Rider Updates
Jun 12 2009
I just currently went under complete ACL Reconstruction surgery for a complete tear of the ACL I suffered mid April. Surgery was a success and I'm on the road to recovery and have already started physical therapy and rehabilitation. I'm hoping to make it to the first Mud and Snow scramble series race at the end of November and get back into the swing of things for next season. After scheduling everything for surgery, I decided to ride a couple races before surgery for fun, but with the knee giving way multiple times each day, results were obviously not well. I want to thank those companies that have helped me to this point in 2009, MSR, Scott USA, Decal Works, Ward Performance, Gary of RaceTools, Kenda Tires, PowerMadd, DP Brakes, MotoOption, Bottones Jo-Bet Cycle, Jay2, and Dave from DRP Performance for helping out as well.
Apr 5 2009
The start of the season was just around the corner for me, I had plans to hit a couple Northeast Offroad Championship hare scrambles before the start of the Western New York Offroad Series I chase. I had finally tuned my Husqvarna to where I wanted it, working with the clickers and getting the small kinks worked out of the bike I felt fast, and had alot of time on the bike. I have never felt this prepared for the start of the season, and until April 24th, I felt I was in for an awesome season and for once, a good start to the season. April 24th, while practicing at Hogback Motocross track, I had my left leg out off the bike on a fast curve and ended up losing the back end a bit, and in doing so I posted my left leg and in the matter of a second, I heard the dreaded pop as my leg was as straight as a board and then went backwards some. I was in instant pain and knew I wasn't good. I won't know exactly what is the scoop with it until this Thursday, the soonest I could get to an Ortho. I'm in pain everyday but I've been walking on it for the last week. I haven't been able to get on the bike since, and it still might be a little bit. I'm hoping I'll only be off for a few more weeks and that I dodged a bullet and didn't tear any ligaments. I'll keep hanging in there, and I'll keep an update on whats going on with the knee and when I'm able to get going again.
Thanks!
Seth Eberhardt
Sep 8 2008
My season thus far has been a complete roller coaster ride. I came into the year expecting a bit of a struggle but really felt I could hang in there have some good finishes but be consistent to finish well in points. I started off as expected, struggling a bit to adapt to the new class and the pace. I slowly started to adapt but still didn't have any great finishes to speak of. About mid season I started to get good starts and was able to hang up front for a bit, and then I'd have something happen (either a mistake on my end or a bike issue). But I started to gain some confidence from that and felt I should be a top 3 guy in the class. I finally had a good finish of 2nd at the King Ferry round and from there I've yet to finish near there. I ran second most of the race at Thunder Ridge where I then fell back to 3rd and then ran out of gas on the bike within a few miles of the finish. Since then its how every race has been, looks promising and then something happens, like my clutch going this past weekend at Knobby Acres. I'm staying positive about it all and am looking forward to next season with a new bike and hopefully only minimal problems so I can battle for the Open A championship, which I feel I really have a shot at.
Sep 4 2007
I've done what I've set out to do this year, and that was to win the Open B class in the WNYOA Hare Scramble series. Before the start of the Thunder Ridge II race, I had the class wrapped up where there is no mathematical way for anyone to get me. WNYOA counts your 10 best races out of 15 for the series, I had it wrapped up in the first 10, which included 7 wins, 2 seconds, and 1 fifth. I still have a chance though, with 3 races left in the series, to win out and make it a perfect 200 points, because first pays 20 points. But we've taken this as a way to work my way into the 2008 season, we bought a KTM 450 to start dialing in and to get a few races in for testing the waters. So far there are alot of things to look forward to with this bike, I feel way more comfortable and feel I can do more with this bike than the iron steel I was riding, a KX500. We'll finish the year strong, and learn along the way as we make the transition to the A class for 2008. I would like to thank MSR, IMS Products, FCR Suspension, AP Brakes, SteelMX Goggles, MotoGraphx, MotoOption Clothing, Elf Oils and the guys at Wards Permormance for helping me out with what has already been a fun and successful year.
Jul 2 2007
After the first seven rounds of the WNYOA series, I sit first in points, with five 1st place point finish's and one 2nd place finish, and one 5th place finish which I hope to be a throw away since they take your best 10 finishes on the year. Everythings holding together well this year, a far cry from what last year was for me. It's great with the help I'm getting from awesome companies like MSR, who not only has great gear but has some really, really good hard parts too. They're AOF clutch lever has made the clutch pull on my 500 as easy as a 125, and they're hand guards are bullet proof!. IMS, MotoOption, AP brake pads and Steel MX Goggles, really have good quality stuff. My suspension by FCR is working awesome, I really don't think I'd be riding my 500 without the work they did to it. It's been a fun year so far though because I've been able to fnish, and I just hope to keep things going and having fun!
Oct 5 2006
I just wanted to give a recap of the Wayne Co. Fred Bourne Enduro. This was my first go at an enduro, and a great first one to try. I knew it'd be a long day if the weather was nice, but it rained the week leading up to it, and poored that night. So an even longer day it would be. I knew I would do alright though, I was riding my trusty Kx500, which would make it up the side of a barn if you pointed it there.
About 8 miles in, and running on time and blowing up hills that looked like bike salvage yards already, I found myself flying down a hill with no brakes all of a sudden! I flopped her over and there I layed on the side of a hill. I checked it out, I don't know how I did it, but I waffled my pipe, and broke the rear brake pedal off going up one of the hills. After only seeing 4 bikes come through where I was down, I knew the trail had been re-routed, and I was stuck. I made my way out to a trail about 40 minutes later and started trucking with only a little stub of the brake pedal to work with and a bike that ran sicker than anything with the new dent in the pipe. At the next checkpoint, everyone just said if I finish, I'll do good because so many guys had dropped out already. There were off-camber sections that never ended, and were slippier than ice. We went through swamps, flooded creeks that had no bottom to it, and more up-hills than flat. There was one section I went into where the water literally came up to my handlebars, I still don't know how I didn't drown out. To best explain it, it was like taking the worse section of any hare scramble you've done, multiply it by 5, and ride that the whole day. I rode most of the day by myself because I was so late on my number, and I made it to the last checkpoint of the morning loop and ended up houring out by 10 minutes. I made it back to the pits, to hear only 17 bikes out of 104 went out for the second loop. I was glad just to be in one piece, although the bike was not so fortunate. I
Sep 28 2006
Over the weekend was the Unadilla GNCC. For anyone who wasn't there, it rained alot leading up to the race, and then it poored Sunday morning while the A.M. race was racing. I knew it would be a long day for my race in the P.M., but I wasn't nearly prepared for what I was in for. 175 guys didn't do 1 lap out of a little over 500 bikes in the P.M. race. I had successfully wrecked my clutch, and overheated all within the first half-mile. Within that first half-mile, it was chaos. There were bikes everywhere, and lines going everywhere. I don't even know if the line I was taking would lead me to any arrows. When I overheated, I hiked out and grabbed coolant and hiked back to my bike. I put it in, and got going again, only to pick another wrong line, where I boiled all the coolant out again. I put whatever water was in my camelback in the bike and got going again. I was riding good, started picking slower guys off and I eventually came across a course worker, where I opted to ask for directions to get back to the pits so I didn't wreck my bike, because if I overheated, I was done as I had nothing left in my camelback. I made my way out, where I armed myself with two poland springs bottles full of coolant and put them in a fanny pack and then headed back out to where I had left off. I knew my day was over, but I was determined to do 1 lap at least. I got back into the trail, and started moving well, only to wind up having my brakes fade in and out. What was great, was that I ended up having no brakes going into the motocross section of the course. I had to get down Screw-U (which is very, very steep) with no brakes, that was a blast! I managed to get down it with no incident to speak of, except alot of yelling! I had to stop once shortly after that to put some coolant in and made it around for 1 lap. The one lap only took me 1 hour, 52 minutes and came across in 39th. Not bad considering the amount of hiking, and stopping and also the riding out throug