Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

••••••••••••••••••••••• • Above: Ron Root and "lends exit the sand wash. Below: "Disneyland" Is narrow, but fun! SAGEHOPPERS RAT RACE By John Martin The Sagehoppe,s M.C. of Encinitas, Calif., sponsored their first annual ·Rat Race" Sunday Feb. 5. Warm weather, sunny skies, a recent raln to keep the dust down, five and one half mlles of Bob Gooding's best course laying efforts, and (finally) a little support from the local newspaper produced this year's largest entry (125) as well as a veritable horde of spectators. The race was of the ·European Scrambles" finish-as-many-laps-as-you-can-inone-hour type, with tbe experts (all classes) going off at about 11 and the novices an hour Or so later. The course itself incorporated most of the avallable nasties the Encinitas ·Mesa· has to offer, yet it was possible for the firsttime novice to complete at least one lap without falling too much. There was a long, grassy, muddy meadow that became deeply rutted during practice and worse during the race; several short, steep downhills; a long, twisty, rutted uphlll; and everyones' favorite: ·Disneyland." Disneyland deserves specialmenlion, as it was the best part of the course. It is essentially a sklnny. little footpath through the brush of several little canyons. Its features are steep, short descents into tigh t turns, followed by even tighter turns. Then the whole mess, after winding in and about for all too short a distance, ends with a small cliff. (Results on page 16) PONDEROSA BONANZA By Wes Anderson, Jr. The Ponderosa Hare Scrambles on March 5 had 136 big bike entries who rode two 13 mile loops. Most of the course was sandy with a large hUI, which most riders made easily. Next events at Ponderosa will be Easter Sunday Mar. 26 and Sun. Aprtl 2. RESULTS OPEN CLASS 1. B. Ekins 2. J. Fishback • • • • • • • • ARE· YOU GETTING : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • SUBSCRIPTION OFFER • ---------,I OF CYCLE NEWS I I SEND ME 50 WEEKS I I 1--- SUBSCRIPTON BLANK----I I 0 I I 0 I NEWS FROM NEVADA 0 I 0 I I I I I I I I' I I I I I :.;;;;;;o.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;J Tough Luck, McQueeu The old master Bud Ekins on bls Rickman-Triumph, won another Ponderosa with a nice lead over J. Fish back riding a Husky in second spot. Famous actor Steve McQueen ran third until a broken chain put blm out one mile from the finish. C. Colman riding Triumph, took third spot. Sixty-eight trophies were awarded to the big bikes. Trail Bikes All 105 trall bikes ran one loop. Cleve Thomas on bls hot Honda, made it two wins in a row at tbe Ponderosa. One minute beblnd Thomas was Pete Foster on a Hodaka taking second spot. Wes Anderson Jr.. former Ponderosa winner, was a close tblrd on bls Hodaka, followed by C. Johnson on a Van Tecb. Fiftythree trophies were given to the trall bikes. 3. C. Colman 4. R. Runel 5.·G. 6. K. 7. B. 8. E. 9. C. 10. E. SChuelke Knowles Mazzenga Penny Hempstead Stenberg TRAIL BIKES 1. C. Thomas 2. P. Foster 3. W. Anderson Jr. 4. C. Johnson 5. G. Miller 6. J. Lane 7. S. Tuso 8. J. Heininger 9. B. Walden 10. R. Jones Rick-Tri Husk Tri Tri Tri Tri Tri Man Tri Gre Han Hod Hod V.T. Hod Bul Hod Hod Yam Hod Please send me Cycle News for one year via 2nd class mail S7,50, Please sendme Cycle News for one year via first class mail S12.50, Please send me Cycle News for one year via Air Mail. ••• S18,50 (Please check one) • By Bryce Tyson Sunday March 5th saw the Silver City SCramblers host the 2nd scrambles of the year at Sunrise Raceway. Tbe weather was ideal for this event, with the exception of a fairly strong wind, wblch seemed to hold the spectators as well as riders to a minimum. The days events started with tbe 50cc class. It was Yamaha mounted John Slagle taking the measure of Mike North's Honda in three stralght heats, Mike blew tblrd gear in the first heat. 100cc Novice bOnors went to Bill Williams (Hod.) with Bill Berthold (Yam.) runner up. In the 100cc Ex. & Am. event Danny(as usual) Stromalla won the gold. A worthy mention was the fine effort by Danny Darland on Bob Simpson's haulin Hodaka with the new look. Eob had installed a few factory goodies that really paid off. Danny won all three Am. heats, with stormin' Norman Hansen runner up on a Yamaha. Expert Bob Tooley was in his usual fine form. Bob rides a real fast race on a 250 Bultaco. Novice Tom Jones was real impressive on a new H-D 250 scrambles model. Tom always rides a real competiti ve race. Should be moving up in class real soon. Big bike class saw Mike Chadburn turn in a fine performance taking two heats for the winning trophy. Ron Sattler (Tri.) was runner up. I enclose check or money order Mail to: CYCLE NEWS, Box 498, Long Beach, Calif, 90801 This Weekend Sunday March 12th the action will return to Vegas Valley Speedway. for a full card of TT scrambles. The track has been oiled and completely reworked. Come On out and compete. or just relax and enjoy the races. Congratulation are in order for local riders, Jay Willey, Chuck Hatcher, Ron sattler and Jim Step who competed in the recent Stardust Drag and Road races. Jay rode Don Slagle'S potent Spitfire BSA Sat. at the Drags for runner UP eliminator in bracket # 5. Jay came rig h t back Sunday after going down in practice and injuring his hand to finish 3rd in his class on a 175cc Bridgestone. Chuck did a fine job on Sunday, riding a 250cc Montesa for 4th place finish in his class. In the same class Ron Sattler rode to a 2nd place finish on a 650 Triumph. Jim Step on a Honda was top eliminator in bracket #1 0 Sat. at the drags. Congratulation men, on a fine competitive effort. 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