Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

.. ... .. ... . SHOW AT AT ~ • It D· :D.M~C.G.p. D~D.M~C.G.p. It· " The Dirtdiggers Motorcycle Club of Santa Moni ca, a non-profit corporaMotorcy cl e of Monica, co rporation, proudly announce the eig hth a nnual presentation of their Grand Pri x ann oun c e t he eighth annual p resentation th eir Gra nd Prix Scramble s an d Mot o Cros s. Scrambles and Moto Cross. This thrilling race draws contestants from all rarts of the U.S., and this Thi s th rilli ng ra c e draw s co ntestan ts from parts the U.S. , thi s year fo r t he fi rst tim e bisotry American scrambles foreign riders ye a r for the first time in the hisot ry of Ame rica n s cr amble s fo reign rider s will compete against U.S. riders. Tbe two time World Champion, Mr. Torsten a gainst riders . T he tim e W orld C ha mpi on, T or s ten Hallman from Sweden will be competing this year on a fa ctory Husqvarna Swed en factory machine. mac hi ne. 10:00 ll;.m. both days. Spectator admisThe internationally re cognized F.I.M. int erna tionally recognized 1 ~ :00 has sanctioned the event, and notificaslOn Will be $1.50 for. adults, 75¢ for fo'. adult:> , sa nctione d event , ston wi ll tio n J Uniors , and accompamed chIldren free. accompanied c,hlld ren tion has heen received that riders from been recei ved from Jumor~, pre sent, ~he wrll go Canada and Mexico will be present, to A portion of the proceeds will go to the de tendthetr Ventura Shen ffs J U nior ~yS defend their countries' laurels . laureis. Sheriffs Jumor Boys Club. Last year, the Dirtdiggers were host Dirtdi ggers S4;veraJ famous mane stars have Sl;veral moVie p~mlsed , personal appearances , and to 663 contes tants and a crowd of speccontestants p~mlsed. p e~sona~ appearances, tat ers From MISS Cah fa mla "ill be Beauty Queen. MI S S Cabforma will tators in excess of 12,000. F rom all appearances, this year will top those appearan ces , P lan <;> n attending th15 spectacular Plan (;lD attendmg this s pectacular race, which 15 race , w ~lch 15 the largest and most figures. The race course is approximately colorfulm world. Th e ra ce co lorful m the world., : ml c wi ll hel d from three miles of unimproved terrain windA gala mlc show will be held from ing through the scenic Simi M ing through Movie Ranch ovie 10:00 - 5:00 both days.. both days Corriganville). (formerly known as Corri ganvill e ). Spectators ca n view the course from anY can from a ny WEBCO BUYS MOTORCYCLE partion portion of the surrounding hills. ACCESSORIES CORP. CORP. November Race dates are Novemher 19 and 20, 1966 1966 with a cti vities commencing at activities commenci ng at Webco Inc. has just completed negoW ebco tiations whereby they have purchased purcha s ed MAC (Motorcycle Accessories Corp). 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Left, Lett, a couple of desert doe. dig out of a couple desert dogs die out sandwash on lIIe recent Jackass End..o on the recent Enduro course (story on pace 14), cour.e (stoty on page 14), DYNA-MiTES DYNA·MITES HARE SCRAMBLES OCTOBER 30, 1966 3D, '1966 By Larry Haley At 9:45 a. m. under a warm sunny blue sky, the riders began to gather a.m. warm blu e sky , sign-up truck the give with i nf o, around the Dyna-mites si gn-up tr uck to hear th e man gi ve out wi th the info, better known as the Riders Meeti ng. Meeting. this guys l ong? Now thi s guys says this and that about the course, how long? 37 miles, big one s , folk, (trail how ma,ny loops? Two for the bi g ones, one for the wee fol k, ( trail bikes) and not ice then adds • you people will all notice that the starting area is bordered on wi ll both sides by fi re roads, do not use them as anybody caught will be out O-U- T fire them O-U-T ouL big of Well that's like putting a nice bi g piece of cheese in front of a half starved rat and saying yo u can look but naughty naughty if you touch it. Turn you look i t. your back and zzzot it's gone. If'n you don't want people to do thos e thin gs lt'n those things don't tempt them with it. Well some used the fire roads and I don't know if them [ire kllOw they got disqualified or not and care even less, because o[ they got guts be c ause of enough to go up those roads at 90 mph in all that dust and hit thos e oth er at mph i n that those other road crossi ngs at that speed, power to them. They can have it. crossings A t 10:10 the banner dropped, I guess, I never did see the damn thing. I At 10:10 1 did for off I simply waited [or the roar and took of[ with the bunch. 1 didn't get on any fire road (couldn't find any in all that dust ). Fell in behind Dave Ekins on that (c oul dn' t dust). it bomb I Rickman Metisse and it led me to the smoke bomb post haste. 1 lost him in Rickm an all that confusion and just kind o[ followed the mob straight east across the of e as t dog leg of the High Vista road and I want to say that those road crossings le g o[ l ess spectacular! were' no less than spectacularl I did some handlebar hand-stands that had me were wishing abrasive Wishing thatl had worn a [ace guard (those knobby [ront tires DO get abrasi ve face ( those front on one's nose), and some of the end overs I seen of[ to the sides of me and one 's of off o[ an d abead of me were out o[ sigiit: One guy passed me i n mid-air doing cart ahead o[ of sighL in wheels at about 150 rpm. Saw one of the Cole boys pass me so I fell in beo[ hind and stayed with him till check one in the foothills, which dropped into a check sta yed heat little sand wash and up on top across the High Vista road again that sand" from c an comes in from Route 395, across the desert heading south. Now you can look down into the valley and see EI Mirage dry lake and it looks like we are headlake ing right for it. Sure enough, there's check #2 at the east end o[ El Mirage. [or iL of freeway Now 1 have always had a secret yen to ride my dirt bike on a freewa y without I ma ybe better •.• getting a ticket, well sir that's just what it was like, maybe even beUer ••• didn't have all them crazy drivers to WOllY about. 1 estimate there was about worry about., I them o[ (COllection, 5 miles of this super smooth, bobble-free, hard lake bottom ( correcti on, there ways conld was one bobble if you stayed left of the course a ways that could have caused bobble goin g a hassle but by the time you got into it you were going so fast that it smoothed itself out if you kept the power on. Well that lake bed took its mighty toll itseIf of machines. Lower ends ceased, burnt out pistons and gear boxes out just of machines. to name a few. On the second loop it looked like small gatherings here and name secon

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