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30 Trail Rider www.TrailRider.com It looked like she was trying to figure out what to do next. When I asked if she was done and wanted a bailout line back to the pits, I was given a straight-up "no". She wanted to finish. I helped her get up the next hill, and sure enough, she got the beat and ba ered BSA to the finish line. One of the things I have always loved about true offroad junkies is the "never say die" spirit and on a nasty course on not the easiest bike to ride, Stephanie was the epitome of it that day. Next up, the Post Vintage race fired off with the largest group in any one race for the weekend. This race brought about an inter- es ng development that remained a theme for the weekend: many guys riding their vintage bikes in the post-vintage races. The course was slick enough that it seemed the PV bikes didn't have much of an advantage, and the vintage bike with a lower seat height was easier to skate around. Steve McWhort- er, Sco Price, Sco y Meeks, Cody Meeks, and Terry Cunningham all rode vintage bikes in the PV race. East Tennessee fast guy Randy Bailey gave Meeks a run for the overall win on a KDX that was fresh out of the barn dust and all un l it started packing up and had to be limped into the finish. Marc Therrien, our own New England transplant, put those old NETRA skills to work and piloted his 1979 Husqvarna 250 OR to an excellent finish. The new Next Gen and Millennium na on- al classes brought some new riders to the AHRMA compe on. Ian Crowder ended up being the highest finishing out of that group, pu ng in some super consistent laps on his 2001 Honda CR250. A er the days racing had finished, one trend really surprised me. I saw more smiles than frowns even a er the course had go en gnarly. We actually started ge ng a lot of compliments on how much fun some of the riders had, so that really offset any nega ve feedback received. Woods racers really are a different breed, aren't they! Sunday morning, we finally woke to sunshine and no real chance of rain. I had been out and rerouted the course to remove all the major hills and trouble spots from the previ- ous day.