Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

HILLTOPPERS SCRAMBLES AT PERRIS • It's tile Open Expert MIllo and Trlumph·mounted winner Ben Fakkeldy (2) leads second place fin isher Terry Dor sch (7). also ri ding a Tr iu mph at the Perri So Call i. track last Sunday. BI g Jim Hunter ( 3) won the combined 350·500cc Expert Moto aboard his B5A Gold Star. Harley ri der Tony Denlus (46) wound up second ahead 01 Bruce Jackso n ( Velo). Story and Photos by M aureen Le e Perris , Calif. (wber e else is there ?) was the scene of the Hilltoppers sc r a mble s Sunday , Jan. 21 and the y ac t ually ma naged to get the who I e progr a m through by dark, which isn't easy thi s time of year! Oniy complaint we heard was from some of the riders in the lightwei ght classes who rode a heat, didn't make the semi and then found out there wasn't a consolation racer $3.25is a lot of money to pay for a three- lap race and we can't blame one rider a bll for the disgusted comment thatfrom now on he's goi ng to ride the desert or one of the tracks open for practice on Sundays rather than waste his tim e and money on noth ing! Pres ton Petty put in an appearance on his beautiful li ttle Suzuki moto-cr oss machine and took the 250 Expe rt class over a host of fast ' Tacos like those ridden by Keith Mas hburn an d Larry Tayl or; John Rice (Honda) made one moto but didn't r e-appear on the startin g lin e for the next two. Pres really flew! Powder Puff winne r was Kelly Str uble (Hodaka) with a win over thi r teen girls. This class is gr owing by leaps and bounds and soon we have a fe eling that ther e will have to be two class lfications in it as there a r e in othe r l oocc classes . There were fourteen 50cc Novice entries and four Expert. The Novi ce winner was Gary Cal dwell on a Honda chased by J im Parker (Yamaha) and brother Ric k for the second an d third place sp ots. umph for Bellflower Triumph) was always close should Bill or the Bee zer goof! J im Hunte r won the 500 class on his BSA Gold Sla r but once again Tony Denius was right ther e in case J im didn' t keep the wick turned on. Tony was on a Harley that at times looked like it handled like a rigid . Ouch! Young F red Edwards , after laking second in th e 100 Expe r t class , hopped on a BSA a nd won the 350- 500cc Amateur Main. You racers want to know how to go fast? F red attributes it to su ckers. A s trawber ry one seemed to do the trick for him Sunday and we' ve promised a whole box to hi m when he wins his first Asco t Main! (Results on page 16) Clo se cornering In the 250 Expert Moto I inds Prest on Petty, the evenlll al winner, on tile pole, #35x Larry T aylo r taki ng the higher groove, and Kei th Mashburn ( 4x) aiming his Bulla co right down the middle. Once again Jimmy Stein (Husqvarna) won th e 250 Ama teur Mai n but a Bullaco with John Garr ish aboard won the 250 Novice . It was ge tting pretty late by the tim e the big boys came to bat but they r an them all in toge ther without ma king the Novi ces walt until the Ama te ur s or Experts had r un (remember when they always did that?). Ducati rider Tom La Fortune took the 350 Novi ce ahead of Ca r old McIntosh ( Honda) who'sa brother of Chuck, Open Expert class rider . Ben Fakkeldy and Terry Dorsch went at it again in the Expe rt Ope n with Ben ending up the winner this week. Right now we'd lik e to give two more pats to shops who keep our racers r a cing . One is La meraux' s in Sunland who helps Terr y Dorsc h al ong an d the othe r is Award Motors in Cos ta Mesa . We' ve probably mentioned Award before beca use they se em to have so man y good racers carrying the colors . La test hots hoe is Blll Noble on a BSA who has been s haki ng up the Open Amateur class, and he turned in a real nea t ride Sunday to win al though Te rry Mor iarty (Tr i- Bob Bai ley, Nati ona l Number 33, began a week 01 camping out and desert rid ing I n lhe 29 Palms area, moved on to the Holiday region, wound up coverin g 400 miles by bike. and took In tile Ponderosa on the way home. off- limits roa d tha t was described at the riders' meeting. Recent r ains left the sand pa; ked hard and relatively dus t- free, allowing the lead ers to do 15-minute la ps , while the enti r e fie ld of 97 Ope n Class r iders an d 80 Trail Class r iders finished the two 10-mil e loops in one hour . At the s moke bomb , Tom Brooks (Bullaco) of the racing Brooks fam il y slipped in behJnd Ron F r y and held onto s econd s pot up through " Give - Up Gulch" and over " Hearthr eak Ridge " bef ore hard- chargi ng Al Bake r (Triumph) could pass hJm. On the second loop, Lynn For tner and hJs Husky moved up to third ahe ad of !l ve - time Ponderosa winner Bill Hutton (T riumph). Brooks crossed the !lnish in fift h, with Novice Bill Walte r s (Hus qvarna) laking sixth ahe ad of Bailey (T riumph). Eighty trai lbikes left the starting line with Novice Dean Goldsmith (Hodaka) leading from start to finish. Wes Ande r s on Jr . on a Nor m Reeves Moto-Bela was clos ing rapidl y at the end of the first loop but finis hed out of the gold when plug - fouling developed. E.C. Birt wound up second ahe ad of Tom Hoyle in thi r d. Gary Balley, the li ghtwe ight s crambles ace and brothe r of Bob Balley, gr abbed fourth in fr ont of J . Ja ckl ett. The first five were all mounted on Hodakas . The next Hare Scrambles at the Pon derosa will be pr es ented by the Greyhounds 1I1.C. on Sunday, Fe bruary 4. (Res ult s on page 16) A DAY AT THE PONDEROSA...and a week in the desert By Jack Ros s Photo by J im Kojaku Bob Balley, Nation a l Number 33, capped ott a long week of trailing fun by Joining the Ponderosa fray on January 1 as a warm-up for the coming professional season , Afte r a four - month la yo!! due to a s houlder injury, Balley spent the week pr ior to Ponderosa ca mping oui in the desert and riding 400 miles in both the 29 Pa lms and Holiday areas of California. Stoppi ng by the Ponder osa on the way home , Bailey di s cover ed that it lakes more than a week to shape up, for six Ponderosa regulars, led by Husqvarnamounted Ron Fry, roared a cr oss the finish li ne ah ea d of the Clas s C star . Eight r id ers were disqualified on the Number One heavyweight ri der John Ri ce here takes to the smaller Honda equip ment ' lor a change 01 pace. 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