Tony Cooksley phones in from Denver - Report 1.
24 Sep: Tony is in Denver as Manager of the New Zealand MXoN Team.
Bullet points from our conversation.
- Flew to Denver via LAX with Jan Doeksen.
- Denver is 6 hours ahead of us but a day behind.
- Denver is at 8000 metres.
- Rained Wednesday (our Thursday) first they had in ages.
- Had a look at the track in the afternoon.
- It’s a beaut track !!
- Greg Atkins has widened it to 8 metres.
- I asked whether a European track or a fast American ? – it’s a bit of both – lots of big jumps – whoops – massive tabletops.
- Great day today (Thursday - our Friday) – about 28˚ celcius.
- Went up to the snow at Vale this morning – 11,000 metres .
- Back to the track at noon.
- The Troy Lee Design Team truck is all set-up.
- Ben and Brad’s bikes have special New Zealand MXoN graphics that look awesome.
- Josh’s Aprilia arrived okay – two Italian mechanics were setting it up.
- Gave Jan a windup – "Team Guatemala are here with a ute and an Ezi-Up but where are Team Netherlands?” haha.