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Just got back from the GS Trophy 2020 US qualifier at Rawhyde Adventures in Castaic, CA and had a really amazing time! It's similar to going to watch a golf tournament only about a million times more exciting. I got to lead a shop ride from Irv Seaver BMW Sat morning and of course they loaned me a sweet GS to ride instead of my workhorse 990 lol. Sat was the final day for the finalists and all contestants rode the new BMW 850 GS. I did the trophy in 2012 and got 17th and the day of the finals I figured I was unlikely to do better than 17th on a bike I'd never ridden so kudos to the riders who adapted quickly to this different bike. There was a guy on Friday who went over the bars on this downhill but luckily he's okay This is how it normally looked I was extremely impressed with the talent this year. Like I was saying about finishing 17th in 2012... I doubt I'd have done as well this time even though I'm a much better rider. The scoring was quite interesting to follow this year! I was surprised that riders I thought did really well like Jason Houle and Tyler Godwin finished so far back but then digging deeper I discovered why! Apparently the challenge began with a slow uphill climb where you'd lose 25(!) points if you let the rear wheel break traction and only one rider, Dave Diaz (GM of Irv Seaver BMW), cleaned. Well 25 points is a LOT! That's like 25 dabs or 5 falls! So the smart thing to have done had each rider really though strategically about where points are gained/lost would have been to keep your ass far back on the seat going up that hill instead of being on the pegs vertically. I saw riders like Chris Johns (who took first), Jason, Tyler, etc... do REALLY well in the sand which is super tough but again a dab is just 1 point so as good as it looks it doesn't cost you much if you flub the sand even though fewer riders can do it well. More to come...
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