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Swizcorner: Salt Lake City

Tuesday, May 1, 2012 | 9:10 AM

There was plenty of heart break to go around in SLC in both the SX2 and SX1 class. Just like the pendulum of life though, there was equal-portions of triumph served up as well.

The track wasn’t nearly as sloppy as we’ve come to expect with the 16th stop of the series, or as Ralph likes to run into the ground, “the penultimate round”. Just because the riders weren’t sloshing around in mud holes or in danger of losing their fingers due to hypothermia, the track was a sketch-fest nonetheless.

The ruts formed quickly and became deep and unpredictable. There was loose dirt on top of the concrete hard track surface which made the corners tricky as well.

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wrote: 9:26am May 1, 2012

It's not suposed to be easy!! Have you ever heard of the wordChallenging this is not Micky Thompson Ultra cross for those of use that are of age???

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CRFFourfifty wrote: 10:56am May 1, 2012

It's supposed to be hard. The HARD is what makes it great. If it was easy, everyone would do it.

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wrote: 1:02pm May 1, 2012

And Quit making stuppid Videos. You know the ones you have to open up your pie hole and say something!!!! Thats the problem you bumms are not focused at the task at hand.You dont think Bob Hannah or Bevo are doing or did this crap.You need to GO get your ride on!!!!!!!!!!!

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