Cycle News - Archive Issues - 1960's

it, right wbere Judy Judy And The Bears was maring lnstde. ~ Judy really jumped then, and let out a BY Darryl Skrabak Judy got stepped on by a bear In Colorado, wbtch is one of the hazards of going across the country on a motorcycle the way we are. Most Americans who travel and camp out don't face these hazards. They bring campers or trailers and at night, when the animals come out, they retreat into their insulated capsules and mIss all the fun. At this particular camp we bad been warned about the bears by another camP resident. So it was not entirely an unexPected surprise when Judy jumped awake in the little backpacking tent we use for shelter and said, "Eek, a bear!" While I was trying to adjust to this announcement and wake uP, Judy was yelling at the bear and reporting he was chewing on the suitcases we carry out stuff in. Here's Judy calmly munching her fingernails the morning after braving the bears. CI.> yell. Hearing tile noise, the bear went : around to the front of the tent to see c... where it bad come from, just as Judy was putting ber bead outsJde tile sleeping ~ bag to see wtlat bit ber. Co:l So Judy was looking at the bear looking Z at ber, and all sbe could see was a big Co:l bea.rface. "Eel<, a bearl" sbe said. c:3 I woke uP, grabbed the flashligbt and :>.. looked outside. Wowl There was the Co) bear, a big bear, a huge bear, ambling around the tent. I bad seen bigger bears maybe, In zoos, but I bad never seen such a big bear from six feet away. I began to get a little agitated at that point, and yelled at the bear to go away, which it did. Then Judy and I grabbed each other and proceeded to be scared together. It was hard to go to sleep after that, so Judy and I stayed awake listening to the bears raWe garbage cans. There were three of them, we learned later, and they bad a regular garbage can circuit in camp. But the big bear wasn't through with us yet. Sbe came back to our camp and began munching on our nice collapsible plastic water jug. It Is amazing bow silently these huge animals can move. Judy didn't hear the bear until it dragged the jug off the camp table. This time we both yelled at the bear. It resignedly put down the water jug and once more ambled away, this time tor good. I~~~~""""-""""-~~~~~~' Tile road to tile end of the world leads to barren Colorado. By the time I bad aroused myself enougb to look down at the foot of the tent where the suitcases were, Judy and her flashligbt !Jad driven the bear off. Having accomplished her brave works, Judy proceeded to be scared. I said don't worry, and went out and brought tile suitcases around to the head of the tent where we could guard them more closely. One of the suitcases had a hole from a bear bite. Grumbling about the hole, I went back to sleep. But Judy kept tossing around, worrying about bears. Now it happens that bears are curious animals, and during .,Judy's tosses a bear was standing outside the tent. SeeIng that the tent was behaving strangley, the bear just naturalIy came over and stomped on I I Ffillk Cm1i iii eri and Andres Lascoutx teamed to ride the Norton Commando 151Jcc to YiCIIrY at Harewood, Oatario Canada. The race lasting five hoars - 212 laps at racing speeds proves again the ragged power and SIIIIotII yibratiaaless roall ability 0' the COMMANDO by Nartaa. Api. - - ..... i......- . a,d. - V... V.II", ..~ II - 1st PI....... Salt I •••AND Pat,.e.t Valle, Motorc,cle CI... Hosts Motocross BY Bruce Harmer (BY phone from Fredrick, Md.) MT. AIRY, MARYLAND, Sept. 7,1969Over a rough three mile course which includes two mudholes, tile Patuxent Valley Motorcycle Club hosted a mok>cross program here today for bikes of. three sizes, Under 125cc, under 250Cc and Open. The closest contest was in the 125cc series when two Yamaha riders Rich Perzynski and Bill Krebs tied for first place. They divided the $7I.OOpriZe money evenly. John Baxter riding a Sachs claimed third place. Riding an American Eagle, John Cassis dominated the 250cc motos with Montesa mounted Don Wolf pressing bim and capturing second. J. Foster, Jr. riding a spectacular little Triumpb looked impressive taking third. Montesa jockey "HOPpy" HOPkinsbeat out· fellow Montesa rider Ron Petrelles to get top honors in the heavyweights, and Jack Frisk toured the course quickly on his BSA to finish third. Eacll class consisted of three - twenty minute motos over a course which took about four minutes to lap. There bad b!!en rain during the preceed1ng week, but the course had dried by race time to give the riders sure footing. The same club Is sponsoring another Moto-X on the Mt. Airy course on Sept. 21st and all Moto-X enthusiasts in the Baltimore, Fredrick, D.C. area are urged to take part. Mt. Airy is about nine miles outot Fredrick, Maryland. I I I l Alpst 11 19&! Open EXP~ Class Ist Jill HarmoD - Marti. 3rd Richard Kibler - Martla E.,ert TIIIIQ Dash T.L. HIg!. - NOrfIn Expert Mai. Eyell 1st T.L. Higlaa - Norfln O,en Class Trophy Dash 1st Mike Ellis - Nlr1III O,en Class AMain 1st Mike Ellis - Narton JOIN THE COMMANDO 0,. aass Troplly Dash 1st like Ellis - ~. . . Opea Class AMain 1st Mite Ellis - NartIII I I

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