ISDE 2008 Daily Updates

We are back again for the 2008 International Six Days Enduro and will be bringing you daily video updates from Serres, Greece. Be sure to check back to get the low down on all the action. The focus is on Team USA’s effort during the 84th running of the ISDE. This year’s trophy teams is one of the best teams to date and is anticipated to do well when the event starts tomorrow. The conditions are very similar to what many of the west coast riders are used to. Kurt Caselli, Destry Abbott, Ricky Dietrich, and Nathan Woods are all very familiar with the type of terrain found here in Greece.

The thing on everyone’s minds leading up to the start of the event has been the arrival of the US container that has all the tools and supplies for the team and many of the riders bikes. Port strikes in Greece caused the container to get re-routed several times and was very late to arrive in Greece. After several days of arguing and pleading with customs and officials the container finally arrived on Saturday afternoon, just 2 days before the start of the race. This left very little time for the team to unload everything and set up all their bikes. While almost all the other countries have already impounded their bikes, team USA was unloading their container and putting their bikes together. There was a sigh of relief when the container finally was laid to rest in the paddock and the customs locks were removed.

Tech inspection has been postponed for team USA because of the late container arrival and will happen Sunday evening. The team has been scrambling to get the bikes setup and do any last minute adjustments.