HadesOmega x WR250E MK2 vs Virginia City Grand Prix 2025 Electric Class [April 27, 2025]


HadesOmega

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Here we are my 5th year racing Virginia City Grand Prix and my first time doing it on a different bike. Usually I race my Sur Ron Light Bee MX but after getting that whooping from the Ultra Bee and Storm Bee the in 2024 I decided to build a new bike specifically for racing VCGP and that is the WR250E MK2. Time to see if that 6 months of building this bike paid off. My goal was to build a bike that can compete with an Ultra Bee for less monies. This is the Sunday electric class race on the red loop.
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So the crazy thing about VCGP this year was that it SNOWED. If you can believe it Virginia City looked like this on Friday
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Then looked like this on Saturday and Sunday
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The Saturday race start looked like this
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And the Saturday racers returned looking like this
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Luckily my buddy Ted who I have been racing with for years and has been racing VCGP since before I was born owns a house in Virginia City and he let me camp out in his garage so I didn't get any snow on my Rav4 or the WR250E MK2. Also they ran out of room to camp at the fairgrounds. So I would have been SOL if Ted didn't have a place for me to stay. Ted got a Varg last year and his son was suppose to race it this year but he bailed and Ted was going to race the vintage class on his Husqvarna.

The bike I will be racing this year with number 904 my WR250E MK2 bike and you can see Ted's Varg behind it. Armed with 3 Amorge 72V 40AH batteries we'll challenge VCGP's red loop on Sunday.
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Here are the bikes Ted is going to race his vintage Husky and CZ
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HadesOmega

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Start of the Race Laps 1 + 2
Shot from my Ion helmet camera I say that because sadly there not many races that allow helmet cameras anymore it's such a dumb rule. I brought two Ion cameras and a GoPro hero 5 mounted on a chest rig. I started off with the Ion helmet camera and switch to the GoPro. Telemetry for the Ion camera was from my Garmin eTrex 20 mounted on my handlebar. Then I switched to the GoPro when the first Ion Camera ran out of charge. Then I was going to switch to the 2nd Ion camera at one of the pit stop. I got my battery plan down you have to be good at energy management if you are going to endurance race an electric bike =P
 
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