San Bernardino, CA (12/3/2007) — The 2007 Yamaha / ITP Quad­cross sea­son con­cluded this week­end at Glen Helen. As the cham­pi­onship was handed to Dar­rell Pat­ton for the Open Pro class, it was 4 Stroke Inter­me­di­ate class racer Justin Roache who walked away with the best award. Every year at the season’s end, Yamaha, GYTR, and ITP give away a brand new YFZ450 acces­sorized with GYT-R prod­ucts and ITP tires & wheels, and this year Justin was the lucky recipient.

TEAM GOLDEN WEST CYCLE/FLY RACING//YAMAHA

Race– ITP Quad­cross RND#11 FINAL

Loca­tion– GLEN HELEN, CA

Class– OPEN PRO ATV

Rid­ers– Dar­rel Pat­ton, T.J Dietrich

TEAM GOLDEN WEST CYCLE/FLY RACING//YAMAHA rid­ers Dar­rel Pat­ton and T.J Diet­rich went 1–2 at Rnd#11(FINAL ROUND) of the ITP Quad­cross Series. Dar­rel got 1st while T.J got 2nd putting them 1st and 2nd in the Final point stand­ings. Dar­rel wins his 2nd cham­pi­onship in 2 years! T.J Led the points the last half of the sea­son, but the final round was worth dou­ble points and Dar­rell took advan­tage of this win­ning both motos. T.J went 2–2 secur­ing 2nd in the final stand­ings. What makes this even more amaz­ing is that both these rid­ers were rid­ing Yamaha Rap­tor 700’s against full race 450’s. This gives Golden West Cycle and Yamaha 4 titles in 4 years(J.Schell 04, 05 and D.Patton 06, 07). Both rid­ers were mounted on Laeger/Elka/ITP equipped Yamaha Rap­tor 700’s. The Yamaha/ITP Quad­cross series is the pre­mier MX series for ATV rac­ing in Cal­i­for­nia and Ari­zona and con­tin­ues to grow yearly. Golden West Cycle would like to thank the spon­sors who make this possible.

Main Spon­sors– Golden West Cycle, Fly Rac­ing, Yamaha, ITP Tires, Elka Sus­pen­sion, Laeger, Pro Armor, Motoworks

Spon­sors– Max­ima Lubri­cants, Smith, Tsub­aki Chains, Maier Plas­tics, Dou­glas Wheel, Works Con­nec­tion, QuadTech, Tag Met­als, One Indus­tries, Stream­line Brakes, KN Fil­ters, Hin­son Clutch Com­po­nents, Pow­er­madd Handguards

Check out the teaser:

CLICK HERE: Extreme Quad Indoor — Quad Pas­sion Magazine

Dear Elka guys,

At the end of the 2006 Texas ATVCCS, I fin­ished runner-up in the State Series in the 4-stroke Ama­teur Class to a rider rac­ing with Elka Sus­pen­sion. I noticed how smooth he was through the rough stuff and how I bounced all over the track try­ing to stay up with him. My goal for 2007 was to win that Cham­pi­onship, so I knew I needed bet­ter sus­pen­sion, and Elka Sus­pen­sion came to the rescue.

I won my very first race with my new Elka Sus­pen­sion. This gave me the con­fi­dence to win the State cham­pi­onship. The dif­fer­ence between the stock sus­pen­sion on my Yamaha YFZ450 and Elka is sim­ply amaz­ing. My lap times got faster because I was not as fatigued as I was with stock sus­pen­sion. John Ilkiw (Elka rep.) and his team are amaz­ing at cus­tomer ser­vice and the Elka shocks speak for them­selves. I also ordered the Sys­tem 3 steer­ing sta­bi­lizer dur­ing the sum­mer and it made a world of dif­fer­ence in the han­dling of my race quad. I can truly say that Elka sus­pen­sion was a major fac­tor for me win­ning the 2007 Texas ATV Cross-Country Series State Cham­pi­onship in the 4-stroke ama­teur class.

Thanks Elka!

Tay­lor Pierce #202
2007 Texas ATVCCS State Champion

Dear Elka,

I am just writ­ing you a quick let­ter to thank you for your sup­port in 2007. I have been run­ning an Elka shock on my 2007 GSXR 1000 in the AMA Super­stock Series as well as the WERA West Series.

It has been quite a suc­cess­ful sea­son. I qual­i­fied for all AMA events which I entered and was able to set per­sonal best lap times at Bar­ber Motor­sports Park, Cal­i­for­nia Speed­way, Infi­neon Race­way and Laguna Seca while run­ning the Elka Shock! The Elka was easy to adjust for all tracks and seemed to adapt very well to the extremely dif­fer­ent types of tracks we raced this sea­son. My com­pli­ments to Tige and James at Cyclemall.net for their exper­tise of the Elka prod­ucts which was a great help when fine tun­ing for the tracks we faced each weekend.

I also had my best results ever in the WERA West race series with 3 podi­ums in 3 races!

I look for­ward to part­ner­ing with Elka in the future and want to thank you for the great sup­port you have shown to make 2007 a suc­cess­ful season!

Sin­cerely,
Brad Puetz

AMA# 851
WERA# 85

I hope this mail finds you and Elka well…!!!!!

I thought I would let you know that I was awarded National Colours yes­ter­day. I am only the sec­ond quad rider in South Africa to be awarded this honor, the other rider being Cor­nel De Villiers.

I would not have got­ten this award if it was not for your help and every­thing Elka has done for me. Thank you for every­thing, you guys are the best in the business.

Thanks again and have a good day further!

Shaun Gun­ther