The longtime track, recently purchased by Allen Bryan,
receives a complete redesign and construct during DIRT WURX’s summer MX
track tour
MONROE, N.Y. (July 17, 2014) –
When Allen Bryan recently purchased the Landing MX track in Easton,
Md., he was pretty much set on tuning the place up himself and
re-opening the longtime track to the motocross-hungry eastern seaboard
racers.
Bryan, the principle of Bryan & Sons site and utility
construction company, is no stranger to moving dirt. In fact, he moves
enough around to afford a sizable fleet of heavy equipment – perfectly
suited to construct and tune a motocross track.
Planning on running 200-250 riders a weekend through the
track, Bryan’s lofty goal was met with some skepticism from the local MX
contingent. The track had done pretty well in its heyday, but numerous
management changes and some downtime had left it in disrepair. Plain and
simple, MX Landing needed a
lot of work.
So
when Bryan reached out to Aaron Cain, of Monster Energy Supercross
fame, there was only one answer: “You need to get DIRT WURX to build it.
“Build it and they will come,” said Cain in
Field of Dreams fashion.
DIRT WURX USA’s Kory Christensen was the first on-site at
Landing MX to check out what had to be done in order to elevate the
track to pristine condition. Meeting initially with Bryan, Christensen
would circle back with Winkler and – within a month – four DIRT WURX
crew members, including Winkler, showed up to work. And work they did.
“They got here on a Thursday and the track was done by the
following Monday,” recalled Bryan. “They used my machines and, I’ll be
honest, I’ve never seen operators shape dirt the way the DIRT WURX team
handled things. It was unbelievable. I’ve got a good idea for what these
machines can do, and DIRT WURX flat out blew me away.
“They’re the best-of-the-best, maximized every move, knew
what each and every guy was going – and was about to do. Total harmony.
They were easy on the equipment and worked to sundown each day. It was a
very impressive thing to witness … like having the Calvary show up!”
Winkler and his crew were certainly pleased with the
effort, and shared in the pride of the job with Bryan. And when it was
all said and done, Bryan had two huge, intermediate/vet-friendly
National-size MX tracks, and a pee-wee track in three days of work.
“We got on the equipment and sunrise and didn’t get off
until it was dark,” said Winkler. “It looked like a sand pit with a few
jumps in it when we first arrived … and by the time we left it looked
like a golf course with no grass on it.”
Up next for DIRT WURX USA is the Las Vegas Monster Energy
Cup event in October. In the meantime Winkler and his team will be
chipping away at the 2015 track designs throughout the summer with the
Feld team, along with building the most kick ass private and public MX
tracks you’d ever ride!
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www.supercrossonline.com
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After many months of anticipation, many are excited to see this Saturday finally arrive! The Landing MX Park makes its debut as the Eastern Shore's newest incarnation of the motocross track, but this time, with tracks that have been fully reconfigured by Dirt Wurx USA. (See this article)
