Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

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Sarine • Head Porline MIKE BURKE Motorcycle Specialties 15171 RaJ_ SL Van Nu,., Cal. 91406 T.lephone (2\3) 710.0179 DESERT SET UP SCRAMBLES Rogers Repeals Cherry Creek Victory By Eric Halts SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH May 18- Invincible Al Rogers calmly replaced a broken cha1n wb1le every!xxlY else was 00 the starting line a mile away, then rode b1s usual stellar Cberry Creek performance to come In ahead do Roger Hall. A! showed up late Sunday mornIng 00 Evel Knievel's ill-fated Triumph the same bike that took a bath In Las VePs, and almost didn't mala! It to the smoke bomb and first check. He fell JlllSt\ly coming up the steep approach to checkPOint one, bent a. footpeg and crunched ~ lank. Word came back to the pits via Juab County Sberitf's radio thatA! wasn't among the first ten past the smoke bomb. Al knew ,something.some at the younger riders didn't know. Cherry Creek is a real endurance test, not just a scramble to the black smoke. By the third cbeckpolnt, which was back In the pits, Al bad sped pasteveryODe but,the first five riders. Hard luck story of the many that day belooged to the man who led at this point and electrified the pits as he charged through. canadian Dick Fish badbrougbt his 1mmaculately prepared GreevesTrIUlllPb from Vancouver, British Columbia only to have the engine seize after be cracked a case and lost b1s oil. Diclc said afterward Rogers was rigbt behind him when It happened and was gaInIng fast. . Rogers rode the five miles ofpowclery sand, which goes by the name of little Sahara Sand Dunes, like a flat stone sJdmmlng waves. He began bu1ld1ng b1s lead after be passed thebard-luckCanadian. Husqvarna &Penton Complete line of Torsten Hallman Racing Equipment Largest Stock of Motorcycles & Parts in 1IIe Los Angeles Area ALSO Suzuki, Zundapp, M. Z. & Montesa l'ate't-t4le'4 2 CYCLE CITY (213) 415-4541 Mot~xE:~i::::ies 10673 W. Pico Blvd., West Los Anoeles. Cal. The two-lOClP, 80 m1le course now ran across a wide plain where the going was bumpy but easy compared to the deep sand. Rogers was never to be threatened and bad only to worry about staying 011 course and trying to keep from being knoclced ott by trees that put more dents In the Triumph's tank. A strong second overall and first In the 250Cc Class was put In by Roger Hall who rode b1s Husqvarna the last 30 miles with a flat tire and broken spokes on the rear wheel. Gene Durham was third on a 250cc Montesa, BIll Welch fInished fourth, and Wayne Malcom came In fifth. Winner of the 125cc Class was Don Fuller, Yamaha, who finished 11th overall. Rogers came, In all by himself and was , easily identified by the cheering fans. His white leathers and turned-on headUgbt could be seen a long ways across the desert. As the California riders bad stayed away In droves, most of the spectators were from the surround1ng area but they still gave the North Hollywood baker a rousing ovation. Part of b1s P0Pularity stemmed from an unfortunate Incident In the pits at checkpoint three. Just as be was leaving the checker, a poodle ran under his wheel and Rogers ran over the dog. When be realiZed what bad haPPened the sixth-place (at the time) Rogers turned around and came baclc to checlc on the dog's welfare. He bad to be urged to continue as there was nothing be could do for the dog and his obvious concern made a favorable tmpressioo 00 those In the pits. Animals fared badly this year at Cherry Creek. Saturday night a rider was getting In some night motocross experience without benefit of Ugbts and TULARE (Conl'd from page 11) (48r) and Larry WIlburn (59r), all Triumph mounted. The Novice dash was EdwardS all the way over Sloan, Kenyon, and John Hateley. Dusty outdistanced Van Leeuwen, Haney and Pierce, who slid out In the sbarP right-bander before the jull1P. EdwardS jumped Into the lead at the start of the Novice feature but Sloan slipped his Bultaco under him on the turn after the jump on lap 2. Kenyon got under EdwardS 00 lap three. Freddie tried to shut the door and the two met heavily. The crash knocked Edwards' clutch lever ott, and he rode to a superb second place after Kenyon retired with a broken coil wire on the final circuit. Coppage Immediately grabbed the lead In the Amateur-Expert main event and was being pressed hard by SkIp and Pierce when Van Leeuwen, whose line through the tast sweeper after the jump was 10 mph taster, but 10 feet higher than everyone else's, clipped the bay bales coming ooto the half-m1le turn. After two or three endo's, Van Leeuwen, reminiscent of the Ascot scene two weeks ago, remounted and began to make out just how a black Angus cow looks close up In the d&rk~He was taken found to a local hospilal with a mouthful of ba1r. The Juab County Sber1ff's Posse provided ten radio equipped jeeps with stretchers and several riders w1.th brol

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