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Cycle News 2013 Issue 14 April 9

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VOL. 50 ISSUE 14 APRIL 9, 2013 P65 D CHAMPIONSHIP all. They're two different things." Bowers credits his three-year domination of Arenacross to quick decision making. "You know, you have to be able to make good decisions and you have to make them fast," Bowers says. "There's not enough time to make a decision when some guy is jumping across two lanes in front of you, or maybe someone messes up in the whoops and they're coming backwards at you. So you have to be able to make split-decisions really quick and be able to get by people in a hurry, especially with how the series has changed this year by cutting the main event down to 12 laps, where it's more of a sprint race." Bowers also admits there is a big difference in bike setup between the Musquin (25) dropped a couple of points on leader Hahn. Eight points now separate Hahn and Musquin with two rounds left. two sports. "It's totally different," he says. "My Arenacross bike is very, very torquey. The bottom end is crazy; it's hard to hold onto at times. And the Pro Circuit bike - the Supercross bike - is clearly fast, it's got the bottom-end, however, it pulls forever on the top-end, too. My Arenacross bike is pretty stiff, because the whoops in Arenacross are usually bigger than in Supercross – they're taller, and usually steeper. The turns in Arenacross are also tighter, and you go into those turns at about the same speed and you have to turn on a dime and you have to have your suspension pretty stiff for all of that. For Supercross, believe it or not, it's almost more tame, the jumps aren't quite as steep because you have more room to fit them in. The berms are more wide-open so your suspension doesn't have to be so stiff to enter the turns fast."

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