Vintage Events Manager

Tom Anderson - "Da Sno Bear"

8-25-08

OK,here we go again! Only one month to get your sleds ready for the biggest vintage sled show in Southern Minnesota. Last year we had over 100 entries in the show & I hope to beat that record again this year. The gates open at 7am on Sunday & if you want your sled to be judged you need to have it displayed by 10:30am. Trophy plaques will be handed out by 2pm or so depending on the start of the vintage races. Event dash plaques will be handed out to all participant in the show along with 15 trophy plaques. In the past years I have set-up classes to give as many trophies away as possible but I took home a trophy the last two years , so to keep this from happening again I generalized the classes & I will give out more trophies per class.

 So with that said here are the classes for the 2008 show.

Original Trail Fan 1st & runner-up

 Restored Trail Fan 1st & runner-up

Original Trail Free-air/Liquid 1st & runner-up

 Restored Trail Free-air/Liquid 1st & Runner-up

Race / Custom Sleds 1st & 2 Runner-ups

Snowmobile with Cutter 1st

Mini Sleds 1st

SnowBear Presidents Choice Award

Best of Show   

GOOD LUCK 

Thanks to the vintage race sponsors

The Byron SnowBears, PoiBoys Racing, The Vintage Sled Shop (protoolplastics.com), The VSCA Magazine, Intech Graphics, Vintagesleds.com, MVSS (Midwest Vintage Snowmobile Shows...Waconia 2009), Rochester Service Co., Al's Specialty Marine, .Without your support vintage racing wouldn't be the same

The Byron Snow Bears are proud to announce that Brain Sutton of Braham ,Mn. will coordinate the vintage races this year at Douglas. Brian is the coordinator/promoter for the Princeton vintage races. The rules for the vintage races can be found on his web site...www.protoolplastics.com then go to the Vintage Sled Shop there you will find the rules, classes, tech info, entry fees & paybacks. So pack you bags, load your sleds up  & head to Douglas on the 21st for vintage racing So.Mn.style. 

9-23-08

Ok, another one bite the dust. What a great time we had this year. we had 65 sleds in our show this year ,a little down from the past years but the quality was up for sure. With all the chat about the pros & cons of a 1 day vs. 2 day, Saturday vs, Sunday event & coffee vs bloody mary's in the morning I believe this event was one of our best ever. Awesome weather, over 3000 spectators, 50 grass racers & a huge swap led to a very successful event for the Byron SnowBears.. I would personally like to thank Mr. Craig Durst of Rochester Service Co. for his support of the whole event. He lets the club use his equipment ,gets us the light towers for overnight security & is a sponsor for the vintage races also. Craig doesn't do this for publicity he does it because he can... plain & simple.Thanks again Mr.Durst. I would also like to thank Mr.Robert Poirier of PoiBoys Racing for his support of the 2nd Annual Tracy Kruger Memorial Speed Run. Thank you Mike & Judy with the VSCA magazine for the great article about the 1st annual  speed run & for the full page event advertisment. Thank you goes out to all the vintage race sponsors, without your support the event in Douglas wouldn't be what it is. Thank you Frank Sadlon of Engineered Graphics,Ltd. maker of reproduction snowmobile decals, Larry Preston (www.vintagesleds.com) from the best vintage web site out there. John Zeglin with the MVSS(Midwest Vintage Snowmobile Shows) Waconia"09" John is the chairman for the large vintage snowmobile event in the world,  Al's Specialty Marine of Rochester,#1 Lund boat & Ski-doo dealer in So.Mn., Bill  Schisan of Intect Graphics maker of reproduction snowmobile decals, Last but not least I'd like to thank Brian Sutton of www.protoolplastics.com   (the Vintage Sled Shop) maker of reproduction molded rubber items for your vintage snowmobiles such as , snow flaps, hood straps, tank straps & rubber sprockets. Brian was our vintage race director & everyone involved would say Brian  ran one heck of a race.

Speaking of races here's the results.

If it's results you want ...here we go.
Stock A - Robert Simota / Lonsdale,Mn...78 Yamaha SRX
Stock B - Bryan Mahler / Brooklyn Park,Mn...76 Merc.Trailtwister
Stock C - Bryan Mahler / Brooklyn Park,Mn...76 Merc.Trailtwister
Stock D - Bryan Mahler / Brooklyn Park,Mn...76 Merc.Trailtwister
Stock E - Nathan Trox / Osecola,Wi....80 Yamaha Ex.
Stock F - Casey Root / Houston,Tx...73 Herters
MS F 441 -Up - Bryan Mahler / Brooklyn Park,Mn...76 Merc.Trailtwister
MS F/A 0-340 - Katie Root / New Richland,Mn...72 Speedway
MS F/A 341-440 - Steve Hassel / Spirit Lake,Ia...75 Yamaha GPX
MS F/A 441-Up - Jeff Lausten / Sebeka,Mn...73 Yamaha SR
MS L 0-340 - Kristen Jorgensen / Stacy,Mn...76 Polaris TX
MS L 340-440 - Josh Erdman / Delano,Mn... 77 Yamaha SRX
MS L 441-Up - Jeff Lausten / Sebeka,Mn...73 Yamaha SR
OM 0-440 - Joe Wegleitnes / Stacy,Mn///78 Yamaha SRX
OM 441-Up - Jeff Lausten / Sebeka,Mn...73 Yamaha SR
2nd Annual Tracy Kruger Memorial Speed Run...Jeff Lausten -73 Yamaha SR...86 MPH.

 Vintage Show Results

Mini Sled...Carl Middelstadt-Kasson,Mn...71 Sno Pony

Orig.Trail Fan...Bruce Gohmann-Clearwater,Mn. - 70 Ski-doo Oly

Restored Trail Fan...Chad Mielke-Oronoco,Mn. - 71 Artic cat Panther

Orig.Trail Free-air/Liquid...Tom Wurster - Medford,Mn...75 Ski-doo 245 RV

Restored Trail Free-air/Liquid...Mark Schroeder-Bay City,Wi...73 Artic Cat 250 Eltigre

Sled With Cutter...Al Bruggenthies-Rochester,Mn...67 Ski-doo Oly w/ 70 Ski-doo Cutter

Race/Custon...Chad Mielke-Oronoco,Mn...71 Artic cat 800 King Cat

Presidents Choice Award...Gary Bromley-Mantorville,Mn...76 Rupp 440 Mag.

Best of Show...Daryl Printz-Dayton,Mn...76 Polaris TX Sno Pro 

Thank You all .Let's do it again ,next year until then SEEYABYE

Snobear. Over & out