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The Race -- June 23

Dave prepared a song for us.

	KangaRex. I wrangled someone into taking this picture so I could be in it with my team. 3931079		Our Spinner with a spectator taking a ride 4891439
Despite a superficial resemblance to Jungle Boogie at the Arcata-Ferndale race, Totally Tiki Barge is totally unrelated. 3940597		Deep Blue, or something like that. I don't think they actually raced. 4060097
	That Was Easy is the local OIT entry. 4382159		Barbie 4125051
	Rylan on Little Bee That Could 4983979	Wok On The Wild Side. Riki here is Rylan's mom. 4826234
We encourage people to take rides on the Spinner
	Henry Ford Goes Surfing 5140054		Tomate is a veteran creation by Bob Durst [shown] and Sherry Clarke. 4323068
Denise is the Kinetic Diva. It is her energies that brought this event to Klamath Falls. 4870535		Draggin Wagon was a artful entry from a young local team. 4438274
	We like to give rides on KangaRex, but it's pretty tiring in sand gear. But we can still let kids sit in the seats. The boy in the back seat is Steve, our Barnacle for the race. Here he has the honor of being the first Barnacle in the Klamath Falls race history. 3629750		At an early race the officials noticed children liked to play in the sand pit. Someone got the idea to encourage them to go out an smooth it out between each competitor. What a wonderful idea! The kids love it. Its fun to watch. And it is good for the race. 3406723
Rylan on Little Bee That Could on sand 3670871		Bounce For Glory is a creation by Peter Maxwell. Here he races it easily across the sand 2981170
something Limo in the sand. I hear they crashed earlier on Kago Hill. Evidently that didn't stop them.
	KangaRex zipped across the sand. 3605249		Steve on KangaRex 2825283
		Wok On The Wild Side in the sand. Riki provides motive power and entertainment. Tom helps with the entertainment and provides pit crew support.
	The big wheeled KSRs such as Tomate [left], That Was Easy [right] and Patriot Act [far right] have no trouble making it thru the sand and mud.
	With those huge tires, Henry Ford Goes Surfing floats over the sand. 2724762	Barbie struggled in the sand, not because of her wheels. Instead she seemed to lack the low gears needed to climb the bumps. Instead they tried to turn the wheels by walking on them. 4979583
The mud was extremely challenging. Only the large diameter wheels such as Tomate made it thru, and even some of the big wheels didn't.	Here the Little Bee That Could is stuck like a fly on flypaper.		KangaRex was also stopped by the mud. [Not shown]

After The Race

	Dave Neiman on the Quadraped 3164046		Eric on Quadraped 3461571
	We take any opportunity to give rides KangaRex.
	More riders [left]. Jason shows a woman how to ride a whymcycle [right].

The Next Day - On the Lake

Traditionally we take Rex out onto the lake on the morning after the race. Anybody who is still around is welcome to take a ride.

This year I had projected that we would be short-handed at the DaVinci Days race. So I took the opportunity to train any potential pilots on the finer points of Rex water conversions.

	These pictures show me training Riki.
Of course we took the opportunity to enjoy the lake.
	Here was Dave Lenher taking a photo [left]. And then it was time to train him [right].
We weren't the only ones on the lake. We weren't as fast as they were.
In addition to training Dave and Riki, I also trained Riki's husband, Tom Bedford.			Meanwhile their son Rylan fed seagulls.
	Dave gave a ride to Rylan.		I then gave a ride to a family visiting from Russia.

No kangaroos were harmed making this Kinetic Sculpture Racer.

Unless otherwise noted, all pictures above were taken by Allen Brown or Joy Guttenberger.

Copyright © 2007,2008 C. Allen Brown