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Wyoming AHRMA National Trials
Casper, WY | September 2-3 , 2006
By
Fred Martinson
The Wyoming AHRMA National was again held at the Mosteller Ranch at the east end of Casper Mountain. The area offers a wide range of riding challenges: dry to wet rocks, logs, and muddy hills.
When I arrived at the trials site on Friday afternoon, there was lots of discussion about Section 9, to be ridden on Saturday’s event. The section featured a nice straight line across a marshy area about 50 feet long. The mud was a good six inches deep, causing speculation that the section was sponsored by a Casper car wash.
It was cool when Saturday’s event began, but climbed into the 70’s by the time the Vintage riders started in the afternoon. The riders had twelve sections to ride three times except for the three and four line riders, who didn’t ride Section 10.
The Premier Lightweight Expert class was won by Mike Wehling by two points over Graham Foster. Piotr Serek was first over Steve Kirschner by a single dab in the Modern Classic Expert.
Sunday had another twelve sections for the riders; including two of the Saturday sections that were modified for the second day’s riding.
A wide variety of sections were featured today, from dry slippery up hills, to the creek and mud sections. Classic Intermediate rider Danny Messmore, as well as Robert Richter, in Modern Classic Novice, cleaned all the sections on Sunday, making me wonder if perhaps we should have put a few more turns in the rolling rocks of the creek bed.
The section elves did a good job of setting the sections and the 3 and 4 line riders in most sections had to get from the in-gate to the out-gate, find a line and ride it--these were wide open sections for them. The 1 and 2 line riders usually had a couple of split markers in each section to guide them, but the sections offered them the chance to use several different lines to get thru the sections.
The AHRMA National was combined with the WMTA’s 28th Annual Mosteller Cup. In the typical trials style of cooperation, the modern riders scored for the vintage riders. Some of the modern riders noted that there is a slight difference between a BSA 500 rigid bike and a modern Gas Gas Pro.
Results
***Thanks to Fred Martinson for contributing this article!