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Honda Iron Horse rider, Duncan Riffle 19, from Santa Barbara California is the new 2006 US National DH champion. Under blazing sun and triple digit temperatures at the Infineon Raceway near Sonoma California, Riffle put together a clean quick run in the rapidly deteriorating  conditions, which was enough to give him the title.

           
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Here is what Duncan has to say about his run: “The course was super narrow and hard to gauge your speed properly. You had to push as hard as you could in some sections and slow it way down for others as to exit with good speed. By Sunday the course was very blown out with large holes and ruts making it pretty difficult to ride fast but there wasn’t a whole lot of technical assets to the course so it made things a bit better in reality. I wasn’t super impressed with my run really; it was no proper race run at all. But it was clean and quick, and good enough for the American win, which in the end is what counted. My Iron Horse Sunday was the perfect bike for the course, some people opted to race their small bikes but I decided if our Downhill National Championships could be won on a small bike then it was a joke anyway.” 

Honda Iron Horses amateur riders Linda Travis, Stuart Travis and Don Herner brought in another 5 podiums including an expert DH National Championship title for Linda Travis. 

Duncan also the 2004 Dh National champion is currently the highest ranked US rider on the world cup circuit. He is competing in both the UCI world cup series and the NMBS series and will be joined by fellow Honda Iron Horse riders Sven and Anka Martin at the World Championships in Rotorua, New Zealand.