ISDE Finland 2011

Arrived in Helsinki, Finland at 8:30 this morning. I have been up for about 30 hours straight trying to adjust to the 9 hour time difference. My dad and I made the hour and a half drive to Kotka, then we drove around in circles looking for our hotel for another hour or two. The search consisted of illegal U-turns, stopping on train tracks, wrong way on one-way streets, and eventually we rolled into the hotel parking lot. All of the Finish people have been extremely nice, and excited about everything. I am looking forward to some good sleep tonight thats for sure. Beraaaaaaap!

Nebraska RMEC race

I just got back from a race in some small town in Nebraska. It was a fun course, grass track style, and I had fun and ended up on top of the podium. Everything went perfect. Now it's time to wrap myself in bubble wrap in preparation for the ISDE. Beraaap

Local Grinding Stone GP

This race was a very fun race! I decided the night before that I was going to race it, so I loaded up the ol' 125 and headed out there. My race went off at 8:30, and it was a 45 minute race. I ended up getting a second place holeshot behind Luke Reynolds, and I got passed quickly by Mason Ottersburg. I was able to get passed Mason after about a lap and a half, and Luke was way out front. Luke ended up crashing, and I took over the lead. Mason was never more than 20 seconds behind me the whole race, and got pretty close, but I was able to pull away on the last lap to take the win. I had a lot of fun on the little 125, and I will come out for more of these events. Beraaap,

Max Gerston

RMEC Chadron, Nebraska 2011

This race was awesome! It was well worth the 18 hour drive that had huge wind the hole way. This race was my first time keeping endure, and I didn't even know what to do. I had a fellow racer named Jim Koch give me a crash course on the ICO computer, and then I was on my own. I was able to perfectly zero out 4 out of 7 checks, and it should have been 5 if it weren't for a cranky checkpoint worker who laughed when I put my foot down at 59 seconds, and made me burn the check, when I really zeroed it out. I was unsure how I was doing in the results, but I ended up getting 1st!! I am very happy and excited about my result! Anyway, I had a ton of fun on some awesome singletrack through the trees with nice moist loamy dirt. It was about a 100 mile race, and I felt good and strong the whole time. Thanks to everybody who helped me out, you guys are the best. Beraaaaaapp!

Max Gerston

RMEC Bennet Race 2011

Well, the race from last weekend went pretty much awesome. The day before it was extremely windy and dusty, and we had our doubt about the race. Also the course was suuuuper tight through the trees, which would cause you to have many small mistakes. That night, it rained and hailed and everything else that happens in Colorado. The next morning, it was a perfect race day, conditions were perfect. There was a grass track portion of the course, and some trail that busted through the trees. It was a seven mile loop, and we did it 6 times. The course was extremely fun with big loamy nice turns in the grass track, and fun technical stuff through the trees. I put in a very solid ride, and ended up taking second behind Cody Shafer in the pro class. Beraaaaap!!

National Enduro ISDE Qualifier in Lubbock Texas

It was a long, hot, and dusty weekend for me and the crew this weekend. My dad and I, along with two other awesome racers loaded up the Moto Van and headed out to the races. We rolled into the race venue about mid-day Saturday, and we got through tech and sign up in about 5 minutes. There was a jetting loop that was about a half of a mile long, so we got our flow on for about an hour to make sure everything was working flawlessly. We stayed the night in Post, a town about 20 miles from the race venue, and woke up the next morning with our race faces on, we went into "race mode". On our way to the race venue we happened to come across a flock of Turkeys in the middle of the road, we tried our best to avoid the turkeys, but we managed to blast one on the corner of our van. Let's just say, the Moto Van had turkey for breakfast. Anyway, my dad and I, and Stewart "The Ball Peen Hammer" Hamer were all on row number 4. The first test section was extremely tight, crippling my ability to get a flow, or my ability to get out of second gear. The second test section was awesome!! It consisted of fun and flowy singletrack, where I was able to lay down a pretty good time. The remainder of the test sections were extremely tight and energy draining. I had a pretty good and strong finish, I was able to finish 2nd in the AA class, and 13th overall out of all the "Big Boys". As soon as the race was over, we jumped in the van, and drove back to Scottsdale, we rolled in the driveway at 3:00 A.M. Monday morning, and I woke up at 6:30 to go to school. It doesn't get any better than that. Everybody had fun, and we all walked away injury free. Beeeeraaaaaapp!!!

New Ktm 350!!!

I have been riding and training on the new Moto City Ktm 350. The bike works like a dream and I am very excited to race it in Globe on the 22nd!!