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BLAST FROM THE PAST: CASEY FOLKS

Scot Harden has incredible commentary on the late Casey Folks. “Casey accomplished so much in his life, building from scratch one of the first Husky and KTM dealerships in the country- Sportsman Cycle. Creating the premier desert racing organization- The Best in the Desert. Founder of MRAN, the Groundshakers MC, opening up riding areas in Nevada and co-founding one of the greatest trail rides in existence- The Nevada 200. One almost forgets that Casey was one of the best desert off-road motorcycle racers- a multi-time Baja 500 and 100 class champion, a SNORE 250 overall winner and multi-time MRAN #1 plate holder. This classic shot is Casey at the 1981 Baja 1000. On the pegs, over the bars, scanning ahead, full attack mode- pure Casey!”

 

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Red Bull Romaniacs Video Fest- Full blown nasty

ENDUROCROSS ROUND 3

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WOLF: BACK IN THE DAY

In 1988 I had the good fortune to hook up with two great people, in Randy Hawkins and Charles Halcomb. Charles was in charge of Suzuki’s  off-road program and brought Randy in to race for them. Both had a passion for the ISDE and I snatched onto their coattails and raced in a good chunk of the qualifiers in 1988. We rode together at every qualifier, and these were the days when the events were two-three and four days long with big mileage and lots of trail time. They both worked the Wolfster hard, but in the end they were some of the best times that I had racing dirt bikes.

Both Charles and Randy had lots of Six Days experience, where I had none. This meant that I was usually stressing big time. Both tortured me and kept it light.
We raced 1988 RM250’s and this is the Michigan Qualifier. Rear disc brakes were fairly new to us and we tended to cook the fluid often, requiring constant bleeding and refreshing the juice at the pits.
Michigan was tight, sandy, whooped out tested me hard.
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