Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

SPEEDY MESA SCRAMBLES 8tol)" and Photos ~ Chris Beats Girls Chris Fu jika wa repeated her perfor mance of last month by winning th e Powder Puff event on her Brldgestone spe edster. Hodaka pilot Carol Chiara crossed the flnlsh second and Debbie Reon, also on a Hodaka , captured third. A fine track and beautiful weather worked together with the enthusiastic contestants to make an outstanding raeIng program and Earl Roloff and his Experts M.C. crew are to be commended for putting on an efficient and last movIng event.' Their next racing program will be at the Mesa track on May 19th. U you like a good fast course, come down and pit your skill against the border riders. You'll be sure to have fun and you may add some gol d to your trophy shell. (Results on page 20) Bill Hanner Sunday, April 21, the Experts M .C . hosted Its first IT scrambles racing program of the season at Mesa Speedway, on otay Mesa, south of Chula Vista, Calif. Cl ub members Al Finan and John Apple had worked for three days with blades, rollers and sprinkl er wagons to get the course In perfect condi tion. Th eir effor ts were not wasted and the track was almost like an as phalt pavement. In practice laps, the riders l ooked more like r oad racers than TT riders . Some old hands estimated the speed of the big machines at over 90 mph on the grandstand strai ght . With both Don Matthe ws and his " Mike' s Speed T uning" BSA Gold Star on th e di sabl ed list, I t l ooked like a battle between ' Myron Carter and AI Finan for the Open Exper t money. The firs t mo ta lived up to expec tations wi th Finan and Carter putting on a hub-tohub duel with Carter narrowly beating out F i nan at the wi re . On the next to last lap of the second mota, Finan was l eadIng Carte r by about a length going Into the switch-back when his f r ont wheel lost i ts gr i p and the ma chine nIpped. REMEMBER, YOU ALWAYS READ IT ARST IN CYCLE NEWS, 200cc wi Mer Tlrn Lequ e (9S) leads Eddie Mur i e (121) and Bob Ri chardson (89), eventual 2nd and 3rd place fi nish er s, through 'S" curve. All were on Bulla cos. The balance ' of the mota was blackflagged and F i nan was taken to th e hospital where it was di scovered that he had two broken bones in his foo t and a severe slash In the back of hi s r i ghtleg. A l wi ll be mi ssed in the Open Exper t class for the next co uple of months . Final point count gave Myron Carter and his Triumph first wi th J. Ber ry and Fred Williamson , also on Triumphs, collecting 2nd and arc , Kids Clash Anothe r hotly contested ma tc h was between 14- year-old Don Payse of Huntington Beach and II- year- ol d Ear l Rol off Jr. of Spring Valley for the 100cc Novice cr own. Pay se's Lobl to se em ed to have a little more HP than Rol off' s Yamaha and he could pull away In the s traights but Roloff's skill In th e turns kept the contest i n doubt until th e f inal few yards as Payse crossed th e wi re a f ew feet out i n f r ont . Bultaco rider Dave Stauffer (age 13) captured th ird. It I s i nt eresting to note tha t the firs t five fi ni shers i n this class were all under 16 years of age. Th e lOOcc Expe r t motos saw Jim Mc Gulre r epeat his wi nning ways on his Van T ech Hodaka, with neve r a serious threat f rom Yamaha pilot Jim Harmon or Hodaka-mounted Wayne Hosaka, who finished 2-3 . The 200cc Matos found 15year-old, tow -headed Tim Leque dominating the program . Eddie Murle gave an Impressive ride but his skillful efforts were not quite enough to overtake Leque; Bob Richardson finished third. All rode Bultacos , montesa Duane Roehr lik estosell Montesa because he knows his custome rs can't buy a better handl ing mot orc yc l e. Roehr's bus iness , li k e Mon tesa's , has been built a round sa ti s fi ed cu stome r s. Emde/ Vanderpool Lead Novices Ray Vanderpool (48) heads up SOOcc Novi ce field on his 3S 0cc Yamaha, and he was never serio ously threatened for the wi n In ""y of the th ree Mesa Mot os. ARIZONA MOTORCYCLE RACING ASSOCIATION Presents MorORCYCLE TT RACES MAY10 novice - anateur - expert classes fULL PROGRAM Of RACING $IDOGuaranteed O pen Expert Winner S50 Guaranteed 2511 Expert Winner Young Don Emde, scion of a fam ous cycle racing nam e, showed real talent by r i di ng his new Suzuki 250 single to victory ove r Husqvarna- mounted R. W. Ring. His com e-from-beh l nd photo finlsh in the se cond heat was a r eal thriller . Ray Vanderpool on a new Yamaha DT - l l ed each moto for a while but apparently wasn't geared for the long, fas t Mesa track, and had to be satisfi ed wi th third . Vanderpool's 350cc Yamaha was better suited to the situation and he dominated the 500cc Nov ice motos from start to finlsh. Louis Williams on a Honda, and Matchless- mounted Merrill Nelson followed him acr oss the finish line. Triumph riders swept the field In the Open Novice program with hard-ri ding John Hoy shading Lance Vallery at th e flnlsh and Wayne Butterfield r iding to an I mpr essiv e third. Vic Hanan who has repeatedly pushed his Yamaha to victory In the 250cc Novice class of late did It again, victimizing 2nd and 3rd plac e Kawasaki riders Wayne Clarke and Cllff Williams. Roehr Bros. 317 No. V ictory Blvd. Burban k, Cal i f orni a 842-4847 V\VA Wf/tclJ for Special Trail Issue Coming In June M O NTES A MO TOR S, INC . S ole U.S. Distribu tor 3657 Bev erl y Boulevilr d Los Ang e les . Califo rni a 90004 *******************' t : THE TWO·WHEELER ~~ : * * * SUZUKI ~ : Ready for IlTI11ediate Delivery! t 867 W. Colton A ve. 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