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Tbe 1igIItwe1gbts were 011 tbe Sl:artIng
line before the tra1lbIkes t1D1sbed tbe1r
first moto and there was a little delay
before tbey were off. Most of them had
_liched tbe traIlbike start and tbey kept
a_y from the ditch. Then came a sbort
straigtat that fWllleIed down to a tight
left turn at tbe bottom of a steeep jumP.
After tbe jllmp was a bard right turn
ooto tbe course which immediately
dropped Into a big ditch and !beD shot
nearly straight up over the [ump, A bard
left and Bob Riley had the lead 00 his
Greeves with Jimmy Stein starting to
gain as they wound through the "S" turn
and up the long uptull; Across the top of
the h1ll !bey went, then down the long
flrebreak with the steep sandy section at
the bottom RUey began to pull a_y. A
couple more turns were followed by
rolling bills about 75 feet apart on the
tops but !be bottoms were almost a .. V"
and really jarred the riders. The course
turned past some trees, dropped Into a
gulley, went across a short straight and
up tbe stde of a h1ll. Then Into second
aDd turn rtght bard, bounce down the h1ll
for about forty yards, fiy 011 the end of
the bill aDd land about 30 or 40 feet later.
Easing off to tbe left they swing around
to tbe rtght over two small sandy bills
!IleA down tbe second hill Into a hard left
at tbe bottom and up the side of another
short sleep bill. The rtders fly over the
top of th1s and, as they land, turn right,
go down through a dip into an easy lett
turn, tben a hard iigM: and left and down
_ the stra1ght past tbe flnisb line. Just as
they reach top speed they have tIn1shed
one laP and haft to grab bath brakes to
slow enough to survive the ditch. Stein's
Husky really gained on RUey's Greeves
down the straight and he almost caught
the leader but RUey beat him to the "S"
turn and managed to pull a_y again In
!be turns withHusJcy-mountedDaveFIetc!ler lhlrd.
1b1ngs remained the same during the
second laP but in the lhlrd Stein did a
b8d tII1ng wb1Ie coming over a h1ll and
put his Husky out of business. On the
fourth laP Jimmy Tbomas .(Greeves)
f1naIly managed to get past Jim Piette
( Kawasak1) for tb1rd. RUey was _y out
In tbe lead and then, on the f1nal laP,
Thomas passed Fletcher to lake second
beh1nd Riley.
TIle Heavyweight class started
smoothly and David Hernandez grabbed
the lead on his 360 Husky and held It for
ODe laP only to break down on the second,
leaving Triumph-mounted Jim Bruns In
the lead until John Bailey edged his
S ...'" .." Rich Walden
Pboto by Steve Hi cbee
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SuDday, April 21, was ene of tbose
racing. It was overcast,
~ which gave the pbotograpbers fits, and 1t
=-: was lIDo cold for comfortable spectating
~ aDd lIDo warm for comfortable racing.
,.J Nen!rtbeJess, nearly 70 rtders sbowed
;;: up !or the Busbms.....rs Malo-Cross
U wIIicb was be1d In Lamb Canyoo, two
miles soutb of Beaumont, Callt. ThIs
was !be Busbmasters lhlrd race and
each time they bave sometll1ng a 11ttIe
different (and usually a 11tt1e bit better)
tban anyooe else.
The start was In tbe m1ddIe of a long
grassy field and two- tII1rds of the way
across !be field was a big ditch hidden
by tDee-deep grass. Tbe trailbikes were
g1ftn a chance to cbeclt out the course to
tbe flrst jump SO they would know about
the ditch. Some did and a few otbers
lbeught that was tbe sblrt and raced
ba1f-_y around tbe course before being
fJagged b&ck to the start1ng 1iDe. A few
otIIers didn't botbes' to checlt it out and
paid for it at tbe sIIKt.
We I1Ded up ower tbe frout wheels of
our m ....Mnn and tIley drOlJPec:\ the flag
aad we were 011. '1b1rty minutes and 8
eJlllBusted laps IalI!r tile setting dust
sbmn!d Larry CooIl flrst. DoD Grteve
5KCIIId. and Rich WlI1deIl CClIlP1Dlt
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win. BSA-mounted B1ll Kruger made it
an easy tII1rd place as the positioos remained the same throughout tbe rema1n1ng laps.
Don Grieve grabbed an early lead !II
the second trail mota with Roeseler right
on his taU. Larry Cook was trying to get
around Engleklng into third spot but
Eng1ek1ng wasn't having any of 1t until
the second laP wilen he did a wrong tb1ng
and wound up seventh. Alan Giullany was
now lhlrd on his Zundppp followed cl0sely by Ron Grieve. The positions remained much" the same untillfool< broke
his chain on the lhlrd laP putting EngleIcing back In s1Jd:b. The lead was st1ll
being hattled out as Don Grieve led
Roeseler Into the last laP but Roeseler
out-rode the more powerful Hoda1I cIIIes.
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