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RE: 8 CONE SLALOM (WAS: THANKS)

To: "Travis Lane" <gofastlane@yahoo.com>, <Smokerbros@aol.com>,
Subject: RE: 8 CONE SLALOM (WAS: THANKS)
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:50:04 -0700
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Travis Lane [mailto:gofastlane@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2000 21:19
> To: Kevin_Stevens@Bigfoot.com; Smokerbros@aol.com;
> ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: 8 CONE SLALOM (WAS: THANKS)
>
>
> --- Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I do wish we had more "real" 4 and 5 cone slaloms (rather than ones where
> > you can ignore the first and last cones), but 8 is too much like a school
> > exercise.
>
> I loved the slalom!  I kept going faster and faster through it and never got
> out of control so I told myself that if I got a fun run, come hell or high
> water, I'd keep it floored.
>
> On the first fun run, I never lifted, and it never broke loose.  BAPAPAPAPAP
> off the limiter, through the last four cones...hmmmm, let's try it in third.
> Next run through, floored, BAPAP, shift to third, still floored, goin' ~70,
> clipped the last cone.  Wow!  That's an extra ~10mph I found and maybe you can
> too...

I'm thinking if I went through the slalom 10mph faster all I would have found
was a rather spectacular Kodak moment...

KeS


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