so.
CAL'S OESER
TURKEY CHAS
BIll Vllanlll. 250 AlIIlIwur wln.r ad'"
Gary Conrad, riding a 360
Greeves. took the Sweepstakes
win of the 25th annual Turkey
Run on October 22 over a large
total entry of 420 desert riders.
Bob Belt, also on a Greeves, took
the 250cc win. and Dave Ekins
built up a big lead to take the
win in the 100cc class on a Zundapp.
The race was held in the Red
Rock Canyon area of Southern
California and it was a "wild
turkey· run with two forty-five
0 _ _ 11 00
a H.sQ.
mile loops in rough territory.
There were steep, rocky uphill
trails, fast fire roads going up to
7,500 feet attitude. and a sandy,
two hundred-yard long downhill
that we just couldn't believe! It
dropped nearly straight down
about 3,000 feet, getting you out
of the cold mountain air quick.
It was a Le Mans start, with
the riders standing fifty feet behind their bikes. At the drop of
the banner the long line of combined Open and 250cc riders ran
"RaDoaadorl..... stlrt was a prellIII.., til 1M "b1rby cllas." wb_ln III. wtn_s ran
after
lIJeIr TIIal*sllvl., 11_..
.
FIrst open expert ..d sec:oad overall Dick Dean proves a modified stre.1 blk. can stili
cut 1M mustlrd (or In Ihls cas......brush).
for their bikes and took off. The
only man not to get off the line
was current point leader J.N.
Roberts, who had to change a
plug and start fi ve minutes late.
At the smoke bomb the leader
was Steve Hurd on a Matchless
single, just flat-out making it.
He increased his lead by the
time he hit the second check, and
when he looked back, the only
other rider he could see was
Dick Dean, on the Triumph tuned
by his dad at the Lamoreaux Shop.
As bad luck would have it, Hurd
got a flat tire and had to toss in
the towel. Ronnie Nelson, recently returning to the desert on
a Montesa and looking good, also
fell out with a flat tire.
Gary Conrad, meanwhile, had
worked his way up to pass Dean
in the hilly section of the course,
and came into the pits with a
forty-second lead over him. John
Steen, on a Metisse, was the
third man into the pits.
The riders made the second
loop a little faster than the first,
finishing at the bottom of a sandy
hill. The first man to roar down
the hill was Gary Conrad, and
forty seconds behind him was
Dick Dean, claiming second spot.
Lon Peterson, on a TriumphMetisse, pulled in third, and
fourth-place honors went to Bob
Belt, who took first 250 on his
Greeves.
J" Coals ....tered III. SolIIM.. C.
Nu..ber 551
bul no lIIrb)'.
