Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

Sales did a nice numb r too! So for thrills and spills and whatever. Lancaster Fair Grounds should be very interesting for those who haven't seen sidecar racing. Hare Scrambles The Sidecar Association will be having their Hare Scrambles which is also the Pacific Southwest Championship. June 18. Everyone is invited to attend the Lov in, held Saturday night before the races. Bob Bakker just recently returned from Europe with exciting tales of Moto Cross and international sidecar racing at its best. Bob has the opportunity to drive a 500cc factory B.M.W. overhead cam GO FAST. which impressed him quite a bit. He was clocked at 135 mph. Patsy Schw.,dt .,d Jean Dodson III splay colors 01 Gold.. Bam. II.C. of Sacramento prior to start 01 run. GOLDEN BANNER RUN - by Dale McKinnnn Chuck Brewer won the Mother's Day Poker Run. sponsored by the Golden Banner Road Riding Club of Sacramento. The run started at the Club House on Marysville Blvd. and the riders started drifting in one by one around 9 o'clock. A hundred and five signed in, most of them were Harley-mounted. with a few Triumphs, Hondas, Suzukis, Yamahas, BSAs and a BMW. The first bunch took off around eleven and headed over to Elkhorn Blvd •• down to the Levee Rd. and to Smoky Joe's. the first check-point. The course went on around the Levee road intersection (check 3) down Pacific to Reigo's Inn (check 4) and then finally back to the Club House. Euton Sharp of the Flying Wheels won the Miles-Guess trophy with a gue ss of 58.7. Actual mileage was 58.9. Twel ve Clubs took part, with a few independants. The Reno Ramblers won the Man Miles trophy. Not much went wrong on the run but a few clubs were late due to flat tires • .Another one had a broken oil line and a few other annoying things happened that slowed some of the riders. The Golden Banners started seven years ago with the idea in mind to promote the sport of road riding. They started with two acres and a run down cabinet shop and built it into a very nice club house. They have a Precision Drill Team and have won trophies as far south as San Diego, as well as in the Bay Area and sacramento. In '66 they won the AMA safety Award. They also have the distinction of having one of the few clubs having woman club members with voting rights. Cycle World Show SIDEHACK NEWS by Doug Bingham The exciting sport of sidecar racing is catching on so rapidly in Southern california, that I feel prompted to keep the readers of Cycle News informed of various sidecar activities, involving new outfits. sidecar teams. and also up and coming race dates. At Lancaster fair grounds, Memorial Day, the Rams M.C. will be holding TT races, with the wild and wooly sidecars performing again, as they did a few years ago to the delight of the crowds. If we remember correctly, Jerry Person and Gary Weber were presented with a bill for a beautiful hole they installed into the crash wall! Also, our dearly beloved president Mike Parti and Jerry The Cycle World show is coming up, and the Sidehack Association will again have on display a number of interesting outfits. Would you believe. Dutch Fielder's 500cc single Vinc ent road-racer sidecar and a real nice looking disc-braked .Aerial Square 4, belonging to Clell Richards? Also my own Harley Davidson sportster winner of the Jack Pine, Greenhorn Enduros. This thing is so huge. it looks like some sort of farm implement. Mike Parti's groovy Triumph street hack and his realswiftT.T. rig will also be there. These outfits are real clean! Anyone interested in getting involved in this wild sport, are invited to come down to the Sidehack meeting on the first and third Monday night of the month. 8:30 p.m. at Vineland Gardens. 6159 Vineland. North Hollywood. r-;iiriiiiisiiDir" 1 ~ ByRoxyRockwood Rldlrs came Irom as far away as Nevada to att..d the event, Includnl the R_ Ramblers pietu ..d he.. who lIOn the ma_lIes award. Happy faces 01 trophy winners attest to a day well spent. Shown from I. to r. are Dorothy J ohoson, Euton Sharp, pi boldlnl Ilrst place trophy (center), Reno Ramblers representative, Patsy with East Bay Wbeels trophy .,d Willie Lee Hodl" LONG BEACH HONDA 5105 Atlantic Blvd. - 423·1433 4 4328 E.E.Anahei m51. ---- 860-1354 11747 Carson Blvd. 1760 Long Beach Blvd, - 591-1301 L 439-0943 o C A T -- I o N S The rapid pace of racing somewhat slowed down last weekend with only a half-mile at Ascot and a TT up Sacramento way. The pace at Ascot continues to be torrid with Jim Odom being the latest rider to add his name to the fast growing list of winners at the most famous race track in the land. a.m. and runs non-stop throughout That runaway ride he turned in the day. last Friday night in the Amateur class is proof that a rider can ride Loui sville Coming Up just TT's and indoor short tracks in To and all riders in the pro ranks his Novice year and still come back who want to ride the Louisville, Ky. to win on the half mile - if he has 15 mile national: The track owner the talent and the equipment. called to say that it is a FIVE MILThis column is going to jump LION dollar race plant, and although over to a sportsman TT scrambles it is a half-mile, it is as wide as a this week and give a plug to a most mile track all the way around. worthy cause and the group that is Entries for the Louisville event holding the event. close at midnight Memorial Day. The event will be TVeed for ABC WIDE Let's Go To Lancaster WORLD OF SPORTS and will probCome Memorial Day out at the ably be shown in mid-or late June Fairgrounds in Lancaster, the scene in the Los Angeles area. The race of some of the wildest and best TT will run rain or shine due t6 a track racing by the Pro's a few years surface that features special preparaback, the well-known Rams MC will tions and additives. team up with the Lancaster Jay sammy Tanner is the defending Cee's to present an all day scram_ 15-mile champion. taking the win bles race for all sizes of machines. last year at Heidelburg, Pa. It is a District 37 point event and serves a dual purpose. Actually. it serves a threefold purpose. First. a large amount of the proceeds will go to Father Garrett's Boy Ranch. Second. some of the proceeds go to the Desert Haven Retarded Children' s fund. Third, it is a fine idea for the Rams and the local Lancaster businessmen to contribute to two most worthy causes and another fine way to promote the sport of cycle racing. Many times in the past various clubs have worked with groups to aid one worthy cause but this must be the first time groups have taken on the chore of assisting not one. but two, charities. The race will he held on the Fairground's infield and the large turnout of fans will sit in new grandstands which have a roof for guaranteed shade from start to finish. The lightweights sign up and race in the morning with the bikes over 250cc on the dotted line at 1:00 p.m. There will also be a class fr r sidehacks. To insure the largest turnout possible. the Playboys MC will not be running their weekly Tuesday night short track race at Trojan Speedway in South Gate. Just their way of offering a contribution to a good cause. The road to Lancaster from the Los Angeles area is now mostly a new four-lane Freeway. So if you can find Lancast er , you can fina the Fairgrounds. Racing starts at 9:30 "QlIlt looklDI up IIJ skirt!'

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