Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

01 ce An•• TIte COll'Se • By Larry Haley ANTELOPE RAMBLERS 37th mST. HARE SCRAMBLES • " " " • • .. Bv Dick Wright Larry BergClul st gets the news he won. Sham;" ele State Ch ampionship Harel Hound The Shamrocks M.C. California CnamplOnsOlp Hare & Ho-und on Sept. 25th had 310 entries. Big bikes lined up on the starting line, which was located In an area not considered a "fast-start" because it was filled with Joshua trees. The first three miles to the smoke bomb were pretty rough second-gear terrain. The big surprise of the day was It was unfortunate that some riders Third Place finisher Deb Smith, a Novdecided to start racing a little early ice on a 250 HusQvarna. The way this before the banner was dropped and (of guy rides, he will not be in the Novice course) they pulled quite a few riders Class very long."he sure showed a lot with them. The banner was held for anof class coming down the steep sand other half-hour while the Shamrocks hill just hefore the finish. signed the remaining 250 riders' cards The Shamrocks laid out their run in for a re-start. All the classes, including some good territory. The course was the trail class went off at the drop of well-limed and adequately marked for the banner at 10:30. safetY ... which made it a very enjoyable The trail bike class went the first ride, especially for the guys who started 3Q-mile loop and the remainder of riders and finished according to the rules. went a second 4Q-mile loop. I asked overall winner Larry Berg" Trail Bike Class Quist (also winner of last week's Hare As mentioned above, the trail bikes & Hound Scrambles at Hi Vista put on started at the same time the other bikes by the Dusters) what he thnught about went off the line...aod. believe me, for the re-start, and he said 'Over a quite a the first three mile s to the smoke bom b few years of riding I have gooe orr with it got pretty hairy in the heavy sand the rest or the tiders before they dropped running around so many Joshua trees the banoer...and found It was a waste of that you couldn't drop it into third in time! When I saw the banner still standvery many places."and all at the same ing while everyone was taking orf, I time trying to keep pace with the larger decided to wait 'til the Shamrocks got bikes. the re-start organized." Once you passed the smoke bomb, "Just a Little Endo· the course was a real blast for lightweights - mostly rolling one-rut trails The first loop was mostly rough where you could just hit the high spots boondock with occasional deep, winding on a trail bike. Then when yOU thought sand washes. It was definitely a lighteverything was going great, here were weight first loop. Malcolm Smith took two bottomless sand washes ... so deep the lead on his 250 Husqvarna on the that yOU could hardly get out of low first loop to the gas check with Berggear in to second, and when you did... the quist pressing him all the way. Larry wash made a sharp turn and you were was ahle to pass Smith in an open boonagain bogged down in low gear. Then dock area, bu t in trying to maintain his there was a long, sandy hill to the lead he hit a serIes of ditches and did second check that was a low-gear. feetan endo. He had the wind knocked out of down obstacle. Jack Morgan, on a Hohim and bruised a rib or two, but brushed daka #90 was first to finish among the it all off and got going again. trail bikes, fighting off a determined About ten miles further down the effort by #236 who closed only ten course, Larry again passed Malcolm seconds behind him. who was haVing some mechanical probThe competition in the trail bike lems and was' sitting-It-out" in a sand class is getting much tougher since more wasb and made it to the checkers for and more riders are competing in the first. Second-place tider (#38) Expert class ... which increases the fun and Gary Preston on a Triumph TR6 must rivalry. This course was a challenge to ha ve had Larry in his sights all the way all demanding, skill as wellas endurance. because he finisbed only one minute later. Been sitting on the line about fifteen minutes now waiting and man it's hot, ain't they ever going to drop that banner? There's a real high tense feeling in the air right now, and everything is beginning to get reai quiet. Better get ready. Check my fuel to see if it's on, keep that bike leaning the right way now so it don't start loaded, ain't they ever going to drop that - - whoops there she goes, 15 kicks and I'm oW Lousy start, heading between two smoke bombs about two miles out, sure on the wrong side of the down wind, the dust is terrible. Better move up, got to hit those smoke bombs between the two. They're guides to keep us from running of[ a 12 ft. cIif[, man this country to the smoke bombs is terrible-choppy, and rough and full of deep holes. They said at the meeting it would be a rough start and they meant it. There they are, now just go between them into the wash, a quick right and there way out on the horizon about three or four miles is the final smoke bomb, and the start of the trail. Go like hell here-must make the big ef[ort boy this is fast country now. Right on top of the bomb now and picking up lime. Man, we're really moving! Come sliding into check one and it's really dusty, jumped across the road and started down a hog back into a canyon. This is some canyon, would you believe a mini bike with a Triumph engine for this canyon? This is as crooked as a snake's back. No passing here, too tight, whoops here we go outofthe canyon, up the side of a bank - wheeee!!! they should of issued parachutes on that drop of[. Man that was something, back in the wash again. The reason for that turn out was to miss a 20 foot drop-of[. Now this wash is really something, fourth gear! Man this is a ball oh heck! that was short and sweet. Turning out now up into a real choppy hog back. If we had gone straight we would have dropped of[ into a 60 ft. wash and that would have been something. Now we're on a road again going up over the hills, dropping down into a real rocky canyon. We're skirting the edge of a big "MY HERO!" black mountain right now, 1 have a feeling it won't be long before we'll be starting up, and there it is.•. man look at all them guys spun out on the side of that. If I can just pick my way through it I'll be in good shape. Wonder what the other side's like? I'll know in a minute. Wow, ain't this some down hill? It's beautiful, just simply beautiful. Picking my way through some rocks now on a ledge which leads into this big sand wash which is way-out fourth gear again. There's a highway up ahead and we're going under the bridge, I knew I should of put a front fender on. The water's going all over my goggles. Now we're in a real swinging wash again, fourth gear, just go! Whoops there's a tube up ahead. Got to go through. It looks like a long one. Tubes are fun, but I always have the feeling of being up side down in them, like no sense of balance. When you put a foot down to balance yourself you damn near break all the toes on the big boIts. Lesson one: keep your feet up. There's a check there, wow, look at that little steep bank we got t:D go up! Right out of the bottom. Now into some pretl)' whoop-dedoo trails and we should be getting into the pits real soon. Man it's getting tough choppy, dusty. If I finish this one I'll have earned my finisher pin and I dig those pins just like I do a trophy. There's the pits at last! A quick drink of water, a wipe of the goggles from the pit crew and a slap on the back and someone says" make it/" and you grab another handful of throttle and you start another loop around the course. This one should separate the men from the boys much pronto. P.S. I didn't make it my front forks wasted completely, since this run I ha ve put all new suspension on, About $120.00 worth. TAB SPROCKETS &.ACCESSORIE S I' 1 TWO NEW CYCLE PRODU- TS TransistorizH Ignition .. SAVE MONEYTROUBLE FREE IGNITION TABLOC'S CYCLOTRANZ 3 SPEED Speed Rear Spociet &RedlCer NO FUSS-NO BOTHER • .. 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