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Mike Jackson AJS Video

Mike comments: Unfortunately, the footage is slightly-over edited, whereby I need to clarify the Barstow to Vegas ‘arithmetic’ that I was spouting. Yes, there were just over 3200 riders on the Start-line, but they were despatched in two batches of approx 1600, one hour apart.  First away were the Experts and Intermediates, my class, followed 60-minutes later by Novices and Pie-platers [i.e., folk who were not regular riders, nor holding a season-long number, but who were literally issued with a pie plate, upon which a number had been scrawled…and which was then affixed to their machine by the scrutineers.]  

May I add that although the Novices and Pps went off the line at 9am, several hundred of them didn’t actually reach the Las Vegas Finish until well after dark, circa 6pm, with the slowest stragglers signing-off at around midnight. [During daylight hours the Finish-line was a mile or so outside Las Vegas but, after dark, Race HQ was moved to the Caesar’s Palace Hotel…on The Strip. 

Late finishers shamelessly rode along The Strip on open pipes!  Having eventually reached the hotel and signed off, quite a few of ‘em then washed-off their bikes in CP’s famous fountains!]   

Barstow to Vegas was most definitely a different sort of event!