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00 .... PROTEST HOSAKA'S HODAKA •• IT'S A "STOCK-A" ", USED PARTS ALL MAKES " 40~ TO 60% OFF ., .... "" ~ ..Q YAMAHA DEALER " SCRAMBLER MOTORCYCLES S 1801 W. Burbank Blyd. Burbank, CallI. <- 0 ...... <.l 849·5 907 or 845~738 Exl. • 7 .. SACHS TRAILBIKES Dea ler Inquiries Inylted Hercule s 0 1st, Co. LTD - 11718 Santa Monica Blyd. Los Anje les 3, C. 90025 IHARLEY-DAVIDSON I Rapido Immediate Dellyery Sportster Harl ey-D av i dson of Oceans id e 216 Via Del Mon te Oceanside, Calilo rnia (714) 722·0836 Hoduk» : Motorcv cl e s Greeves Mont esa Kawasaki Westminister Sport Cycle Guy R. L ou i s (714) 893·7057 757 4 Westminister Ave. Westminster, Cal. Photo by Ralph W. F oster ORA NGE CO" Cal., Sept. 18 - 10 the lightwei ght fiattrack event at Orange County Wednesday night , the present lOOcc points leader. Mark Kruse, was not able to handle Wayn e Hosaka on his Hodaka, Wayne won th e I O cc Trophy O Dash and th e Maln Event and repeated the same thing i n the I O Occ 'IT events , winning both the Dash and Maln. 10 the 100cc short track f eature, Wayne was leading and in . hot pursuit was Mark Kruse. closely rouowed by Keith Mashburn and Ji m my Raym ond , Mark had a mishap and unloaded, m oving Keith Into second place and Ji m my into third. For the rema i ning five laps, Wayne was not conte s ted , In the 250cc fiattrack Trophy Dash, r eturni ng to th e winner s' circle was Stan Rogers. Stan was abl e to also win the Maln Event. F ollowing closely was little Mar k Kruse on a Ducati , This was Mark's second oppor tuni ty to co mpete on anything bigger than a 100cc machine and he showed real pr omise by beating out top point l eader Randy Ellis f or second spot . To the delight of the fans, the Open Trophy Dash went to Jim Peter s on on a Tri umph. but Jim wasn 't qui te as fast in the Main Event when Dave L enar on his BSA grabbed the win wi th Jim finishing a close second. Protest Time In the 250cc 'IT Trophy Dash. Ron Ringen on a Kawasaki was able to walk away with the trophy . Ron didn't have su ch good luck in the Main however. and Kei th Mashburn on a Yam aha came through to capture the win . The r e was so much discussion about how fast Wayne Hosaka' s Hodaka was that a f ew of the 100cc r ider s got together in th e pits and decided it wouid be worth the protes t fee to find out what it l ooked like i nside, So. i m mediately foll owi ng the races, at the r equest of the Te chnical Committee. Wayne r em oved th e head of his Hodaka, and to the surprise of many, his engine was found to have a stock bore and stroke! The owner and tuner of the Hodaka not only has f ound him self a fine rider. but has found the secret of making the Hodaka-s engine perform to i ts maximu m . Mark Kruse said he was goi ng home and do som e wor k on his Bultaco and beat Wayne next Wednesday night. (Resuits on page 16) Powder Puff: 1s t Leslie Garten. 2nd Kathy Montgomery, 3rd Carol Davis . 90cc Novice: 1st Greg Johnso n. 2nd Art Carter . 3rd Ji m Rodriguez. 125 Am/Ex: 1s t John Brown (Arn .), 2nd Dana Thompson (Arn.), 3rd GuY Smith (Ex.) , 125 Novice: 1st Ken Greene Jr,. 2nd Kim DeLarge, 3rd Ji m Ward. 175 Novice: 1st Dave Ki rschner. 2nd Loui s DeLaRosa. 3r d George Baines. 200 Novice-Am .-Ex: 1st GuY Smi th (Ex.) , 2nd Steve Br ay (Arn .), 3rd Ken Greene. Sr . (Am .) , Under that pile of bikes was one dazed but unhurt rlder! 250 Novice: 1st Ken Greene, Jr,. 2nd Dan Col by , 3rd Keith Potter. 250 Am.-Ex: 1s t Randy Smi th (Ex.) , 2nd Mike Boal (EX .). Howard Howell ( 1st Arn .), 350 Novice: 1st Frank Sentes, 2nd Jim Conway, 3r d To m Shumard . 500 Novice: 1st Jo n Shaffer, 2nd Bill William s . Open Nov .-Am.-Ex: 1st Orvis Stacy (A m .) , 2nd Dave Eichert (Nov .), 3r d Gary McKeon (No v.) , W inner of tile Open Class TT M ain, #33 Dave Lenar (BSA). MORRO'S ORVIS STACY • WINS BIKE I OPEN AGAIN Photo s by M . Fu jiyoshl Rober' M. Law F or the second month in a r ow Orvis' Stacy of Morro Bay, Call!. r omped to victory In the Open class at the Santa Maria Spee d w ay in the mo torcycle scrambles races Sept. 15 by the Lompoc SIo-Pokes M.C. Stacy finished ahead of Dave Eichert of Santa Barbara and Gary Mc Keon of Torrance. Leslie Gartens of Oxnard won her third stralght powtler puff and JoecO'Guest of San Luis Obispoto'ok r ookie honors . RESULTS: _ Rookie Race: 1s t Joe 0' Quest . 2nd Warren Carter. 3rd Ron Nash . ~ HI G HEST TRADE-IN 239 N. Anahal m Blyd. Anaheim, C. .. 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Clamanta. callfornl. 0141 492-6l41 • - -- wi th a single victory. kept Valley team hopes alive until the last r ac e when 0' Brien stor med ahead fo r the f ourth ti me to ass ure the Los Angeles team of its fourth tri umph in six weekly team matches . Lou DeLaRosa (6) of Lompoc came In second In the 175 Noy. M ain. • •• La rry Helns elman and Rick Woods In heat of batt le. Large Selection Of New & Used Motorcycles 9000 SEPULVEDA BLVD. WARREN WILSON MOTORS South of Nordorr In Sepul ve da, Calif. " IN THE HEART Of THE VALLEY" PARTS 3) (21 894-9218 LARGEST STOCK Of MONTESAVALLEYI IN THE SAN fERNANDO Dusty Coppage doing a 360 degree turn, 0 ' Bri en also captured first i n one of th e heat races. raced to vic tory in th e Trophy Dash and then capped off the evening by winning th e B Main Event. Th e eveni ng' s r acing featured Inver ted handicap starts in the individual competition and was marked by spills in mo r e than hal! the races. (R esults on page 16) MOTORCYCLES ONLY SALVAGE We buy JUnk.. & Sell Fine Used Parts Also tons of H.D. Obsolete Stuff. 45's-Knuckel-Disb Pan Compl et e Service Frame & Fork Straighteni ng, We Servi ce what they sell. L_ D _ ~.:.::s 1 West 4th St, San Pedro. California IE H124 26 Mr. Crazy (Ji m Nicho lson) turns left to go left while John Ha teley corners In a more eonyentionai styl e.