Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

~ --------------. GRIPSTERS AT ELSI ORE i :foot';1 .otorcrde. D.. ~ ... : CIl "1IoIIIe of Murray & Cook Drap&er" : PboiDs & SiDry by "allfeeD Lee • _-----------_.1 The Gripsters staged ODe of their beaatir.ny . . scraalies apD OD Suauy witla Elsinore tile site. They Ii...·t bYe a good tam-oH, oBly 262 tIuoagh tile gate. but once it aade for plellty of racial; for tIaose who did sIIow UP. aad tile clDb was happy• • 1111 W. Footllill Blvd. Upl.d 912...,51 • gi .. '" ... '" Ceater • agu. The morning w~ cloud.y but w~en the sun came out ~t got a little s~lck and some of. the nders were a httle deterred by 1t all. Wood Drops It -r", 7e447~ ,. .. ... .,.. ... . ..,. .,.., 11726 Sub II_lea Blvd. W.st Los An,et.s Pb: SR 3-1101 D A TV! Jim Dalllll ma. It _e-two for Bultaco bJ ftnIlIIln, _ d I. III. 175-20OCc Am-Ex 1Is1n. MECHANIC wANTED z..stmke &I: 4-stroke oaly need apply salary open if c;ualU1ed (frtnce beaeflts) Ronda-Ka_sakHIocIaka. CalI con. Danyl Dncan, '714-42'72466 a& BoUdlIy Honda, 249 BJoa6o way, Cbula Vista, Califoraia. The small bikes slid and scooted just as much as the big ones did later and there was some real good racing. steve ~ichols (Honda) won the ~O class .M th Tony Mason, Jay LewIs an~ RICk Parker all ~n Yamahas beh1~d. We hear that RICk had a new engme Job done and was threatened not to tum it ?n until he had at least one ra~e on It! The 100 Amateur-Expert Maln .went to Hond~mountecl Ken Lee w1th Kurt LeWIS in second. Phil Wood on a Yamahatwin had heen leading bea~ifully and then C?ver-sUd on the ~wltc~es before the Jump and droppe~ 1tl WhICh "'!as all she wrote for Phil and the first place trophy. The Powder Puff went. to Eul~ne Long on a new Honda which carned her brand new Amateur plates. Kelly Truble on a Hodaka was second and several times gave Eulene cause for a few glances back. Clutch Cargo aboard a Victor blew off John R•• although in the first lap it appeared like they were doing bank shots off each other. but Cargo and the Beezer appeared to handling better than John's Honda and that was it. The Open Amateur-Expert Mota was a repeat of the 250 class. An Amateur won that too! Bow are you going to explain that one, guys? Mike Van Acker appeared to be the guy to do the job as he won the fIrst but it was Amateur Jim Bailey (BSA) in second. In the second moto it was Bailey who won by passing Mike on the yellow flag llUl In the third they had a start calcuiated to make a starter faint because after they jumped the gun once, he let them go with half the line blasting off and half waiting. Ben FakkelllY went straight and up the hill through the boulders, and while the others jockeyed around for. running room, Bailey shot into the lead with fIrsttime out Amateur Teny Dorsch (Triumph) after him. And that was Desi_ ExcllsiYll, . . air celllllll.agi_s. Distributed Nationally by KASUMI 01 L CO. FOR DEALER INFORMATION 25tb Ave. $all IIst_. Calif. PIlon.· A_ Code (415) Here's III. Anlatar wIIo walled. all tbe Experts: Stw. Stricklin. SlH240 or 77104535 TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN CYCLE NEWS Kurt Lewis wastes no tl... In pttInc . .a, flo.. JI.. e-'IJ Amateur Bests Experts Moving along to the 250 Amateur class, would you believe only two 250 Experts showed up? And they were beaten by an .Amateur! steve Stricklin on a Bultaco really went and in the third moto his throttle stuck wide open with resultant noises that sounded like his transmission had gone. The two experts, Jim connolly (Greeves) and Don Harris (Honda) had their work truly cut out for them, but they ended up in second and third. THE JWO-WHEBII ~67 ReallJ F... I_tlate DeU'erJ! 867 w. Colt. Ave. San Bernarllno. Cal, (714) TU 5-3445 Big Bikes A Blast The big bikes were a blast. the way the moto ended. Bailey won, Van Acker took second. Dorsch third, Fakkeldy fourth and Ballard fifth. Party Ti.e As a last word, Don Finely of the san Pedro club asked us to remind you all that they will have a trophy party following their July 9th race at Elsinore, with trophies given for the June 11 th race as welL There will be dancing, and free beer for the trophy winners, but they don't think their budget can go to g~go girls' . (Ilesalts DB pace 16) WEST CASCADE ENDURO CinHLE55 HODAIA SALES' PARTS· SERVICE EDDIE CIOWELL 10427 P,olt'e,lnglewoocf OR 3-9573 "Mot Qu_ of III. Powderpuffs, Eul... Lone. kept her lI.a .., wlnnln, at Elsinore. .. ".IDOcc ~Ell fubn. ~ II On Sunday, June 4, 1967, the Everett Motorcycle Club of Everett, Washington, peld its third annual West Cascade Endurance Run. And for the third year in a row, the weatherman smiled on us - nothing but good, warm sunshine. Even though the sun was out, the riders found wet brush on the trails and lots of mud. At exactly 9:00 a.m. star,ter Larry Goroski waved off the first rider. This was to contin ue until all 174 entries had departed. Five of these were young ladies as we were having a powder puff class for the first time. Out of this group, 100 returned later in the day after completing the 70 mile run and making all the check points. After the last rider checked out, the sign-up and pit crews took advantage of the nice weather to try for a suntan. About this time of day, however, most of the riders probably wished they"could have joined them. Someone had seen fit to remove the markers at a crucial turn between Check 2 and Check 3. Most of the riders went to the right, and this was wrong. This trail sent them into a series of deep mud and water holes which had been part of last year!; run. Chairman Roy Force and his layout crew had worked long and hard to eliminate this area and had made a new trail around it. Most of the riders recovered though and went on to finish the run. Those who didn't managed to find the gas check and g« an easy ride in one of the gas trucks. This is where th.e 1966 winner, Robin Wilson of Kent, retired his Yamaha with a broken engine case and a bad transmission. Our 1967 Overall champion is Larry ButterfIeld from Centralia. Larry rode a 90 Bodaka and lost only 20 points. .A close second Overall and first in the 250 class was Russ Bjornstad of Puyallup. Russ was Greeves mounted and lost 22 points. Elaine Annen of seattle finished fIrst in the powder puff class on her Honda 90. Jim Murphy from Port Orchard brought his Hodaka in first in the 100cc class. Cliff SChoening, 175 Kawasaki, from Bremerton, was first in the 200 class, and Kurt Lamberton, also from Port Orchard, won the Open class on his BSA. The Everett Club is also planning another desert cross-country race in the vantage area which proved to be 50 popular with a great number of riders from this area. Our tentative plans call for Sunday, september 24. Posters will be out as soon as details can be arranged. (ae-I&a . . _ 16)

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