WNYOA Round 4 / Arcadia Bark Busters

The little ones were going so fast today that their teeth were falling out.  Well ok -- not really...   :) | Click to view the photo larger

Round #4 is in the books and the WNYOA family / series now settles into period of rest and recovery, fix and repair (of both machine and body) as there is a break coming up between now and Round 5 at Greek Peak on the 15th.  Arcadia, as I learned in speaking with even promoter Jerry Bulman earlier today, has a historically "low turnout" of ridership due to a couple of things.  Namely distance - it is, by comparison, a good drive away from the typical WNYOA event.  Today's event did set an Arcadia racer attendance record though topping out around approximately 600'ish riders - not to shabby.  A little light by WNYOA standards but again ..  not bad.

Nick Davis *blew* the AA's away.  Ben Bouwens (again!) appeared to have grabbed the early lead but apparently went down pretty hard and never really got back into podium contention.  I don't know where he finished.  | Click the photo to view it larger

Last year at the Dan Leonard event, Dallas Micha and his crew set a high bar standard for how an event should be run.  That bar was then met and in some cases exceeded for the next several events back to back over the next few weeks.  Congrats to Jerry and his crew for establishing this years high bar standard (in my opinion anyway for whatever that may or may not be worth....  ).  Parking, scheduling, numbers of workers, the course itself and course marking, and lastly getting the races off pretty much on schedule ...  check, check, check and check.

Here are a couple of grabs from todays event ...  little ones on the pee wee quads -- sorry folks - I didn't make it up there on time to catch you.  ( this event really was pretty far away ..  road trip! lol! )  I'll catch you at Round 5.  Hopefully one of the other shooters caught you ...

Timmy Murphy did not get the greatest of starts in the AA's but did battle his way to a 2nd place finish on the day.  | Click the photo to view it larger

This guy (sorry man...  I don't know as many of the quadders as I do the bikes) Thanks to an eagle eyed reader I can now update this and state that Greg Covert grabbed the early lead in the AA Quads.  He apparently never relinquished it either and went on to grab the win on the day!  |  Click the photo to view it larger

There will be many, many more photo's coming in the next few days folks - I'll likely be posting them to facebook as well as (obviously) be populating the galleries.  Standby and keep checking back!

-=- jd -=-