A favorite section that is no longer was the two single mounds along the woods at Amherst Meadowlarks that had been there for years. And then when KTM was having their dealer show in Amherst and bike intros at Meadowlarks, they had Guy Cooper (who was riding for them at the time) break in the brand new bikes at Meadowlarks before the dealer reps got to ride them. Guy, being the type of rider that he is, just doubled the two mounds like it was nothing (no one had ever even considered it before), and one of the regulars asked him if he doubled those mounds along the woods, and he said - that double over there???? Yeah, I jumped it.
Well, word got out, and everyone that thought they were good needed to jump it then (including me), and it was a pretty good poke to make it. It lasted maybe a summer like that and one of the kids of one of the officers ended up getting life flighted out after getting out of control on it and hitting a tree really hard. That was the end of the Cooper double, it was quickly bulldozed down and changed forever.
I loved Scenic just about everywhere on the track, and the huge downhill in the early version of the track was one of my favorites. I had battles of death with Dave Hand there and he was amazed at how I could go so fast down the hill that scared him to death where I'd pass him every lap and then he'd pass me back until we got there again. The steering damper I was running was my secret to being able to keep it pinned down the hill without fear. But Scenic has a special place in my heart as one of the best tracks I ever raced on.
Early renditions of Briarcliff's A/B track were really fun too. When the track was really difficult early on is when I liked it the most, and when the original whoops were still there, that was the track!
Some of Beans Road tracks were killer too. The early days when Brock Sellards used to bring the KTM team there to ride, the track was bad ass (and kind of dangerous too) and you had to have the balls to do all of the stuff there. It wasn't for everyone, and that's what made it good!
I miss the changing track and the tree sections of Smith Rd when George ran it, every week you never knew what you were going to get, sometimes tight and off cambers, sometimes more open and fast, one week clockwise, one week counterclockwise, it was just fun to show up every week knowing that it was going to be an all new track to learn every time.
