Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

. l 13 REBELS IT SCRAMBLES AT PERRIS •••••••••••••.•.......••.•............... ~ .... ~ By Maureeu Le e What with one thing or another, we hadn't been to Perris lately and were pleasantly surprised at the cbanges we found Sunday. Tbere's a suPer-neat tower for the scorers and other officials with a nice sign-up booth underneath the top floor, all screened in to give as much protection to workers as possible while not limiting their vision. The track was in real great sbape and some of the boulders that could bave been a hazard in days gone by bave been moved out of the way. Looks like Perris is on the move to bigger and better things! Rebels Ra.n A Rouser The 13 Rebels ran a good race. they bad plenty of club mem bers working all turned out in their club colors. we went happily home with the results at the end of the day (gloat) and their starter Bernie left. nothing to be desired (he told you ·jump the line once and back you go,- and meant it!) The referee also meant what he said and looked tough enough to back it up should any controversy arise, and a good time was bad by all. (Yeah, I know there was some waiting around between some of the events, but did you notice all the track maintenance that was done during those times!) In the super-lightweight class the 50cc go was won by steve Nichols (Honda) with Kurt Lewis (Honda) taking the second. These little 50's really fly and we would sure hate to see the day when no one wanted to ride them anymore! Lobito-mounted Keith Mashburn won the IOOcc Expert moto but not without some real oppostion from Bill Cody, David .Aldana and Kirk McDowell, but Keitb blazed out there each time and got himself a nice win. The 100 Novice Main was won by a Kawasaki ridden by Richard Sweaney. This is a hotly contested class. but Sweaney built up a real good lead over second place man Steve Lilley (Honda). This Kawasaki came out of C.H. Wheat Motorcycles in Arlington so we'll give another pat on the back to a shop that understands racers and racing, with two more shops getting pats later in this story. We really cheered on the se cond place man in the 250cc Novice moto. Jimmy Stein, riding a Husky, took on Etic Olesen (PurSang) in no uncertain fashion. Olesen won three straight but all eyes were on that Husky which just didn't bave the over-all speed of the Bul, though Stein made up for it in riding ability. in one moto he slid out at the big rock turn. killing the engine on the checkered flag lap. HE' bad enough time to pick it up, re-start it and beat the third and fourth place men to the finish line. holding on to his second place. Gleeves riders finished first and second in the 250 Amateur class ridden by Willie Hockie Jr. (straight forks) and Fred Edwards (-banana· forks)• .All classifications of riders ran together in the 175-200 motos with Novice Tom Warren really blowing off the rest of the gang and Amateur Dave Stroman on another Bul taki ng the second. Good Scrap The250 Experts were,like ·wow!Mashburn and Cody on Buls squared off and really made a show. In the first moto Cody was really flying with Mashburn hard after him and going around the big rock Mashburn's _CH.M?.=~~~~"ATION ----':.:..-0:;.. . _-- J. N. Ro...ts at Perris? Me, 11'. JI_, Stela willa slloulder ,ads! PurSang turned completely sidewa;.ys as Keith tried to get under Cody for the drag to the jump but he didn't go down and finally moved into first spot when Cody dropped it on the hill. In the first two motos it was David Brooks who got into that turn J.... Rica (19) bonowad Jill Hauter's BSA sla,.... wla _ first but it wasn't to be a good da;.y for David when he found himself investigating the track surface from eye ball level on the first one and with Suzuki-san refusing to shift properly on the ne xt one! The scrap ended with Mashburn winning and Cody haVing to settle for the second. Greeves rider Jim Connolly ended third. Moving up to the big bores, there were pitifully few of them with 21- , 500 and Open bikes all running together in the Amateur and .Expert . .. M 0 TO RCYCLESE0 N LY SALVAG I I I I L ISolIltoss COMPLETE SERVICE- HARD TO GET PA ITS EY WE SERVICE WHAT DL- SELL 126 West 4t11 SI. San Pedro, Calif. TE 2-&124 _ pracl• • poIats .. b1s bt, .. llae alllllber ona platl. both Jim Hunter and Monte Darling whose Honda-BSA shop in Corona called Circle City Honda is one of the places to go if you need help with your racing Hondooey, or a street modelfor that matter. Anywa;.y, John rOde with bis usual style beating out Open Expert Ben Fakkeldy (Triumph) although Ben wasn't letting him get awa;.y with it without a fight, and a guy named Tony Dennis on another Goldie. We're not familiar With Dennis but we Should be and my ga wd can he ride! He has a real high Expert number 1f752 but he goes ~~ . r - -- - - ----- ----- - ----- -- --- - -, I classes! John Rice won the Open class on Jim Hunter's Goldie after his own Honda didn't last long enough for even a practice session. His friends are out to see tbat John gets every opportunity to get that number one Dlate with sUllllort from like one of the top five and is very obviously one of those experienced racers who have hung it up for a while and have now come back for another crack at it. .Amateur big bore winner was Big John Bailey on a Beezer, with another Beezer carrying the Irv seaver colors ridden by Bill Noble the second. On the third moto it was Noble the whole way. 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