Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

~ : a.. CENTAURS ROAD RUN ... 1 Riverside, Iinishing at Fairmont Park, under lots of shade and just across the street from a small grocery store. The route had taken the riders through 19 SOuthland cities. At 3 p.m. the sweepstakes games were started. In the meantime, memhers of the Centaurs sat down to some hard calculating and had every trophy awarded bY 3:50 p.m. Poker wi_rs were: Male SOlo; John George, 1st; Kea Osmond, Boss Cayer, Darrol stein, and Jim Croft. Passencers: Pat Rices, 1st, Sberry Parker, ADo Killgore, Josepb1ne C_et, DAYTONA PROVEN " • THE 327'040 TO 1 LUBE ~ .. '"' ~ J ell and SUPER FILM ... and Uoda carter. D Girl SOlo: Sharon Partler II Side Car: DoD Pederson S weepeta1les Dart tbrow DaryU Dancy ~ Sweepsta1lesWaterSbootHelea Berlin ~ Ross Cayer was also awarded the BB FIOJd "Doc" WriPt IIolds tile tarcet lor III. (Biggest Bitcher) Trophy. Mr. Cayer in wife to 1Il00t Me Aft.. the contest was CDIIIturn gave the trophy to a set of infant plellld, the Cent_. Ca tile watllf pili to twins as a momenta of their first motortile kid. enterlld on tIID .... cycle run. E.N~AI_AII" Extnmely dean burning It' ~~ • ADDZIP ADDITIVES 1433-1437 FIRST ST. UNEQUAllEb for INJECTOR or GAS-Oil MIX ESCALON. CALIFORNIA. ATIONAL MOTOR SUPPLY CO • "LAST CHANCE" DISTRISUTOR FOR TO PICK UP TROPHIES FOR APRil HillTOPPERS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP HARE IIId HOUND R.Puton J. Gell"'IWllt•• Largest stock on West Coast Dealer Inquiries Invited Itl C I..,. In tIID at Itlw••I.'. Poll. Iten S da,. Jul, 311t. SCRAMBLIN AROUND - By Maureen Lee We'd like to get on our little soap box again and deliver a little talk on the subject of our District 37 scrambles starters. You often hear some bitter complaints about the way a club is handling the event, and one most often heard is that the riders don't like the starter. O.K. Now let's face some facts. Some starters are pretty !Bd and some are actually bloody awful. You can come off the line with a fried clutch if you get one who likes to dawdle around a bit and look at you when you're all revved UP and ready for the charge. Then there are others who tell you right off the !Bt, touch that white line and back you go! So - for all the good, had (and bloody awful) starters, we'd like to say a few words. First off, scrambling is first and always an AMATEUR sport (and long may it remain that way). No money, no nothing, just a guY from a cluh taking time out to work at an often thankless joh for the day. For that matter, over the years, we've had some unpopular starters at Ascot Park at times. so no one is immune. second, some of the r,ders make a career out of trying to jump the gun, and take great delight into trying to huffalo the starter into giving them an advantage bY allowing them those lirst few feet ott the line. SOme starters aren't to he huffaloed, and if they get mad, they send the ciders around for another try and put them into the hack row if they try it again. SOme riders almost hecome paranoid! Last Sunday, for instance, one guY jumped three times, so the starter waited until he was going hack around and then let the pack go, leaving the eage...heaver no recourse but to chase after them as they were all down into the sweeper bY that time. Can you blame a starter for that? Nope! Sure, getting off the line is part of a racers skill that can give him a real advantage. Eddie Mulder is a master of the start but he doesn't jump the flag. It's a skill that must be learned, including the doping out of a starter to see if he has any little mannedsms that will give him away. So, I guess the moral of this tale is that it you scream at a starter and the club. make sure that you're not at fault, and if he was really THAT bad. there's al ways the Competition Committee to talk to. Or, how about joining a cluh ( if you don't helong to one) and maybe work UP to heing the type of starter who never commits errors after standing on a line for hoors in the broiling sun with row after row of exciting competition ciders eager to get am Or. bow about every track owning. for the use of eacb promoting club, Poe of those great sets of lights that really helP tbe starters get everyone off in good shape? We've seen them used, and it seems that they can work better tIIan a human witb a flag in bis band. Fal~ It. MatIlDnJ R. IIorrl_ H. Walldon O.TIIonIp_ R. Hulstro. C.St_ QUALITY MOTORCYCLE ACCESSORIES ALSO IN STOCK Park, tile flnl.h .Ite lor the 1I0rwaik PHONE: Honda Suzuki Yamaha Yamaha Suzuki Honda MV Jawa Jawa Annachi Annachi 500cc F. Stastini J. Findrey J, Arbon R. Chandler :I. G. Malsafsky 1. 2. 3. 4. COOLIES Jawa Matchless Norton Matchless Matchless COLUMN By Wes Cooley This coming weekend will see a first fn the Los Angeles area, with the running of a short course steeple Chase (TT) at SOuth Gate Raceway. The TT coorse has heen built in tile 1/Sth mile oval and should offer the riders a challenge and the spectators a thrill. For the last several weeks on Sunday afternoon. many of the riders have been practicing on this coorse and find it more adequate to test their skill and equipment. Practice will start at 3:00 P.m. and the first event wtil hegin at 4:00. It will he open to 50, 100 and 2500c classes and will he a professional event. At tbe preseDt time, the ACA is makloC plans for startinC tbeir winter road racine season. As you Imow, in SOutllem California, we're limited to only a few courses and most of these are located In the desert regions. In the SWllDler, especially the latter part of July and August, it is very diltlcult for, the riders to participate at these courses hecause of tbe extreme beat, so road racing in tbl s particular area for the ACA is pretty mucb confined to tbe ratI, winter and summer IIIODtbs. We're hoping that Ventura Fail'" grounds will become a permanent ACA short track. It all depends on the Agrie cult~al Commission in that area as to the continued race dates that will he available. The location is excellent and the course was well prepared. with heautiful grandstand and pit area facilities for spectators and riders alike, not to mention ideal weather conditions. Also. plans are under way and dates are heing made to start the fall and winter Mota cross season as soon as the fire hazard has passed. We've heen assured bY some of the local people in the Orange County area that some land will he Dade avallable to us for faU events this year. 500cc AID Trallblke ~... Grand S24 '0 Pacific Cust Hwy. lHC Calif. Be., IIolIcIaJ - T1IarsdaJ ,:00 to 6:00 Frida, 9:00 to 1:00 Sat. 1:00 to 5:00 -'-'-1/ "Home Of The Hilltoppers" Coors on tap Honda Yamaha Yamaha HODda MZ Jawa 3:lOcc 1. G. Agostini 2. F, StaslRey 3. G. Harviel 4. E. Passoriny :I, A, Pagany lit PICK UP AT 213 633-5178 15710 Garfield Avenue, Paramount, California 90723 2:1Occ 1. M. Hailwood 2. P. Reed 3. M. Duff 4. S. Grabam :I. H. Rosener 6. F, StastDey • TrallblkD lODec Am Trallblke 250cc Am TrallblkD 0 ..... A... 5th 5th And H. Buell lit 500-650 Prix 5/15/66. East Gennan G.P. RDluits 12:1cc 1. L. Taveri 2. Katayama 3, B. Ivy 4.P.Reed :I. F. Perris 6. R. Bryans 3rd 2nd 6th 3rd 2nd House 01 PiJ!.ers Tavern ALL RIDERS wekrmze! (!)IICiMt;B ~ /SpeerJu.1GII 4&S3 long Beach Bln,- 42MB4& RON JONES PRESENTS IN EL TORO ITHE 19661 I I I I gJ,Mi I IS HERE! TRIUMPH OF BURBANK 1329 N. HOLLYWOOD WAY 848-7233 e.Je Rf.ia14. I I I

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