns out her hubby runs B 4 Stroke #2, and won by half a minute. Well, that's a 99 cent deal.

You know he's hot when he starts two minutes behind the leaders but he's like top 10 overall on the first lap. That's right, I'm talking about Garrett Edminsten # 217 in A200. You know what's hotter? He won by 4 minutes and finished 6th overall. So… when you moving up to AA?
Team Lutz is hot. No denying that. Matt Lyons, # 13 in B-4stroke ends up with a 2nd half a minute behind first. (2nd place is the first loser!) Clay, his bro, # 12 in B 200 ends up 7th. (Get on the gas!) Josh Lyons, the cousin, ends up 5th in his class. And I don't know what happened to Eric Gilbert # 711 in B 200. He just quit.

On Saturday, Mike Phillips # 54 won by about 2 minutes in Super Vintage A. On Sunday, the Iron Man did it again and beat everyone in AA class by 2 minutes. You know what they say, history repeats itself.
What's Not

38 riders in Beginner 1.

Ok… so picture this. Your racing, you're winning, you're feeling great. You come around the last lap. YOU WIN! You stop, take off your helmet, and smile.

Suddenly, second place goes by but doesn't stop. Oh well, they'll figure it out. Then, third place goes by, and still doesn't stop.WAIT, do you have another lap to do? Yes, you end up second but you should have won. That stinks. This probably sounds familiar to Samantha Broderick # 9 in Women B. It happened to her. Needless to say, if they change the number of laps on the starting line, they need to make sure every rider knows and understands it.