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Published: 2009-09-29 20: 55: 11+01: 00 1977 honda elsinore cr125 almost vintage racing time
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Just got to lake elsinore for second stop in manny rehab tour.
Deadspin 2009
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Honda: CR 1982 CR 125RC vintage motocross, elsinore
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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It doesn’t look like he’s had much rest whereas I think he got some time off between getting drafted, playing in Eugene or was it Fort Wayne? and then going in the spring to play for lake elsinore.
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"Elsinore, also elsanor, elsinor, elson. A cap, often made of leather, with ear flaps....
1904 Murphy (ed) 52 "The Low-backed Car": My cap was the Elson—my coat plainly made.
1913 Christmas Post 12 The fisherman wanted a macintosh instead of his old oil skins, and a cloth cap instead of the old elsinore.
1933 Greenleaf 238 The elsinor cap was the common headgear of the Newfoundland boy. It is shaped like a teamster's cap, with a string around the bottom to protect the neck and ears."
—Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 163
October 17, 2008