Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

Cldl Rock Nillonil TT Centlaall1 fnm Pili 1 THEY'VE HEARD HIS FAME, THE ~ FLYING DUTCHMAN IS HIS NAME .... 00 ~ ~ ~~~ct~~:eo: rg :f ::,c:: ~ the straight and then Bostrom just before the lnt1eld, and with one lap to CO Haaby pressed hard and passed hlsHarley teammate Rayborn, and Cal was now out of a transfer position. ~ The Race Is On ~ r.:l 30 laps Of l: bamplonship Main Event ..::l to CO. Sixteen ExpertB assemble, lJI1rU tee n National Numbers, a fantastic array ::.. U positions. One lap later LawwW, call1ng on everything the Harley could give him, out-gunned Van Leeuwen leavtnc the infie rd r1gbt-hander and took over the lead. Mann got by Ahola into third and Ahola almost lost it coming ott the s traight, going r1gbt UP to the wall and hay bales in a full-lock sll de. He malnta1ned control and gave chase wh11e Haaby nal1ed Odom then Coppage, and Bostrom got under Burres as he went high ott the groove before the straight. Lawwill bullt UP a small advantage then SkIp got his second wind and closed the gap in DO ti me to challenge for the lead, and lap after lap he'd put his wheel right next to the tly1ng San Franciscan but Mert had the best l1ne through the corners and time and again SkIp would have to drop of talent, whUe watch.lni from the fence are such lJ'eatB as Gary Nixon, Gary OILvts, Gene Romero, Cal Rayborn, Chuck PalmlJ'en, Roger Reiman, OILve Palmer, Dick Jagow, National Numbers all, each fall1ng to make lhls Main Event. Into the first turn it was Burres in front, leading Van Leeuwen and Odom, but at the end of lap one Van Leeuwen had taken over first spot. Out of turn one and Into the 1ntleld pulled the two number 4's, 4Q Mark WUllams , who had a good front row start beside Burres who had the pole, and the Mlch1ganfence buster, Bart Markel, *4. WUllams had pulled his rear valve stem on the start and was DOW out, wh11e Markel's gearbox had become scrambled and he too joined the crowd sll:t1ng on the pit fence . -~---.,-...- back. Gono Romero (20) was ono of many Nallonal Numb"s who walchod tho 3D-lappor from tho . sldellnos. Flfly~fl .. Exptrls were on hand.. Lap twenty-five and the stands went wild as 11 Knlevel had jumped his canyon when local favor ite EmU Ahola once again pushed by Mann Into thir d and at almost the same ti me at the lett-bander that leads to the straight Skip's front whee l, once again trying to push by on the Insi de, sllpped, and over Mer ts' foot it drove knock1ng off his steel shoe. ThIs let S1dp by and into the lead again but the s hoe was still dangllng, hel d on only by the s trap, and LawwUl wasforced to stop and retlt It befor e continuing, losing twelve precious places . Van Leeuwen went on for his sec ond National Championship win, Mann once again sllpped by Into second, Ahola third, and there were no crashes during the entire 30-lap event. Amateur Action California's #l O Jim Rico pll otod his BSA y to IS· lap Ama lour win, al so took fasltsl hea t raCI of thl yollow-pl alts. , Roxy Rockwood Inlllviows #47y Mark Brel sford, qU lcktsl Amalour qua llllll and socond plac o IInls hll to Rico I1llho IIna l. , ' • YAMAHA DEALER • SCRAMBLER MOTORCYCLES 1101 W. Burbank Blvd. Burbank, Calif. 149·5907 or 145.. 731 Elt. • 7 montesa MEN WHO KNOW MOTORCYCLE RIDE MONTESA Dusly Coppa,o (32) and Emil Ahola (10) haV It out. That' s Barl Martlol s lldln, wldo Inlll a I haybal.. Ahola was 3rd In IInal behind Van Loeuwon and Dick Mann, Markol retired on lap ono. The 15-lapAmateur Championship was a good go but no gr ea t battles or place swapping came out of it. Tom Rockwood (Trl) promptly set the fastest quallty1ng time for the yellow plates but Jim Rice (BSA) came alo ng to do It one better. Mark Brelsford, the Amateur winner one week before at Portland, was next to last to quallty on one of Jim Odom's spare Triumphs and he demollshed everything before him even though the r ig didn' t sound quite r ight. Amateur MaIn Event time found Rice on the pole due to his fastest heat race, along with Washlngtons' Jim Jo nes (Trl), Mark Brelsford, and Dlve Smith (Trl). It was Jones, incidentally, who rode the last three laps of his heat race with a small fire under his tank, and Rockwood had hard luck as his Triumph blewwhlle leading his heat. Right ott the pole and int o the lead went the Calltornia all-around rider (second year Ama teur) Jim Rice, followed by Jones, Cappy Skene, and Brelsford. The pack strung out with a few bike lengths between each pos ition and by the halfway flag Br elsfor d had passed Skene and a lap or so later picked ott Jones for s econd. Rice meanwb1le had and insurmountable lead of over a s traight-away and calmly s troked his way totlrstplace. Towar ds the last Brelsfor d' s Triumph s ounded pretty bad and had Jones had someone to wave him on he might have caught and caPtured s econd but as It was he foll owed Brelsford home third, Skene four th. Novice Night DOUG BERGANTZEL of Mi dwest M ontesa at Council Bluff, Iowa, likes M ontesa beearse it has the best h

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